Golden Card

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I made this card for a friend who has become a superannuitant, and here in New Zealand you are given a gold card for special 'seniors discounts', hence my theme of a golden card, and lots of gold in the card.

  

I loosely followed the sketch over at STAMPlorations November Challenge,

starting with the tag shape, which I cut from a piece of Prima journaling card.

The (Simons Says Single Rose Die) roses were cut from a piece of dark pink paper that I had smooshed with Orchid and Lavender pearlscent inks to tone in with the tag.

The sentiment was cut with a S/B die, the top layer was sponged with gold delicata ink, and layered over pink card stock, attached on an angle across the base of the card.

I used some eyelashes yarn to thread through the top of the tag - carefully cut to have just three colours showing.

The final detail after everything was mounted onto the gold background paper (from a Botanicals pad by Trim Craft) and then onto the pink base, was the two groups of three pink pearls.

We had news recently that my beloved husband has an un-treatable cancer, so if I am not around much in blogland in the coming months, please understand that I am otherwise occupied - I will be here when I can, and comment when I can, but my first priority is him.

I am linking this to:

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge #141 - Use Die Cuts or Punches

Cards Und More Challenge #171 - Girls, Girls, Girls

The Crafty Addicts Challenge #28 - Anything goes

Scrapy land Challenge #53 - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge #111 - Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge #106 - Anything Goes (twist Thanks)

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #97 - Use a Sentiment

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #256 - 257 - Anything goes

STAMPlorations November Challenge - Sketch only

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ATC's and Missing In Action

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And a special welcome to Pamela from Pam's Pearls who is a new follower.

Life is hectic at the moment, and this week is looking to be slightly crazy with hospital appointments, meetings, and then seven family members arriving from Australia on Friday to spend the weekend with us!! Please be patient with me as I doubt I will be around much at all until well into next week.

I made these three ATC's part way through the week, and have only got to share them now.  

This started as a page from a small Prima pad of planner pages - I let the paper do the work, and simply embossed the scripture over the paper after stamping some flourishes on it.

Die cut the butterfly and covered it with gold perfect pearls and placed it over one of the butterflies on the paper, pierced the edges and ran a silver pen around to create faux stitching, and added the silver cord and silver rhinestones.

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This next one was started by gluing snippets of paper onto the base, then embossing it, adding gold Delicata ink to the image side of the folder before I embossed it.  The ink did not give a good result, so I then went over it with Inka Gold paste on a fine paintbrush. (It looks way better IRL, but did not photograph well.)

The Scripture was stamped onto a snippet and then die cut with a M.B Stitched rectangle, and the gold 'flowers' were cut using a S/B edge die, then cut apart and tucked under the edge of the panel.

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This final ATC  used a piece of scrap patterned paper as the base - I stamped flourishes over it, (stamping off before hitting the paper). 

 The scripture was stamped using the MISTI, and I think I made six impressions before I was happy with it - the ink was quite pale on the paper for the first few impressions.

The (base) butterfly was cut from a floral paper in an old calendar, the top one from white card, and then painted with iridescent blue twinkling H2O paint.

The final detail was the silver dotted washi tape top and bottom and a rhinestone on the butterfly body.

(The apparent tag of paper by the antenna is actually part of the paper below it)

I am linking these to:

Though The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Love To Craft November Challenge - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #45 - Anything Goes

Just Keep On Creating November Challenge - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge #141 - Use Dies and punches

Crafting By design November Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge #110 - Anything Goes

Crafting With An Attitude Challenge #21 - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge #223 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #254-255 - Anything Goes

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Bicycle Bliss

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This is my DT  post for A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge #31, 

The background paper is Lozzy's Vintage Man design, 

due to be released on November 4th.

I love these bicycles, and I can think of nothing better than free wheeling down a hill with the wind blowing through my hair - something I loved as a teen.

I immediately thought of this Vintage Lady on Bicycle stamp from a local company (unfortunately I cannot find it on their website) when I saw the paper.

I coloured her with Prismcolor pencils, and the bicycle with markers.

The scripture digi was from TLC Creations, cut with a MB stitched rectangle die and sponged with Mustard Seed DI

A trim of ribbon and some rhinestones finished the card.

I am linking this to:

Crafty Friends Challenge #43 - Anything Goes

The Pencil Case Challenge Week #31 - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations Challenge #166 - Anything Goes

Aurora Wings Challenge #38 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #134 - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #336 - Anything Goes

Get Creative Challenge #51 - Anything Goes

Amusing Challenge - Anything Goes

Lil' patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #44 - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Week #254-255 - Anything Goes

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Numbers and Sentiments

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I would like to extend a warm welcome to Monika Reeck who blogs at 

Creative With Monika who is my latest follower.

