A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Gifts with Vertical Sentiment and a Starry Tag

The ABC Christmas Challenge is U for Uncluttered (i.e. CAS) and / or V for Vertical.  I've made a CAS card that has a vertical sentiment..  

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils (including a silver, red, and green metallic pencils for the ribbon and bow, with a small vertical sentiment, and framed with a pierced dot frame die, cut twice and glued together for more dimension.

Another Christmas card for Inkspirational "Seeing Stars":

I sponged a tag with three Distress inks, then flicked some water droplets on it. When dry, I stamped "joy" and "peace" in gold and I took my Memory Box Stardust stencil and sponged over it with Golden Glitz ink. I stamped the "star light, star bright" sentiment with dark blue ink on gold shimmer cs and heat embossed with clear ep. I cut it out with a star die and popped it up with dimensionals.

I added baker's twine to the top of the tag and attached the tag to a white card base.

It's hard to read in the photo, but the sentiment says "Star light, star bright, a wish for peace on earth tonight".

  








Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Power Poppy Cozy Cupfuls, Rosie's Roadshow sentimen
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, metallic pencils, MFT pierced rectangle frame die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Hero Arts Joy and Noel, Great Impressions "Star light..."
Ink - Delicata Golden Glitz; Distress Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, and Dusty Concord; Versafine Majestic Blue
Paper - white cs, gold shimmer cs, manila tag
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - Spellbinders star die, baker's twine, dimensionals, Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder, Memory Box Stardust stencil

5 comments:

  1. I love your beautifully coloured parcels and that rather indulgent looking drink, and then your pretty starry tag, wonderful in blue and gold and the sentiment is lovely Susan. x

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  2. Two wonderful Christmas cards for your growing stash, Susan. You are so talented with your pencil colouring Love the double stitched framing. Beautifuly starry night on your tag and always love that sentiment. Perfect stamped on the large star! :) xx

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  3. Beautiful cards so happy and delightful viewing. Sorry been MIA life if way too busy for me ♥

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  4. Cute packages and yummy looking drink. I really like the star card. I don't find a lot of vertical verses and wish there were more.

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  5. two great Christmas cards, you reminded me about my vertical sentiments xx

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