Wheat Ears and Scripture

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The fortnight has rolled around again and it is time for another challenge at Word Art Wednesday, this time sponsored by The Project Bin, with the winner receiving a $15 gift voucher.

I decided to create an autumnal themed card to coordinate with the scripture.

I printed the verse then  die cut it with a stitched rectangle, and blended lemon ink around the edges before removing the die.

The Wheat Ears were cut from an unidentified die I received as part of a prize package from Mia. They were cut from white card, then I blended yellow ink over the die cuts, then painted over the stems and ends of the ears with an olive ink.  They then received a liberal coating of WoS

The  green layer of card was splattered with a fine mist of  Inka Gold gold paint. as a final detail before assembling 

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The inside was finished with some sparkle tape, and then I layered three strips of narrow washi tape onto the centre of it.

I am linking this to:

Dream Valley /challenge #235 - Autumn Colours

Sir Stamp A Lot October Challenge - Autumn Glory

Die Cut Diva's Challenge - Thoughts of Autumn Fill The Air

Ellies Belle's October Wednesday Challenge - All Things Autumn

Incy Wincy Spider Challenge - Halloween or Autumn Colours

The Cat's Pyjama's October Challenge #373 - Autumn

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #131 - Anything Goes

Digi Choseday Challenge Week #42 - Anything Goes

polka DFoodles Challenge Week #42 - Anything Goes

through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Playing with Dimension

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This is a card made a few weeks ago for a friend who lives locally,  so I could hand the card to her and not worry about postage, or getting it crushed in the post.

I love how it all worked out together without a lot of effort - some of the parts were pieces on my desk, and that's always good ... 

The flowers were die cut from scraps of patterned paper and sprayed with a mica spray, not that it really showed on the pink flowers, and the leaves were also cut from snippets

The oval layer was a piece of paper I had played with ages ago.  I do remember that after crushing it, I swiped a golden glitz ink pad over it, and above you can just see the glimmer it gave. 

This gives an idea of the height of the flowers.

The base layer of green was embossed, but with a folder that is too small for our standard size of card, so I added the ric rac to cover the blank strip, which also echoed the edge of the die cut yellow layer.

The sentiment is from a Dark Room Door set, and the panel edges were swiped with yellow ink. 

A few rhinestones in the centers of the flowers, and also around the flowers, and a foil cut butterfly were the finishing details. 

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks $460 - 461 - Anything Goes

Avenue 613 October Challenge - Anything Goes - Opt twist, Things with wings

All Fun Challenge #17 - Anything Goes

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge #47 - Anything Goes

Lil' patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #144 - Anything Goes

Pixie's Snippets Challenge #389 - Anything Goes using Snippets

We Love 2 Create Challenge #10 - Antything Mixed Media Goes

A Gem of a Challenge Week 21 - Anything Goes

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge #65 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #195 - Anything Goes

Clearing My Desk...

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I am still working on sorting, purging and packing, and had overlooked the fact that I had to make a card for this week's Word Art Wednesday Challenge  .... eek!

I had started on my desk yesterday, and came across this piece of green cardstock so used that for my base this morning - I then ratted in my pre-made background container and found this piece.

If I recall, it was made by sprinkling Brusho's in an embossing folder, misting it with water, placing a piece of watercolour paper in it and simply pressing it together by hand. 

After printing the wonderful verse (available free on the WAW blog site)  I trimmed it and lightly distressed the edges - both the background and verse were layered on deep red card, then mounted on the green base

The butterflies were from my jar of pre-cut butterflies, and I brushed some red ink onto the yellow one to make it 'fit' colour-wise. 

I am linking this to:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challnege 2040 - Anything Goes

Leanne's World 101 Challenge #31 - Anything Goes

Do-Al(l) Creative Challenge #46 - Creative Background

CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #119 - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge Week #40 - Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #252 - Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge #200 - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Challenge #211 - Fall Colours

Crafty Creations October Challenge #414 - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T Challenge #572 - Halloween/Fall/ Thanksgiving

An 'Oops" Rescued

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I am running a day late with this post.  I did get it part done yesterday, and then life happened! 

As it has a habit of doing.  

This card is for the new challenge at Word Art Wednesday , where our sponsor is the very generous company, Clearly Besotted Stamps, who will supply a 15 Pound gift voucher to the winner.

My card started as an oops, the embossing was not 100% for the technique I was trying, so it got put into my 'promise box'  after I had sponged the ink over it. 

Somehow I just don't seem to be able to successfully emboss on watercolour paper!

The verse was cut with a stitched circle die and sponged with yellow ink on the edges.

