Flair Not Square

 

Hello

 

Hope you're keeping well!. 

Not long now till the celebration's for the Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee get started, and here in the UK we're all looking forward to an extra long Public Holiday weekend!

The talk on our bit of the road is all about our Street Party, Barbecue, Balloons and Bunting....

 

But today is Daring Cardmakers Day and for once I'm blogging mine on the right day, even it it's not as early as it should be!

 

It's Rizwana here and for my challenge this week I'd like to see

Flair Not Square

I love my square cards but sometimes you just need a card that stands out and has its own flair.  So I'd like to see anything but square cards.

 

Here is where you can see the Design Team: inspiration

Like Rizwana a square blank is my go-to shape for most cards.  But I also love to make a shaped, interactive or other fun kind of card.

I had a few 'boy' birthday cards to make recently and after making a few sport themed ones I was out of ideas and fed up of sport so decided it was time for something different and made this card based on the shape and design of the lid of a box of Celebrations chocolates!

Thank you so much for coming by

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

Standing with Ukraine

Home Comforts

 

   Hello!

Hope you're keeping well

 I'm late blogging my Daring Cardmakers project this week.  It was a bit of a tough one from Dawn this week and really made me think.  When it comes down to it, the things most of us would miss most if we need to move away would be our family, friends and the familiarity of our surroundings - none of which are easy to put on a card!

Its Dawn here with a lovely new dare for you. 

HOME COMFORTS

As I am an expat living in France there are a lots things I miss for example Cadbury chocolate, Yorkshire tea and oxo cubes.  So I want you to make a card featuring something you would miss if you lived in another country, what reminds you of home, it might not even be food.  I still can't get use to seeing yellow post boxes and vans.

Click here to see the lovely projects the design team made:

So after a good old thin I came up with an idea to feature our distinctive red pillar boxes.  They are so 'British'! I love that while at first glance they all look pretty similar, on closer inspection they often have special characteristics - there are actually different shapes, some very rare and very old, and all will tell you which monarch was on the throne when that box was positioned.

The other reason I chose to add a postbox to my card is that when I'm away from home I can never flipping well find the local equivalent!

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White square card blank

Kraft card square

Pillar-box image from the internet, printed onto photo card

Hand-drawn swirly dotted line

Tiny envelopes and hearts from coloured scraps of card 

PC generated sentiment

I meant to add some flowers around the base of the post box but I completely forgot!
 

  Thank you so much for coming by

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

Standing with Ukraine

Rain or Shine

 

  Hello!

Hope you've had a good week!  

The weather has been a bit weird around here with wind, bright sunshine and sudden downpours. sometimes within just a few minutes.  I'm going to blame Nat, who chose a weather-related challenge this week!

 

It's Nat here this week bringing you a brand new dare just in time for some weekend crafting.

Rain or Shine

Earlier this week my parents celebrated their wedding anniversary, and inspired by the four seasons of weather they experienced on that day (from a blistering heatwave to a snowstorm all in the same place)...

I want to see you feature something weather-related 

on your card

It could be sunshine, rainbows, umbrellas, parasols, or even snow! The choice is yours. 

Click here to see the lovely projects the design team made:

 

 I went with a Spring weather and gardening theme as they seem to go hand in hand.  Keeping newly planted seedlings etc safe from any nasty weather, but well watered while they are bedding in takes effort and a fair bit of luck. 

 

 

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I've used a smooth white rectangular card blank

The lovely rainbow and sunshine background paper comes from a digital download set from Poppy Moon

I inked some scraps of paper to match the colours in the papers, then die cut the boots etc using dies from Sizzix

The little sun is made using a plain circle die and a flower die from a Spellbinders set as I didn't have anything just the right size!

I've used lots of chipboard behind the various elements to get some dimension. 

The sentiment was already printed so just needed cutting out from one of my pre-made black and white sets

 

 Thank you so much for coming by

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

Standing with Ukraine

May Elemental Inspiration

 

 

Hello

 

 Keeping it short this time as I'm still catching up with things after our little holiday.

This week on the Daring Cardmakers its time for May's Elemental Inspiration Challenge.  How come January and February are at least twice as long as the other months in the year?

Hello, Joanne here this week.

 

May Elemental Inspiration

We have an “elemental” challenge for you today — just choose at least three elements from the inspiration picture (colour scheme counts as one element so pick two other things as well if you decide to go with colours).

 You can see lots of inspiration from the Design Team by clicking this link

 

 For my elements I chose the pink and green colours. the black and white stripes, a flower, some little droplet stones and a stencil

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I've used a smooth white square card base and made the background by masking off some areas with washi tape and also some masking fluid before applying various shades of green Nuvo embellishing mousse.  Once I'd removed the masking 'stuff' I used some gold mousse through my favourite stencil.

For the flower I inked up some thin card with several shades of pink Nuvo mousse, spraying water to get a random colour effect.  While it was still damp I scrunched it up, flattened it out again and left it to dry.

Im not entirely sure that last bit made any difference to the finished flower but it seemed a good idea at the time!

 

The flower petals are cut using an old Spellbinders 'carnation' die set, which has different sized petals in it.  I achieved the frilly  effect by using reverse tweezers on each petal

 Next I built up the focus of my card; a rectangle of striped card. a chipboard swirl inked in green with a little Nuvo mousse for shine and some gold gilding flakes added, some green leaves from another Spellbinders die set and finally the sentiment piece made with more black and white card

To complete the card I added a few small droplet stones - I can't remember the proper name for them!

Thank you so much for coming by. 

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

 

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