Krafty Chicks challenge #818 - ATG with a twist

Good morning lovely friends; I hope your week is going well so far. I'm sharing my card for the new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 5; and as it's an extra week this month we have an anything goes theme and I am your hostess. However we are mixing it up this year and adding an optional twist and the twist this time is 'colour an image'. Such a fun and easy theme and we hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I was pushed for time this week so went fairly clean and simple.  I've used this fun image before and I love it; such a punny sentiment to go with it too.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting a stitched rectangle from white card and using some yellow ink and a circle stencil created my background (I wanted it to resemble cheese lol!).  I stamped the image onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured it with my Promarkers.  I don't have any dies for this image so I fussy cut it out.  I stamped the matching sentiment onto white card using black ink and used a sentiment strips die to cut it out.  I die cut a vellum circle to ground the image and adhered them together with foam squares.  I also added foam square to the back of the vellum so that the circle would have some clearance from the background.  I placed it on the left side of the card and trimmed off any of the circle that was overhanging the rectangle.  I also adhered the sentiment with foam squares and finished off with some silver pearls.  I added some scrap white card behind the panel and this was then adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  A fairly simple design but perfect for those difficult males!  For the inside I cut another stitched rectangle and stencilled the circles in the lower third.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink and added another stamped, coloured and fussy cut image to the bottom right corner with liquid glue.  I adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - anything but square

Cardz 4 Guyz challenge - CAS

Creative Crafting Uncles challenge - circles

Creative Friday challenge - decorate the inside of your card

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - CAS

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - pink, blue and/or yellow

Farm Quest Grocery Game challenge - food and/or drink

Girlz Makes Guyz Cardz challenge - food or drink

Girlz Creative Splash it with Colour challenge - yellow and/or pink

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge - h is for happy birthday

Stencil Fun challenge - must use a stencil optional twist rainbow colours

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - make someone smile

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'ATG with a twist of colour an image' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Sweet Stamp Shop - cheesy card stamp (store closed many years ago)

Promarkers

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card (store now closed)

MFT - basic shapes: circles stencil 

MFT - you wow me stamp (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

*Gina K Designs - master layouts 02 (for stitched rectangle)

Gina K Designs - master layouts 05 (for circle die)

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments die

Gina K Designs - sweet corn ink pad

Gina K Designs - black, gold & silver metallic pearl mix

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Krafty Chicks challenge #713 - All occasions

Good morning friends.  I'm back again today to share my DT card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  As we are on Week 4 we are looking for your 'All Occasions' creations; so basically anything goes!  

I didn't have anyone in mind when I made this card, although the background panel was the starting point.  I had made it for another card but it wasn't exactly what I wanted so put it to one side.  When I looked at it again I thought it looked like cheese and that's where my idea began.  

Here is my card:

a closer look at the images:

I decorated the inside:

So when I made the background I originally was going for a beer/lager bubbles feel but I didn't like it and cast it aside and when I went back to it I thought it looked more like cheese so decided to dig in my stash and see if I could find anything cheese related.  I stumbled on this image that I had never used before and thought the punny sentiment was hilarious.  On further searching I found this tiny mouse image in a different set that I thought would be fun to use too.  I stamped the images using memento ink and coloured them with Promarkers.  The mouse image had a matching die so cut them out using that; the cheese/grater image was fussy cut out.  When I created the background I ink blended the panel with yellow ink and then went over it with a stencil using slightly darker inks, moving the stencil slightly with each different colour.  I decided to die cut some circles from the background to make it more like a cartoon block of cheese and added foam tape behind before adding it to my card base.  I stamped the punny sentiment in black ink and die cut it out with a sentiment strip.  I added the main image in the centre of the panel and tucked the mice in the circles as though they were peeking out (all with foam squares).  The sentiment was added overlapping the largest circle with foam squares.  I finished with some gold sequins and the front of my card was complete.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 3/4" x 5" and used the left over circles that I cut from the front panel and placed them in the same configuration as the front.  I stamped a sentiment in the centre and added one mouse peeking from behind the bottom circle.  A really fun card and one that came from a discarded panel.   I hope you like it.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist happy birthday

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Creative Moments challenge - cute & cuddly (my mice are small but super cute)

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - National Look Alike Day (my two tiny mice)

Get Creative challenge - April Fool's Day (a joke or punny sentiment)

Just Us Girls challenge - anything goes stencil

Scrapping4Fun challenge - ATG

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Tic Tac Toe challenge - stencil/die cut/critter (3rd entry)

Unicorn challenge - use dies

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'All Occasions' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for April, Rachelle. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Sweet Stamp Shop - cheesy card stamp set (they sadly closed many years ago)

MFT - farm friends (for mouse image) (no longer available)

Gina K Designs - fizzy stencil

Gina K Designs - sentiment strip dies

Gina K Designs - ink pads - wild dandelion, honey mustard and sweet corn

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer mini set (for inside greeting)

Spellbinders - standard circles large dies

Spellbinders - color essential sequins gold smooth discs

Promarkers

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Limetree Designs - 250gsm silky smooth white card