Patterned Paper

Unicorn Magic

Hello. I have a card to share following the theme for the new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz. The theme has been chosen by Dawn and is:

Fantasy – fairies, dragons, witches, wizards etc

To create the unicorns, I used a Spellbinders die set ‘Cozy Toes Friends’ with a mixture of Spellbinders and C9 card stock.

The background patterned paper is also from Spellbinders, and glued to a white card base.

When I first placed the unicorns on the paper, they did get a little lost, so I die cut a bright yellow circle, and used a Spellbinders embossing folder to give it some interest ‘Could Nine‘.

The sentiment was stamped and gold heat embossed, to pick out the gold in the background paper, and layered with some gold glitter card.

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

I shall be entering the following challenges:

CYHTP – embossing folder, option of cloudy day taken

Critter Crazy – anything goes with a critter

Craft Rocket – use dies

Love Those Pretty Papers – use pretty papers

Mix It Up – anything goes – option of embossing taken – heat and dry

Snowmen & Transport

Hello again. We have a new challenge starting at ABC Christmas Challenge. Or Christmas themes this time are:

S is for Snowmen

T is for Transport

Here are my cards:

For my snowmen card, I used a die and embossing folder set from Simon Says Stamp. The images were die cut, coloured with Copics, ink blended round the edge of each snowman, then ran each through the embossing folder.

The background panel is white glitter card – the oval die cut from the centre before adding the patterned paper – covered up the oval missing piece nicely – oval added, then the snowmen added with 3D foam.

The sentiment was stamped then die cut.

For my second card – very die cut heavy – I used a Spellbinders die set from their ‘All Aboard’ kit from several years ago.

All the elements were die cut and assembled – took quite a while – all those itty bitty pieces – then put to one side whilst I thought about the background

I chose a couple of pieces of patterned paper – cream and a lilac shade -ran through with a Spellbinders embossing folder, cut down to 5×7 inch landscape, adding a strip of gold glitter card.

The train was added with 3D foam – this too was a little fiddly to get everything as lined up as I could, then the glitter words and stars added. These were die cut sticky glitter.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one of both of our themes. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Snowman card:

Peace On Earth – Anything goes Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round – Christmas with R & S – snowman

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Train card:

Addicted To Stamps & More – dies cuts and/or stencils

Daisy Chain Challenge – transportation

Craft Rocket – use dies

Mix It Up – anything goes, option of embossing taken

Sending Bright Thoughts

It is time for the new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz. Jill has chosen the theme of:

Interactive/Kinetic

Here is my card – using the Lawn Fawn Magic iris dies:

I started by getting all my Magic Iris dies together, and choosing to use the ‘Floral Wreath‘ add-on. All the elements were die cut in Spellbinders card stock, then I took time to watch a YouTube video on the way to put the magic iris together.

The background blue paper and the window paper is also from Lawn Fawn.

The sentiment was stamped at the right time for construction of the card, all things added as you can see.

I hope you can come and join us with your interactive projects. The Design team has some amazing variations on the theme – I look forward to seeing what you create. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – anything goes with florals

Addicted To Stamps & More – die cuts and/or stencils

Love To Craft – anything goes

Paper Circles

Hello again. It is time for the new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz, and Johanna has chosen the theme of:

A circle, or anything with circles

Here is my card:

fir this card, I wanted to use some of my patterned paper pieces, and also decided to go with a slimline card base.

I first die cut several circles out of different papers, different sizes, using Hero Arts nesting circle dies. I wasn’t sure which I wanted to sue, so cut quite a few.

I used a cream piece of card for the background, and used a Spellbinders embossing folder, arranging the circles to suit my eye, which did involve a lot of moving around…

The white circle was cut using a Gina K Designs circle tag, and stamped with a heart and small piece of foliage – I can’t remember which stamp set and which company now.

All the circles were die cut again with white card to make them a little thicker, then attached to the card base with 3D foam, strategically placed so I could overlap them.

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

Patterned Paper Play

Hello once again. I am stepping out of my comfort zone to play with some patterned papers from 49 & Market. I have had these – along with many more – in my stash for absolutely ages, and I was in the mood to play yesterday. I created 3 cards:

I think that these collections from 49 & Market are best suited to folios, but I have never tried one – maybe that is another comfort zone exit for the future…….

I created 6 x 6 inch card bases in the colours I thought would match the images, and matted a slightly smaller layer onto them.

