Around the House

  Hello

Thanks for visiting. 

 

Today I’m sharing my card for this week’s Daring Cardmakers Challenge, 

It’s Joanne in the hot seat and she says:

 

 There are two ways to play with this week’s challenge which is

 “around the house”

You can either 

use a household object as part of your creation (e.g. foil from the kitchen, dry wall tape from the tool box, scrape a design into paint with the prongs of a fork) 

or use an image of a household object as your focal point (e.g. a TV, a food mixer, a games console). 

You could do both for extra virtual brownie points if the mood takes you!

 

I went to the kitchen for my inspiration

I've used Bazzill card, Kraft card and silver card 

The larger tools are cut using a Spellbinders die set, everything else is cut using a Tonic crafting kit from last year

I haven't added a sentiment because I couldn't think of something suitable!

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

Viva Magenta

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Thanks for visiting. 

 

Today I’m sharing my card for this week’s Daring Cardmakers Challenge, 

which is set by Rizwana

Pantone's Colour of the year is

Viva Magenta.

This rich and exuberant colour promotes
joy and optimism.
This moodboard has lots of magenta ideas to inspire you. 

You can use lots or just a hint of this colour
when you create your card this week

 

I found this really hard!  

Apparently Magenta doesn't really exist - or it's got such a complicated make-up that no-one can really give a definitive answer to what it actually is!

I made the background using at least 6 different ink pads to try and get something I thought could be called 'magenta'  As the colour varies across the piece you can take whichever shade you think is most correct!

'Tufted' embossing folder from Spellbinders

Silver thread sewn through the card

Random flat-backed pearls glued on the crossovers

HAPPY letters; Altenew alphabet die set

Birthday die by Creative Expressions

Rose from an old Craft Box

Pearl strands from stash

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

New crafty things

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Thanks for visiting. 

 

Today I’m sharing my card for this week’s Daring Cardmakers Challenge, set by Miri:

New Year – New crafty things

 

Use a piece of your craft supplies (stamp, tool, stencil…) that you have never used before!

Give it a new chance or a beautiful beginning in the new year.

Maybe you even got some supplies for Christmas? Or, like in my case, the weeks before Christmas were just too busy to try out your new things.

I was lucky to have a few craft related gifts at Christmas and

 quite a few were die sets so I've chosen one of these 

to use for my card

This cute die is from Spellbinders and is absolutely adorable!

I also used inks and Nuvo mousses for colouring the birds, the

 leaves, the background and the frame

 

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

DCM January Inspiration Challenge

 Happy New Year to you

 

  I've been truly appalling at keeping my blog up to date in the last few months so I'm going to try harder this year.  

I've not been well for quite a while, but am gradually starting to feel brighter and more 'with-it', but at least for the time being I think that I need to keep it simple so I'll share some photos and maybe some basic info about what I've made and not much else!  

At least it keeps the blog alive

 

 Daring Cardmakers January 2023 Elemental Challenge

 

It's Shabneez here and as it's the first Friday of the month it is an 

Elemental Challenge.  Here is the inspiration photo:

You need to pick any 3 elements from the photo for your card - colours 

count as one element.  

There are plenty of choices: wood, spoon, key, patchwork, foliage, 

rectangle, layers etc.  

You can see lots of inspiration from the Design Team below and we 

look forward to seeing your creations!

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 Here's my card using the pinked edge, layers, colours and foliage

I've used 

quite old papers, mainly My Mind's Eye, 

Corrugated card from some packaging 

Various die sets for the foliage and butterflies

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,