Nature’s Nest Dragonfly

BySue Madex March 22, 2010August 30, 2025

I have a bit of a thing for dragonflies. Well, not so much for the real things but for dragonfly stamps!

My newsletter ladies will have seen in my mid March newsletter the dragonfly I watercoloured recently. It hadn’t made it onto a card at that stage, but on the weekend I decided it was time to find it a home.

I love the beautiful detail on the stamps in this set. I’ve been thinking the dragonfly would look nice embossed in silver on dark cardstock. Hoping to be back soon if that idea transfers well from my head to cardstock!!

Happy stamping. Cheers, Sue

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Felt Fusion Tin Cards

BySue Madex March 21, 2010August 30, 2025

I spent a lovely relaxing couple of hours yesterday making some cards so there should be lots to look at here in my patch of blogland this week. First up is a card made using the gorgeous felt flowers from Flower Fusion Too. Some black embossing treatment for the Whimsical Words greeting. I like the mix…

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Vintage Bird Card

BySue Madex May 6, 2011September 28, 2025

A simple, fairly monochromatic card to share with you today. This card has a Soft Suede base. The feature panel is on Naturals Ivory, matted with Early Espresso. I stamped off some images and did the first stamping of others to give the different intensities of ink. A jumbo eyelet to finish off – set using…

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Why Make One Card ….

BySue Madex May 27, 2008August 29, 2025

… when you can make a bunch. I did some watercolouring while I was at my table at the market on Sunday and made lots of cards using the same basic design. I stamped the bud/stem from Artfully Asian stamp set using Basic Black ink. Then I used an aquapainter (has a reservoir for water and a brush on the…

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Emboss Resist Christmas Card

BySue Madex November 8, 2012September 19, 2025

Must be more than about time for a card here I think! Took this photo on my lovely clean desk – aaah. (Just can’t look at the great big pile on the table still to sort!) This was one of the cards we did last month at class, along with a coordinating box and purse. The…

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Stitched Season Framelits: Last Day To Order

BySue Madex August 31, 2018September 1, 2025

Last day today to order the Stitched Seasons framelits if you were hoping to have them in your collection before they’re gone for good. Very versatile shape there in 3 sizes plus some other decorative elements. I’ve used two of the framelits to make this frame for the pretty Petal Promenade DSP. Shimmery White and Petal…

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Patterned Paper: Four Squares Design

BySue Madex April 22, 2020August 31, 2025

OK this is officially my favourite of my recent patterned paper creating that I’ve been doing lately. So quick and easy to whip up and a great way to use smaller leftover pieces of your favourite patterned paper. I’ve embossed the base card with an embossing folder that works with the paper design. (Or whatever…