Party On!

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I'm back after a lovely week away in the countryside near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire and all week we were blessed with beautiful weather!  We stayed in a lovely holiday let, where we had some rather beautiful big Shire horses as near neighbours!  You can see a picture at the end of this post. 

Today I'm sharing my card for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge andI had a lot of fun making this one - and for a change the only dies I used were for the letters on the sentiment

Fête and Festival
 

It's the Fete and Festival season!
and among many other Summer favourites, this weekend the famous Glastonbury Festival will be in full swing. Will festival go-ers be knee-deep in mud this year or reaching for the suncream and suffering from heatstroke? 
This week get happy, sunny, and fete/festival-ready with colourful, celebratory flags, bunting and/or music on your projects.

Create anything you like - cards, tags, postcards, 3D projects this week 
- and don't forget to share them with us!

This is a really fun card, made with three squares of card, folded diagonally then glued together in such a way that they stand up like a pyramid, but can be folded flat to put in an envelope.

I used digital designs for this card, resized and printed onto white bazzill. When all the layers are folded together it becomes quite a thick card, so a lighter weight of cardstock helps it to fold more effectively.

As my starting point I chose one of the designs from this set by Wagara Boutique 

For the other two squares I used colours from the balloons paper and changed some of my exisitng digis to make one with diagonal stripes and one with dots.

I cihked some scraps of card with colourful inks to make the bunting.  It's so easy to create your own bunting just with card or paper and a pair of scissors.  You can make it exactly the right size for your project.

(folded flat 1)

 

I glued my bunting onto gold twine, which was a bit fiddly, but I needed it to look as though it was strung betwen the two poles that stand out from the dies and  the hat pin pole in the centre. 

The stripy poles were just made by folding some spare card in half for strength and cutting two narrow pieces. 

(folded flat 2)

I used a small (abt 1cm high) alphabet die to cut the sentiment letters from inked card, adhered them to some paler pink inked card and hand-cut the banner shape. This was matted onto gold card and again I hand cut around the shape before glueing in place.

To complete the card I went back to the pc and the balloon paper.  On the computer I cropped out a piece with a few different coloured balloons, then resized it so they'd be a bit bigger than those on 14 x 14cm square piece I used for the card itself. 

Once printed I cut out 4 of the balloons, arranged them on pieces of foam tape, added some gold twine strings and adhered them to the card with ome extra foam tape for added dimension

I used:

Digital download paper resized and printed onto Bazzill White Sianond cardstock 

gold. black and pink card 

Sentiment die cut letters; I think its an old Sizzix die

  Gold twine bow 

Decorative long hat pin 

 

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 And here's the photo of our neighhhhbours, taken from our little balcony

   Just a Note

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It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

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Thank you so much for visiting

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself and please come by again soon

 

Kathy xx