Hiya everyone,
As I had a spare five minutes I thought I'd share the 3rd and final card entry into the Card Designer of the Year competition that I was runner up in (Simply cards and papercraft magazine).
The papers are from the Prima "birdsong" paperstack. I decided against a stamped image so apart from a few dies and a stamping up notebook punch I only used the paperstack. I made the envelope from cream vellum by first pulling apart a small envelope to use as a template. It looked far nicer in the flesh but I suppose most cards do don't they?
I will enter this card into the following challenges:-
Tip top tuesday - Lavishly lucious layers
Inky chicks - BINGO (Ribbon, sentiment,flowers)
Crafty bloggers network - Flowers
Kaboodle doodles - Ribbon
Make it monday - Always anything goes
Unstampabelles - Use one or more dies
Speedy and friends - Use twine
Catch the bug - BINGO (Twine, ribbon, starts with a "P" so punch)
Sugar creek hollow - TIC TAC TOE - Bling, ribbon, diecuts
Inspire me friday - Anything goes
Thanks for looking!
Hiya everyone,
I had a spare few minutes so I thought I'd share another of the cards that I entered into the Card Designer of the Year competition. I decided I wanted to make a chocolate themed card and this was what I came up with!
It is a twisted easel card with a built up base. The base is about 1.5cm thick and is basically the kind of box I make to put a 3D card in but I made the easel card around it. I made some dividers for the bottom and cut a square aperture in the top. I then cut 3 small circles, 3 scalloped circles and 3 squares which I rounded the corners on. I then decorated these shapes to look like chocolates. The ones I liked best I placed inside the box where there would be visible when it was open. Some nice chocolate ribbon and bow keeps the easel upright as I didn't want to cover up the chocolates too much. It took a while to get it to look right as I was making it up as I went along.
I used a gorgeous Bo Bunny 6x6 paperstack called crazy love and apart from the Martha Stewart heart border punch, I didn't really use a lot else. I even used the heart border punch to make some pretty corners. The sentiment I printed out myself and I went over it with sakura clear glaze pen although you can't tell this from the piccie. This looks a lot better in the flesh and was really pleased with the way it turned out considering I didn't really have a clue what I was doing!
The above piccie shows the matching box and tag for the card to go in. I was in such a rush to send my cards off that I'm afraid to say that these were the best piccies I took which is a shame.
I will share the 3rd card with you too at some point!
Thanks for looking!
Hiya everyone,
I have some fab news that I can finally announce - I was runner up in the Card designer of the Year competition ran by Simply Cards and Papercrafts magazine. I was really surprised to place as I was 8 and a half months pregnant when I made my entries and very nearly didn't bother as I'd not made much for ages.
This is 1 of 3 of my entries and the first I made. The image is by Mo Manning and is called "Not even a mouse" and is available here. I printed the image out about 7 times and cut out various layers before colouring them in with my promarkers/flexmarkers. This was very fiddly but it was worth it as it really "popped" off the card! I kept the rest of the card relatively simple as I wanted the image to really stand out.
The papers are from the Papermania Silent Night A4 stack which I really love for the rich traditional colours. I liked it so much I bought 3 pads when it came out which is a while ago now!
I have used a LOTV Christmas round sentiment and my Martha Stewart holly border punch and my new(ish) Tim Holtz weathered clock die.
I will share the other 2 cards with you shortly.
My Joanna Sheen Teamie Lexi was also a runner up in the competition too! What a small world!
Thanks for looking!
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