Make a Splash

 

 Hello

  Hope you had a lovely week. The weather is improving at last, which is a bit of a shock as its a Bank Holiday weekend!

They're now doing walk-ins at out local Covid Vaccination centre for the 2nd dose of the vaccine, so we're going to get that done asap instead of waiting till mid June for the appointments we were given.  It will be good to get that all sorted.

This week's Daring Cardmakers' challenge was a tricky one for me,
 but a challenge is a challenge and opting out just because its not an 'area' I'm into would be cowardly!

 it's Jenny here to host this week's challenge and  I wanted to squeeze this theme in before June comes along.  

 You're Mermazing!

May is a month to celebrate mermaids with artists and crafters sharing their projects using the hashtag #MerMay.  I'd love to see your mermaid inspired cards this week, check out the gorgeous makes form my design team colleagues just in case your imagination needs a little spark to get started.  I can't wait to see all your mermazing makes!

 Click here to see this week's design team inspiration  

 

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A smooth white square card blank, with a square of the same card coloured with a few aqua shades of Nuvo mousse, edges inked in black then adhered to the base card.

As usual when there's a tricky challenge, I turned to Etsy and hunted out some suitable digital papers.  This one comes from a fabulous collection of fish scale patterns by PixelJungle

Using  an image from the web as a guide I drew the mermaid tail shape and made a template.  I resized the digital paper before printing then used the template to cut the tail. I made a sentiment piece, glued it in place then finished the card with some glitter glue and some dew drops in clear and turquoise.

 

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you'll leave a comment, I really appreciate it when you do!

Happy Crafting, and please take care of yourself.

Hot, Steamy and Totally Tropical

 Hello

  Hope you had a lovely week.

We've been having crazy weather all this week.  Bright sunshine, downpours, hailstones, thunder and now its very windy too.  I'm sure my calendar says that its May, but.....

Ots quite nice that this week at the Daring Cardmakers we've put the cold behind us to play with more tropical themes

It's Rizwana here with this weeks new challenge and I've decided to go all tropical. I'm hoping it'll bring some warmer weather.  

 Tropical Paradise.

So for this weeks challenge I would like you to create a tropical card with your favourite tropical animal or bird. Lets see some vibrant colours and some tropical plants too.

 Click here to see this week's design team inspiration  

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A smooth white square card blank, with some blue ink shades smooshed around the central area.   

A piece of green Bazzill card, smooshed with various other green shades. A circle aperture was cut from the centre and the green layer adhered over the base card.

The tropical elements were cut using a Spellbinders die set.  I either inked some white card scraps, or used scraps of various bits of green card from my scrap box for the leaves, and inked white card for the flamingo and pineapple.

The large flower was made using a punch and some bright card, plus the flower centre from a Tonic die set

Finally I hunted out the smallest of my flower dies to cut in bright colours, and tucked another of my home-made white on black sentiments in among the foliage.

There's quite a lot of dimension to this card as I added bits of chipboard between the various layers, and the flamingo's wing stands out on a little 'hinge' of card

 

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you'll leave a comment, I really appreciate it when you do!

Happy Crafting, and please take care of yourself.

Proud as a Peacock

 

 

 Hello

  Hope you had a lovely week.

Just a quick post today as I'm very late; we were away for the weekend and despite having this nearly ready to post I just didn't get around to finishing it.

Joanne set the Daring Cardmakers' challenge for this week:

Proud as a Peacock

This week, I would like you to take inspiration from the beauty of the peacock 

for your card. You might choose an image of the bird itself, a 

beautiful “eye” feather or simply the gorgeous iridescent

 colours of a peacock’s plumage applied to other images

 - think rich blues, greens, purples and even a little bronze. 

Extra brownie points if you can work in a “proud of you” or “you did it!” theme!

 Click here to see this week's design team inspiration  

 

I decided to go with Peacock colours for my card, and circles to echo the 'eyes' on their feathers

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My base card is a smooth white square card blank covered with a piece of royal blue Bazzill card

Using lots of inks in peacock shades I covered an A4 sheet of smooth white card, then used a foam brush to cover it all over with a thin layer of PVA.  

While this was still tacky I added a few streaks and sprinkles of copper glitter.

Once totally dry I arranged various sized circle dies on the different  coloured areas and ran through the die cutter.  I repeated this until I had enough to arrange on the card.

The words were cut using a lime green card and a couple of die sets.  The numerals were also die cut, but I then coated them with adhesive and dowsed them with more of the copper glitter and allowing to dry before gluing in place

 

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you'll leave a comment, I really appreciate it when you do!

Happy Crafting, and please take care of yourself.

May's Elemental Inspiration challenge - more hot foiling

 

  Hello

  Happy Friday, I hope you've had a lovely week, its been very windy here at times and not very warm. The wind plays havoc with my hay fever, so its been a very 'drippy' week for me,

This week over at The Daring Cardmakers Miri has chosen the board for our monthly Elemental Inspiration challenge

Welcome to May!

I picked this picture for our monthly inspiration:

 Choose at least three elements (colour scheme counts as one element) from the picture to kick start your project.

 Click here to see this week's design team inspiration  

Having been quite pleased with my hot-foiling exploits last week, I thought I'd use the same hot foiling plate again - after all it looked to be a perfect match for the various dotty patterned squares on Miri's mood-board.

So, my chosen elements were; Squares, Dotty pattern, Blue flower and the heart

 

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My base card is a smooth white square card blank

The blue paper is a gorgeous heavily textured paper from Tonic Studios.  I glued some onto scrap cardstock before hot-foiling with the Spellbinders dots Glimmer plate then cutting into squares. 

The flower is made using the same paper and one of those fab die sets from Spellbinders which have several dies of varying sizes  . 

The heart is also from a multi-sized pack, cut in Tonic mirror finish card, 

For the flower centre I used a blob of Glossy Accents, added some shiny gems, then filled any gaps with those teeny weeny gold micro beads that manage to go everywhere you don't want them, and just occasionally in the place you do want them.

To pull all the components together I added a tiny sentiment, and a gold thread bow, plus some of the blue and gold jewels around the flower

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you'll leave a comment, I really appreciate it when you do!

Happy Crafting, and please take care of yourself.

Anniversary Hearts

Hello!

Today I'm heading back to March for this Anniversary card - yes, I am that far behind on my blogging!

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I started with a smooth white card blank and masked off a wide border using torn Washi tape as I wanted an unstructured square background.

 Using ink and Nuvo mousse I filled in the square quite roughly to get a random colour coverage

The hearts pattern was cut in silver using a Studio Light die, then I used the same die to cut extra hearts in black, silver and pink glitter card.

To finish I added some silver thread and a white on black sentiment created on the pc

 

 That's all for today, thank you so much for visiting, I hope you'll leave a comment, I do love to read them!
 

Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,