Krafty Chicks challenge #706 Stamps

Good morning lovely friends; I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week.  I'm here today to share my card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  We are back around to Week 1 which is 'Stamps' so grab your rubber stamps, clear stamps or even your digital images and join in the fun.  

It was my mother-in-law's birthday recently so used this opportunity to make her a card from my boys.  I had just received this stamp and die set so was eager to try it out.  Here is my card:

A closer look at the beautiful image:

I also decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the gorgeous image, coloured it with Promarkers and used the matching die to cut it out.  I took a panel of peach card and used the die to cut an aperture from the centre.  I wanted the image to have some dimension and stability so cut it another 3 times from white card and adhered them together with liquid glue before adding it to the aperture, again with liquid glue.  I've had a piece of vellum sitting on my desk for months so decided to put it to good use and added it behind the aperture (I could have made a shaker card but thought the vellum would make a nice change).  I was debating what to put behind the vellum and found a small piece of this green gingham paper and thought that would co-ordinate with the green in the image and also the vellum would soften it so placed that behind.  I added foam tape behind the peach panel and added it to my card base.  The sentiment was stamped with black ink onto white card and cut it out with a rectangle die.  I added this with foam squares, overlapping the image, on the lower right side. I finished off with a few gold sequins.  The finished card is 6" square.  I don't make square cards very often these days so it was a nice change.  For the inside I cut a white panel, stamped my greeting in black ink and adhered it to a panel of peach card with double sided tape.  I found another thin strip of the patterned paper and added that to the very bottom of the panel.  This was then added to the card base with double sided tape.  

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - birthdays

As You Like It challenge - monochrome or colourful (I love all the colours so very rarely create a monochrome card)

Color Throwdown challenge - peach, sage green & cream

Craft Rocket challenge - for the girls

I love Promarkers challenge - ATG option love/romance

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - birthday and/or funny, humourous

Inkspirational challenge - mood board (I was inspired by the colours)

Pearly Sparkles challenge - celebrate

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - bright and cheerful

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - add a sentiment

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG option the DIES have it

Tic Tac Toe challenge - floral, free, metallic (my sequins are gold)

Triple B challenge - include at least one bird, butterfly or bloom

We Love Stamping challenge - feminine

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'Stamps' 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 Shirley, who is joining us for March. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Spellbinders - Lily Arch stamp & dies (CSOM Feb 24)

Spellbinders - color essential sequins gold smooth discs

Spellbinders - Essential rectangles (to cut out sentiment)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - Simply Said stamp set

Clearly Besotted Stamps - happy birthday all (retired)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - mini calligraphy (retired)

Stampin' Up - card stock vellum

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Craft UK - 250gsm 12x12 white card (to make card base)

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Promarkers

peach card from stash

AAA Birthday challenge #59 Geometric

Hello friends and welcome to March!  This year definitely needs to slow down as I can't believe we are at the start of the third month already.  On a positive note at least spring is getting a little closer *yay*.  I'm here today to share my card for this month's AAA Birthday challenge.  Our hostess this month is Vicki and she has chosen 'geometric'.  Our lovely guest for this month is Karen Rogers so pop over and leave her some love.  

I love the look of geometric designs and they are perfect for masculine cards.  I needed a card for my brother-in-law so it was the perfect challenge for me.  Here is my card:

a closer look:

plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting my white panel to 4" x 5 1/4".  I took some triangle dies and cut 1 large one from red card, 2 medium cut from red and black card and 1 tiny one cut from black card.  I took a strip of black and white striped patterned paper and adhered it to the left side of my panel with double sided tape.  I added the larger red triangle with liquid glue overlapping the paper and placed the medium black triangle over top with foam squares.  I then added the red medium triangle to the bottom left, again overlapping the paper, and added the tiny black triangle with a foam square.  The sentiment was stamped towards to the right side between my triangle clusters.  No embellishments as I thought it looked cool as it was.  For the inside I added a very thin piece of the patterned paper to the bottom of my panel and added a medium red and tiny black triangle just above in the bottom left with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre.  

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

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes optional twist birthday

Addicted to CAS challenge - geometric

Cut It Up challenge - dots and/or stripes

Double D challenge - patterned paper

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - birthday and/or funny, humorous

Pearly Sparkles challenge - celebrate

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - anything CAS optional green

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - dots and/or stripes

Tic Tac Toe challenge - CAS, free, favourite colour (red and black together for male cards)

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.   

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed.  I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:*

Lil' Inker - stitched triangle dies

Clearly Besotted Stamps - happy birthday all

Clearly Besotted Stamps - mini calligraphy

Clearly Besotted Stamps - tag along (for inside greeting)

MFT Stamps - black and white stripes 6x6 paper pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

* most of what I used is retired but I bet you have something similar in your stash if you're inspired to create something similar.  

Krafty Chicks challenge #705 - Anything goes

Good morning lovely crafty friends.  I hope you've had a fantastic week so far; it's almost the weekend!  I'm here today to share my card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge and whenever there is a 5 week month Week 5 is always 'Anything Goes'.  It really can't get much easier than that can it?  