As the panel was too large for the card front, I trimmed one edge off  and mounted it to the side, layering it over a piece of gingham ribbon, then added vertical a bow to the right

A few blue sequins and the front was finished

The inside was finished with a trimming from the feature panel. 

When I was writing this post, it occurred to me that what I did with making the unsatisfactory panel into something attractive and useful, God does to us when we mess up (sin).  

When we admit/confess our sin, he will forgive and redeem us, and remake us into something beautiful, as we are all precious to Him. 

I am linking this to:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2038 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge Week #38 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #129 - Anything Goes

Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Anything Goes

Funky Junkie Challenge - Staying In The Background

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

Arty Diva's Challenge #29 - Anything Goes

The House That Stamps Built Challenge S2320 - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations September Challenge #413 - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog, any comments you may leave are appreciated.

A Chalked Sunflower

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It's a slow process this purging and packing - but I did get this card done!

I have had this Magnificent Sunflower 3-D embossing folder  for a while now, and decided that I needed to use it.  So I embossed a long, narrow snippet of white card that was on my desk.

I decided to colour it with chalks, using a cotton bud (Q - Tip) .  As can be seen in this and the following photo, I built up the colours and shading using repeated layers

Once I was happy with the colours I sprayed it with a sealant to secure the colour on the card.

The sentiment was clear embossed over Memento Dandelion Ink, on white card, and then double mounted over another snippet of yellow card.  

Some sequins and bakers twine finished the outside of the card.

The inside was finished with washi tape

I am linking this to:

Paper Fundays September Challenge #21 - Anything Goes, Opt Fall Colours

Crafty Creations Challenge September #413 - Anything Goes

Through The Purple Haze Challenge #171 - Anything Goes (opt Stitching)

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #211 - Fall Colours

Little Red Wagon Challenge #567 - Nature - Flora or Fauna

Krafty Chicks Challenge #525 - CAS

NBUS Challenge #18 - Anything Goes using a NBUS item

Pixie's Snippets playground Challenge #386 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday  Challenge Weeks #456 + #457 - Anything Goes

                                 The House That Stamps Built Challenge - Inspiration Palette

A Swinked Scripture

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I recently discovered the technique of Swinking, as named by Laurel and Ardyth!

Their video  tutorials are here and here  and I had great fun making up some backgrounds, one of which I used for this weeks Word Art Wednesday's DT card.

Our Sponsor this week is  Stamp Simply  

who always supplies a generous prize of a voucher to be spent on their wonderful products.

My apologies, I made this card without checking who our sponsor was, and did not use any of the product supplied. 

This weeks scripture, which is available free on the blog, was designed by Karen Murray.  I die cut it with a M.B. Stitched Rectangle, and mounted it onto the background with a pair of tiny banners, cut from the same red card as the base.

The background was made by swiping three Catherine Pooler inks, Lemoncello, Aquatini and Blue Suede Shoes down a piece of lightly dampened watercolour paper, lifting the pad before I reached the bottom of the panel. 

I also sprayed it with some lemon mica spray, which gave an almost splashed effect where it reacted with the inks, giving a subtle touch of texture

The inside of the card was finished with some washi tape

I am linking this to:

Digi Choosday Challenge Week #36 - Anything Goes

Arty Divas Challenge #29 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

lemon Shortbread Challenge #128 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown challenge #465 - Anything Goes

The Artsy Stamper Challenge #23 - Anything Goes

Crafting Happines Challenge #65 - Anything Goes

Jan's Digi Stamps September Challenge - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2036 - Anything Goes

An Ironed Swap

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I quick post today - I have surfaced from the craziness of cleaning and packing to share this card.

The challenge in our swap group last month was to use the iron-off resist technique,  as demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire.

I used a Stampendous stamp called Bandanna Background, which is slightly too small for our card, so I split the stamped panel and put the sentiment in the centre, directly onto the base card.

After stamping and clear embossing the design, I then randomly sponged over it with Catherine Pooler inks - I was happy with the result, so ironed off the embossing,,, but forgot to wipe the ink off the embossing first, so the result below means I have to really think as to how I am going to use it!!

When I went to mount the coloured panel, I had difficulty finding a card to really complement the panels, and ended up layering it on red, then onto the rich cream base.  I then used the same Rouge Red ink from the sponged panel to stamp the sentiment.

The inside of the card was finished simply with the edge of the white panel run over the red ink pad, and then some washi tape added.

I am linking this to:

Polka Doodles Craft Challenge Week #35 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #191 - Anything Goes

Pink Gem Challenge Week #18 - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #140 - Anything Goes

Dare 2B Artsy August Challenge - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #127 - Anything Goes

Jan's Digi Stamps August Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness Challenge #64 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #454 +455 - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge Week #35 - Anything Goes