Hello,
Last month I did something new!
With much encouragement from my great friend Joanne, I joined in with the Card Chain Challenge for the first time. You sign up to send a card to the person befor you in the sign-up list, and then the person who signs up after you sends a card to you.
It's a worldwide chain so whilst I sent my card to Hilary, a fellow Brit, my card came from Dee, who lives in Kenya
25 card makers took part in March and as it's the 2nd of the month we can see all the cards that were sent over on the Card Chain Challenge blog big reveal.
Friendship is the perfect theme for meeting new card-making firends!
For my card I chose to use two of the Theme Options (Gnomes, Friendship), and added in a sprinkling of the colourpalette option
I had a phase of making gnome cards a while ago - they were just perfect for my menfolk as I could tailor the cards to their interests! Various sports, and favourite foods were featured on them.
This time I decided its just the right time of year for potting up flowers so mixed a couple of die sets to create the picture.
I stencilled a simple circle to centre him on and added some die-cut grass, adhered Flower Pot Gnome and adde a die-cut 'Hi' sentiment
A big thank You to Dee, in Kenya for this pretty card - it was such a treat to receive a lovely card in the post and a change from just junk mail and bank statements. I enjoyed it so much that I've already added my name to the Aorul list AND my card is ready to send!
If you would like to take part in the next card chain challenge, you have until 6th April to sign up here
Just a Note
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If you buy paper craft goodies, such as dies, stencils, stamps etc you may like to use my Affiliate link
to the Spellbinders store
- you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from SpellbindersIt doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.
There's
a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at
the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site
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Thank you so much for coming by
Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!
Kathy xx
Glad you enjoyed your first CCC experience Kathy! Your gardening gnome is adorable, he definitely looks to have green thumbs and his inked circle background looks great to anchor him!
ReplyDeleteJust love your sweet little gnome, Kathy - so cute with his potted plants! Great color scheme too! Welcome to the Card Chain!!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you joined in with us this month Cathy! I love your cute gnome in the colors - they worked perfectly with your little guy and his pretty pot of flowers! Wonderful background stenciling and die cut grass to ground him! Julia xx
ReplyDeleteI really am very happy to have this delightful flower pot gnome on my shelf. He has definitely brought a spring time feel into my craft room. I also really like the stencilled circle. It works a treat. Thanks for signing up behind me xx
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