Melus Makes

Hi everyone and welcome back to the blog today! I have a special card on the blog to celebrate the New Year for the 1st January! Thank you to everyone who has visited the blog, who has commented, liked, followed and showed love on Instagram or Facebook. In 2018 I aim to keep up to date with the blog, give it a bit of a revamp and also dedicate more time in building up my card portfolio as well as working hard towards building up the Etsy Shop slowly by surely, but also keeping everything consistent. I hope that you all have great celebrations for the New Year and I hope that 2018 will be a great one for you in all capacities - whether this be personally, socially, professionally or creatively! See you all in 2018! Happy New Year!!! Until next year! (UK, in 90 mins!), much love! xoxo

Hi guys - and welcome to the Blog today! So I thought I would catch up with Craftober - a month long project for those who were interested in crafting, making cards, being inspired or just developing craft skills with different techniques through the month with the aid of prompts. Thank you to those who did participate and those who saw, looked, browsed, liked and the lovely comments I received as well, I really appreciated the feedback and love. As I had not updated the blog regularly, I decided I would catch up with all if not most of the makes I did through the month. Day 9 - Day 12 Days 13 - Days 16 Days 17 - Days 25 Days 26 onwards You can check out the majority of the makes for Craftober on my Instagram @melusmakes and please do give a like and follow. Thank you for stopping by today! Here's to the Christmas season! Until next time!

Day 8 of Craftober! Hello Day 8! Welcome to the Blog today and thank you for stopping by! Today is Day....8 of Craftober and today's theme is: Clean and Simple. Minimal cardmaking to a T! I absolutely love clean and simple cards, but sometimes less can be more and more looks like less. I hope that I have struck good balance with this card. Here is my card below: All materials used: Teal Cardstock Silver Star Confetti 6mm Gold Sequins Handwritten Holiday - My Favorite Things Bitty Bears Stamp / Die Set - My Favorite Things 3D Foam Pads Spectrum Noir Markers 3mm Glue Dots Die Cutting Machine Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Memento Tuxedo Black Ink I really love this card and I'm really please how it turned out. It's definitely a clean and simple card, minimal embellishments, one central sentiment and image - plus that bear is just sooo cute! Good job MFT! Hope you guys like the card for today and tune in tomorrow for Day 9 (this I think maybe a t...

It's Day 7 of Craftober ! Yes Day 7! We're nearly a week into our month long challenge! Thanks for stopping by this week and please do join in if you can - it's not too late to start! Today's theme is: Paper Punch. If you don't have a paper punch you can use mini dies instead - improvisation is key! So here is my card for Day 7 All material used: Kraft Cardstock White Cardstock Little You (Girl) Paper Pad - Crate Paper Tiny Ninjas Stamp / Die Set - Mama Elephant Small Star Paper Punch - Hobbycraft 6mm Gold Sequins 3D Foam Pads Double Sided Tape Die Cutting Machine Paper Trimmer Love how this card turned out and I just love these little Ninja guys from Mama Elephant, simple colouring and little embellishment. Super! Day 8 tomorrow and it could be a Christmas card.... Until then, happy crafting!

Crafty, Craftober Day 6 : It's time for a Masculine feel. Today's prompt is Masculine. I'm gonna admit something here, I can't do masculine cards that well - my fiance will probably disagree - but in turn he's supposed to like everything I make for him 😉 So here is my Masculine card for today - it's very minimal because the guys in our life may not like anything too 'flouncy'. This may not be the case for everyone, but I think anything in blue is a good start (not limitless though!) and simple embellishments is also a thumbs up too. Personally, I have seen quite eccentric masculine birthday cards and I have seen very minimalist masculine cards too, so I'm going to go for in-between!   All materials used: Paige Evans Fancy Free - Crate Paper Illustrated Faith Basic Die Cut Ephemera Hobbycraft Small Heart Paper Punch Beach Blue Card stock - Lime Tree Craft Double sided tape 3D Foam Pads A very sim...

Welcome to Craftober Day 5 ! Thank you for stopping by on the blog today! Today's prompt is: One Piece of Patterned Paper - so many paper pads, so little time! It was impossible to choose one, but in the end I did pick one piece and I think it really does suit the sentiment. Today's card is here: I really love the 'Hello Love' paper pad by Crate Paper, it was one of their most popular collections, it wasn't available in the UK for a while because it sold out in most places and only appeared in Hobbycraft quite sometime after it's release. It was only available via a few UK online retailers. This paper goes very well with the sentiment picture and I always love a pun on any cards because those sort of things make me giggle! All materials used: Raspberry Card stock from Lime Tree Craft Hello Love 6 x 6 Paper Pad - Crate Paper Pink & White Twine by Do Crafts / Papermania Large Tag Dies - Simon Says Stamp Simp...

Hi there, thank you for stopping by the blog today! It's Craftober Day 4 and the theme is Distress Inks. The Distress Inks range by Tim Holtz are amazing, so many great colours, pigments, styles and techniques that you can have, do and create with them - it's amazing! Tim's recent Distress Oxide Range is gorgeous and with some great bright, vibrant colours - how could you not own them all? Today I have used Tim Holtz's original Distress Inks in the colours: Picked Raspberry, Spice Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers and Shaded Lilac and this is the card I've made this evening: All materials used: Black card stock White card stock Watercolour paper Picked Raspberry Distress Ink Spice Marmalade Distress Ink Fossilized Amber Distress Ink Peacock Feathers Distress Ink Shaded Lilac Distress Ink Shimelle Starshine Chipboard Ephemera MFT Four Way Chevron Background Die Black Sequins Tombow Aqua Liquid Glue 3mm G...