This card has not photographed well - despite the fact I tried on two different occasions - the orange is a lovely clear, bright colour IRL- not the muddy look it has here!! 

The  card is intended for a 12 yr old boy - to be given from his grandmother, and I felt when making it that he needed encouragement.

The stamps I used were an older set of Kaisercraft stamps that I bought over 12 months ago (on special), and were very much in the category of NBUS!!

I embossed the number panel in gold on the base of green cardstock.

The sentiments were stamped in Peeled Paint DI - I was very glad to be using the MISTI as I had to stamp them several times to get a good impression, and stop the orange showing through and making the colour of the images look really 'yuk'!

The finishing touches were the gold coloured thread and the buttons

 - what 12 year old boy would want (or excuse) bling on his card?? - 

but I really wanted something more than just the stamping on this card.

I am linking this to:

Crafting With Friends Cahllenge #30 - Anything Goes

Penny Black and Friends Saturday Challenge (October) - Autumn/fall Colours

My Time To Craft Challenge #332 - Anything Goes

MFP Stampshop Challenge #44 - Anything Goes

Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge #273 - Freestyle

Crafty Friends Challenge #43 - Anything Goes

Catch The Bug October Challenge - Recipe - 

3 buttons, border (stamped) and Fall Colours

Creative Knockouts Challenge - Something to Say

Word Art Wednesday Challenge weeks #254-255 - Anything Goes

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Flowers and Bling

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I would like to extend a warm welcome to my latest follower, Loll from 

Stamping With Loll. 

 Her work is amazing and I am humbled that she is following me.

With this card I was again suffering from lack of mojo, so I started with a panel that I had stenciled some time ago

After ensuring that it would look o.k. on the green card, I decided to add the embossed edging - despite my best efforts to avoid it, the folder left an impression down the middle of the card....

So the feature panel was to be moved to the right to cover it, but the gap on the left was too large to ignore, so out came the clear rhinestones, and that was overcome.

Ah - a sentiment was needed, so I decided to use silver embossing as it fitted with the clear rhinestones, and then I decided to emboss the edges of the panel as well....

All in all I was pleased with the end result.

I am linking this to:

The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge # 10 - Anything goes

Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #103 - Anything Goes - twist - use orange

Craft Your Passion Challenge #335 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #133 - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations Challenge #166 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Sunny Day Crafting Challenge #20 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #27 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge #43 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

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Let Paper Take the Stage

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I was struggling to make a card this afternoon, I had chosen my stamps but then got 'stuck'.  I picked up a paper pack I bought some months ago, and it all continued from there...

I paired the paper with some gray card stock, sponging all the edges with London Fog ink.  I also stamped and embossed the sentiment with the same ink

I also stamped just the quote from the set (an old SU set) and then cut it with deckle scissors, and also sponged those edges. 

Before I assembled the card I sprayed the paper with some silver shimmer spray, which shows up brilliantly in the light.

The only embellishments were two strips of rhinestones 

I am linking this to:

Polka Doodles Challenge #42 - Anything Goes

Jo's Stamp Shack Funday Friday Challenge#161 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #118 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #343 - Anything Goes - Twist Embossing

Crafting With Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Broown Sugar Challenge #221 - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Challenge #43 - Anything Goes

Crafting With Dragonflies Challenge #68 - Let's Go Floral

All Sort Challenge #386 - Sparkle and Shine

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #252-253 - Anything Goes

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Metal and Flowers

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Yesterday I made this card using a new to me technique that Karen Hasheck uses, but I altered it (unintentionally, put it down to stress) and did not put the Versamark ink on the embossing folder, rather I simply dropped the embossing powder over the embossed surface and heated it from behind....

After preparing the base panel, I decided to cut the flower from double sided paper and reverse the layers to give definition to the petals, and also curled them to give some dimension.

I added a wee bit of the ribbon under the brad before securing the layers together.

The sentiment was cut using a S/B die, out of the green side of the paper, and then it was mounted over a pink and cream layers of card before adhering to the double embossed panel.

The final detail was a length of ribbon and a bow added to the base of the panel before being mounted to the pink base.

I am linking this to:

Sunny Day Crafting Challenge #19 - Anything Goes

Die Cut Diva's October Challenge - Time to Emboss

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #159 - Use a New Technique

Card Mania Challenge #85 - Make it Shine

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #26 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge #42 - Anything Goes

Creates and Makes Challenge #4 - Anything Goes optional twist - use dies

Crafty Sentiments Challenge #18 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weekw #252 - 253 - Anything Goes

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