Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #643 is The Paper Shelter (TPS). The theme this week is “easel card”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
I absolutely love this digital image and I’ve requested it a few times but until now have not been lucky enough to have it chosen for the DT image to use!
I also chose to learn how to make a new type of easel card that I have never made before. This one like other easels folds flat, but the stopper is a 3D bar which you can see here:
I layered up some of the image and also used some of the 2nd image I printed to add extra elements to the bar and inside.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
Black doodle pen
High tack glue
Ruler
Score board
Guillotine
Card base – 300gsm
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #642 is ADU. The theme this week is “Christmas”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
I chose to do a simple card, but actually feel that it’s gorgeous as it is without the need for dressing it up with any embellishments! I simply used some coloured pencils for the scarf the sled and his ear, and an HB pencil and paper stub to give shade. I then matted this onto red and a pattered background paper on a white card.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Card base – 300gsm
HB pencil
Paper blending stub
Backing papers
Paper trimmer
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #640 is Oddball Art Co. The theme this week is “Male”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
I chose to do a spotlight heart for this father’s Day card. The heart also symbolises the love I have for my dad. He’s so understated that this day is to celebrate him.
I cut a heart out of the image and coloured the heart in the colours of the camper van that mum and dad owned when I was younger. Around the camper I then added a pencil drop shadow as I wasn’t colouring the rest of the image. I also added some subtle stencilled hearts in the background. I then mounted the image onto an orange mat and onto a brown base card and added the heart back into the image on foam tape to raise the spotlight heart.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Heart Die
Card base – 300gsm
Distress oxide ink
Foam tape
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
The sponsor for this challenge is Oddball Art Co. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!
The image has been coloured with coloured pencils which I’m loving at the moment. I then added detail along the sides with a stitch effect die and inked around the edge of the topper. A sentiment was added into the speech bubble and to fill the gap I felt like the faither flower fitted in with the theme. If anything is possible you need to have faith don’t you?
Here is a summary of the materials:
White 300gsm card base
Image from Oddball Art Co
Sentiment from JMC stamps
Coloured pencils
Distress oxide ink
Flower “faith” die cut
As always, I hope that you like the card. It’s lovely to see that you’ve stopped by to leave a comment. Thank you.
As the year progresses and the weather gets better the flowers in the garden are starting to bloom and it’s looking much more pretty.
The sponsor for this challenge is Jan’s digital stamps. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!
The flower blooms image has been coloured pencils which I’m loving at the moment. I then inked around the edge of the topper rectangle with the same ink that I had used to stamp onto the base card with a flower border. On the two long sides I then added some detail with an x border die.
Here is a summary of the materials:
White 300gsm card base
Floral blooms image from Jan’s digital stamps
Sentiment also from Jan’s digital stamps
Coloured pencils
Distress oxide ink
Flower stamp
As always, I hope that you like the card. It’s lovely to see that you’ve stopped by to leave a comment. Thank you.
Good Morning All and a very Happy 13th Birthday to us all here at CRAFT Challenge!!
This year we are 13 years old already and still going strong. Only one team member has been present from the start, Jo. Jo says ‘I have seen a lot of team members come and go over these 13 years, but all have been fabulous and very talented. I feel honoured to be working with such talented and lovely people. Even though my time is limited these days, I still love being part of this team.’
If you feel you would like to join our fabulous team, then just have a look at our DT Call page, which will inform you of any openings on the team. Or simply get in touch with us and let us know.
And now it’s time for our birthday celebrations. This week our challenge is
Birthday! (what else could it be?)
Anything that fits in with this subject, qualifies for entering this challenge.
There is a maximum of 1 entry per person for this challenge and as always it needs to be recent (new) work (so created and posted after this challenge has started). Although we love to see your work, it would put those contestants that put more than 1 entry in at an unfair advantage. The same limitation exists for the prizes to be won on the blogs of our DT members.
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Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #634 os DRS Designs. The theme this week is “Spring”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
I printed this image 3 times onto white, light yellow and deep yellow card. I fussy cut the petals from the deep yellow card and some of the petals from the lighter yellow card. Around the petals I added some ink to add some depth of colour and raised the lighter coloured petals with some dimensional glue. The white card I coloured the sky and the leaves. I layered the daffodil circle onto some circular die cuts.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Dies
Card base – 300gsm
Distress oxide ink
Happy birthday rubber stamp
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #633 is ADU (All Dressed Up). The theme this week is “Shaped Card”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
I coloured this image with coloured pencils and cut the image out. I die cut 2 shapes from layering does and cut out a shaped base card and added contrasting coloured distress oxide ink.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Dies
Card base – 300gsm
Distress oxide ink
Happy birthday rubber stamp
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi there, I wanted to write a blog post to show you some of the latest stamps I was working with from Stamp Addicts. These were featured in their latest tv show on 29th March 2022 on Create and Craft.
This first card is using “gothic border” which I’ve placed back to back as a focal point down the card. It’s stamped with 3 distress oxide inks to give some interest and variation in colour so that it wasn’t so ‘flat’.
Again using the gothic border we have a simply edged card that would work for a wedding or an anniversary. simple but classy.
Another way of using the border allows you to create a square and looks like it could be corners rather than a border.
Moving on to the Skully lovers I’ve also used the gothic border in the background building up a stamped backdrop with distress oxide inks. I’ve then fussy cut the skulls and flowers as the facial image and raised and shaped this on silicone glue.
And on the inner panel I’ve stamped the border randomly to coordinate.
The image below is a little more dark and looks like it’s got a lace touch to the edges by using the top of the gothic border.
Last but not least, a card using the skully lovers coloured with pencils, mounted onto a black and white rose background put though a heart embossing folder and tinted with red ink.
Let me know what you think and hopefully this has given you some inspiration.
Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge I’m sure you can guess the film that inspired this card in seconds.
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #632 is oddball Art Co. The theme this week is “Inspired by a film”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
I coloured this image with pencils, not sure why but I’ve got a thing about pencils at the moment! I then die cut the image and a further layer using what I believe are crafters companion dies (though feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!) and mounted them onto some contrasting blue backing paper and glued the layers onto my base card.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
Backing paper from my stash
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Dies
Card base – 300gsm
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
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