Crafty Cardmakers

Monday, 29 January 2018

#203 Bling’s The Thing, Winner and Top 5

Lin hosted our ' challenge and her Winner and Top 5 are:-

I love all the gorgeous bling on this one, and there is so much work gone into it. Well done Donna, hope to see you back again soon.

and her top 5 are

5 Mistyblue's Creations

The bright colours of the image caught my eye on this one, and of course the lovely line of and dots of blingy gems.

10 Simone

Such a pretty shabby chic style. Loving all the frantage and the lovely blingy embossed image. A very elegant card.

18 Karthika

This one definitely met the 'bling' theme. Layer after layer of lush glittered paper contrasting beautifully against the teal/turquoise.

22 Jinny

Love the blingy circle edge and the cute little elephants have been edged with lots of lovely sparkle too.

25 Lynne In NI

Love the delicate colouring of the image, and the all that white space makes it really pop.

Congratulations to you all. Don't forget to collect your badges from the sidebar, and we look forward to seeing you back here at 12 Noon for our new challenge.

Monday, 15 January 2018

#203 Bling’s The Thing

Lin is hosting our first challenge of 2018, Bling's The Thing. We would like to see lots of bling, ie, glitter, gems, or anything else that's sparkly.

As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it meets the Bling's The Thing theme.

Before we get down to the team's creations, we have relaxed our rules a little and no longer have a limit of 15 entries into our challenge, but we still require a permanent link to our challenge post in your post.

Some inspiration from our fabulous DT

Lin

My 'bling' is layers of glitter card and mirri card. More details on my blog

Mary

I used a stamp from the Louise set of Scruffy Little Cats colouring it using Spectrum Noir pens, make up and Liquid Pearls. I added gems to each flower centre and then matted and layered the image onto glitter card, mirri and white card.

Angela

Hi all. Made this with Graphic 45 papers which I embellished with Stickles Glitter Glue and bright red and gold brads all layered onto a black card blank.

Glenda

The papers are all sparkly and I added some rhinestones and a silver shiny tag holder to complete the bling effect. The flower already had pearls as it center.

Judy

For this week's card I used an old rubber stamp from my collection called Rose Coloured Fairy by Stamps Happen that I coloured with Copic markers and pencils. To make my card sparkle I added glitter washi tape, Wink of Stella, glitter paper and gems.

June

I've used one of the new embossing folders with the combined die and highlighted the swirls with bling. I also adhered the cut out heart to the inside of the card and edged it with larger pieces of bling. Happy crafting!

Maike

On my card I have used an image by Sugar Pea Designs which I love and which is absolutely perfect for this challenge. It even had a sentiment with the word "gem" in it ;o) Hope you like all the glitter and sparkle - the cute gopher certainly seems content with it. Happy crafting, Maike

Agnieszka chanya13:

Hello, today I want to share with you my first card for first communion which I made this year. I used pastel colors combo and added some gems and flowers.

Josephine

I've used Twinkling H2Os for background and image colouring on this as well as some bronze embossing powder, sticky gems and mirror card.

Margaret

Happy New Year everyone!!! For my card, I used some layered papers and added a piece of lace with a row of tiny pearls alongside. I have included a few gem flourishes in the flower cluster and added a large glass gem to the chippie.

Kimx

I know that Christmas is a dim and distant memory, but it is also the perfect occasion for a bit of bling, so here is the card that I made for my Granddaughter.

There is lots of glitter and sparkle, and a bit of Glossy Accents as well.

We look forward to seeing what you can come up with!

Jackie

My card was made using some images from a MCS kit, and utilised some left over shiny art deco paper I had in my stash. There are gems highlighting the corners and it hasn't come out very well in the photo, but the dresses are dotted with glitter!

Marlene

I have used a vintage photo which comes as a set called Memories of Philomena from Crafts and Me Shop. I used lots of embellishments and distressed the edges.

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Monday, 1 January 2018

#202 Christmas, Winner and Top 5

June hosted our 'Christmas' challenge and her Winner and Top 5 are:-

Winner of Kim's fabulous box of goodies!!!

94. Rainey's Craft Room

and June's Top 5 are

10. Ele

25. Janice

80. Jennifer H.

119. Tones scrapperom

124. Helene

Congratulations to you all. Don't forget to collect your badges from the sidebar and can Lorraine please email me at the address in the sidebar to claim her prize.

The team are having a well deserved break and we will be back and look forward to seeing you back here at 12 Noon on 15th January for our new challenge.

In the meantime Happy New Year!

Monday, 11 December 2017

#202 Christmas

June is hosting our challenge today, and the theme is Christmas. This is our last challenge for 2017.

As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, a gift, or gift bag or tag, as long as it's Christmas themed.

Please remember our 15 total challenge rule!

Please note this challenge runs until Friday December 22nd, instead of the usual Sunday finish. We will re-open in the new year on January 15th.

Happy Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!

Kim has provided a prize for this challenge, so one lucky person will receive this box of goodies.

Some inspiration from our fabulous DT

June

Embossing folder/Crafter's Companion, Die cuts, bling/Creative Expressions
Merry Christmas everyone!

Josephine

The background for this was done with acrylic paint on my Gelli Plate, then edged with Imagination Crafts bronze Alchemy wax. The baubles were die cut using, I think, dies from Joanna Sheen, and the sentiment using a die from Tonic.

Judy

I made this Christmas card for a friends little new born daughter's first Christmas. The image is by Mo's Digital pencil. The image is coloured with Copics, diamond glaze, and a glitter pen. I added stars, trees and a sentiment to finish the card.

Angela

Background paper was decorated with Jofy Christmas stamps and Stickles glitter glue added. The sentiment and main images are Elena Zinski stamps from Paper Artsy. Red gems complete the card. Happy crafty Christmas, Angela xXx

Glenda

I used a Penny Black stamp, various dies and punches, a doily and a Stampin Up embossing folder to make this fun Christmas card. Hope you have a Merry Christmas season!

Mary

I used a traditional decoupage sheet from Craft Creations Ltd called Snowman with bear and matted it onto brown mirri and green card, adding a ribbon to link the two colours together.

Margaret

My card was made with papers from Craft Smiths. The border die is the Floral Vine Deep Edge Punch by Martha Stewart and the chippies are by Scrapmatts. Under the flower cluster is a small doily cut with a Dienamics Die and the pine branch die is by Impression Obsession.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year.

Jackie

My card was made using the waste from some card I used to cut out a large snowflake, and some ribbon from my stash. The background was made using distress inks and the stamped images were (I believe) Card-io. The sentiment was a stamp from my stash.

Kimx