Johanna is hosting the new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz, and she has chosen the theme of ‘Shades Of Blue‘. Here is my card:
Using a newer die set from Spellbinders, I created the openings using 4 different shades of blue card stock. There are a few of similar tunnel die sets from Spellbinders, this one is ‘Cloud Tunnel’.
It is very easy to place the dies in different positions on each piece of card to create the size and shape of the opening, and also the create as much or as little of each layer showing as you please.
The second darkest blue I layered with 3D foam, but the other layers were glued flat to each other.
The moon and stars are also from the same dies set, and I stamped an appropriate sentiment on the front piece.
I hope you can come and join with your creations following our theme. xx
Hello everyone. The ABC Christmas Challenge has reached the letters ‘N’ and ‘O’, Fabiola is the host this time round and the Christmas themes are:
‘N’ for No Stamping and ‘O’ for Off The Edge’
I went with the no stamping option. Here is my card:
I am sure you all know by now that I am a Spellbinders fanatic, and this card was created using one of their die sets and one of their embossing folders.
The background was embossed and then a darker blue ink blended around the outside edges to create a halo effect.
The baubles were all die cut, and all those little pieces of white and blue were die cut and inlaid back into their little places – a fiddly job, but I treated as a therapeutic endeavour.
I also used some white glitter card stock for some portions of the die cuts.
The sentiment is from a previous hot foiling session.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one or both of our two themes. xx
Hello everyone. Whilst I was watching the England football this evening, I decided to create something using techniques and mediums I rarely – if at all – use. Like most of us, I have them, but am unsure of how to use them, so today I just went with it to create this collage mixed media panel:
The starting off point was the image in the centre. This is actually a layering washi tape from ‘AALL and Create’. I have never seen these before, and one of my go-to shops showcased them recently – so I bought a few different ones to try.
This is the ‘Sunflower and Hares’ washi, and I layered it onto some Distress Kraft Heavy stock and cut it down into a square.
Now to play with ‘stuff’…..I took a spare piece of white card stock and some Tim Holtz papers and went to town. Using the vintage collage medium to give a sepia tone, I created layers on the background.
I then took an Indigo Blu red rubber stamp and Archival ink to stamp partial images over the dried collage. I created a brown stencil paste using Altenew embossing paste and brown Impasto acrylic paint, a Tim Holtz stencil, and added detail to the background.
When the paste had dried, I took some gold wax and rubbed it over the top – I wanted some vintage yellow to somewhat match the sunflowers.
I then added some green die cut leaves I had laying around on my desk, covered them with the vintage distress collage medium to tone down the green a little,
Once all that was dry, I added the square with the images with the other collage medium, then found some light brown paper flowers, adding some of the gold wax to the petals, and stuck them down as you see.
As I was putting some of the papers away, a strip dropped out ‘Made in England‘ so I added that to the bottom.
Here are the products I used, and you can see the roll of washi tape off to the side:
All-in-all, a fun but messy creation. I still have no idea what I’m doing – but I did enjoy the process.
Here is a picture of the washi tape just attached to white card stock and the image the four layers create, ready for making into a card:
Hello everyone. Some crafty time yesterday created this card for a few challenges:
The background panel is a turnabout stamp from Concord & 9th. It was one of the many, many items received as part of their ‘Summer Camp’ virtual weekend. They always provide such a great number of items for this weekend event – and so many ‘camp counsellors’ which I know I regard in high esteem and watch many of their YouTube channels.
The first thing I did was the turnabout panel, using the colour scheme from the current Color Throwdown challenge. I used Concord & 9th inks, and their turnabout jig – which also came with the event – then cut that down to slightly smaller than an A2 card base.
I then stamped and die cut the separate flowers and leaves, and die cut ‘Jumbo Butterfly‘ from The Greetery, using the matching stencils to ink blend the colours on it.
The sentiment is also from the same event, and stamped into an oval, die cut from a Gina K Designs master layouts die set.
The oval was attached with 3D foam, the flowers and leaves added, then the butterfly, and some iridescent gem for the centre of the flowers – and some down towards the bottom right.
The gems are from Spellbinders, and reflect the colours around them.
Hello once again. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘G’, and Veronika has chosen the theme of:
‘G’ is for Gentlemen – create something masculine’
Here are my cards:
I don’t create masculine cards very often, and for this challenge I decided to use the ‘Create In Quads – Hexagon‘ layering stencil set from Taylored Expressions.
If you haven’t used them before, these are an ingenious way of creating four card panels by using four layering stencils.
I chose a more masculine colour scheme for the layers and varied the orientation and sentiments placed on each of the four panels.
I hope you can come and join us with your masculine creations. xx
Hello everyone. There is a new challenge just started at Cardz 4 Galz, and Dawn has chosen the theme of
‘Inspired by a book’
Here is my card:
I was inspired by the book ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde‘ by Robert Louis Stevenson. I had just received these products from Spellbinders for the propagation virtual class. I felt the test tubes and test tube stand were perfect.
The background is a previously created panel using water and alcohol inks. here is my original post using this technique.
For this background I also used an embossing folder to create a bubble effect/
The stand was die cut and assembled, and I did use some grey Distress inks to darken some of the angles.
The test tubes and markings were die cut, and I also found some ink smooshed and splattered backgrounds in yellow, green and pink which I thought would look good to depict that a chemical reactions were happening in them.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations inspired by a book. xx
Hello. I have created a fun and colourful card to share today:
I die cut the brush elements from a Taylored Expressions set, and assembled them. Card stock is from Concord * 9th and Heffy Doodle.
The background panel was die cut using an old Catherine Pooler postage die, and dry embossed using a Stampin’ Up embossing folder – an oldie but a goodie……
The splats are from a Tim Holtz die set – a little trimming here and there for them to fit where I wanted them.
As I decided to use the same brown for the background panel as I had used for the brush handle, I ink blended a darker brown onto the handles to make them stand out a little more.
The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘F‘, and Melanie has chosen the theme of ‘Fruit’. Here is my card:
The background was created using a Spellbinders embossing folder, and as the fruit are quite a vivid colour, I went with a dark background again. I am liking a darker background behind strong colours of die cuts.
The whole arrangement was die cut and layered using Concord & 9th card stock, as well as some Spellbinders card stock. I am still in my fussy mind-set – liking repeatedly die cutting and layering all those itty bitty pieces…..and Spellbinders do their leaves and flowers so very well – my favourite die cutting elements to put together.
The sentiment was added and using gold card stock.
I hope you can come and join us with your fruit themed creations. xx
I shall be entering the following challenges:
CYHTP – embossing folder – option of beach not taken
Hello once again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge. The theme has been chosen by Sue J and is:
Summer Fun
Here is my card:
This die set with the girl and the swing is from Spellbinders, and I have been itching to put it together. What doesn’t say summer more than a tree swing surrounded by flowers….? (Not that the UK has had any type of summer yet – we are waiting impatiently…..!) The florals also come with the set, and I believe I added extra foliage.
It does take a lot of die cutting and layering – which suited my currently fussy mind – and getting the swing ropes placed just right was a challenge – I inserted them behind the background panel, but I am pleased with the result.
The background panel is also using an embossing folder from Spellbinders.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme – the design team has come up with great inspiration. xx
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