Peace Love Joy

Hello everyone,
Welcome to the last weekend in April. Over on the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Challenge we have a technique challenge for everyone.

I must admit that I don’t usually make slimline cards as I don’t really feel comfortable in where to place elements and such. So I decided to go down the simple style route and used a sketch as inspiration. It came from an older post by Kristie Marcotte.

I didn’t use the dimensions that she worked out as I was making a slimline. I mainly used this sketch because I could use 2 pieces of patterned paper to stretch across the card front. My main box is a lot smaller as well but the dimensions of the papers were chosen because of the scraps that I had. I was so nice to use them even for a longer card because they were thinner than a usual card front.

To make the design stretch across my card front a little more I used an old Christmas sentiment die set and cut the 3 words from Gold metallic paper. I think these helped to tie all of the elements together.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my card design for the Slimline Technique Challenge over on the 52CCT blog. Please stop on by to see what the other designers have done with this technique.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Just for You

Hello everyone,
This card is made with supplies that I had sitting on my craft desk from the last time I was able to craft. My making of this card started with me using a sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

From making my last card with the roses paper I still had a full card front panel left. Then the spotty paper was from the same set and I the sentiment is a circle sticker, I used this as I wanted to add a little more colour to the card. To complete this all I had to do was cut a layer. Love having elements already to go or easy to update as it helps with making cards quicker.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my card design using the latest sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Old Fashioned Christmas

Hello everyone,
I am late in uploading my design team make for the April Theme challenge over on the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog; life is still throwing curveballs in my direction. The theme for this month is

To make my card I combined together an image that I found on Flickr and some papers from an older paper pad. I was going to use an image from the paper pad but they were all just a little small for me to consider using them. This image from Flickr worked out really well and I found a couple of others so I can make some more using this layout design.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my design for the April Theme challenge over on the 52CCT blog.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Roses for You

Hello everyone,
Here is a card that I made using the current sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

I love this sketch as it allowed me to use some paper strips that I had from creating other cards. Clearly this has to go in my finish off a paper pad set of sketches. The elements don’t have to match the sketch exactly mine definately don’t as everything on this card was already in my stash.

The sentiment and flowers were already printed, cut out and sitting in their named containers waiting to be used. The 2 strips of paper were both sitting in my off-cuts container just to let you in on a secret – they are not the correct length 😉 My sentiment covers that part though. The patterned paper has white roses but I thought that these purple ones co-ordinated as they were the same type of flower. I think that these flowers now pop more because the paper is understated.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my card creation using Sketch #573 from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. Later in the week you will be able to see what the other designers have made, of which I am one of them.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Sparkle Reindeer

Hello everyone,
Today I am sharing a card with you that became my arch nemesis. First though you need to know why I went down this card making route in the first place. This card was made using the April colour combination over on the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog.

These are the colours that have been chosen for us to craft with. Now I must stress in no way was sparkle/shine a requirement for the creation – but who could resist? Even me as it turns out.

I mean if you have been to my blog before; you will know my love-hate relationship with card elements that sparkle or shine. I could have gone ahead and recoloured this older digital stamp image red and printed it that way on the kraft cardstock. In my stash I have my precious but under loved Minc machine and some wonderful foils.

So why did this simple card turn into my nemsis – first my printer ran out of toner; didn’t realise this until after I ran it through my Minc and the foil didn’t transfer fully. The 2nd time worked – yeah 🙂 Then came trying to get a photo that did the foiling justice on most of the card – I won’t tell you which one this is and all I can say is thank goodness for photo editing software. Just so you know all of the elements on the kraft cardstock are foiled – not black.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my card creation. I hope that you will stop on by the blog (HERE) and look what the other designers have made. Then come and join in on the creative adventure with us.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Sorry this was posted late.
I am slowly coming out from my sickness cave, the worlds been a blur of late. On the mend slowly.

Christmas Wishes for You

Hello everyone,
I am here to share my card that I made using the April sketch from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Challenge.

I have made my card a rectangle instead of the square in the sketch but you can see where my creation inspiration started. This is what I love about sketches that they are great jumping off points for creativity.

The papers and couple image all come from the same older paper pad that has been sitting half used in my stash for quite awhile. Plus the bells and foliage sticker came from a different sticker sheet. It is great being able to use items from my stash to make a card that I really like.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my creation. Please stop on by the challenge blog and see what the other designers have made with this sketch. Would also love to see what you could do with this sketch and build your Christmas card stash early.

Until my next post,
Be kind to Yourself and Others

Sending Smiles with Plants

Hello everyone,
Today I am sharing with you a card using some scraps that I had after using just half of a patterned paper pad. I love finding sketches that allow me to use up the whole of a paper pad and I know that I will use this one in the future.

My stripe widths are different than those in the sketch but as I said I was working with scraps from previous makes. You can see where my card creation started though, and I know that I can use different widths the next time I create with this sketch.

I created this card with an older paper pad but the succulent picture is a newer one. Even though they are from different sources, I think that they go well together.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my creation using sketch no.571 from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. Using this link you can see the details of the challenge.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Embrace the Moment

Hello everyone,
For my card this time I have used a sketch as usual but I am trying to create some larger elements with my stash of digital images. The idea to go down this track started with the latest sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

The sketch shows individual flowers but I decided to make my flowers by using the digital daisy flowers from my stash. I also made my sentimenet panel larger but this was to help it suit the flowers that I had used. I must admit that I do like printing the images and cutting them out to use. As this helps me achieve more definition, but this was fun.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at what I did with the sketch from AHSC. As always I loved using a sketch to make my cards. Follow this link to go to the challenge page.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Kinetic Card

Hello everyone,
I am sharing with you a card that I made for the March Technique challenge over on the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog.

So I had to design a card that had a moving element. I decided that I would make part of the front panel to move different to the rest.

You can see from this second photo how I went about this. I made a partial cut with a circle steel die to only cut half of the front of the panel. Once I did this I made the fold lines so that I could fold the cut half back on itself.

I made this with limted supplies as I am still rearranging my craft room but it is getting better. It was fun coming up with a card design with limited supplies, it makes you remember how fortunate you are to be where you are now.

Thanks for stopping by to see my kinetic card.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others

Birthday Pot

Hello everyone,
Today I am sharing with you a card that I made with sketch no.569 for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Didn’t make a card with a heart on it as I don’t have access to all of my supplies at the moment as I am in the middle of a craft room rearrange. So I used a circle die cut that was on my desk. Even with using the circle you can still see the sketch in my design.

The patterned paper pad is an older one but I had just brought the stickers that this pot of leaves was a part of and they suited the papers. The green scalloped frame was sitting on my craft desk from a previous card making session. I hadn’t cleaned up my desk as I wasn’t shifting my desk in my new craft room setup.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my card design using items I was able to find on my desk. Hopefully I will have access to more stuff for my next make.

Until my next post,
Be Kind to Yourself and Others