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. I can’t believe how fast this year is going by. It’s almost Easter – eek!
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #631 is Jan’s Digital Stamps. The theme this week is “Anything Goes”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
For this one coloured the image with pencils, cut both the image and sentiment out and mounted them onto some contrasting backing paper. I edged the backing paper with some distress oxide.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image printed
Backing paper from my stash
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Kitch flamingo distress oxide ink
Card base – 300gsm
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi everyone. I’m a little late with this post, but better late than never!
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #630 is All Dressed Up. The theme this week is “Female”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
For this one coloured the image with pencils, and cut the image out to layer onto a background. I inked the background and layered this under a die cut in black. I think it’s quite striking, but allows the topper to still stand out.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image M printed onto super smooth card
Backing paper from my stash inked with distress oxide inks
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Distress oxide inks
Metal die
Black card
Card base – 300gsm
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi everyone. Things seem to be getting slightly warmer which is a bonus.
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #629 is Star Stampz. The theme this week is “Christmas”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
For this one coloured the image with pencils,, and cut the image out from the A4 sheet it was printed on. I edged the rectangle with some creative expressions stamps which are a distressed snowflake border using Weathered Wood distress oxide.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image from Star Stampz printed onto super smooth card
Backing paper from my stash with snowflakes
Colouring pencils
High tack glue
Weathered Wood distress oxide ink
Card base – 300gsm
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments. Are you making any Christmas cards in March?
Hi there everyone. Are things harder when than they were pre Covid? Part of me thinks that I’m certainly picking up more ailments that are taking longer to get over? That’s just my observation today!
On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #628 is Dr Digi House of Stamps. The theme this week is “Not a card”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
Not a card kept me thinking for a while on this one. When we choose our images we sometimes have something in mind and other times we don’t. Sometimes we change what we decided upon, or we can’t think of what to do, or we simply forget!
For this one I had the image coloured, but was then ill with a sickness bug for about 4/5 days before the challenge was due. The night it was due I got the inspiration and it just came together. Ideally I could have done more, and I will one day, but right now I’m at least happy that I’ve completed the project!
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image from Dr Digi’s House of Stamps printed onto super smooth card
Backing paper from my stash created with distress resist spray and distress oxides
Colouring pencils
HB pencil
Paper stump (for blending)
Lace
High tack glue
Picture frame with mount
I printed the digital image onto some super smooth card and coloured the image. The image was coloured firstly with a HB pencil which I blended out. When you do this try and think about where the light is and where something is on top of something else that would also cast a shadow. On top of the pencil I started overlaying the lightest of the pinks, again thinking about the light source. On top of this I added the darker pink and then faded it out with the lighter pink. It’s all about building up the colour, so layer it up (I did this a little more to get the tones).
To finish off I also grabbed a background out of my stash, which I’d made in the past, and along with some lace this gave me a sky and clouds.
I actually love what I’ve made and can’t wait until I get a bit of time to go back in and add to it at some point. Thank you for stopping by, please leave a comment to let me know what you think.
The sponsor for this challenge is Twinkle Lane Designs. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!
The elephant has been coloured with an HB pencil and a paper stub and a pink coloured pencil. I die cut around the elephant and cut a mat in black so that it would stand out from the pink glittery background. Another mat and layer were also cut for the sentiment. As elephants are not supposed to forget I thought this would be a good sentiment to put on this card.
Here is a summary of the materials:
HB pencil
Paper stub
Pink glitter card
Black card to mat the topper image ans sentiment
Floral die cut x2 with distress oxide applied to it
Sentiment stamps
Black ink
Pink pencil crayon
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.
So now that we’ve been back to work for a couple of weeks it’s like the Christmas break never happened. Do you ever feel like that? 😞
The sponsor for the CRAFT challenge #624 is Trimgym, who is the coordinator for our CRAFT challenge group and the theme is Anything Goes (ATG). Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Cream 6×6” scallop edged 300gsm base card
Digital image
Chameleon pens (BV2, GR1, BL4, VO2)
Bead curtain cling rubber stamp from Stamp Addicts by JudiKins USA
Happy birthday you old bird stamp from Stamp Addicts
Distress Oxide “Stormy Sky”
For this card I stamped the bead curtain onto a spare piece of card to create a topper which I’ve also edged with the ink to give more of a focus to that panel.
Onto another piece of card I printed the digital image of the seahorse, fussy cut it and coloured it with the listed Chameleon pens. I wanted subtle colours and I think that these work well.
To finish off I also added the sentiment “Happy Birthday”, but this was taken from a stamp that actually has a second line which I’ve masked so that this didn’t get inked just leaving the section I wanted to use.
Thank you for stopping by, please leave a comment. X
The sponsor for the CRAFT challenge #622 is Colour of Love and the theme is Christmas. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
The image has been coloured with Chameleon pens. With the tree I wanted some variation in colour so I’ve added glitter to every other layer. In each of the 2 corners I added a snowflake corner stamp and some word stamps to help frame the image. Then I inked with the Iced Spruce and stamped with the snowflake stamp on the base card.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
The wreath has been coloured with Chameleon pens, and the card blank was stamped and inked to give subtle interest and to tone in with the colour pallet.
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