Just for you

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by again! The sponsor for this challenge is TPS. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

I printed out the digital image and had some peach coloured card which was in my stash which coordinated with the image so this is what I used for the large mat and for stamping the sentiment words onto. To make the green in the image pop a little more, I also used a green mat which I cut with a stamp die. Between the green and peach mats I felt it needed something kind of lacy, but none of my lacy dies seemed right!

Can you guess what I used instead of lace?? The cream lacy parts were 2 peacocks that o had already cut in cream card in my stash. I hope you’ll agree that they look fabulous on this card.

Here is a summary of the materials:

• 300gsm card base
• Image from TPS
• 2 cream did cut peacocks
• Peach card
• Green card
• Rectangle stamp die

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.

Debbie

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With sympathy

Hello and welcome to my little part of blogland! Whatever life throws at us we know (sadly) that we will always need sympathy cards. That’s just life! So this challenge I thought I would make a sympathy card for my box.

The sponsor for this challenge is KLM. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

For this card I chose to use an image and a sentiment from KLM. The floral element I chose to use twice and rotated it to be a top and bottom element to edge my sentiment. I did all of this within Inkscape before printing the image in black and white.

For my sympathy card I didn’t want something bold either, I just wanted something quite subtle. To achieve the subtle effect I coloured with muted colours and kept things simple.

To tie in the colour I chose a background sheet that had similar colours in it but TL only showing a small amount of the backing sheet meant that even though it’s a busy background it’s not overpowering.

Here is a summary of the materials:

• 300gsm card base
• Images from KLM (flower spray and sentiment)
• Pencil crayons
• Floral backing paper

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.

Debbie

Crazy friends

The sponsor for this challenge is Dr Digi. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

The background paper is a background I made with brusho (terracotta and gamboge) that I had in my stash. I chose to print onto this background and colour the image with watercolour pencils.

I cut the background to fit a 5×7” card and inked around the edge with Festive Berries Distress Oxide. The sentiment is one I picked up recently and absolutely love. So I stamped this is black pigment ink and heat embossed this with clear powder. I then mounted the topper image I had created onto a rose gold metallic mat. I also had some metallic bits on my desk which just filled the space nicely to complete the card.

Here is a summary of the materials:

• 300gsm card base
• Image “Quackers” from Dr Digi
• Brusho (terracotta and Gamboge)
• Watercolour pencils
• Metallic card and dots
• Distress oxide ink (festive berries)

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.

Debbie

Music time

The sponsor for this challenge is Twinkle Lane. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

I printed this image twice so great I could choose a couple of the elements to decoupage to give a bit of depth.

The background paper is some rice paper with some black soot distress oxide in the area under the image so that the image stands out from the background. I also added a strip of washi tape which is gold and tones in with the image.

The image has been coloured with distress oxide inks and some metallic pigment inks.

Here is a summary of the materials:

• Kraft 300gsm card base
• Image and sentiment from Twinkle Lane
• Sheet music rice paper
• Ink pads as pictured above
• Musical gold washi tape

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.

Debbie

Anything is possible…

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.

Debbie

Beautiful flower blooms

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.

Debbie

TTCRD anything goes challenge – 15th February 2022

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.

Debbie

Shopping in Yorkshire

The sponsor for this challenge is Sheepski Design 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 digital image I have chosen for this challenge is “Shopping in Yorkshire”. It has been coloured with Chameleon pens. I grounded the shopper and cut an apperture in the blue paper to frame the image. I mounted this onto aa kraft card base to draw out the brown paper bag that she is carrying in the image. Of course in Yorshire it would almost certainly be raining so her umbrella is out! I’ve added dots of glossy accents to the umbrella and also around her to try and emulate the rain.

Here is a summary of the materials:

• 280gsm Kraft card 6″x6″ base
• Chameleon pens (NG4, CH8, BK4, CG5, BV4, BL7, NU0, BR1, BL4, NU00, NU2)
• Sheepski Designs “Shopping in Yorkshire” digital image
• glossy accents

As always, I hope that you like the card and that this has inspired you to create something. It’s lovely to see that you’ve stopped by to leave a comment.

Thank you.

Debbie

TTCRD anything goes challenge – 19th October 2021

The sponsor for this challenge is ADU. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

I chose to use an ADU image I already had. The image is coloured with Chameleon pens (NU1, NU4, NU0, NU00, NG4, OR4, NU2, YL2, YO3, YO2) plus Chameleon fine liners (GR2, YO3, BG1, NU3, RD5, BG3, TD5).

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.

Debbie

TTCRD anything goes challenge – 5th October 2021

The sponsor for this challenge is Ike’s Art. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

I created my card using the following:

KLM Sunflower cups digital image

A4 white 300gsm base card

Chameleon pens (BR1, WG3, NU1, NU3, YO3, YO2)

Matte gold mats

Blue paper for the background

Tacky glue

The image I chose to use was these lovely cups along with the sentiment about friends. Friends often meet for coffee or tea so this felt like a card I would send to a friend to let them know I was around by writing we should meet for a catch up coffee (even though I don’t drink coffee).

I coloured the cups and tried to give them some texture as if they were stoneware cups. Then I cut out the cups and mounted them onto a blue mat as I felt this was a good contrast colour. Next I added a matte gold mat to both the image mat and the sentiment bringing things together.

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.

Debbie