Try paper piercing, mosaic making and iris folding

Q What is paper piercing and how easy is it to learn how to do?

Paper piercing is a simple, but very effective technique, and it’s surprisingly simple to master. As the name suggests, it involves piercing your paper or card with small holes, to make patterns and shapes. The pierced pattern can be left plain or used as a template to add stitching. There are many templates available to buy that you can use with your piercing tool to create intricate designs. Simply place a piece of card onto a piercing mat, lay the template over the top, then using the piercing tool, puncture the pattern onto the card. You can buy all the materials at your craft shop.

Q What’s the most effective way to use vellum on my cards?

coming into its own with cardmakers and you can see it being used in all sorts of interesting ways. One of the most popular things to do is to emboss onto it, but you can also use it alone or with other card or paper as an overlay. Stamp on it, print on it, die-cut it, try making a mini envelope filled with confetti for a wedding card, or