The Sky’s The Limit

 

Hello! 

Welcome to my little crafting place! Here's where I share the things I've been making, and sometimes other bits of waffle!

Friday is Daring Cardmakers Day and this week it's my lovely friend Shabneez setting the challenge!

 

Shabneez says: 

The Sky’s The Limit
This time I'd love to see your creations featuring the sky, whether day, night, sunrise or sunset.
Maybe a scene with flying 'things' eg. balloons, birds, planes, or insects...
Or perhaps you'll make a deep space themed card.

Or with 'Christmas in July' in mind how about a snowy sky?

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Those who know me will probably raise their eyebrows at me voluntarilly making a Christmas card for this challenge!  I mean, I could have made a sunset or a blue sky with kites and balloons or butterfliexs - all favourites of mine, but I CHOSE to go Christmassy!

Normally I'd be running kicking and screaming away from the very phrase "Christmas in July", but the first couple of weeks of July were sio miserable that thinking about Christmas didn't feel so weird!  Added to that, this month's club kits from Spellbinders have a Christmas vibe and when I opened them I went "Oooh!" rather than "Nooo, not yet!", because there's flowers and foliage and love using that sort of stuff on my cards,  So, I was kind of in the mood

I started by inking the front of my card - there must be at least 10 shades of ink on this, building up from light blues and sea shades to the deeper royal blues and night sky shades, which is why it's not just a flat colour.

Next I dug out an ancient die plate with smaller sizes of snowflake designs on it and cut two lots in white Bazzill (Avalanche, I think). I glued them on to the background, hand cut a curvy piece of the same card to go across then added some twinkly silver gems and a few tiny circles of white card to finish the background

I made a few snowflake wax seals using the seal from Spellbinders July  Wax Seal of the Month club, I wanted a dark sky colour so tried a few mixes of blues/black/purple then added white gloss pen to highlight the designs.  I chose my favourite to use on this card

 To finish I added a little sentiment, printed a few out in the navy on white, and changed the settings to do white on navy.  So I can make more like this, or variations on the theme as it turned out reasonably simple and quite striking - just how I like my Christmas cards to be!

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Just a Note

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Thank you so much for coming by.

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx