A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Monday, 21 April 2025

Another Easter Bunny

I made this card for my friend who hosts a large Easter brunch.  It's also for Shopping Our Stash (Hippity Hop), The Paper Players (Bunny) Inkspirational (I was inspired by the colourful eggs in their mood board), and Stamping Sensations (Birds, Animals, Flowers, and / or Nature).


I stamped the nest onto linen cs and cut a slit along its centre. I stamped the eggs on a scrap of cs and coloured them with alcohol markers and then fussy cut them and arranged them in the slit I'd cut in the nest. The bunny is die cut from a scrap of cs smooshed in various light brown and beige inks. I added a bit of pink with a coloured pencil to his ears. He's glued on to the nest and then I die cut the panel with a stitched square die and popped it up on fun foam on the card base.

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Supplies:
Stamps - SU sentiment, SU Nature Walk (eggs), Rubber Monger nest
Ink - Ranger Potting Soil, light brown and beige inks
Paper - white linen cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Charlie and Paulchen bunny die, alcohol markers, Lil Inker stitched square die, fun foam, pink coloured pencil

Monday, 17 April 2023

Two Holiday Cards - One Christmas, One Easter

Can You Handle the Pressure is an "anything goes as long as you use an embossing folder" challenge so I did a Christmas card as I'm behind on my quota I try to get made each month ready for my sale in November.

I love text in the background of a card.  Usually I stamp the text but the challenge inspired me to use a text embossing folder instead.  The image is stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with an oval die, and bordered with red cut with the next larger oval die.

And for Easter, I made this card for My Time to Craft Challenge "Easter Flowers".

I put the wildflower stamp in my MISTI and inked it up with various Tombow markers, one colour at a time and spritzing each time. I pulled a bit of the colour out to fill in the flowers that just had outlines.

I stamped and fussy cut the nest and eggs, glued the eggs in the nest and set the nest in front of the wild flowers.

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Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SU Beautiful Season, Impression Obsession sentimen
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - cream cs, red shimmer and cream shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Twinkling H2Os, script embossing folder, Spellbinders oval die cut

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Indigo Blu wildflowers, SU sentiment, SU Nature Walk eggs, Rubber Monger nest
Ink - Indigo Blu wildflowers, SU sentiment, SU Nature Walk eggs, Rubber Monger nest
Paper - mixed media and off-white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tombow markers