An Easel card, Plus

Welcome

This is a card I made for my local swap group for November.  The challenge was to make an interactive card that had an element that moved, popped or generally was not just 'flat'.

This is how my card would have looked when the recipient took it out of the envelope

Once it was opened and set for viewing, it would have looked like this

I used a plain green card base, with papers from a Recollections Pad named Rainbow Inks.

The flowers were made from white card, coloured with Cosmic Shimmer Summer Sky Opal Polish, and then sprayed with blue mica sprays - the leaves were from the base card with green mica spray added before die cutting.  

All the dies were older S/B dies, including the base of the focal panel

The wee panels on the side  after being assembled were were adhered using foam tape.

The flower centers are coloured brads that I have had for a v-e-r-y long time...

Here the sprays show on the die cuts

This is how the card looks in profile once 'stood up', and you can just see the mechanism used to pop the focal panel.

I am linking this to:

Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge #417 - Anything Goes using snippets

The Corrosive Challenge November #11 - Anything Goes

Lil' patch of Crafty friends Challenge #170 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #519 + 520 - Anything Goes

Polka Doodles Craft Challenge Week #48 - Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create Challenge #12- Anything Mixed Media Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #159 - Anything Goes

Crafter's Castle November Challenge #47 - Anything Goes

A Gem of a Challenge #24 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #220 - Anything Goes

Faded Cogs

Welcome

This is a card that I taught last month using a stencil technique.

To start the sentiment area is masked and then the stencil placed and inked working from the masking out, fading out the further you go from the masked area, but not covering the card front completely.

I chose to 'mirror image' the stencil by flipping it over between the top and bottom of the masked area.

The sentiment was copper embossed, using a magazine freebie stamp

When mounting the stencilled panel, I added a wee snippet of copper paper in the top left and bottom right before adhering to the base - subtle, but a touch more of colour and texture.

I finished the inside with a strip of copper spotted washi tape.

I am linking this to:

Polka Doodles Crafting Challenge Week #48 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #574 - Anything Goes (twist not used)

Creative Fingers Challenge #220 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiment Challenge #288 - Anything Goes, plus a sentiment

Colour Crazy Challenge Week # - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge #587 - All Occasions

Through the Purple Haze November Challenge #186 - Anything Goes

Addicted To Stamps Challenge #419 - All Occasions

Creative Moments Challenge #227 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #519 + 520 - Anything Goes

Shaped Golden Scripture Card

Welcome

I know it's been a while since I was here - I needed to take some time out and slow down, as I had tried doing too much, again.  One day I may learn.....

It's time once again for the Word Art Wednesday Challenge to start, and this week we are sponsored by The Project Bin who are providing a $15 credit to their store.

The scripture, from the book of Jeremiah, was beautifully crafted by Karen M, 

and is available as a freebie digital download at the Word Art Wednesday Blog Page

The card was cut from a S/B Labels  Die, and sponged with Delicata Golden Glitz ink before removing the die.  

Too ensure the stability of the card, I cut another layer from the die, and trimmed straight across the base of the die cut before scoring near the top, and gluing it to the upper portion at the back of the card

The ribbon was tied around it and held in place with the glued layer

The wee flowers were punched from a snippet of card that had been sprayed with a T.H. mica spray, Flickering Candle, and I popped a gold rhinestone in the centre of each of them.

This photo gives an idea of all the glimmer and shine provided by the inks, ribbon and spray.

I am linking this to:

LeeAnn's World 101 challenge #44 - Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge #227 - Anything Goes

through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness November Challenge - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenge #259 - Anything Goes

Jan's Digi Stamps November Challenge - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2147 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #47 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbrerad Challenge #159 - Anything Goes

A Quick Tag

Welcome

I would like to welcome Annabel Lee as my latest follower - her blog is here

(She writes in Spanish, but Google will translate)

This was a quick tag to make, I didn't have much time, so was very pleased that it did come together very quickly.   

We have a small group of women at church who meet once a week, and we celebrate each others birthday with a small gift (there is a price limit), and this tag was needed for that!

I cut the tag using a Paper Rose tag die

Embossed the sentiment useing Wow Metallic Gold Sparkle ep., and the rubbed the edges with 

versamark ink and dipped them in the ep, and heated.  Unfortunately the heat gun blew some of the poweder over my desk...

