syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
It is always hard to create cards for male recipients for some reason. I like to do vintage style cards because the colours and designs can work. I love working with sepia and cream tones. Aged paper, stamped ship design, compass stamped as background image along with some crackle textures, layered onto striped paper, and […]
So chatting with a male colleague on Monday afternoon, I found out he is getting married *this* Friday. As I drove home I mentally cast my mind over colour schemes and images that I had handy, and then spent about half an hour assembling materials before I started. This was an interesting challenge – I […]
This is a steampunk style card I made using the Graphic 45 ‘Old Curiosity Shop’ papers. Was for a male friend, and I was really happy with the final result. Cream A5 cardstock folded to A6. Background stamped with honeycomb pattern and also crackle stamp in Aged Mahogany Distress Ink. Two images cut out from […]
I made this when I was playing around with vintage photo distress ink before Christmas (when I was waiting for my order of stamps to arrive). Base white card edged with vintage photo ink, then stamped with script stamp. Gears stamped in top and bottom corners. On a separate piece of card, colour sponged lightly […]
This was for D’s birthday. A piece of Graphic 45 ‘Race for Time’ paper that has been crumped and swiped with distress ink, then flattened again. Edges have been distressed with a distressing tool then swiped with distress ink. Mounted on white textured card which has been distressed with ink. Sponged aged mahogony distress ink […]
This was for the male half of Bengela, who had his fancy dress birthday party on the weekend. The theme included mad scientists and South America, so I used that as my inspiration to some extent. Images stained with antique linen vintage ink and cut out carefully. Card used for laying has been embossed with […]
I made these for B, she asked for them as part of her semi annual order for friends and family. There are two outstanding that I have yet to complete, they will be fantasy themed. these ones are all blank inside except the Green Flower which has ‘Happy Birthday’ stamped there. Assorted cards, stamped images […]
This was for Daedalist’s birthday, which is today It took around 2 hours to make, including the interior (torn white linen paper, edged in raisin, shadow block in 2nd impression tea dye, ‘Happy Birthday’ in raisin, pocket watch stamped randomly around the edges. Given I am still learning how to use my embossing machine as […]
I made this for one of the guys at work (called Pete) for his birthday. Pete is very attached to his man-bag. The pink polka-dotted bits are from a sheet of stickers. I think the bow is supposed to be a hair accessory, but it complemented the bow tie in the original photo so I […]
