SPOTLIGHT - PLASTIC

Welcome back to our Spotlight Challenge where we focus on a technique, style or product and before we get onto it we'd like to say a big thank you for your spotlight water entires and thank you to Handy Hippo for sponsoring! Our regular challenge is still running until next week and that is Hearts and today on our spotlight we're gong to look at Judie's choice of PLASTIC so you must use plastic somewhere on your creation be that Acetate, friendly plastic, shrink plastic, sweet wrappers etc.  It doesn't have to be a card, we're not fussy here so whatever you fancy creating so long as it fits the theme :)

I have a little giveaway for the winner which is 8 x A4 sheets of shrink plastic for you to have fun with (2 each of black, white, translucent and clear)

Whilst I'm here - TOMORROW IS WINNERS DAY!!  YAY!!  We'll be posting the winners of all the closed challenges in the tab at the top tomorrow evening so check back to see if you're one of them! 

Onwards to the challenge and haven't they done well woweeeee!

Judie`s

This was my challenge for the team "Plastic", I have been gagging to make this butterfly so now was the perfect time I have used Friendly plastic,  a gold and a green, I chopped some of each colour into each wing and added little gems of the same colours, its backed onto foil and beads attached.  I have the sentiment but it wouldnt fit on the card right, so I wrote it out and embossed it.  Step by step destructions will be on my  blog .

Ei

For this week's super challenge, I've used shrink plastic...for the very first time! And despite having visions of ending up with a small globule of melted plastic on the end of my tweezers, it was actually quite easy and great fun!

I stamped Tilda onto the plastic, but coloured her on the 'wrong' side in quite strong colours. This was the hardest part as the plastic didn't seem to like any of my mediums very much - they Lyra pencils ended up the best. I then cut her out and heated her with the heat gun. Then I used my Tim Holtz Baroque Bigz die to cut out the medallion behind Tilda and heated that. Tilda was adhered with jewellery cement and a jump ring attached. I then inked the edge of the medallion with a Krylon 18ct Gold pen. THis whole was then attached by a piece of gold thread to the card and the little sequins added. Lastly an acetate dragonfly was adhered. The gold spots are just peel-off waste.

Jenni

I used Friendly Plastic for my card this time, I melted the Friendy Plastic with my heat gun and used a heart shaped cutter (like a metal cookie cutter but much smaller) to cut the hearts - can only do 1 at a time because the plastic has to harden again before you can remove the cutter. I stamped a swirl on to the stamped & distressed background and glued the hearts on to resemble flowers. I had to make the word love from alphabet stamps and stamped onto another piece of card. Added lace and flowers to finish it off.

Jack

I saw flowers made from printed acetate sheets on TV and I thought 'I can do that' lol.  So I cut some flower shapes from acetate, inked them up with alcohol inks, heated the acetate and shaped the flowers.  They are fixed together with pretty jewel brads.  The box is painted with Tecso childrens paint and I used a couple of punches to pretty things up.  I will put full details of how I made this on my blog.

gill

made using acetate gold leaf black peel offs double sided sticky sheet and die cut for the negative picture i used same matertials plus magic sheet to lift the waste peel off to transfer to the acetate to make the negative picture saves wasting it and quite effective

Josephine

I've used plastic in a number of ways on this one. First, the main image is printed on polyester film. I've mounted it on sparkle paper (which is also plastic coated), and added some shrink plastic 'flowers'. The shrink plastic and background card were stamped with the same image and coloured with Sakura Stardust pens. And the finishing touch is a peel off butterfly that's backed with a white net material.

Lin

I have used alcohol inks onto acetate and then stamped a floral centre and added butterflies and bees around it in stazon ink. Initially I was going to leave it at that, but as you can see from the first picture, once held up to the window the stamping didn't show up enough. Plan B. I have some of that blending solution that lets you paint on acetate so I squirted some into various Cosmic Shimmer paints and then painted the stamped images and as you can see they show up much better when it's hung in the window. If you pop over to my blog I have some more pictures plus the one that got away! Or was not good enough for the CCM Challenge!

Sarah W

I've never really played with plastics before and have had very bad results with shrinkies etc in the past so I dug out my acetate sheets for this spotlight.  Using a combination of acetate, peel-offs and promarkers I created the butterfly centerpiece which I warped a little with my heatgun so it would bend cleanly and then created a background on some more acetate with some shimmer mists and the cut it out with a nestie and then using alternating colours I used the bigger nesties to make some more concentric circles.  A couple more diecuts here and there and a bit of dry-embossing with a cuttlebug folder and a bit of silver sparkly paper completes the background. 


