Hello everyone. The new challenge has started at Cardz 4 Galz, and Debbie has chosen the theme of:
embossing – heat or dry
Here is my card with dry embossing:
I chose to make a very tall card here, as I wanted to use two of the floral images. These florals are from The Greetery and are called ‘Botanicuts Morning Glory’.
The layers were die cut and assembled, choosing to use a lighter green for the veins of the leaves instead a darker green. I don’t know why – it just looked pretty…..
I then took the slimline card base, cut a piece of white card the same size, and ran that through with a Spellbinder embossing folder.
When I placed everything down, I felt the background needed just a little something more, so I added some splatter – small splatters, not too much – just enough for interets.
I was happier with the look, so when it was dry – it didn’t take too long – I attached the images with 3D foam, and added the foiled sentiment:
I hope you can come and join with your dry or heat embossing creations. xx
Hello. I made this card the past couple of days inspired by the current challenge at The Card Concept, and their photo inspiration. I was inspired by all the different greens, the white flowers, and the plaid background – as well as the vase, of course:
My first job was to search the Color My Life app to find a vase, this one popped up which is from Spellbinders, and one of their ‘Fresh Picked’ die sets. This was die cut twice and layered, for a little more stability, and then run through with an older Darice embossing folder to add detail.
The next step was to search through the app again for a plaid background – this is an embossing folder, again from Spellbinders – which I used with a plain white piece of card, then ran a light green ink pad across the top after embossing, so it ‘grabbed’ the raised areas. This panel was cut down very slightly, and adhered to a white card base.
Now to the flowers and foliage – the dies are from The Greetery, die cut with tones of green card from Spellbinders and Concord & 9th for the stems, then die cut again to obtain the white florals, and layering together.
The abundance of floral elements was glued onto the card base – using the vase as a guide – then the vase adhered with 3D foam so it caught the stems.
I was then searching through for sentiments, but didn’t find what I wanted – they all seemed to interfere with the overall look I wanted – so I didn’t add one.
Hello everyone. I was thrilled to be the random winner for the November – December challenge at Christmas (or not) Bingo, and as such, invited to be Guest design team member for an upcoming challenge.
The new bingo board for March 1st is:
I chose to follow column ‘O’ – Easter/Spring/free/foil or vellum with this card:
I first created the vellum panel, by using a Spellbinders embossing folder, and set to one side whilst I then created the main image.
This stamp and die set is from The Greetery, and is called ‘Spring Crest’. It is a layering stamp set and I chose light colours for the florals, a sage green for the greenery, with a light brown for some of the other accentes.
I also used the ‘Bitty Botanicals’ stamp, stencil and die set to create some small florals to use at the bottom of the frame.
The first step was to add the frame to the vellum, then tuck the separate bitty floral in place. This way, I knew what I could add to the back of this arrangement to be able to stick the vellum down onto a white card base. The vellum is not, therefore, stuck down completely, only at the back of the arrangement on the front.
The final step was to stamp and die cut the sentiment – also adding more glue on the back of vellum behind the sentiment.
So quite a soft and ethereal make for me – obviously inspired by the Spring theme.
I hope you can visit the challenge and have a go at joining, the Bingo board is such a novel idea, and there are so many different ways of playing. The challenge runs from March 1st and finishes 15th April. xx
Hello again. The Alphabet Challenge has started a new challenge, having reached the letter ‘V’, Helen has chosen the theme of :
‘volume – use foam pads or gel to raise apart of you design’
Here is my card:
I decided to go with a springtime fell with these daffodils. Having had what seems like months of rain here in the UK, the snowdrops are appearing, and I felt a spring card was needed to encourage brighter weather.
The daffodils are from Hero Arts, die cut and then a little ink blending to the petals before adding the corona, which was attached with 3D foam pieces.
The background panels of green, then the stitched white layer were cut using a Gina K Designs Master Layouts set, and the green circles die cut with nesting dies to be slightly larger than the two white scalloped circles – also cut with a Gina K Designs die. Before attaching the white circles to the green, I ran them through an embossing folder to give a little more interest.
The sentiment is foiled and die cut from Pinkfresh Studio.
I hope you can come and join with your creations following our theme. xx
Hello everyone. A little time to play in my craft room today, inspired initially by Time Out Challenges and their ‘pick two’ list, die cutting and using an embossing folder – my favourite way to create, and my happy zone:
The die set used for the floral and the circle frame are from Spellbinders. The die set was part of their Weekender from 2024. I haven’t played with this diet set yet, so I thought it was time.
The circle and frame is supposed to be an embroidery hoop – but I left it at a framed circle, using some circle nesting dies from Hero Arts to create the slightly larger frame in red, then cutting the die again, out of white glitter card to give the slightly smaller frame – glued to the larger red circle – and the white glitter inner circle.