The poppies - Memory Box Prim Poppy - were already cut and were in the pocket the die was in, so I decided to use them, and tapped them in the ink, then into the spilt powder... loved the results.

The above photo  gives an indication of the sparkle that the embossing powder I used

And here it is attached to the gift.

I am linking this to:

Addicted To Stamps and More Challenge #418 - Birthdays

Crafty Creations November Challenge #427 - Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge #226 - Anything Goes

Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday November Challenge - Use a Punch or Diecut

Little Red Wagon Challenge #628 - No Patterned Paper

The Paper Shelter Challenge #492 - Say Something

The Paper Funday November Challenge #35 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #517 +528 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Design Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #46 - Anything Goes

Flowers for Annalise

Welcome

This card was made for a sweet wee girl turning three.

I ended up using a decoupage magazine kit for this card, and enjoyed assembling it.

I then added my own touches to complete the card 

I changed it from a square card to oblong, and layered up the patterned paper onto silver and then a dark blue base card, and added the sentiment and digit.

This shows some of the dimension achieved with the layers

I also lavished Wink of Stella on all the flowers (including the one in her hair)

The sentiment was another magazine freebie, which I silver embossed onto the dark blue card of the base, and then layered over some more of the sparkle silver card

The digit was similarly offset over the silver.

The inside was finished with a strip of glitter tape.

I am linking this to:

Allie's Angels Challenge #52 - Anything Goes

Polka Doodles Challenge Week #46 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #219 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #572 - Anything Goes 

Opt Twist Sparkle and Shine used

Alphabet Challenge - P is for Patterned Paper

Pattie's Creations Challenge #188 - Anything Goes

Through The Purple Haze Challenge #186 - Anything Goes

Opt for him not used

Time Out Challenge #200 - Precious

Little girls are very precious

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Weeks #517 + 518 - Anything Goes

Snippets and a Scripture

Welcome

Today is the start of the new challenge at Word Art Wednesday ,

where we are being sponsored by the wonderful Really Reasonable Ribbon.

This week's uplifting scripture is available free at the Word Art Wednesday site.

I started this card, which is a mini slim-line style, with a piece of deep pink/red card that was on my desk, and then I found this remnant/snippet of napkin/serviette covered  card that 'worked' with it.

I printed the scripture, then cut a S.B scalloped rectangle from another snippet of the base card, lengthening the rectangle as I did so.  

I offset the rectangle slightly on the base to add in the ribbon - not one from our sponsor, but similar to their wonderful grosgrain ribbon.  I added a wee 'faux bow' on the plain stripe. 

To finish the card I added some Glossy Accents to the centres of the flowers and the corners of the scripture panel.

I am linking this to:

Through The Purple Haze Challenge #186 - Anything Goes

Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday November Challenge - Die Cuts and Punches

A Gem of a Challenge , Challenge #23 - Anything Goes

Polka Doodle Challenge Week #45 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #571 - Anything Goes

Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #415 - Anything Goes using Snippets

The card base, background panel and also backing of the scripture panel are all snippets

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #156 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #45 - Anything Goes

Ike's World Challenge #150 - Anything Goes (opt tags)

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Black and White Birthday

Welcome

This card is a compilation of various company's products, but they came together beautifully.

I started with the idea of a channel for the sentiment, so die cut the borders using a lacy die, cutting into some gold and black splattered paper

I then measured where I wanted the sentiment and white embossed it on the black base card. The sentiment had longer 'tails' but I shortened them for this card by masking the stamp

Sitting the pieces together the card looked rather stark, so I white embossed the wee spray of flowers in white on black card, and die cut it

I then used the same die to cut a layer from gold paper, and off set it behind the black and white image

This photo shows some of the gold splatter in the background

 

The inside was decorated with a strip of the same gold paper.

I am linking this to:

Arty Diva's October Challenge - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge October #10 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #157 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #515 + 516 - Anything Goes 

Water Cooler Wednesday Challenge #328 - All Occasions

Crafty Creations November Challenge #427 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #44 - Anything Goes

                                       Polka Doodles Challenge Week #45 - Anything Goes