Thats it from us so come and challenge yourself and have a play with plastic!

SPOTLIGHT CHALLENGE - EASEL CARDS

We're baaaaack! Welcome to our very first spotlight challenge! These will run alongside our regular fortnightly challenge here but they are challenge in their own right and also run for a fortnight.

On the spotlight challenge we will look at a style of card, technique or product with the team making various wonderful samples which should give you loads of ideas. They are just for fun, no pressure challenges so no Top 5 but we will offer candy from time to time.

You will notice that the team also do the challenge from last week (which is still open for another week which you will find HERE) It is so that we all get a chance to play it but you may choose to also do that in which case pop your entry in both or you may just play the spotlight challenge, its no different than combining challenges :)

For our spotlight this time we are looking at EASEL CARDS so we would like to see your easel cards. If you've never made one before there is a good clear tutorial over at Dewdrop Craftz you will find here. Perhaps you're feeling more adventurous so have a peek at the heart shaped easel tutorial here. Once you understand how they work then you'll see by the examples you can make any shape you like :)

I'm offering a little candy for this challenge which includes some wild orchid flowers, prima wildflowers, sticky gems and stamped images.

Lets have a look at the teams marvellous creations!

Kat

I took my inspiration from the colours and the hearts in the photo and decided to make an easel card. I decided on a hexagon. Don't ask how long it took to get the shape right! I made a template and cut out the card and the DP the sizes I wanted. I used Basic Grey Kioshi DP and inked all the edges with Bundled Sage Distress Ink. The Forever Friends image is coloured with Promarkers. The card candy and punched heart are also coloured with DI and I added stickles to the heart. I finished off with a Craftwork cards sentiment and some lace, buttons and string.

Dionne

The colors were my inspiration. The card was cut with the Cricut Expression using Life's A Beach. The fish is cut from felt and then coated with stickles. The fish bowel is cut from acetate and pop doted, and I added blue/green beads as the gravel.

Ei

Here's my Easel Card. As with last week's effort, I've used the love-hearts colours but cut out a butterfly shape from an A3 card folded in 3. The lovely blue paper is, I think, DCWV. Inside is lined with teal glitter paper and the iridescent material is Fantasy Film.

Vix

For this challenge I've taken the colours as inspiration and used starburst stains to make the backgrounds which have been cuttlebug embossed (Jules Jewells folder) The flowers were white and I've sprayed them with starburst stains to match. I made a gatefold card and mounted that on my easel base and the stopper is a recycled clock from a travel clock which I've attached by cutting a hole in the base and slotting it through so you can change the batteries!

Julie

The inspiration from the photo I used was the colours and the wording, I have made a couple of easel cards but this is my first shaped one, I used a circle embossing template to cut around, the background papers are from a free sample pack I got with a magazine, the images are digi stamps coloured with promarkers. I even coloured the ribbon with promarkers which again I have never done before it was actually blue and I coloured it with a yellow promarker. Finished with some flowers layered and gems.

Lin

I picked the colouring from the photo and used the Go Kreate Concentrics Frame Pointy #1, to cut the card shape. If you want I can come back and post some pics showing the various stages, or indeed come back and edit this wording! the card and toppers are all from the Kanban Free As a Bird range.

Jenni

I used my largest nestie label die to make the top half of the card but kept the bottom a recangular shape and just rounded the corners - this worked quite well as I was able to use the smaller labels horizontally on the base. I used papers from a K&Co matt stack and a Dimension Fourth image which I coloured with Promarkers cut then out and mounted on a nestie circle.

Toria

I saw a tutorial on how to use traditional Swedish heart baskets on cards and knew I had to try it. I used paper by Papermania to create the woven hearts. I stamped swirls around the edge with distress ink - Peeled Paint and then added stickles to these. I then distressed the edges of the hearts with the same distress ink.

I stamped Fairy Dust Tilda and Watering Can in Memento ink and then coloured them in with Distress inks and copic's. I added stickles for the dust and added glitz. The waterlily and dragonflies are stamped onto parchment paper. The leaf a circle of parchment paper. I coloured them with inktense pencils, distress inks and stickles. I added Glossy Accents to the dragonfly bodies.

Don't forget you have 2 weeks to enter, if you choose to follow the challenge from last week too then enter into both :)