Wishing you a day as special as you are

Morning folks.

We've a brand new challenge over at Cardz4Galz this week.

Get Krafty

We would like to see your projects using kraft card, here's mine.

I used a couple of challenges out there as inspiration for my card so went with a simple kraft and white colour scheme and kept it to a OLC.

I started by cutting a mask from a set of dies I got from The Works for £3, bargain as were all the others they had for sale. My friend Di showed me what she had bought so while she was over the other week, off we went to see if we could get some more. They appear to cut well and included stitched basic shapes as well as some fancy ones. more to follow with them! 

I placed the mask over my kraft panel and using two outline stamps from Altenew's Remember This, I stamped and masked the background. The sentiment is from a freebie set and fits into the masked area quite well. That's about it really, now it's over to you. There's plenty more inspiration from the DT over at the blog.

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One Layer Wonder

You are the best friend

Hi and welcome to post to announce the start of a brand new challenge over at ATSM.
This week it is our theme is

MAKE YOUR MARK

Here's is my make, anything goes really so long as you us mark making on it.

An article came up on my FB feed Sunday morning by Yana Smaluka about her perfect card making formula and it inspired me to create this card. 

I used the Altenew Extra Special set which I have tried to use before but ended up not quite liking the end result. This time I used a white embossed outline and Zig brushes to colour. After fussy cutting the spray out I cut a gold frame from mirror card using a couple of dies, just as Yana suggested. I haven't got the fancy ones she used but I quite like the effect this has none the less. For the layout I used the sketch at The Paper Players, stamping a panel with SUs woodgrain and embossing with white EP. The bottom panel was cut from plain white card with a snowdrift die from Lawn Fawn and glued over the woodgrain effect.

The sentiment banner was made by stamping a couple of the word stamps from the same set as the flower and embossing with gold EP. A couple of gold gems and some sequins completed the card.

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Red Hoodie

Morning all.

Well that was a turn up for the books, a warm dry and sunny Bank Holiday weekend! After a rather soggy August so far, it had a last hurrah, before normal service resumed today. 

We didn't really do much as it was a BH, so stayed close to home pottering in the garden. Hay making will have to wait as the weather for the rest of the week is mixed. It was our Ruby wedding on Sunday, where did all the years go, we were going out to celebrate but again a BH and as I hadn't booked earlier, due to my tooth problem, we had to miss that. We will be celebrating with our son on Tuesday though, as it his birthday this week.

Talking of birthdays, I made a birthday card for the new challenge at Cardz4Guyz, where our theme is -

D is for .........

Here is my card using d for dies!

All the bits are made from dies except the eyelets and string draw cords.

The main dies are from a set by MFT called Zipper and it makes a great fun masculine card. I used some red Core-dinations card from the stash that reminded me of knitted fabric and added a couple of eyelets from my stash with string ties to create the hoodie effect. The sentiment is actually the number plate from another MFT die, Road Trip. I made the little T shirt peeking out by cutting part of a circle from a scrap of white card and from another piece the same shape then a larger circle to create the welt glued over the first cut. The zip and number plate were cut from a scrap of satin silver card, then all the bits were assembled onto a white base card.

That's about it from me but please check out the rest of the team here.

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Eyelets and string

You'll always be my friend

Good morning card makers.

We've a brand new challenge starting at Cardz4Galz to inspire you.

This time our theme is -

CATS or KITTENS

I struggled to think what I had in my stash to cover this theme as it isn't one I find myself going to really. Then after talking to my friend about it, I remembered an old Penny Black wooden stamp. 

So here is the end result.

I decided not to include the rose arbour around the cats on the original stamped image and turned it into a friendship birthday card with this fun sentiment from Do Crafts. After stamping I coloured the pooches with Copics, then fussy cut them out sitting on a branch. On a die cut panel, I inked some Tumbled Glass DI in the top right, placing the cats on pads over it and stamped the sentiment to the middle left. Inside is a plain Happy Birthday.
 Simples.

So why not pop over to Cardz4Galz and see what other feline inspiration the rest of the team have come up with then have a go and join in, we'd love it if you did.

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                                        Birthday                               All creatures Great and Small                         

Playing with alcohol and dye inks

Good evening. Welcome to a post to announce the start of the brand new challenge at ATSM.
This week it's our photo inspiration and here's my interpretation.

This is the photo



I love the purpley blues of these petals or are they feathers? It's all down to your own interpretation.  You could use the colours, the petals suggest flowers or perhaps they are feathers then its birds or a simple ombre background could be for you. The rest of the team have come up with a wonderful array of different takes, I went with the colours and a flowery theme.
I was seeking inspiration, when I remembered the alcohol ink theme at CAS Mix Up. I don't have any inks but I do have Copic markers and reinkers, so went in search of inspiration. I watched a few of the links kindly listed by the team as well as some linked by You Tube and discovered I really needed some Yupo paper or some other non porous substrate.
One lady suggested glossy photo paper which I did have somewhere, but after searching high and low I only found some textured stuff, not what I wanted. Anyway delving further, I discovered that I could use Isopropyl alcohol, which my hubby uses to clean metal, to dissolve dye inks to create something to smoosh my paper in, so off I went to play.

Alcohol Inking Technique using Dye Inks by Shari Carroll (5:56)

After a bit of trial and error, I created a panel which I then wondered what to do with. A little more research brought me to another link courtesy of the DT at CAS Mix up

Inlaid Die Cutting with Alcohol Inks by Catherine Pooler (4:47)

After watching the video, I remembered the sketch at CAS(E) this sketch and my card was born!

I cut a circle from the panel, then die cut a flower head from a Sizzix set and then again in some twinkly white glitter card. I replaced the glittery flower head into the circle and placed it on pads on a panel of white card. I then realised that my white panel was a tad too small for the design so added a thin strip of the glitter card to the inner edge, before gluing over a strip of the alcohol panel. The sentiment from LOTV was stamped in Versamark then heat embossed with white EP and cut using a MFT Blueprint banner die.

So what will you be inspired to create? We'd love to see what you come up with, so why not join us this week.

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My choice - Die cuts