Krafty Chicks challenge #744 - All Occasions

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge. This week is Week 4 and as always the theme is 'All Occasions' and Lori is our hostess. As the theme suggests you are free to make whatever creation you like such as Christmas, new baby, anniversary or even birthday.  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

It was my niece's birthday last weekend so I used this opportunity to make a card for her.  She's not really a girly girl so went for rainbow colours and some fun die cuts.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A close up of the die cuts:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I like to make 5" x 7" cards for close family so I cut my white panel to 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" and my black mat layer just an 1/8" bigger.  I began by ink blending my rainbow colours all over the white panel.  I then chose some fun musical themed stamps, as well as some splatter type stamps, and randomly stamped them over the ink blended panel to create a unique background.  I adhered the panels together with double sided tape.  I die cut the headphones from black and white card and added them together with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink onto white card and used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I die cut the word niece 3 times from black card and adhered them together with liquid glue.  Finally instead of embellishments I die cut some small stars from coloured card from each of the rainbow colours and some musical notes from black card.  The headphones, sentiment and stars were all added with foam squares and the niece word and musical notes were added with liquid glue.  The panel was then added to my card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut the same size white and black panels and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I masked off a small border at the bottom and again ink blended and stamped to match the front of the card.  I added 2 stars and 1 musical note with liquid glue.  I stamped my sentiment in the upper centre of the panel with black ink.  The panel was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  A fun card, that's bright and funky, but not too girly.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - favourite colour combo (rainbow)

Colorful Options challenge - red (or rainbow inspired)

Crafty Calendar challenge - ATG

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - dies and/or punches

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Sweet Stampin' challenge - birthday

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - ATG 

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'All Occasions' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.  

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

MFT - headphones die set

MFT - musical notes die set - retired

MFT - blueprints 13 die set (for star) - retired

MFT - keep on rockin' clear stamp (for outside sentiment) - oos

MFT - distressed patterns clear stamp - oos

Funky Fossil Designs - press play clear stamp

LOTV - verses A5 polymer clear stamp (for inside sentiment) - stamps not currently available

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments dies

Gina K Designs - ink pads - red hot, tangerine twist, wild dandelion, lucky clover, blue raspberry, wild wisteria

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently not available

Hobbycraft - A4 black card 

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

pre-made 5" x 7" card blank

Fall Friends IG Card Hop - Week 12

Hello again friends; I am very late with my post this week; the day just got away from me. Anyway I'm back with my card for Week 12 of the 'Fall Friends' IG card hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. This week is our final week and we have a fab 'mood board' for our inspiration.  A really fun theme and I can't wait to see what sparks your imagination.

Here is the mood board:

What comes to mind when you see this gorgeous photo?  I was immediately drawn to the leaves and the gorgeous colours so that I what I based my card on.  I have to say I did struggle a little this week (maybe I'm all fall'ed out lol!) and left it until the final moment to finish my card.  As a consequence the light was really gloomy and my photos are a little dark.  Anyway I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the leaves:

I also decorated the inside:

For a change I made a light brown card base.  I began by cutting a warm cream panel 4" x 5 1/4" and added some ink around the edges with kraft ink before adhering it directly onto my card base with double sided tape.  I die cut 4 leaves from brown, red, yellow and caramel card and also embossed them with a leaf embossing folder for some extra interest.  I die cut the thanks word 4 times and the shadow was die cut from vellum.  I added one layer onto the vellum and added the other 3 behind the vellum with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment onto cream card with brown ink and used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I arranged the leaves and added the sentiments, all with foam squares.  For a finishing touch I added some gold sequins.  For the inside I cut another warm cream panel 4" x 5 1/4" and inked around the edges with kraft ink and added it to the card base with double sided tape.  I die cut another 2 leaves but left them plain this time and added them to the bottom of the panel with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment in the centre with brown ink.   At the last minute I decided to add some crystal glaze to the thanks word so that it was shiny and looks dimensional.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

A Place to Start challenge - ATG optional twist sentiment of thanks

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - ATG embossing optional twist winter fun

Cardz 4 Guyz challenge - grateful/thankful/blessed

Cupcake Inspirations challenge - toffee, yellow, red

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - dies and/or punches

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie challenge - inspired by the sentiment and colours

My Time To Craft challenge - thank you

Shopping Our Stash challenge - masculine

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Word Power challenge - #11 (make the sentiment the focus)

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; use the hashtag #fallfriendscardhop2024 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you. 