So as I said this week is 'Anything Goes' so you can go wild and create whatever you like, for whatever occasion you like.  I needed a get well card for a friend's husband so it was the perfect challenge for me.  Here is my card:

A close up of the cute images:

I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the cute images in black ink and coloured them with my Promarkers and used the matching dies to cut them out.  I also decided to make my own patterned paper by stamping the band aid image onto light blue card using a slightly darker ink pad and added the tiny heart with red ink.  I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto black card and used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I cut a card panel from white card 3 3/4" x 5" and a mat panel from black card and adhered them with double sided tape.  I added the 'patterned paper' with double sided tape down the left side of the panel.  I added the sentiment strip in the lower centre of the panel with foam squares and then placed my images overlapping it on the right side.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  I didn't add any embellishments as I liked it as it was (plus I was giving it to a man who I always think prefer it CAS).  For the inside I cut another white panel and black mat panel and adhered them with double sided tape.  I didn't think far enough ahead to make another piece of 'patterned paper' so instead stamped and die cut another 2 band aids and placed them in the lower right corner.  I stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  I really like this card and the homemade patterned paper was simple to make and looks really sweet I think.  

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

Allsorts challenge - things that can fly

Alphabet challenge - x is for xtra hearts

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist I love ...

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - add a heart

Creative Moments challenge - ATG option CAS (3rd entry)

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - random act of kindness

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - hearts

I love Promarkers - ATG option under the sea

My Time To Craft challenge - create your own background

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - fur or feathers

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Sweet Stampin' challenge - always look on the bright side of life

The Male Room challenge - Valentine/use a heart

Triple B challenge - must include either a bird, bloom or butterfly

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'Anything goes' 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 February, Helen (thank you for all your beautiful cards as guest during both January and February Helen).  

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Lawn Fawn - get well soon stamp and die set

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiment dies

Gina K Designs - ink pads - red hot, ocean mist, white pigment ink cube

Card Making Magic - Verses for Occasions (for inside greeting)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - A4 luxury black card

WOW! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

blue card from my scraps bin

Krafty Chicks challenge #704 - All Occasion

Hello again friends; I'm back once again with my DT card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  We are on Week 4 which is 'All Occasion' i.e. birthday, sympathy, get well etc; the world's your oyster!  

I found these images already coloured from another project so thought I would put them to good use. I didn't need a specific card so just made a generic hello friend card.  Here is my card:

A close up of the cute doggies:

Plus I decorated the inside:

In addition to the images already being coloured I also had the circles pre-cut that I was going to use on another card but then changed my mind (they were all cut from pieces from my scrap bin).  I did have to cut a few extra for the inside but this card was super easy to put together once I had decided on the layout.   I cut a panel from white card 3 3/4" x 5" and added the circles randomly around (but in rainbow order) with foam squares.  I also added the cute dog images with foam squares too.  I stamped the friend and hello words in black ink and used the matching die to cut out the friend, along with another 3 from white card.  I used a tiny sentiment strip die to cut out the hello word.   I used a tip I learned from Mindy Eggen and used the extra friend die cuts to layer up the word but only used the middle part that would have contact with the card panel so that everything would be the same level.  The panel was added with double sided tape.  I didn't add any embellishments as I thought it looked cute as it was.  For the inside I used the left over pieces of the circles that I had cut off from the front and added them around my panel.  The only circles I had to cut extra were the teal one and the yellow one.  I added another dog to the inside too.  These were all added with liquid glue.  I didn't add a sentiment as I thought this card could be for any occasion and I could add one when I needed to.  

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

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS option birthday

Addicted to CAS challenge - geometric

Colorful Options challenge - Pink or rainbow creations

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Creative Inspirations challenge - someone you love/for a friend

Creative Moments challenge - CAS

Creative Friday challenge - Double (2 dogs)

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - random act of kindness

Dream Valley challenge - Our 4 legged friends

I love Promarkers challenge - ATG option under the sea

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - ATG CAS option pink 

Sweet Stampin' challenge - Always look on the bright side of life

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 February, Helen.  

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

  

Card ingredients:

MFT Stamps - Friends at first sip (for dogs)

MFT Stamps - Tag builder blueprints 6 (die cut circles)

Gina K Designs - Modern flower stamp & die set (for sentiments)*

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Sakura - white no 10 gelly roll pen

other card from my scraps bin

*was part of the Hello Lovely kit but no longer available - it will be in the store when the new kit is launched

Just Us Girls challenge #715

Welcome friends; I hope you've had a great week so far and you are looking forward to the weekend.  I'm back to share my last guest designer card for the Just Us Girls challenge (I can't believe where the last 4 weeks have gone!).  

This week is a nice easy challenge for you - anything goes with a stencil.  If you are like me you have lots of stencils to choose from so grab some and play along.  

