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Handmade card tutorials featuring stamps and dies from UK, EU and US companies like Lawn Fawn, Mama Elephant, Heffy Doodle, Sugar Pea Designs, Concord & 9th.

I post weekly with step-by-step tutorials for my Design Teams, Seven Hills Crafts and Heffy Doodle.

Underwater Scene Card: Monkey Sea Monkey Do!

Cardmaking, Colouring, General Cards, Scene Cards 7 August, 2020 Tags: Classes: Art-Classes.com, Company: Avery Elle, Design Team: Seven Hills Crafts, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: Birthday, Theme: General, Theme: Scene Cards No Comments

Hello! I’m back on the Seven Hills crafts blog today with this bright and colourful copic-coloured underwater scene card. The Avery Elle Monkey Sea Monkey Do stamp set was just calling out to be made into this adventurous scene! I have to give credit to Sandy Allnock, as her Underwater Scenes class greatly inspired the background and marker choices for…

Birthday Bananas!

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking, Colouring, Scene Cards 3 August, 2020 Tags: Company: Heffy Doodle, Design Team: Heffy Doodle, Medium: Alcohol Markers, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: Birthday, Theme: Scene Cards No Comments

I’m over on the Heffy Doodle blog today for the next card in my Clean and Simple (CAS) Series. This birthday card is a bit bananas! Featuring the Heffy Doodle Chimply the Best stamp set and the Scalloped Circle Masquerade stencil, it is perfect for any and all birthday bananas! The first step was to attach an A6 blending card…

Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs Collaboration Blog Hop

Cardmaking, General Cards 21 July, 2020 Tags: Blog Hop, Company: Heffy Doodle, Company: Time for Tea Designs, Design Team: Heffy Doodle, Medium: Alcohol Markers, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: General, Theme: Sympathy 47 Comments

It’s time for another Heffy Doodle collaboration! Today, the Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs design teams are collaborating to bring you a tonne of inspiration! There’s also a prize up for grabs – Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs will each be giving away a £25 to their respective stores. Make sure to comment at all the…

Copic Scene Cards: You Go, Gull!

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking, Colouring 20 July, 2020 Tags: Company: Heffy Doodle, Design Team: Heffy Doodle, Medium: Alcohol Markers, Theme: Birthday 1 Comment

Hello, I’m back on the Heffy Doodle blog today sharing this handmade card featuring one of the latest sets, You Go, Gull. My CAS (Clean and Simple) style often rotates around creating focal points in the centre of the card. Today, I’ve created a custom Copic-coloured background for my chilling gulls! The first step was to tape a card panel…

Heffy Doodle New Release Blog Hop!

Cardmaking, General Cards 18 July, 2020 Tags: Blog Hop, Company: Heffy Doodle, Medium: Distress Inks, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: General, Theme: Sympathy 48 Comments

Hello! It’s time to get excited again because it’s the Heffy Doodle Release Blog Hop! The new release is now available for purchase from Heffy Doodle and official retailers, and we are celebrating with lots of inspiration and a giveaway, too! To celebrate the new release Heffy Doodle will be giving away a £50 voucher to the Heffy Doodle Store!…

Xmas in July: Gnome for Christmas

Cardmaking, Christmas Cards 17 July, 2020 Tags: Company: Lawn Fawn, Company: Mama Elephant, Company: Sugar Pea Designs, Design Team: Seven Hills Crafts, Medium: Alcohol Markers, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: Christmas No Comments

Hello! I’m back on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today with another Christmas in July card. This card features the Sugar Pea Designs Gnome for Christmas stamp set and the Mama Elephant Scene Builder stamp set. This card, along with my card from a couple of weeks ago, ensures I am getting an early start to making Christmas cards so…

Yappy Happy Birthday with Heffy Doodle

Birthday Cards 6 July, 2020 Tags: Company: Heffy Doodle, Design Team: Heffy Doodle, Medium: Alcohol Markers, Theme: Birthday No Comments

.Hello, crafters! I’m back on the Heffy Doodle blog today with this Yappy Happy Copic-coloured scene card featuring two of the cute doggie-themed sets from the new release, Hot Diggity Dog and Who Let the Dogs Out. I started out by drawing a rough pencil line across the middle of a card panel made of blending cardstock using the new…

Xmas in July: Hey Winter

Cardmaking, Christmas Cards 3 July, 2020 Tags: Company: Sugar Pea Designs, Design Team: Seven Hills Crafts, Medium: Alcohol Markers No Comments

Hello! I’m back on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today with a little bit of festive Xmas in July. When July comes around, I try and make a few Christmas cards to relieve the stress around November time, so the next couple of posts will be Christmas themed. Apologies to those who think the C-word should be banned until at…

It’s a Pinata Party!

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking 24 June, 2020 Tags: Company: Mama Elephant, Design Team: Seven Hills Crafts, Medium: Alcohol Markers, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: Birthday No Comments

I’m filling in for Deborah today on the Seven Hills Crafts blog with a bright and fun birthday scene featuring the Mama Elephant Pinata Party and Mama Elephant Stackable Friends stamp sets. These sets are great for creating mini scenes, though I think the mole is cheating as he has his glasses on! He has to jump higher though, so…

Unicorns and Sparkle with Lawn Fawn

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking, General Cards 19 June, 2020 Tags: Company: Lawn Fawn, Design Team: Seven Hills Crafts, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: Birthday, Theme: General No Comments

Hello. I’m sharing this sparkly rainbow unicorn birthday card on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today. I love using the smaller stamp sets to create bigger scenes and today’s card features the cute little unicorns Lawn Fawn A Little Sparkle set. Add in some sparkle and colour it like a rainbow, and it makes a perfect any-greeting card! Plus, at…

Custom Alpha Sentiments: Happy Daddy’s Day

Cardmaking, General Cards 15 June, 2020 Tags: Company: Heffy Doodle, Design Team: Heffy Doodle, Medium: Distress Inks, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: General No Comments

Hello, I’m back today on the Heffy Doodle blog with the second in June’s mini CAS card series. The cards in this mini series will give you some inspiration for using some alphabet stamps/dies to create custom sentiments. Today, I am combining the Rascal Alphabetters stamps and coordinating dies with the Classic Sentiments/More Classic Sentiments and Happily Ever Crafter stamp sets…

Congrats – Proud as a Peacock!

Cardmaking, Congratulations Cards 5 June, 2020 Tags: Company: Lawn Fawn, Design Team: Seven Hills Crafts, Medium: Alcohol Markers, Product: Copic Markers, Theme: Congratulations No Comments

Hello, I’m back on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today with a fun and bright congratulations card featuring the Lawn Fawn Peacock Before ‘n Afters stamp set and Finley’s ABCs dies. I started out by stamping the peacock from the Lawn Fawn Peacock Before ‘n Afters stamp set towards the top centre of the card. Then I used Lawn Fawn…

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