I'll be back in the morning with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Clearly Besotted - autumn flowers stamp & die set (I only used the dies) - retired

Gina K Designs - thanks & shadow die set 

Gina K Designs - doodled autumn clear stamp (for sub-sentiment) - retired

Gina K Designs - falling leaves embossing folder

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies 

Gina K Designs - ink pads - warm cocoa, kraft 

LOTV - verses A5 clear stamp - stamp store currently closed

Spellbinders - gold smooth disc color essentials sequins

All coloured card from my stash

Tonic Studios - Nuvo crystal glaze

Krafty Chicks challenge #743 - CAS

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge. This week is Week 3 and as always the theme is 'CAS' and Diane is your hostess. You are free to make whatever creation you like but we want to see lots of open, unadorned, space on your projects.  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I made another Christmas card this week, although I'm not really sure I need any more, but it's always handy to have a few spares isn't it.  I went extreme CAS this week but I like the finished result, I hope you do too.  I think the kraft and gold give it a rustic feel and it would be suitable for a man too.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the tree:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 2 1/2" x 5 1/2" and heat embossed a sentiment about 2/3rds down the panel using gold detail embossing powder.  I stamped the tree in green ink and cut it out with scissors then took an embossing pen and added dots to the tree to resemble baubles; I again heat embossed them with gold powder.  I wanted the star to be the same gold as everything else so I swiped a piece of white card with an embossing pad, sprinkled embossing powder over it, melted it and then when cool die cut a star from it.  I added the tree and star above the sentiment with foam squares.  I added the white panel to my kraft card base with foam tape.  I resisted the urge to add anything else and moved on to the inside.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and stamped part of the tree in the bottom left corner, again adding another heat embossed die cut star and added a small sentiment in the centre of the panel with black ink.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  The embossing looks really pretty in real life and goes perfectly with the kraft card. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Alphabet challenge - Q is for quick & easy

Aud Sentiments challenge - glitter and/or Christmas + sentiment

Craft Rocket challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace on Earth Christmas challenge - anything goes Christmas

Shopping Our Stash challenge - masculine 

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - emboss it (I heat embossed in gold)

The Dream Factory challenge - anything Christmas goes optional theme: funny cards

Tic Tac Toe challenge - #260 - die cut/metallic element/festive sentiment

Unicorn challenge - Christmas and/or winter

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'CAS' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.  

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Uniko Stamps - Christmas pop clear stamp

Uniko Stamps - rustic Christmas clear stamp (for outside sentiment)

Uniko Stamps - pure florals: poinsettia clear stamp (for inside sentiments)

MFT - blueprints 13 die set (for star) - retired

Gina K Designs - grass green ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently oos

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

kraft card from stash

Fall Friends IG Card Hop - Week 11

Hello again friends; I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. I'm back with my card for Week 11 of the 'Fall Friends' IG card hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. This week is our penultimate week and our theme is 'gratitude or fall florals'. A really fun theme this week and you could make a thank you or thanksgiving card or simply go for a fall floral card, which is what I did.

I needed a card for friend so what better to use than flowers and sunflowers are perfect for fall and so pretty too.  I made a 5" x 7" card as it was for someone special.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A close up of the sunflower:

I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a panel of ivory card 4 1/8" x 6 3/8" and embossing it with an embossing folder and adhered it to a kraft card mat with double sided tape.  I stamped two of the sunflower images onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured them with my Promarkers (although I've noticed that I forgot to colour the centre of the top sunflower - oops!).  I used the matching dies to cut them out.  I cut a strip of the ivory card 4 1/4" x 1 1/4" and adhered it to a kraft card mat with double sided tape.  I then added this onto the centre of embossed panel with double sided tape.  I stamped and die cut the sentiment from the same stamp set and die cut the friend word from dark yellow card; I also cut the friend word from white card and layered them together for some dimension.  Both the sentiments were added to the strip with liquid glue.  I added the sunflowers to opposite corners with foam squares.  The whole panel was then added to my card base with foam tape.  As a finishing touch I die cut some circles from the dark yellow card, adhered them to my panel with liquid glue and then added crystal glaze over the top to make my own enamel-type embellishments that matched my sentiment perfectly.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and adhered it to a kraft card mat with double sided tape.  I stamped the sunflower in a light beige ink in the bottom left corner and added a strip of the ivory card that I embossed with the embossing folder.  I also added a strip of the kraft card above this.   I stamped the sentiment in the upper centre of the panel with black ink.  I added the whole panel onto my card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark (coloured with Promarkers)

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Birthstone challenges - topaz

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - anything embossing goes optional coffee/cocoa/warm drinks

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - texture

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG optional twist: use 3+ layers

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - dies and/or punches

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG or Xmas colours

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - emboss it (I used an embossing folder)

Triple B challenge - use at least 1 bird, bloom or butterfly optional mood board 

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; use the hashtag #fallfriendscardhop2024 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - blooming sunflower stamp & die set

