Making life brighter one card at a time
Well out of my comfort zone for the latest colour challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown to use Kraft, black and white. I decided to go with a sassy saying 😉 And that’s also my day 13 card done for my challenge with Mel’s Card Corner.
I already had this card in mind to make this weekend so I was super excited that it fit this week’s Craft Roulette parameters – I just had to add postage stamp to the mix and tweak the colours yay!! I really loved making this card and super happy with it – it also doubles as my ‘card a day challenge’ with Mel’s Card Corner as well, along with the layer it up challenge over at the Cut It Up Challenge blog.
Holly sprigs were initially ink blended with Christmas pine dye ink by Gina K Designs, then spritzed with Altenew Forest glades shimmer spray (probably went a bit overboard with that one!). Some splatters of blue gold Gansai Tambi watercolour paint.
I almost forgot to join the AAA Cards challenge this week, and couldn’t find the stamp I’d originally planned to use. A really quick pivot and I ended up creating a totally different card instead. Not my finest work created in a big hurry on the evening before the challenges closes, but it’s quite cute and will go into my charity bin for someone to enjoy 🙂 You can’t see it in the photo but the waves have a shimmer spray on them and it’s ever so pretty in the light! I used the ‘Mermaid for you’ stamp set by Lawn Fawn and ‘Mermaid scales’ stencil by Gina K Designs.
I don’t know what’s happened to the image – my phone is showing the post correctly, but the website is showing the photo squished horizontally so it looks square instead of the A2 size it is … so very odd!
Day 8 of my card a day November challenge along with Mel’s Card Corner. This stencil and stamp set from The Greetery just arrived in the mail this week and I couldn’t wait to christen it. I kept it very simple, perfect for an evening after work. And it’s my choice for this month’s Stencil Fun challenge of leaves.
I created my Craft Roulette card pretty quickly this week. I don’t really give gift cards to friends or family, so I wanted to think of another way to incorporate that pesky parameter. In hindsight I wish I’d left the background white instead of stamping with a light teal. Not the best card I’ve ever made, in my opinion, but still happy to have another episode and contribution under my belt, taking me to 117 in total now.
I created this card as day 6 of my ‘card-a-day challenge’ throughout November, and using it for my entry for the Just Us Girls red and green colour challenge this week. I was too lazy to wait until daytime to try to get a better photo – geez hot foil is so hard to photograph under lights! I was going to add a few sequins but it seemed quite busy already … but I may change my mind when I go to write in it 😉
This ornament makes my blue-loving heart sing! I created this one for a couple of challenges – each challenge inspired me in different ways, and this was the result. I’m entering it into these challenges this week:
It’s also Day 7 of my personal ‘card-a-day challenge’ throughout November that I’m doing along with my friend Melissa at Mel’s Card Corner.
This was a huge experiment … I sat and mulled over this Colour Throwdown challenge for a bit before choosing this die set to work with. I wasn’t keen on the colours together, I had no idea how it would work out in the end … but isn’t that the fun of doing challenges and getting out of your comfort zone? Would I use the colour scheme again? Probably not … but did I enjoy being challenged? Absolutely! And an added bonus was the fact I finally christened this die set from Spellbinders – win/win. It actually looks a lot better in real life as all berries are mirrored gold cardstock and so pretty. I’ll have to re-take a photo in daylight hours I think.
This also acts as my Day 3 card for my personal ‘card a day challenge’ throughout November.
I was going to go with an elf Christmas theme for my Craft Roulette card this week, but I decided to challenge myself a bit more. I used a stamp from Pennyblack.
I decided to quickly create his card tonight for the Christmas cup challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.
