Scripted

It's Beckie's turn to set the challenge for the Daring Cardmakers this week:

"With the nights drawing in there is nothing better than cosying up 

with a good book! For The Love Of A Good Book

So this week I would like to see a page from an old book used on your card. This can be taken from an old book or if you have a stamp with a script on it you can use that too."

 For once I had an idea of what I wanted to do - a couple of different ideas, in fact - which made a nice change from pushing paper around the desk! One idea was for a Christmas card using script patterned paper, the other for a "regular" card and making a flower from old book pages

First though I needed to find my Christmas stash - which proved the most difficult bit.  The funny thing was though that although I thought there was at least one "script" style paper in every paper set, it turned out there wasn't.  In the end I used a right old hotchpotch of 6x6 pads and dies to make this card

Tools and Materials:

Smooth, Cream card blank

Dark red Bazzill card, Gold card scraps

Papers from MME, Simple Stories, Carta Bella, all 6x6 pads

Glitter card in gold and dark red

Gold twine, red and white Baker's twine

Snowflake dies: Sweet Dixie, Spellbinders, Crafters Companion, Memory Box

Snowflake Punces: EK Success, Martha Stewart

For the next card I used some old book pages from my "might come in useful one day" box to make a flower - then used the off-cut from the first card to make a scrapling.

Tools and Materials:

Smooth, Cream card blank

Papers MME "Lost and Found" 6x6

Seam Binding, Black card for swirl

Card Candy, Pearls and Gems

Ink

Old book pages for flower

SU Punches for flower 

The flower is made with 5 large punched shapes and 2 smaller ones.  I damped them then added some colour with pinky peach ink. I blotted the paper with kitchen paper to remove excess water then crumple each petal and left to dry (well a bit, as I'm too impatient to wait longer), while I made the background for the card.

Once uncrumpled I just glued the petals together using the smaller ones at the top of the stack, and crumpled them up again to get a shape I liked

As always the design team have come up with lots of inspiring ways to use script papers, stamps and book pages, so I hope you'll click HERE to check them all out

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