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This was a birthday card for a very special lady. Used a nautical theme here. I had this idea of using sequins in my folly flowers and I really liked the result. Also did some foil work using a laminator and laserjet ink for the gold lettering. Two different sizes of circular die cuts made…

As a final evolution in this series of posts, I give you lavender. Such a dainty colour. I’m not sure how effective the violet is in the middle, but I went for it. I added yellow accents just to give a complementary contrast and ‘lift’. I think, by this time I was using my own…

A variation on the pink before – playing with two triangular arrangements (upright and inverted triangles with a white main flower). Geometry is always a go-to design element. It just simplifies the design process, clarifies it really well.  

One can never go wrong with pink (my personal fave!). This time I’ve added cornflower blue roses, to continue the summer vibe. When I make cards, I do tend to make them as a series, where I explore a visual story. This one was, again, given as a thank you card.  

This is another concoction using almost a polygonal arrangement with the flowers. This time, I wanted to keep the flowers natural looking by folding a rose. The white flowers seemed to work pretty well as an off-set triangle. This was just an accident, of course, no distinct design here, just random play and see what…

  The weather seems to herald spring already. This year I wanted the folly flowers to be nocturnal. In Asia, there are flower species which bloom at night and are specially fragrant.So I thought why not use what’s left of my black linen-pressed-effect paper as the background for this tableau. For some reason, in the…

This week has certainly been mad-card-making-week. I’ve created several cards for all the events crammed into one week. I’ve left my job last Friday and I thought I’d make a nice card for all the folks at work. I had such a laugh with all of them and I loved working there. But life has…

It was my friend’s birthday last Friday. I made this card thinking about the colour green (she goes gaga over green) and the fact that she is a wonderful home-maker. I got quite a reaction. She says she’ll have it framed! I love it when the person likes my card. It creates a warm, gooey…

This little creation was a birthday card. I had a few of these black thick paper (probably 300 gsm) with a linen press effect. I thought why not compose an Ikebana arrangement of flowers and make them pop out against the textured paper? Man, Heaven and Earth with a bit of poetic license.