A very quick post to show this card for Christmas Card Throwdown.
Our April technique challenge is:
I'm not at all happy with my card but here it is:
It's not what I'd planned and I've had no time to spend on making it better. The first idea resulted in glitter all over my desk and shoes!
Do have a go at our challenge and show me how it should be done! You have two weeks to play along.
I'm going away to try again for next week. Do visit the rest of the DT cards, they are amazing as ususal.
x
Hello lovely crafters.
I bought a stamping magazine last week even though I'd decided not to buy any more stash for a bit. I saw it at a great price here so that was that. Sorry if I'm leading you astray too.
To assuage my guilt I made a card immediately!
I added the dots after 'It's your birthday' as I feel it's rather like saying 'You've had your hair cut'. You usually know both of these things.
I've
glued all the flowers straight down so the card is quite flat even
though it gives the impression of dimension. I'm challenging myself to
colour as I'm not great at it. These turned out ok, I think.
So inside I added a 'Let's celebrate' and a couple of spare flowers:
I'd cut and coloured the flowers when I saw the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches and thought that would work well here.
I'm also entering this into Mrs A's Butterfly challenge #75 Butterflies + R is for Repeat and/or the colour Night sky.
I've repeated the flowers and the blue border and butterfly are 'Night sky' colours though I have seen purple too, on occasion, green may be pushing it but maybe in a thunderstorm (or the Northern Lights!)
Also popping over to Pixies Snippet's Playground. My snippets mountain is mostly white so I've used a few here. Everything bar the card base is snippets. It's lovely weather for running around with friends.
All the stamps are from the Creative Stamping #41 apart from the butterfly which is from JustRite Lilies and Butterflies. There is a butterfly with this set but it was a bit too big for this card.
I've coloured with Pro-markers and added a Wink of Stella on the butterfly and flower centres.
I hope you've had the beautiful weekend weather we've had. Enjoy your week.
xxx
It seems that we have suddenly whizzed on into April. How did that happen?
It means that it's time for another challenge at Christmas Card Throwdown. This time it's a theme that should get you all humming.
I've been using up my stash and things found lying around!
The musical notes where in a packet of die cuts I bought once, ready cut, so I can't tell you the brand, I'm afraid. The background was left over from the last card I made. I used emboss resist and then inked and stamped the snowflakes and flourishes.
I've added the fa la la's with these little peg stamps. See the A is black, I tried using the wrong end! What a fool.
I usually forget I have these but they are useful for all sorts of things.
I practised on a piece of scrap first to get the spacing right and managed to avoid getting any black marks from the corners. There is definitely an art to it.
The finished card is nice and flat for posting, I avoided adding any more dimension.
You have two weeks to join in with the challenge, we look forward to seeing your designs.
I've used:
Mememto Teal Zeal
Personal Impressions snowflake stamps
Artemio flourish stamps
Dovecraft peg letters.