I cut apart the images and strips from the collection, played around with mats and layers until I was happy, then either glued or used 3D foam to put everything together.

There are lots of images and papers left over, and I may explore different card styles and folds over the next few days, maybe even some folio pages – I found a folio in my stash when tidying up a little – who knew I had one of those……?

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Craft Rocket – layer it up

Crafts Galore – anything goes

Love Those Pretty Patterned Papers – patterned papers – option of spring flowers

Country Scape

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.

Christmas Sparkle Bauble

Hello everyone. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge, Dawn is hosting, and she has chosen the theme of ‘Christmas Sparkle’. Here is my card:

I used some patterned paper from Simple Stories, I believe I received it as part of a class, and used a panel of the tartan for the background.

The snowflake panel is heat foiled using a toner sheet, silver foil, and the Gina K Designs Fuse foiling system. I haven’t played with this very much, so I had to check out one of her YouTube videos – but it foils like a dream…

This foiled panel was then die cut with Hero Arts besting bauble dies – a couple of times for dimension – then all elements added.

The deer is also part of the ephemera I received for this kit, and glued directly onto the foiled bauble.

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

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies – anything goes with a critter

Die Cut Divas – die cuts and Christmas/Winter

12 Months Of Christmas Link-up – anything goes Christmas

Autumn Wishes

Hello. I want to share a card created using a Simon Hurley stamp and stencil set, obtained for a virtual event recently, and to enter the current challenge at The Four Seasons Challenge. The current theme is ‘fall’:

The first job was to stamp the bare trees, which I inked with brown, then stamped in different positions. The leaves are added with a matching stencil, so I actually used Nuvo drops for the so-called leaves.

I squeezed some of the purple out, scraped through the stencil with my palette knife – then had to wait for that to dry before moving on to the blue, and then the red – something I generally don’t like to do – wait for things to dry. I am very impatient when creating….

Once the three colours were dry, I cut the panel down slightly, then layered it with a patterned paper onto a white card base.

The sentiment was stamped, then the banner die cut and attached.

As mentioned, I shall be entering the Four Season Challenge – them of ‘fall’

Hello Friend

The Alphabet Challenge has started a new challenge and theme. Melanie is the host, and she has chosen:

J is for Jump – anything which jumps

Here is my card:

I chose to use a new die, and one from a company I haven’t used before. They now have their products on one of our UK stores, and I took the opportunity to buy several – this peekaboo die really sang to me.

I used a white card base, and die cut the peekaboo die from another panel of white card stock, and simply laid down a rainbow striped paper behind it….really clean and simple – for me at least…..!

I added the foiled sentiment – no gems, no other embellishments – again a rarity for me – but I really do like the simplicity of it.

I hope you can come and join us with your creations featuring anything that jumps. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Ellibelle’s Corner – anything goes

Craft Rocket – animals

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

A Cut Above – anything goes with die cuts

Colorful Options – Neutrals colour board or rainbow

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Believe In Yourself

Hello again. I have created a card for one of my friends going through some tough stuff at the moment, and decided to use patterned paper from my stash:

I wanted to create a Z fold card for the current challenge at Die Cut Divas, together with the theme of ‘bees’ from Double D challenge.

I knew I had some honeycomb/bee papers from 49 & Market somewhere, and I hunted them out, picked several of the papers and decided which ones I wanted.

I created the Z fold using an A2 card base, matted one piece on the inside, and another piece to the front narrower panel, also covering the rear of that folded piece.

I used the ‘Honey Bees’ die set from The Greetery to create the three bees – all coming from the same die set. The yellow part of the bees is from a previously created panel – ink smooshing, acrylic paint splattering, and I think there was even some water droplets thrown in for good measure. I liked the almost honey-like colour on the panel.

The black stripes of the main bee were cut at the same time, from the same yellow piece, and coloured with a W9 Copic marker – not black – as I wanted the legs and antennae to look a little warmer, and stand out from the black hexagon.

The black hexagon piece is from the same patterned paper pack, but onto that I also used some Distress paste – the translucent paste – and a Simon says Stamp honeycomb stencil to create a little more detail and interest behind the bee, scraped through quite haphazardly.

The wings for all three bees were die cut from vellum, and all the layers attached. I had to wait until the following day for the paste to dry, but then it was putting everything together to make the card you see.

I added the sentiment strip, layered with a piece of black for stability.