Card Chain Challenge March Reveal

Today is 2nd of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge big reveal. This month 25 card makers took part and I sent my card to Dagmara in Poland.

This month I used the colours, the theme of house or home and friendship, and the technique of patchwork.

Last summer I bought a cute little pack of 2inch square pieces of fabric, which has been sitting on my desk waiting to be used ever since, finally its turn has come. I picked 2 pieces that I thought were good for the colours and if you look closely you can see little houses on the peach pieces. My fabric pieces are only 2inch square but they were still too big for my card so I cut them into quarters. Originally I had intended to sew them together to form the patchwork, but I was running late and thought it would be too much faff to get my sewing machine out. Instead cut the edges so that the pinked edges where on the outside and I used fusible web to glue my fabric to the panel. At the end of the day this was probably as much faff as getting my sewing machine out! Fusible web is brilliant at gluing fabric to card though and if I had used my sewing machine I would have had seams to contend with. I do still have an ambition to use sewing on my cards though.

The panel was cut with a craftaddiction UK scalloped rectangle die. The edges of the matt under the panel were inked with Catherine Pooler flirty fuchsia. I used an extra strip of the fuchsia at the bottom because the panel wasn't the right size to give even borders. I hate it when I get uneven borders and don't usually buy die sets that don't work on metric A6 cards. I obviously failed this time. If I use an American A2 sized die I always use a card base that is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. I found the foiled sentiment ready in my stash and cut the lily of the valley with an old creative expressions die. I don't think this will ever be one of my favourite cards, but it will do.

I was very lucky to receive this gorgeous card from Kathy in UK. Isn't that gnome cute? and the colours are so happy and spring like. Thanks Kathy, I love it. This was Kathy's first time on the chain, I hope it won't be her last.

And before I go my February card from Dee in Kenya landed on my doormat last week and what a beauty it is. Thanks Dee.

If you would like to take part in the next card chain challenge, you have until 6th to sign up here

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it. 

PS. I am sorry I have been absent from blogland for a few weeks. I just seemed to run out of time, but I should be back soon.

February Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Today is 2nd of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge big reveal. This month 24 card makers took part and I sent my card to Gundi in Germany.

From all the options this month I chose to use the colours, dies and the theme of friendship.

The lattice pattern is an old Spellbinders shapeability die which I cut from some bluey/purply coated card. The thin frame dies are from Heffy Doodle and I used two small square and I banner die. So that's 6 in total. The stamps which are new to me are from a set by Clarity Stamps called just silhouette framers sampler. There are 20 small silhouette images in the set plus 6 sentiments. I now have 3 of these sampler sets and love them. Have a look here. They are such good quality too.

I stamped my focal point image in Catherine Pooler crushed violet ink and I was going to heat emboss it, but the image was too fine for that so I covered it with versamark and heat embossed the whole area several times, so it has quite a shine. I used Catherine Pooler lime ricky ink to create the green elelments and I love how it works with the other colours. The sentiment was stamped in lime ricky ink and then clear hear embossed. Unfortunately I did get a little shadow from the embossing, but decided not to worry about it. I stamped different images from the set on the insert and envelope.

Unfortunately I am still waiting for my card card from Dee in Kenya, so I can't share it with you today.

If you would like to take part in the next card chain challenge, you have until 6th to sign up here

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it. 

CAS + Dies

Today I thought I would share this card that I made with my favourite turnabout stamp. I hope you like it.

I just love the way this stamp forms a perfect circle. I used Catherine Pooler inks in cummerbund, catching rays, pucker up and in the park. I cut the numbers from the centre of the stamp and was a little annoyed that the 0 went very slightly wonky!

I thought I would share it at seize the birthday challenge 320 with a topping of CAS with dies. I hope it passes the CAS test. I am not sure myself. I have used circle dies, number dies, a pinpoint leaf die and a panel die. That's quite a few dies.

i have no time left tonight to find more challenges so I will just stick with the one.

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Love & Happiness

Today I thought I would share the card I have made for my husband for Valentines Day.

I recently bought this molded frame embossing folder by Spellbinders and decided to use it as the base for my panel for this card. The slatted heart die is by Craft Addiction UK and the other dies are by Spellbinders and were a free gift with the magazine Die Cutting Essentials in March '24. The set has a large ampersand included, but it was too big for this design so the small ampersand used here is from an alphabet set by Concord and 9th. The slatted heart is cut from a deep pint metallic card and I have used a matt gold card behind it and for the sentiments.

The little flower spray dies were cut from white card and coloured with alcohol markers.

I am sharing this at:

Just Us Girls #809 - die week

Addicted to Stamps and More #510 - Die-cuts and/or Stencils

The Dream Factory #146 - Love Actually

A cut above February Challenge - Anything goes with a die cut

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With Sympathy

Hello

Just popping in quickly to share this white on white card at can you handle the pressure where their twist is all white. I recently needed a sympathy card and saw this one on Pinterest that I really liked, so I searched through my stash for appropriate dies.

At first I tried to make it fir a metric A6 sized card, but it just wouldn't work, so I tried it on a 7x5 inch card and hey presto, much better. The embossing folder is an old one by Darice and the dies are a mixture including Concord & 9th and Positively Papercraft. The sentiment is actually a foil plate by Whimsy Stamps that I just pressed into the card. I used 4 strands of twine to create the bow and a score board to emboss the panel edges.

What do you think. Just for once, I am quite pleased.

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