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V is for Vehicle

Hello there. I have a card to share for the new challenge which has begun as The Alphabet Challenge. We have reached the letter ‘V’ and Deborah has chosen the theme of ‘Vehicle’.

This whole card is completely outside of my comfort zone and involved a lot of die cutting and gluing – some very fiddly parts to this die set – and yet I quite enjoyed it.

I wanted to use the die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs, but I didn’t want to create a Christmas themed card, so you can see I changed it a little…….well, quite a lot actually.

I wanted the train to be shiny, so I used some ‘new to me’ mirror card from The Paper Boutique. This was shown is a Facebook live by Sir Stampalot here in the UK – and I immediately went and ordered it.

There are a lot of little pieces to put together, and I didn’t know which colour I wanted to go where on the train, so I die cut everything out of the two colours of card stock – so technically I have enough to make another train.

I added some stickles to the holes on the engine, and some vellum behind the window on the cab. Using tweezers was certainly very, very helpful – and glue which dries clear…..

I used a blue slimline card base, ink blended some clouds on the background – very subtle – then added some grass and rolling hills.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

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

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Watercooler Challenge – occasions

Aud Sentiments Challenge – anything goes with a sentiment

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Corrosive Challenge – anything goes

Cardz 4 Galz – Lace and Pearls

Hello once again. I seem to be having a problem posting my Design Team cards in a timely fashion – one must try harder….

Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge, and this time we want to see your creations with ‘Lace and Pearls’. Here is my card:

On a white card base, I adhered some Lawn Fawn patterned paper – some subtle water-colour splashes in the background.

I used Altenew ‘Doodled Lace’ cover plate for my take on ‘lace’, and a piece of ink smooshed water colour card to create the colourful background panel. I added some pearls to the centre of some of the flowers.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn – die cut and layered several times. I decided to do this in a bold black colour as a contrast to the colourful background.

I hope you can come and join with your creations following our theme. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Just Us Girls – ink or sprayed backgrounds

TTCRD – anything goes

Arty Divas Challenge – anything goes

Crafting Happiness Challenge – anything goes

Here Is A Place To start Challenge – anything goes

Always Remember – You Are Precious

Hello there. I have a couple of cards to share to day – one of which has the above encouraging sentiment, and one for a birthday:

On the first card:

I chose the stamp and use all the layers from Altenew ‘Remember This‘ stamp set. Once the flower was stamped, I masked it off and stamped the stem and a couple of the buds from the same stamp set. The sentiment is from a couple of stamp sets – ‘you are precious‘ is from the Altenew set, and ‘always remember’ is from the Stampin Up stamp set. A one layer card including some masking – very CAS.

The second card:

This took a little planning and a lot of masking. The flowers were stamped first – the outline, then I only used the middle of the three layers – quite effective I feel.

Each flower was masked – using the same mask just moving it around – and I stamped some of the leaves from the same stamp set around and about to fill some gaps, and only using the lightest shade of ink from the set of four – again from Altenew:

I tried a couple of different ways for the sentiment using the same stamp and die set from Lawn Fawn. the first one I tried was by stamping the words in black on white card-stock, but I felt the words didn’t stand out enough – it wasn’t bold enough – so I just die cut the two words out of black card and layered three together.

I like the boldness of the sentiment against the very feminine background.

Both cards will be entered together in the Twofer Card Challenge.

The single purple flower card will be entered into the following challenges:

CASology – cue card – MEMORIES

Tuesday Taggers Challenge – positive or uplifting quote

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – layer it up

Aud Sentiments Challenge – anything goes with a sentiment

The birthday card will be entered into the following challenges:

Seize The Birthday – birthday – topping option not taken

Inkspirational Challenge – word prompt – MASK

Big Hugs Z Fold

Hello. A new challenge has started at Cardz 4 Galz. I wanted to get the year started with virtual hugs and to be able to let someone know I was thinking of them. The theme is ‘more than one fold’, chosen by Billie A:

I played around with some fancy fold cards, and even made another card for the challenge – but I wasn’t happy with it. This is Take 2…..

I made a ‘Z’ fold card – white card base – and added some Stampin Up ‘Peaceful Poppies‘ DSP – which I’ve had for ages and just never got around to using. I wanted to add some of the embellishments which came with this series – but they seem to have been ‘filed’ where I can’t find them!

Once the card and the paper layers were stuck down, I decided to add some simple die-cut sentiments in black – so they can stand out against this patterned paper.

Both the die-cut sentiments are from Lawn Fawn. The ‘Big Hugs’ in the middle of the card is white heat embossed onto black card, layered several times before being stuck down so you can see the ‘hugs’ when the card is closed, but ‘Big Hugs’ when the card is open.

‘Thinking about you’ is also Lawn Fawn – but it is very fine, and I found it a little too fiddly to layer it up, so stuck down with one layer only after die cutting.

I hope you can come and join us – and educate me into the various ways we can introduce more than one fold in our creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge – atg with patterned paper

Crafty Creations Challenge – atg

Creative Moments Challenge – atg

TTCRD Challenge – atg