Gina K Designs - lattice embossing folder

Gina K Designs - filled with sunshine stamp set (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - lots of dots die set (to cut circles)

Gina K Designs - intra-cut exclusive die set (for friend word)

Gina K Designs - sandy beach ink pad

Gina K Designs - kraft card 

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - not currently available

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Tonic Studios - Nuvo crystal glaze

yellow and ivory card from stash

Krafty Chicks challenge #742 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends.  I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far.  It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge.  This week is Week 2 and as always the theme is 'Christmas' and I am your hostess.  We want to see all your festive creations this week, and as the big day is not that far away now I'm sure we will have lots of entries.  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us. 

I wanted to make a pink Christmas card this week, as I haven't made one yet, and I think they look so pretty.  I went fairly clean and simple once again and my card took no time at all to complete.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A close up of the cute die cuts:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4"; I took a pink ink pad and smooshed some ink onto the top centre portion of the panel.  I also added some pink ink splatter and white gouache splatter for some extra interest.  I had some die cuts ready cut and left over from last year so decided to grab them and use them up.  I chose 2 houses, 1 tree and a cute tiny snowman.  I added 3 layers to each and adhered them together with liquid glue.  Using a t-square ruler I placed them onto the panel with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment in the same pink ink and die cut it out with a sentiment strip die.  I added this with foam squares below the houses.  I finished off with a few pink pearls.  The panel was added to a pink card base (for a change) with foam tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ink smooshed along the bottom of the panel.  I added one house and a snowman in the left bottom corner and stamped a sentiment in black ink.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  A really simple card but the pink colour along with the white die cuts really packs a punch I think. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

The 12 months of Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes optional all stitched up

Addicted to CAS challenge - snow

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark (ink smooshed my background)

Allsorts challenge - Christmas

Alphabet challenge - Q for quick & easy

Aud Sentiments challenge - glitter and/or Christmas + sentiment

Christmas BINGO challenge - column I - make your own background, free, clean & simple, smooshing

Christmas with the Cuties challenge - Christmas pinks

Creative Friday challenge - Christmas

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Die Cut Divas challenge - any holiday of the year (Christmas)

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - ATG optional theme: Christmas card with handmade background (ink smooshed my background)

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - anything CAS goes optional theme: Christmas is coming

The Dream Factory challenge - anything goes Christmas optional theme: funny cards

Unicorn challenge - Christmas and/or winter

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'Christmas'' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.  

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - winter wonderland die set

Gina K Designs - innocent pink ink pad

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

MFT - itty bitty holiday clear stamp - retired

Personal Impressions/Paula Pascual - Christmas messages clear stamp - retired

Spellbinders - fashion bella color essential pearl dots

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card - currently not available

Winsor & Newton - permanent white gouache

Pink card from stash

Fall Friends IG Card Hop - Week 10

Hello again friends; I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. I'm back with my card for Week 10 of the 'Fall Friends' IG card hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. This week Kelly is our hostess and she has chosen 'baked goods' and although we are a fall hop we are so close to Christmas that we are now also including winter/holiday creations.  You could go with apple pie, cookies, gingerbread so lots of yummy foods to choose from.  

I don't really need any more fall cards so I thought I would go with a Christmas card this week and wanted to use this adorable gingerbread die that I discovered in my stash.  I had a layout in my mind and die cut quite a few of the gingerbread people but changed my mind and only ended up using 2 so I have lots left over for more cards so perhaps you will see them again soon lol! 

Here is my card:

A close up of the gingerbread:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting the gingerbread and all the tiny pieces to decorate them using scrap card from my scraps bin.  I assembled them using liquid glue (which was the longest part of the whole card, especially as I originally die cut about 10 of them!).  I had a piece of brown dotty paper on my desk left over from another project and thought it matched my gingerbread perfectly.  I cut the paper to 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and added a thin red mat layer behind with double sided tape.  I die cut a fish tail banner from some woodgrain pattern paper and again cut another one from red card as a mat layer (I had to trim the pattern paper ever so slightly as I didn't have a nesting banner so used the same one for both layers).  I added the banner to my base layer with foam tape and added the gingerbread people with foam squares.  I die cut the 'sweet' word 3 times from red card and adhered them together with liquid glue; I then also adhered it to the banner with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment in red ink and die cut it with a sentiment strip die.  I adhered this below the sweet word with a mix of liquid glue and foam tape.  Rather than add embellishments I die cut some hearts from the kraft card and added some white gel pen details to make them look a little like heart cookies.  I added these around the gingerbread with liquid glue.  The panel was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and again added a red mat layer with double sided tape.  I took a strip of the woodgrain paper and added it to the bottom of the panel with double sided tape and above that adhered a thin strip of red card with liquid glue.  I had badly cut one of my gingerbread so decided to cut him in half and added him over the woodgrain paper with liquid glue.  I also added one of the heart cookies.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre of the panel and this was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  A really fun card and I'm really happy with it.  I hope you like it too. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

