Baubles and Brights

 

    Hello!

I'm late with my DCM card this week.  For one reason and another its been a bit of a frantic week, but despite plans having to be thrown out of the window Christmas comes and sometimes we just have to roll with the the changes. 

I hope all is well with you and your Christmas is full of love, peace and joy

And now for my last Daring Cardmakers card pf the year!

We're now at the final challenge of our 

 "Have Yourself a Crafty Little Christmas"

 series for 2021

wk 7:  Baubles, Boxes and Bows

Three things beginning with B - you can choose one of them or all three to feature when you make your project this week!
Maybe make a bauble to put in a box and decorate with a bow!
Remember it doesn't have to be Christmas themed, and it can be a card or anything else you're inspired to get crafty and make.

We'll leave this challenge open until we return on 7th January 2022 after our Christmas break, but before we go we'd like to thank you for joining in with us all year, and to wish you a 

Very Happy and Peaceful Christmas

I didn't have very long to get my card done this week, but I did need to make a card to fit alongside a gift in a quite small box, so I was able to join those two tasks together and make this

 

 The background rectangles were stencilled with bright coloured inks using a stencil made by cutting the shape I needed from a piece of acetate

The gold 'joy' frame is an old Memory Box one that I haven't used yet this year so it was good to give it an airing!

 

 The baubles are the smallest ones from a couple of different sets. I cut them iun different finishes of gold card and added a punched snowflake to one and some tiny stars to the other.

Now I cut this panel down to fit my card and before gluing down I added the gold thread hangers/

To finish, I added a few tiny stars punched from different kinds of gold card

 

 

Thank you so much for coming by, please don't go without leaving a little message, I do love to hear from you.  

Or maybe I really am just talking to myself

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

Have a Wonderful Christmas

Loopy Tree Trio

Hi there

I thought I'd share a quick post featuring more of the loopy trees I used for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge.  

I got on a bit of a roll using some of the trees I'd cut a few days back and also some of the cards I'd already done the backgrounds on.

I hope you like them!

 

Washi tape, glitter card, silver thread, home-made decal sentiment

Washi tape, glitter card, gold thread, home-made white on black printed sentiment

Inked stripes, glitter card and soft sheen silver card, silver thread, home-made decal sentiment

Thank you so much for coming by, please don't go without leaving a little message, I do love to hear from you.  

Or maybe I really am just talking to myself

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,

 

Time to Trim Those Trees

 

   Hello!

hope all is well with you and your Christmas preparations are going well too.

For the Daring Cardmakers

 

"Have Yourself a Crafty Little Christmas"

 

Challenge this week, our theme is

Trim the Tree

We'd love to see some trees on this week's projects, please!
Christmas Trees or Wonderful Winter Landscapes. One tree
or a whole forest.  Oaks, Pines, Palms .....
Remember it doesn't have to be Christmas themed, and can be a
card or anything else you're inspired to get crafty and make 

 

I've made a bit of a forest this week but my trees aren't all on the same card. I'll share a couple of them today and save more for another day, so please pop back to see them.

 

Card 1

 

 

 

The background is stencilled with both Snow and Indian Gold embellishing mousse - I like the soft variation of colour I get using the two shades.  The stencil is home-made - just a rough squarish shape cut out from a piece of acetate.  I save the plastic packaging from die sets to make these simple hand-cut stencils - its good to get another 'life' out of this kind of stuff, isn't it?

 

The trees are die cut from black glitter card and from soft sheen gold card.

'JOY' is one of my home0made sentiments and its finished off with a multi loop gold thread bow.

To complete the card I added a few black and fold gems from a sheet I found at the back of a drawer when I was looking for something else! 😂

Card 2

I've used the same die (I cut loads of these in different colours so there are more cards to be made!)

These were cut in a variety of aqua shades and different card finishes and glued them down in a 'dancing trees' kind of arrangement. Next I used some of the cut out waste bits to fill in a few of the loops - not sure if I this this or not though.

I've been on a bit of a mission to use some of the lovely Washi tape I find it hard to resist buying, so I've used some to add the borders here - plus a few narrow strips of card if I didn't have a suitable match.

 

The sentiment is a home-made decal sticker and again I added a thread loopy bow, this time in silver.  To complete there are punched stars in various sizes

 

I hope you like them!

Thank you so much for coming by, please don't go without leaving a little message, I do love to hear from you.  

Or maybe I really am just talking to myself

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,

 

Twisted Treat Box - December Elemental Challenge

 

    Hello!

We had our Covid booster jabs this week and have both felt a bit grotty for a few days since.  Much better now, but I really fell behind with things on my to-do list, so I'm going to make this really short in an effort to get some more ticks on that list!

This week's  Daring Cardmakers challenge

 

"Have Yourself a Crafty Little Christmas"

 

wk 5: December Elemental Challenge

 

Our December mood board is all about the excitement of getting ready for Christmas.  The house needs decorating and the gifts need wrapping so there's holly and stars, wrapping paper and twine, baubles and candy canes... and loads more goodies to choose from. 

 Just pick any 3 elements or more from from the picture below (the colour palette counts as one) to use when you make your project

Remember it doesn't have to be Christmas themed, and it can be a card or anything else you're inspired to get crafty and make!

See what the rest of our clever team made HERE 

 

From the mood-board I chose the colour theme, the printed page, Twine, Greenery and a few other bits and pieces!  I made a little treat box and tiny gift card to attach to it.

 

 

Info

kraft card to make the box

White card to print with 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' wording

Various die cut leaves and boughs in green and gold

Due cut stars and snowflakes in white card, plus a few gold stars and red dots

The box is held closed with red satin ribbon and the gift card attached with red and white Bakers' Twine

These treat boxes are so incredibly east to make - even though they look a bit complicated: just make a tube (like a kitchen roll inner)

Squeeze the gap at one end together and glue - hold together with clips while it dries. 

 Squeeze the open end together, but in the opposite direction so you get a kind of triangular shape

Don't glue this end, but pinch firmly and add clips as before until you're ready to fill it with goodies.

Punch holes through both layers of the open end so you can add ribbon and tie it closed

 Great for hanging on the tree, using as decorations, adding to a place setting at the table...  Not that I ever get around to doing any of those things, of course!

 Thank you so much for coming by, please don't go without leaving a little message, I do love to hear from you.  

Or maybe I really am just talking to myself

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,