It is my nephew's birthday today so of course this was the perfect opportunity to make him a card.  Here is my stencil card:

a closer look:

and I decorated the inside:

I always make my family 5" x 7" cards because sometimes bigger is better.  I began by cutting my panels using Gina K's ML 8 which is designed to fit on a 5" x 7" card.  I used a star stencil and chose masculine colours to ink blend with.  I worked in a diagonal pattern, alternating the colours and stars and I also stamped some stars in between to fill any gaps.  I decided to add some metallic splatter in copper instead of adding any extra embellishments. I originally stamped the sentiment directly onto the card panel but it looked a little lost in all the stencilling so stamped it again in black ink onto white card and cut it with my paper trimmer and then matted it onto a black panel; this was then added with double sided tape.  The panel was added onto the card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut the same size panels and used the stencil at the bottom, again alternating the colours and patterns.  I stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink.  The panel was added onto my card base with double sided tape.  I really like the colour combo and will definitely use it again.  

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

As You Like It challenge - feminine or masculine (and why) - I have a husband and 2 sons as well as a nephew so I've always enjoyed and made my fair share of masculine cards  

Creative Knockouts challenge - die cuts/punches/stencils (I've used dies and a stencil) 10 challenges max

Seize The Birthday challenge - ATG birthday (no topping)

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist no patterned paper

Time Out challenge - birthday theme (it's their 10th birthday!) 5 challenges max

I'm sure this will be a popular challenge as we all love our stencils don't we.  Please pop over and check out the gorgeous creations by the talented design team.  I want to say a big thank you to Just Us Girls challenge for asking me to guest with them in February; it's been an honour and I've had a blast.  I'll be back next week playing along as usual lol!

My DT card for the Krafty Chicks challenge will be along soon so I hope you'll pop back and check it out.  Until then, thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate your support. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - star-studded 6x6 stencil

Gina K Designs - grand gentlemen stamp set

Gina K Designs - master layouts 8

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer stamp set (for inside sentiment and small stamped stars)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - stormy sky, soft stone, honey mustard, ocean mist, blue denim, in the navy

Gina K Designs - copper glimmer mist

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - luxury A4 black card

Versafine - onyx black ink

2024 Crafty Kickoff IG Card Hop - Week 6

Hello again crafty friends; I hope you're having a great week so far.  I'm sharing my card for Week 6 of the 2024 Crafty Kickoff IG Card Hop which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each week we will share a themed card to inspire you and this week we have a great theme of 'leap ahead'.  

In honour of 2024's leap year, this week we will leap ahead in creative ways.  I decided to be very literal with my card and used a cute critter leaping on my card.  Sorry my post is photo heavy this week as I tried to show off the interactive part of the card.  

Here is my card:

the next couple of photos shows my critter sliding up the card:

 

Here is a close up of the cute kangaroos:

plus I decorated the inside:

I stamped the cute images and coloured them with Promarkers; using the matching dies to cut them out.  I cut a white card panel 4" x 5 1/2" and using a cloud stencil ink blended the whole panel in light blue ink.  I didn't have the proper slider die but found a similar shape and size die in my stash and cut it into the panel where I wanted my kangaroo to jump.  I took a piece of green card from my scraps bin and used a hillside border die to cut a small hill for the bottom of my card.  I adhered it to the card panel with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink onto the green hill and the 'jumping marks' just above on the cloud background.  I added mama kangaroo with foam squares in the bottom left and adhered the tree behind her with liquid glue.  Again I don't have any of the slider mechanisms so die cut some small circles from white card and added a tiny piece of foam tape in between them to make my slider piece.  I attached the baby roo to the slider piece with double sided tape.  I finished off with two small clouds which were adhered with liquid glue.  I added lots of foam tape behind the panel, avoiding the area where the kangaroo would leap and added it to my card base.  I'm really happy with how it turned out considering it was the first time I've made one of these cards.  It actually went quite smoothly (which makes a change for me lol!).  For the inside I cut the same size white panel and again ink blended the cloud background and added a small green hill at the bottom.  I added another tree to the bottom left corner and stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I hope my interactive card inspires you to join in with the leap ahead fun.  

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

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Creative Knockouts challenge - die cuts/punches/stencils (10 challenges max)

Creative Friday challenge - Double (I have 2 clouds and 2 trees)

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Dream Valley challenge - Our 4 legged friends

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option under the sea

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist no patterned paper

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024craftykickoffcards to find the hop and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

This is our final week of this hop but don't worry we'll be back again with a brand new Spring Hop in March.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with a couple of cards so please pop by and check them out.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

 

card ingredients:

MFT - kangaroo crew stamps and matching dies

MFT - gift card groove dies (for slider)

MFT - mini cloud edges stencil

MFT - everything wonderful stamp set (for inside sentiment)

Lawn Fawn - stitched hillside border dies

Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad

Promarkers

Versafine - onyx black ink

Memento - tuxedo black ink (to stamp images)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

green card from scraps bin