Hello once again. The Alphabet Challenge has started a new challenge, the letter is ‘F’ and the theme is ‘Friendship’. Deborah is hosting this time round. Here is my card:
I went with a two colour combination for this card for some reason. I didn’t plan it that way, but it certainly came out that way.
I layered some patterned paper with a matching colour of card, and added some MFT stitched flowers with clear gems in the centre of each. I did toy with the idea of some leaves but decided against it.
The words are from Concord & 9th, die cut and layered 4 times to create some dimension.
I hope you can join us with your creations following our theme – I look forward to seeing you in our gallery.
Hello. I am hosting the new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz, and I have chosen the theme of ‘die cuts and/or punches‘. Here is my card:
I recently ‘attended’ a virtual craft weekend with Pinkfresh Studio. This floral bouquet is from that weekend, and I didn’t use it on a card at that stage, but knew I could use it for when made a card for this challenge.
The image was stamped, and then the matching stencils used to colour it in, and then die cut.
The grey background panel was dry embossed with a Stampin Up folder, and then the Hero Arts wood frame attached.
The flower bouquet was added, and the sentiment – also from Pinkfresh Studio – attached as you see.
I added some gem droplets for more inteest.
I hope you can come and join us -I’m looking forward to seeing your creations – I know you are going to make it difficult for me to choose the winners. xx
I chose a previously created background from an online class with Jenn Shurkus, and the images were coloured during that class – but – again – not used……so I decided to piece them all together for this card.
Ink smooshed and sprayed background, a star stencil using some purple ink.
I die cut the words from Concord & 9th is silver glitter card – layered a couple of times – and that was fiddly, let me tell you!
A hillside cut in the same glitter card, the igloo and yet attached with 3D foam pads, and some iridescent little water droplets for added interest.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas makes and increase your Christmas stash. I look forward to seeing you in our gallery. xx
Hello. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘E’ and Billie A has chosen the theme of embossing – wet or dry. Here is my card:
I chose another of my ink smooshed backgrounds in pinks and oranges as a background to the butterfly stamp.
I heat embossed the image in gold embossing powder, and also embossed the sentiment from the same stamp set. I also added some little sequins for some additional interest.
I hope you can come and join us with your embossing creations – wet or dry embossing – so many options. xx
Hello once again. Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge has started a new CAS themed challenge. This time we want to see ‘HUGS’. Here is my card:
This cute hugging pair of koala’s is a stamp from Heffy Doodle. I coloured them with Copics – first having a little internet search for the colouring of koala’s – grey’s and brown’s – so I coloured each differently – warm grey and cool grey, with some white gel pen for interest.
The sentiment if from the same stamp set.
The background circle is a Concord & 9th stamp and using a lighter green, then a stitched circle die.
I hope you can come and join us with your CAS ‘HUGS’ themed cards. xx
Hello there. It’s my time to host at The Alphabet Challenge. Having reached the letter ‘D’, I chose the theme of ‘die cuts‘. Any occasion, any creation -as long as there are die cuts involved – then you’re good to go.
I die cut sooooo many of these little layering dies from Spellbinders – I had so many left over that I created two cards:
This die set from Spellbinders ‘Color Block Mini Petals‘ only has two dies to it – a very small set. However, I think it certainly packs a punch. There is a background petal shaped die, then the other die cuts out the layers. I decided to go with a fairly simple colour scheme – but as you can see I placed each of the four colours in different order on each petal.
It’s time consuming, it’s fiddly – but I actually quite enjoyed it. I sometimes get my ‘fiddly’ head on – though rarely! – and I knew I had to just be patient, go with it, and see what happened.
I used Concord & 9th card stock – three greens and a yellow – and I knew the card stock would die cut perfectly so it was just a case of using my little Heffy Doodle mini die cutting machine over and over and over again…….
Putting the layout together also took a bit of time – which petal and which colour-way to go where. Again, time consuming….
I chose a matching green for the sentiments and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder, and even found some Concord & 9th gems in the same colours to ‘sprinkle’ down. I can’t remember ordering them – but ‘found’ them so used them.
I hope you can come and join us with your ‘die cuts’ creations – I look forward to seeing all your creations. xx
Hello once again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge – and we have 3 new DT members – I’m so excited to seeing more creations on our themes. Dawn has chosen the theme for this challenge – ‘Sentiment as the focal point‘. Here is my card:
Once again I used one of ink smooshed backgrounds but in a bright and colourful palette, as a background to this old sentiment die panel from MFT stamps.
I layered them by using the stitched rectangle dies, and opted not to put the ‘innards’ back into the words. You can still see what it says, and I think the ‘innards’ would cover more of the colourful panel than I wanted.
I hope you can come and join us in this challenge – I look forward to seeing all your sentiments in our gallery. xx
All of these elements were created during an online event with Jenn Shurkus – I just didn’t put the cards together during the class – or since. I have an envelope full of the coloured images, so I decided to use some of them to create this card.
The background panel is stamped with snowflakes and onto that I adhered some vellum. I felt this would enable the images to stand out a little more.
As the images were already coloured and die cut, I played with the layout and used either glue or 3D foam to stick them down.
I hope you can come and join us with you Christmas creations. xx
Hello there. ABC Christmas Challenge has reached the letters J and K. Wei is hosting, and this time we want to see your Christmas themed creations with ‘J for Joke and/or K for Kraft‘. I was inspired to make a card for each theme:
J for Joke
K for Kraft
For the first card I used the Tim Holtz die ‘Arthur’ and created him with a cream textured card stock with some brown ink blending around the edges. The hat is from a Simon Says Stamp die set – with some glitter applied to the white parts. The background is an ink smooshed background from my stash. The joke sentiment stamped onto some patterned paper and placed using 3D foam squares.
For the second card I created a shaker card using an ink smooshed background which I embossed using a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder, then applied Sizzix lustre wax. I placed this into a shaker creator from Tonic Studios, added glass beads and some thicker glitter and sealed it.
I die cut a Hero Arts Christmas cover panel out of Kraft, and stuck that down onto the front.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations – following one or both of our two themes. xx
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