Category: Craft Roulette

I’ve been very slack about posting on my blog each week as my cardmaking mojo has been a bit more absent than normal. I have, however, been creating for a couple of challenges regularly, with the primary one being Craft Roulette. Here are the cards from the weeks I’ve missed posting here.

Sat 3 Jun – Episode 166

• Project: Small bag (a rainbow shopping bag in the bike basket)
• Colours: in Rainbow (ink blended cloud background plus the shopping bag)
• Element: Wheel (on the bike)
• Random: Shimmer (silver glitter heat embossing on the wheel rims, Wink of Stella on the blue bike frame, and silver gems)

Sat 27 May – Episode 165

I managed to take a ‘go bag’ with me with options for most elements on the wheel, and put this card together while on a driving holiday. I left space at the bottom to add a Merry Christmas sentiment, which I didn’t have with me while travelling.

• Project: Card with flaps (triple flaps)
• Colours: Winter (cool blues and greens)
• Element: Children’s story (the Princess and the Pea, using the pea!)
• Random: Tile(s) (I used tile papers from Stamperia)

Sat 20 May – Episode 164

• Project: Slimline (not normally a fan of full-sized slimline cards, but as I was putting away some newly arrived supplies I saw this sheet of paper and the whole card came together quickly in my mind – I knew that I needed to do the larger card format to do the paper justice)
• Colours: Tea party (I thought of softer colours of vintage tea sets)
• Element: Word (birthday cut out of the paper/background layer and raised up as a shadow layer)
• Random: Hand drawn line(s) (on the edges of the raised letters)

Sat 13 May – Episode 163

• Project: Three tags
• Colours: Rose garden
• Element: May (my Mum’s birthday is in May, and her nickname is/was the Dragon – which is funny, because she’s the most selfless and beautiful person you can ever meet)
• Random: Masking (I masked off the card edges for the background ink blending)

Sat 6 May – Episode 162

• Project: Matchbook card (I’m not a fan of matchbook cards (or any cards that don’t stand up unaided, so I went with a different option, and made a miniature matchbook that serves as a needlebook when you add a square of wool felt to it – these are handy to have in portable/travel projects)
• Colours: Flowering field (I thought of all blue flowers, which is my ideal version of flowering fields)
• Element: Bird(s)
• Random: Wood grain (on the background paper)

Sat 29 April – Episode 161

• Project: Dutch door
• Colours: Campfire (I chose night sky and fire colours, plus green and neutrals for the forest)
• Element: Hat(s) or cap(s)
• Random: Book page (used as the background layer and ink blended)

I managed to create the following cards over the last month for Craft Roulette:

Episode 152 with Gina K – challenge criteria:

• Project: Hinged (the cardbase is folded, therefore automatically hinged)
• Colours: Kraft background
• Element: Outside your window (I wish this was outside my window 24/7 – this view is my idea of my happy place)
• Random: Faux leather (die-cut purse using faux leather vinyl fabric – and pretty much what I do with my handbag every day, just sling the handles over the chair arm so I don’t trip over it)

Episode 153 with Bitty Penny:

• Project: Rounded edge (card base and background layer corners)
• Colours: 2 blues + 2 (bue, aqua, green, yellow)
• Element: Flowers
• Random: Fussy cut (aka fussy cussed because I detest fussy cutting – but all the flowers and leaves were fussy cut after being stamped, heat embossed with white then ink blended)

Episode 154 with Alicia / Crafty Al:

• Project: Shaped card (circle easel)
• Colours: Yellow, green, blue
• Element: Super hero(es) (in the sentiment)
• Random: Fancy circle(s) (both on the stenciled images and the scalloped edges of the easel card base)

This random card was conceived because of Craft Roulette, with the following parameters:

• Project: Bookmark
• Colours: Grey background + 3
• Element: Bunny or bunnies
• Random: Swag

I decided not to create a bookmark, but rather turn it into a card and sneaking a bookmark into the image somehow. As soon as I got the idea of including a book about rabbits, the rest of the card was born. Probably one of the more ‘random’ cards I’ve created but I’ve realised it probably also works for the Use Your Stuff challenge this week of ‘Inspired by a book’! I think it’s the first time I’ve used the bunny stamp since the class where we used it, and I think it’s maybe the second time using the banner die … and first time using my new Olo markers – I need a lot more colouring practice, for sure!