The 12 months of Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes optional all stitched up

Allsorts challenge - Christmas

Aud Sentiments challenge - glitter and/or Christmas + sentiment

Craft Rocket challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Creative Friday challenge - Christmas 

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - national gingerbread cookie day

Die Cut Divas challenge - any holiday of the year (Christmas)

Inkspirational challenge - layer it

Jingle Belles challenge - Christmas feast

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Unicorn challenge - Christmas and/or winter

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; use the hashtag #fallfriendscardhop2024 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you. 

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Spellbinders - stocking full of joy die set (for gingerbread) - retired

Spellbinders - sweet treat box die set (for sweet word)

Spellbinders - holiday besties clear stamp (for inside sentiment)

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6 (for hearts)

MFT - blueprints 13 (for fishtail banner) - retired

MFT - my itty bitty holiday clear stamp (for outside sentiment) ? retired

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Gina K Designs - warm cocoa ink pad (to add dimension to my gingerbread)

Gina K Designs - red hot ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card (not currently available)

Patterned paper from a pad I bought in TK Maxx

red and kraft card from scraps bin

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Try It On Tuesday challenge - guest designer

Good morning lovely friends.  I know I don't normally post on a Tuesday but I was asked to be a guest designer for the Try It On Tuesday challenge and I happily accepted.  Their challenge starts today and runs for 2 weeks and the theme is 'sparkle all the way'.  

I was originally going to make a birthday card for a friend but sparkle at this time of year makes me think of snowflakes so I caved and made a Christmas card.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A close up of the snowflakes:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting my snowflakes from glitter card and also a further 2 times from white card.  I adhered them together with liquid glue.  I cut a white card panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and stamped a snowy background in a light grey ink.  I also cut a mat layer from silver mirri card 4" x 5 1/4" and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I cut the joy word from the silver mirri card and also a further 2 times from white card and again adhered them together with liquid glue.  I found a pre-printed sentiment strip that said wishing you joy so die cut with a sentiment strip die but cut off the word joy.  I added the snowflakes more towards the lower left corner with liquid glue and added the joy word and sentiment strip on top with liquid glue.  I finished with some silver sequins. I added the panel to the card base with foam tape. For the inside I cut the same white and silver panels and partially stamped the snowy background in just the bottom left corner.  I also added one snowflake with liquid glue.  I adhered the panels with double sided tape and also attached them to my card base with double sided tape.  It's hard to capture all the sparkle but hopefully you can see some of it; it's really sparkly in real life.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

The 12 months of Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes optional all stitched up

Addicted to CAS challenge - snow

Addicted to Stamps and More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

Allsorts challenge - Christmas (full list of supplies at bottom of post)

Aud Sentiments challenge - glitter and/or Christmas + sentiment

Christmas Bingo challenge - Column I - make your own background, free, CAS, glitter

Craft Rocket challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Creative Friday challenge - Christmas

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Die Cut Divas challenge - any holiday of the year (I chose Christmas)

Little Red Wagon challenge - white lightning (I thought snow)

Moving Along With The Times challenge - sparkle

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace On Earth challenge - anything Christmas related 

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - anything CAS goes optional theme: Christmas is coming 

Sparkles Christmas challenge - snowflakes

Tic Tac Toe - die cut/metallic element/festive sentiment

Unicorn challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Word Power - challenge #11 (make the sentiment the focus)

I know this will be a popular challenge as everyone likes a bit of sparkle don't they?  I can wait to see what you all come up with.  I would like to thank Jo and all the team at Try It On Tuesday for approaching me to be a guest designer and I would suggest you go and check out their amazing creations too.  

Have a wonderful day everyone; I appreciate you stopping by.  

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Clearly Besotted Stamps - snowflake trio die collection - retired

Funky Fossil Designs - festive word dies

Gina K Designs - snowy background clear stamp

Gina K Designs - winter cheer sentiment strips - not available

Gina K Designs - sentiment strip dies

Gina K Designs - soft stone ink pad

MFT - my bitty holiday clear stamp set (for inside sentiment) - not available

Tonic Studios - craft perfect sugar crystal 250gsm low shed card - on sale!

silver mirri card from stash (I've lost the packaging)

Spellbinders - color essentials sequins silver smooth disc

Versafine - onyx black ink pad