The florals were all die cut and assembled separately, and set to one side, whilst I used a light pink card stock panel and ran it through with a Spellbinders embossing folder, a small edge of black, then attached to a white card base.
The hoop was assembled then glued down, the flowers arranged how I wanted them, and as I though I needed something to cover the bottom of the stems, I used a previously created wax seal. The final step was to add the white foiled sentiment.
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Time Out Challenge – choose at least 2 – sparkle, red, heart, pink – not using aperture and twine out of the 6 options
Hello there. It’s been a busy few days but I am here with two cards for the new challenge at ABC Christmas. I am hosting for this month, and as we are using the letters ‘C’ and ‘D’, the Christmas themes are:
C is for Crimson & D is for Ding-Dong(bells)
I have provided a prize for the randomly drawn winner of the challenge, open worldwide, a stamp and matching die set from WPlus9:
Here are my cards:
C is for Crimson
D is for Ding-Dong
For the poinsettia card, I created the poinsettia using a die set from The Greetery, then used there capsule basics die set to create the fancy oval. I die cut an inner oval piece with another lighter green card, then used an embossing folder to add detail to that, as well as the same embossing folder on a white panel.
This white panel was adhered to a card base, the oval layers stuck together and attached using thin 3D foam, the poinsettia added with more foam pieces, and the foiled sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio added.
The final touch was to add some Pinkfresh Studio ombre glitter gems.
My second card was started by creating the bells. These are from Tim Holtz, and simply die cut with the same brushed gold card stock from Spellbinders – no different coloured layers – and glued together. I created 5 of these bells as I didn’t know where I was going other than to use these bells….
Finally deciding on where I wanted to go with this, I then took a white panel and stamped the word ‘jingle’ down the side using a Simon Says Stamp set and embossing ink. (Thank goodness for the Misti – it certainly made the lining up of these four words easier) These words were then heat embossed using gold embossing powder.
I thought the background was a little plain when I laid everything out, so I then ran this white panel with the words heat embossed through my machine with a Spellbinders embossing folder.
This white panel was layered with a shiny red card stock piece, the same card as I die cut the bow from, the bows added down the side with some gold DMC thread and the bow attached to the top.
The small sub-sentiment was also heat embossed and a red shiny mat added so it stood out more.
I hope you are able to join us with your creations following one of both of our themes. xx
Hello once again. It is my turn to host the new challenge at The Alphabet Challenge. Having reached the letter ‘T’, I chose the them of:
T is for Texture
Here is my card:
For this card I chose to add texture by using an embossing folder and many layers.
The main floral image is from The Greetery, a layering stamp of a carnation, then die cut with the matching die.
The oval layers are also from The Greetery, and I stacked three of the layers on top of each other for dimension with the pattern adding more texture, stamping the words on the top layer.
The panel in the background was created using an embossing folder from Spellbinders.
The back layer was glued flat to the card base, then each of the oval layers added on top, the uppermost payer with thin 3D foam, then the floral image also added with more thin 3D foam pieces.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations featuring some form of texture. xx
Hello everyone. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge. This time the host is Billie A, and she has chosen the theme of :
add pink flowers
Here is my card:
I first stamped the Altenew images then used the matching layering stencils to colour them in. I added slightly more ink towards the centre of the flowers and the base of the leaves to create more dimension, die cutting them with the matching die set. This set also has an embossing folder to add details to the florals, but I didn’t use that this time.
To highlight the florals and the colours, I chose to use a mid grey coloured card stock, and embossed using an older We R Memory Keepers 3D embossing folder with the basket weave pattern.
The sentiment is gold foiled, and some gold gems were also added.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme.
Hello everyone. I have a card to share inspired by several challenges:
I started this card by taking a light blue piece of card and using a Simon Says Stamp snowflake embossing folder. I then ran – very gently – a white pigment ink pad over the top to bring out some of the embossing d3etails on the snowflakes.
This panel was then cut down slightly so I could a have a thin white border around when attached to the card base.
I then used some Pinkesh Studio snowflakes and die cut them out of vellum, attaching with a little tape runner to the blue panel, and adding gold gems to the centre of each snowflake.
The final step was to add the gold foiled sentiment.
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Seize The Birthday – birthday with the option of snowflake background taken
Hello everyone, and a Happy New Year to you all. I am afraid I am a little late with this post, as I have been without internet for the past 5 days – my Starlink system decided to pack in, and we had to wait four days for a new system to get from the USA to us here in the UK….a great time frame to receive it, but what a pain – you certainly realise how dependant you are on the internet these days….
Cardz 4 Galz started a new challenge, Johanna has chosen the theme of ‘Country Scape’. Here is my card:
I used a Hero Arts die to create the scene, snipping and cutting where needed to add the different tree colours. I also used an embossing folder on those circle for the trees, to give a little more dimension to them.
The blue skyline behind the scene is some patterned paper, and the sentiment is gold foiled.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme.
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