I found a pack of brass stencils during a tidy up and decided to mount them on cards rather than put them in the donation pile.
My ‘use it or lose it’ campaign has reduced the boxes of bits a little and reduced the amount I spend on my crafting hobby but at this rate I am going to need decades to declutter significantly!
It is my new obsession, asking ChatGPT to redraw one of my photos in a particular style.
Pets, people and places are being printed in pop art or old master format and used to personalise greeting cards.
I am limited, as I use the free version, to four? uploads a day but this is enough to keep me going.
A much better performance by ChatGPT then when I asked it to identify items from photos.
How to use the sea glass I collect on my daily beach walks with the dog…
Just a few little shards of sea smoothed glass have become greetings cards when combined with watercolour backgrounds, fine liner detail, heat embossed greeting and mounted on card blanks.
My obvious lack of drawing finesse is minimised by keeping these cards clean and simple, using watercolour card and leaving lots of white space.
My no buy papercraft resolution dissolved in the face of a spellbinders sale so I had to try and use some of the supplies crowding in to my craft room.
I decided to stick with one of the past monthly kits that I ordered to work outside my comfort zone and create some multi purpose cards.
Another attempt to empty the patterned paper remnants bag…
This time I used a stamp die for the bigger stamps and my scan n cut for the smaller ones. I finally chopped up pages of butterfly, floral and birds paper and used long neglected franking stamps and some old paper distress ink to create the collage on a sheet of magazine paper.
My first efforts from the papercraft society kit I bought in the January sales. The stitching dies are just part of the kit, which was great value, so even though I don’t need it feel v happy at the early successes.
Ceded to temptation and bought a bundle from Crafters Companion including a back edition of their monthly kit. Have raced through it trying to use up some of the supplies as I am trying to reduce the craft room stash.
Another 20 cards made and there is still a stack of paper and card to use up as well as a jar of buttons.
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