Cardmaking

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.

Handmade Cards

Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs Collaboration Blog Hop

Cardmaking, General Cards 21 July, 2020 Tags: , , , , , , , 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…

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Copic Scene Cards: You Go, Gull!

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking, Colouring 20 July, 2020 Tags: , , , 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…

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Heffy Doodle New Release Blog Hop!

Cardmaking, General Cards 18 July, 2020 Tags: , , , , , 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!…

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Xmas in July: Gnome for Christmas

Cardmaking, Christmas Cards 17 July, 2020 Tags: , , , , , , 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…

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Yappy Happy Birthday Heffy Doodle

Yappy Happy Birthday with Heffy Doodle

Birthday Cards 6 July, 2020 Tags: , , , 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…

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Xmas in July: Hey Winter

Cardmaking, Christmas Cards 3 July, 2020 Tags: , , 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…

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It’s a Pinata Party!

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking 24 June, 2020 Tags: , , , , 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…

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Unicorns and Sparkle with Lawn Fawn

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking, General Cards 19 June, 2020 Tags: , , , , 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…

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Custom Alpha Sentiments: Happy Daddy’s Day

Cardmaking, General Cards 15 June, 2020 Tags: , , , , 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…

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Congrats – Proud as a Peacock!

Cardmaking, Congratulations Cards 5 June, 2020 Tags: , , , , 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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Happy Bee-Day with Heffy Doodle

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking 1 June, 2020 Tags: , , , , , No Comments

Hello, crafters. I’m back today on the Heffy Doodle blog with the first in June’s mini CAS card series. The next two cards in this mini series will give you some inspiration for using some alphabet dies to create custom sentiments. Today, I am combining the Stitched Alphabetters dies with the Big Bug Hugs stamp set, the Amazonian Leaves dies,…

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Copic CAS Scenes with Heffy Doodle: King of the Caves!

Birthday Cards, Cardmaking, Colouring, Scene Cards 18 May, 2020 Tags: , , , , No Comments

Hello, crafters! I’m back on the Heffy Doodle blog today with the next instalment in my Clean and Simple series: King of the Caves! I’ve been using the Masquerade Stencils as a frame to create some Copic coloured scenes, showcasing a variety of the Heffy Doodle stamp sets. Today’s scene card features the Ad-roar-able Lions and Classic Sentiments stamp sets…

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