Hello there. I have another Spellbinders card to share with you today:

I really do seem to be in a fiddly and finicky mood at the moment. I’m really enjoying all the die cutting and layering of the small dies from Spellbinders. I find it so satisfying when it all comes together.

The background was created using an embossing folder, and covers the whole card base.

I then did all the die-cutting, in red and aqua for a colour challenge, with a light brown for the leaves and sprigs.

I assembled the umbrella and adhered it to the card, then played with floral placement – lots of moving them around, playing with what colour to put where – until I came up with what you see,

I added some enamel dots into the centre of the flowers, then realised the umbrella handle was kinda flapping in the wind and needed some support. I decided to use the sentiment strip – previously foiled – the support the handle, and I quite like the sentiment off to one side.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Allsorts – use dies

Colour Hues – red and aqua

Lil Patch of crafty Friends – anything goes

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

Daisy Chain – no designer paper

Hello once again. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘E’ ,and Meg has chosen the theme of ‘Easel card’. Here is my card:

My goodness – aren’t these difficult to take a photo of…..?

The base easel card was created suing a die set from Brutus Monroe. This came as part of a virtual/online class a few months ago, so I thought I’d give it a go.

The die cuts are from Spellbinders – the pierced die cuts – and adhered as you see, with the flowers being from a Taylored Expressions die set.

A foiled sentiment to complete the card.

I hope you can come and join us with your ‘easel cards’ – I look forward to seeing you in our gallery. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Double D Challenge – flowers

Cup Cake Inspirations – anything goes

Use Your Stuff – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – flowers

Love To Craft – anything goes

Billie A has chosen the theme for the new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz – slimline birthday. Here is my card:

Onto a slimline card base, I adhered a previously created yellow Distress Ink smooshed panel.

The shaker panel was created using a Pinkfresh Studio slimline cover plate.

I adhered acetate along the back to cover all three circles, placed 3D foam strips virtually everywhere on the back creating three ‘wells’ for the sequins – I didn’t want all the sequins to go to one end of another and to stay behind each window – added another piece of acetate to enclose all the wells – then adhered to the yellow panel and card base.

I find this method of creating a shaker uses more acetate – but it makes it soooo much easier to add the sequins, and then add to the card base. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stuck a shaker panel down wonky, or spilled all the sequins – this method stops that happening. Well, most of the time anyway.

The flowers are from Taylored Expressions – a little die kit from a past virtual event – and the sentiment was die cut from Spellbinders gold card stock.

I hope you can come and join us with your ‘slimline birthday’ creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

The Crafty Addicts – anything goes

Seize The Birthday – birthday and ‘make it pop’ – colours, shaker,

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – flowers

Hello. I was intrigued by a couple of challenges where you had to create a Christmas card using scraps, and others for Christmas and no stamping. Here is what I came up with:

Now I know why I kept all those strips of card and patterned paper:

I started by taking a white panel and sticking down some double-sided tape all over it. Once the backing was removed, I took pieces from the pile in the photo above and stuck them down. I chose a diagonal pattern rather than straight up and down. It came together quite easily I must say. I then trimmed that panel down a little and adhered to a white card base.

The sentiment is from Time 4 Tea Designs, with the shadow layer, and then three layers of the smaller sentiment – topped with gold card stock from Spellbinders.

I’m still very fascinated by the strip background, and as you can see I have lots left to create more.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Jingle Belles – Christmas and no stamping

Krafty Chicks – occasion

Peace On Earth – Anything goes Christmas

52 Christmas Card Throwdown – Christmas and use your scraps

Christmas Craft Creations – Christmas and no stamping

Hello. I’d like to share a card using a couple of techniques I haven’t used in a while:

Onto a Kraft card base, I used an Altenew stencil and roughly applied Altenew white embossing paste through it.

Letting that dry, I then used an old – very old – Spellbinder butterfly die to die cut the butterfly out of pink card stock, then used the detail die to dry emboss the details. I did have to interrogate my Sizzix platform for how to do that – but it worked out how I wanted it.

I also die cut some Simon Says Stamp leaves out of vellum, and white heat embossed the sentiment onto some grey card stock.

I first attached the sentiment and then the butterfly – both with 3D foam, then put some glue onto the bottoms of the leaf stems and inserted underneath the butterfly.

Some pink sequins and it’s done.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Color Throwdown – Pink, Kraft, Grey, White

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – add a sentiment

Avenue 613 Create – anything goes – option of flowers not taken

Allsorts – anything goes – option of using s stencil taken

Ellibelle’s Corner I Spy – something with wings