Long Things!

 

 Hello

This week Joanne set the Daring Cardmakers Challenge, and its a really fun one!

Monday is a Bank Holiday here in the UK so that means it’s a long weekend. Use the idea of “long” to make your card. It might be the card shape (long and thin), an image of something long (dachshund dogs! soft drinks!), something representing a long journey or a long time (a map, a bird that migrates…), anything you can think of inspired by the idea of “long”!

 Here is where you can see the Design Team: inspiration

 

I decided to make graduated zig zag fold card and used new baby dies from CraftStashUK along with some beautiful, but old SEI papers (does SEI even exist any-more?)

It did take longer to put together than I anticipated, and as I currently have a bad back sitting for any length of time is an issue didn't help!  There's a lot of die cutting involved as I wanted to add extra layers of different colours it took flipping ages to do - timing cutting between OH's work calls adds to the time scale.

Anyway, getting the card made was only part of my troubles this week.  Turns out this card is just impossible to get a decent photo of.  I took loads, both with my little studio set up, and with my phone and they were all rubbish.  This morning I called in OH to help and even he struggled to get something half-way acceptable. 

So I've decided to just post a whole bunch of pics, the best of a bad lot and hope you get the idea - its better in real life, I promise!

Thank you so much for coming by

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

Standing with Ukraine

Keep Your Cool

 

Hello

This week its my turn to set the Daring Cardmakers Challenge, and I've chosen something to match the weather

Keep Your Cool
It's been pretty hot so far this Summer - even here in the UK!  
So let's see your favourite ways to keep cool when the temperatures soar features on your cards this week.
A dip in the sea, putting your feet in a bucket of water, 

A snooze in a hammock in the shade (I wish!)

Sunhats and parasols

 Ice cream and ice lollies

A slice of juicy water melon

a long cold drink...

 Here is where you can see the Design Team: inspiration

I will admit to loving ice cream, gelato and sorbet - there is so much joy to be had just standing by those wonderful Italian style fridges filled with loads of flavours of the chilly stuff!  Sometimes I just cant choose which ones to have in my tub and end up getting OH to surprise me/

After all these years he knows me well enough to make a good selection!

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 My card blank is a plain white square with the lower section embossed with a very old Cuttlebug Dots and Circles folder

I adhered two lengths of very narrow washi tape above the embossing and wound gold thread around the card between the tape.  I made a gold tassel with the thread and added a bow

 I inked up some pieces of scrap card in ice cream shades.

For the ice cream cones I used a Spellbinders die for the scoops if ice cream. The cones were cut by hand and the pattern made using a score board

The ice lollies were made using  another Spellbinders die - looking through my dies I spotted a tall gothic window shape from a beach hut set that was perfect for the job.

I added a coat of Glossy Accents and dropped some tiny beads on for the 'hundreds and thousands' and a little Glamour Dust glitter for good measure

  To finish the card I die cut the word and letters from leftover inked card and added some matching tiny hears and enamel dot

Thank you so much for coming by

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

Standing with Ukraine

August Elemental Inspiration

 

 Hello

 

It's Daring Cardmakers day again so here's this week's challenge

 

August Elemental Inspiration Challenge

 

 Nat here today, and as it's the first Friday of the month, 

it's the return of our Elemental Inspiration challenge.

You need to incorporate three elements from the image below on your card, and the colours count as one element.

We can't wait to see how you are inspired. 

Here is where you can see the Design Team: inspiration

A good chance to revisit the colours of Ukraine where although its fallen further down in the News headlines Putin and his cohorts continue to wreak devastation and destruction on a country that they have no business to be stomping about it.

So I've used the basket weave pattern, leaves and flower along with the colours from Nat's mood-board,  for my card today. 

 And just in case anyone from the Ukraine comes across this - you're not forgotten.

The background for the card is a basket weave pattern stencilled in blue ink

in a nod to the patchwork of different patterns on the mood board I added an inked blue panel, over-stencilled with leaves in a darker blue ink

The filigree leaves are die cut using a Spellbinders die from inked green card

The flower has die cut petals and a hand cut centre - it would also have been die cut if my OH hadn't been on yet another long Teams call so that I couldn't use my ebosser! 

To complete I used one of my home made decal sentiments and a few enamel dots

 Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

Standing with Ukraine