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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Saturday, 25 April 2026

A CAS Basket and a Mixed Media Background

Two very different cards today.  One a CAS card, and one definitely not CAS - lots of mixed media playing around.

For Simply Clean and Simple where the theme is "Baskets":

Stamped and coloured with coloured pencils and then centred in a snowflake frame embossing folder.

And for Try It on Tuesday "Make Your Own Background":
I had a piece of cardstock that I'd used to mop up leftover blue and grey ink after I'd done some smooshing.  I stamped a grid stamp and the Birthday Wishes sentiment on it trimmed it down to fit an odd-sized card base I had.  Then I took another bit of the same leftover ink on, stamped with various stamps (including one that mentions the dragonfly), did a bit of random stencilling with paste, and then layered the two background pieces, and topped with a stamped and fussy cut dragonfly.

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Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black basket, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Ultimate Crafts snowflake frame embossing folder

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps -
Ink -
Paper -
Size -
Accessories -

2 comments:

  1. Two lovely cards, love the soft inky backgrounds for the beautiful dragonfly.
    Thanks for sharing at Try it on Tuesday. Avril

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  2. Fantastic cards and design. Thank you for sharing them with us at Try it on Tuesdays, The background looks lovely.

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