Chalkboard thanks

Hi and welcome to a post to announce the start of the latest challenge over at ATSM.

Here is my card for your inspiration

which is my take on this photo.

I saw the blackboard element and thought of an actual blackboard!

I usually make a thank you card for my Grandson to give to his teacher, so I decided to combine the two with this.

On a die cut panel of kraft card I stamped my SU hardwood stamp in Memento Desert Sand, then with a MFT pierced square stacked die cut the main panel away , then moved it down and cut away the bottom rectangle to make my blackboard surround. I repeated this second step with a black base card, using the kraft panel as a template. I then glued the kraft panel onto the black so that the back appeared in the aperture, trimming where necessary. 

Using HLS's Simply Said, I stamped and embossed the greeting with white EP. The banner was made by folding some scraps of DP and using a MFT sentiment banner die to cut them out, the fishtail end of the die was placed away from the fold. These I then glued together over some twine to make the garland and attached it through a punched hole on both sides, knotting to stop it pulling back through. It also stops the card from sliding fully open so it sits up better! I added the 10/10 in a white gel pen then added some chalk dust with a white pastel pencil, rubbing gently to give a smudged look. The apple I drew and fussy cut before colouring with Copics and adding some Glossy Accents.

That's about it from me, please check out the rest of the team here and join us.

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Your Favourite reason to make/send a card

I usually make thank you cards for my grandson and daughter at this time of year to give to teaching assistants and class teachers. I always appreciated those I used to get at the end of term.

Any man can be a Father

Good morning all.

June is well up on us now and that means that Father's Day will soon be here, so to help you with your makes the latest challenge starting today over at Cardz4Guyz is -

SOMETHING BLUE for FATHER'S DAY

We've never celebrated the day in our family. My Dad didn't hold with this 'new fangled American thing' and my hubby is of the same opinion so I don't make them really, but I do know that lots of people do, so here is my inspiration for you.

My starting point was the sentiment stamps I got from Card-io for this very occasion!

I used a fab card by Jen Nelson as inspiration, well CASed really. I've had it in my LOTV folder for a very long time, so long I couldn't find the old LOTV inspiration post but here is a link to a Pinterest pin. 

I stamped this James the Bear from LOTV in Paris Dusk Memento onto a white panel and coloured him with blue and neutral Copcs before stamping the two part sentiment, also in blue. The white base card was covered with some dark blue DP before the panel was glued down.

So for more BLUE inspiration check out the rest of the team here. Why not join in, you've got a whole two weeks to do so.

Sparkle and Shimmer

Good afternoon folks.

It's Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK and of course it's been raining, so I have had a fabulous excuse to retreat to my craft room and play. Al is busy crafting some speaker boxes for our son who is creating his own cinema experience in his lounge, built in speakers for surround sound, drop down projector and screen, so after a little bit of fettling in the house I sat down this aft to play too.

Seeking inspiration I came across this week's challenge at Muse. Now I haven't played there for quite some time for one reason or another but as it's Ardyth's 50th birthday, Happy Birthday Ardyth, I thought I would join in.

She's asking us to CASE one of her cards as a twist to the normal Muse so I went for a look on her fabulous blog and then came up with this.

I used this card as my inspiration plus the latest challenges at Paper Players and Less is More.

I've noticed that Ardyth likes to use square card bases but I must admit to using the rectangular format so my frame is a nod to this, it also matches the sketch at Paper Players! I used the same Altenew Beautiful Days set and the silver, white, blue colours but used the shimmer effect I saw Jennifer McGuire use here. I've wanted to try this shimmer technique for awhile and as the challenge at LiM is Shimmer I thought why not.

So that's about it from me folks. Hope the weather improves as we are getting a visit from our Grandson soon.

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CASing Ardyth

     

Love is like a butterfly

Good morning, hope I find you well.

Over at Cardz4Galz we have a brand new challenge for you. Our theme for you this time is to make a project -

INSPIRED BY A SONG

Here is my card.

I saw the challenges over at Paper Players and Stamping Sensations and the song - Love is like a butterfly wouldn't stop buzzing around my head!

It was used in one of my fave sitcoms of the late 70's early eighties as their theme tune, Butterflies staring Wendy Craig as well as the Dolly original.

I borrowed this SU butterfly from my bestie Di to make a card for my daughter who loves these colours and butterflies. 

To start, I stamped the butterfly at a jaunty angle on a white card panel, then embossed it in silver. I then placed a rectangular die cut over and traced around it with a pencil, then trimmed the parts that I wanted to extend over the die cut rectangle. This allowed me to work these parts over the top of the die so that when cut they would remain intact. Once done I washed in some DIs in Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet and stamped the greeting. The completed panel was popped up on pads.

Please check out the rest of the DT here and why not join in, we'd love to see what you come up with.

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                                                    Butterflies, fairies, fantasy

Joy to the world

Hi and welcome to a scheduled post to announce the start of a brand new challenge at ATSM.

Here's my inspiration card.

This is because the latest challenge is -

I know my daughter hates it when I post a Christmas card so early in the year but it does mean I'm not madly making them at the last minute in November and December! I think it is a particular good idea this year as I think I may be a little busy towards the end of this year, wink, wink.

To inspire me I had a root through some ideas I'd saved awhile back and saw a card using a monochrome snowflake bauble on grey here. Loved the tone on tone effect with the contrast sentiment.

I've had this freebie bauble die for quite awhile awaiting the perfect opportunity. This was it and I decided to go with a navy option with white and silver accents.

To start I cut a panel of navy card with a MFT blueprints die and then the bauble with snowflake pattern in the same blue card and black fun foam. I glued the two together to get the dimension then added some fine silver chord from the stash and the die cut JOY (a Tim Holtz alphabet strip from Sizzix). I added an extra silver die cut snowflake to finish. The sentiment is from Uniko and was stamped and embossed with white EP. The bauble was attached to the blue panel and a bow from the same chord finished it off. The blue panel was then popped up on a panel of fun foam over a white base.

For more holiday inspiration check out the rest of the team here.

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K - Keep it Simple

Precipitation

(snowflake on Joy and bauble)

No option this time