Clean and simple – Shacks Papercrafts

CAS Mermaid

November 12, 2023November 12, 2023 Anne S

I almost forgot to join the AAA Cards challenge this week, and couldn’t find the stamp I’d originally planned to use. A really quick pivot and I ended up creating a totally different card instead. Not my finest work created in a big hurry on the evening before the challenges closes, but it’s quite cute and will go into my charity bin for someone to enjoy 🙂 You can’t see it in the photo but the waves have a shimmer spray on them and it’s ever so pretty in the light! I used the ‘Mermaid for you’ stamp set by Lawn Fawn and ‘Mermaid scales’ stencil by Gina K Designs.

I don’t know what’s happened to the image – my phone is showing the post correctly, but the website is showing the photo squished horizontally so it looks square instead of the A2 size it is … so very odd!

Challenges

Ink blending bliss

October 5, 2023 Anne S

Thanks to learning ink blending tips from Gina K at the start of my cardmaking journey, ink blending is one of the techniques that I get the greatest pleasure from, it’s such a relaxing thing to do. A recent video of Gina’s gave me the inspiration to create this card for the AAA Cards clean and simple challenge this week, to ink blend with at least three colours.

I used Gina K inks in blue denim, light and medium lilac, turquoise sea, wild dandelion and peach bellini, with stamps from Season’s Greetings also by Gina K Designs.

Challenges, Gina K Designs

Not my usual Christmas card style

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Anne S

I still struggle a bit with true clean and simple cards … but it doesn’t stop me from trying occasionally. I made this for the Addicted to CAS challenge this week for ‘present’. Sadly I missed the deadline for posting but that’s ok, I enjoyed the challenge.

Challenges

Addicted to CAS 223

June 27, 2022July 22, 2022 Anne S

I must be in the mood for challenges tonight! This one is for the ‘grid’ challenge on the Addicted to CAS blog. First time ivevever drawn on a card, but the little flower petals on the ‘tablecloth’ really finished the card off.

Supplies used:

Bodacious Blooms stencil by Gina K Designs
Hygge Time stamps by Gina K Designs

Altenew, Challenges

CAS on Friday 234

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Anne S

I tried another clean and simple challenge, this time for CAS on Friday blog for a thank you card. I used the Ranunculus build-a-flower stamps by Altenew and the Thanks die by Stampin’ Up!

Challenges

Less is More 467

June 25, 2022 Anne S

I was still in the mood for clean and simple cards today, so I created a quick card for the Less is More blog ‘just one image’ one layer card challenge. The butterfly stamp is by Gina K Designs, called Beautiful Butterflies 2. Inks are whatever Gina K inks were left on my blending brushes.

Challenges

Day 4 of 100 days project

June 5, 2022 Anne S

I made this card for a sketch challenge before realizing it was both a sketch AND colour challenge and of course I hadn’t used the colours. If nothing else it’s met the requirements of my 100 days project …

CardMaynia, Challenges

Rainbows make me happy

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022 Anne S

I’m obviously still in a rainbow kinda mood… day 25 of CardMaynia done.

I created this one for the Just Add Ink challenge to CASE your own card – this is a revamp of a card I created a year ago. I always liked the original layout and feel, but wanted a more rich vibrant and cleaner card this time round.

I’m also entering this one for the CAS on Friday challenge of Butterflies, and the Less is More challenge of Rainbows. I don’t usually combine challenges, but couldn’t resist this time round.

Butterflies dies from Sizzix and inks and sentiment (from Sketched Flowers stamp set) by Gina K Designs. Gina’s inks and paper make ink blending so easy!

The original card I CASE’d is this one: