Crafty Cardmakers

Monday, 1 June 2015

#139 Shaped Card, Winner and Top 6

Lin (me) was our hostess for our Shaped Card challenge and I have selected my Winner and Top 5 from some very original and gorgeous cards!:-

14 Karen

and my top 5 are:

1 Diane H

12 Scrappin' With Chriss and Lou

31 Ammaris Art

32 Laney

and

Lou Sims AKA Flash Harry

Congratulations to you all, please take our Winner's or Top 5 badge for your blogs.

Apologies if this post looks like a dog’s breakfast, but Google (I want to rule the world) have decided to do something that nuked Windows Live Writer from being able to publish to the blogger platform and I have no idea what it now looks like as I can’t publish from WLW like I normally would do. No matter what I do when I publish from Blogger it always looks a mess, which is why I went over to WLW in the first place. SORT IT OUT GOOGLE!

Monday, 18 May 2015

139 Shaped Card

Lin (me) is hosting our challenge this time and wants to see your shaped cards. Plain squares or rectangles DO NOT COUNT, but any other shape is fine

Some inspiration from the team

Lin

Mine is made with Spellbinders Labels 25 and Majestic Labels 25, one of my favourite of their shaped dies.

Josephine

My second Christmas card of the year! I've used a variety of dies from Spellbinders and Marianne as well as some pearly card in soft, icy colours.

Vania

Mary

I used Tattered Lace dies and CD ROM to create this card.

Pamellia

I used a variety of die cuts from Spellbinders and Cheery Lyn to create this oval easel card for my Mom for Mother's Day. Lots of flowers. ribbons and pearls to add a special feminine touch.

Bec

I have made a Teepee card for this challenge using an old range from Basic Grey called Olivia.

Marlene

I have used a Bildemalarna Stamp and Papermania Bellisima Papers

Sally

I have cut a birdhouse shaped card base and added a stamped bird and branch from Hobby Art.

Carole

I have made a scalloped circle easel card - and used up lots of scraps of paper and card - and flowers.

Jackie

My card was made using some Sue Wilson Nobel dies and cosmic shimmer pearl drops and some items from my stash.

Julie

I have made my card using Moonbeam Meadow CD for the image border and bunting, ribbon and sentiment from my stash.

Sue

I made a collapsible box card, love these, they look so effective and are always well received

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#138 Make Your Own Background, Winner and Top 5

There were some absolutely gorgeous backgrounds in our last challenge, and Pamellia our hostess for our Make Your Own Background challenge and has selected her Winner and Top 5:-

109. Irena's art : В градината

and her top 5 are:

13. Paper Talk With Samra

14. sarascloset: Stenciled Mother's Day Card

47. Inky and Quirky: On a Wing

53. Jane's Journal

67. Felix the Crafty Cat

Congratulations to you all, please take our Winner's or Top 5 badge for your blogs.

Monday, 4 May 2015

#138 Make Your Own Background

Pamellia is hosting today. She would like to see something that you have created using a background you made yourself. So NO designer papers please.

This is how the team interpreted Pamellia's theme

Pamellia

I just love making my own backgrounds, so I decided to do three different layers with three different background designs. I used distress inks, stamps, stencils, crackle paint and home made texture paste to create three different looks.

Josephine

For the background of this, I started with white paper and shaded it with Pan Pastels. I then embossed it using an Embossalicious folder, and added some further Pan Pastel to the embossed areas. I completed with an sentiment and hand-made flowers.

Bec

I have used the shaving cream technique for my background and then when dry stamped over the top. Your cards smell a treat too!

Vania

Marlene

For this card I used Black Soot and Milled Lavender for the Background

Indigo Blu, Sheena Douglass and Inkylicious Stamps

Jackie

I decided to play with my Brusho paints to make the background for this card, then overstamped it in black archival ink with an inkylicious flower stamp.

Julie

I have used distress inks for the background and Sheena Douglass a little bit scenic stamps.

Sally

I have embossed some watercolour card, then painted the feathers before adding gilding wax to the raised areas. The stamp was also water coloured and a gold heat embossed sentiment to finish.

Mary

I used freebie stamps and distress inks for my background. The central image was also from a freebie stamp.

Carole

For my background I used Aqua Tints and Gesso, with stencils, stamps and a bit of embossing.

Kimx

I have used some pieces of Cut'n Dry foam and a green Kaleidacolour ink pad to make the background to my card.

Lin

I have used a Moroccan Tile mask and Prima Color Bloom Sprays to create my background. More details on my blog.

Sue

I find it easier to do this sort of background in layers, but with a rough plan of what is going where before I start, then building up distress inks in light layers, and overstamping this with background stamps in the same colours.