Making life brighter one card at a time
I loved this stamp set by Hero Arts from the recent Crop & Create classes. It works perfectly for a couple of challenges:
Such perfect timing – I created this card today for a challenge over on the Share Handmade Kindness Facebook group, and tonight I see the TGIF challenge this week is to ‘use your scraps’ – couldn’t be more perfect timing if I tried! It’s been a slow road recovering from Covid, but I’m finally starting to get back to doing more cardmarking again this last week – I think creating this card has helped get me back on the right path again too. It really reminds me of a stained glass window.
I managed to create the following cards over the last month for Craft Roulette:
Episode 152 with Gina K – challenge criteria:
Episode 153 with Bitty Penny:
Episode 154 with Alicia / Crafty Al:
While I was unwell last month, I slowly managed to complete a set of cards for Kendra’s Card Challenge #9. I went fairly monochrome with this round, and intend donating them all to charity so most have a ‘thinking of you’ sentiment for that reason. I have some definite favourites among them!
I’ve been laid up with covid for almost a month, but finally have the energy to post. I’ve managed a couple of classes over the last week, but I’ll add those later – today, though, I’d the first time I’ve had the energy and motivation to work on a challenge – this is primarily for Sunday Stamps sketch challenge.
This was my Craft Roulette challenge card this week, for my 80th submission woohoo!! It’s also worked out perfectly for the As you like it challenge of your favourite between Love and Friendship. Obviously I chose friendship in this case – to me a close friendship has a healthy dose of love anyway.
I was supposed to be doing this rose using the Pantone colour of the year, Magenta, but it turned out more pink than magenta, but that’s OK it’s still pretty spectacular in real life! Originally created for an Instagram challenge, it’s also being entered for the Pink challenge over at the Colorful Options blog and the Use your latest stamps or dies’ at The Flower Challenge blog (the sentiment die is a new one).
This challenge over at the Time Out Challenges blog is right up my alley as it’s a style I do all the time thanks to Gina K – but instead of using stencils this time I white heat embossed two floral stamps by Gina K instead. They’re so bright and cheerful – I do so love me a rainbow or two 🌈 I’ll add sentiments and a bit of bling later on when I decide what they’ll be used for.
A fun new challenge started over on Instagram last week using the hashtag #fffcardmaking. It seems this is a challenge running throughout February for a small group of friends who have invited anyone who wants to to join in too.
The first challenge this last week was to make a card using paint chips. After a trip to my local Bunnings hardware store I came home with a pile of samples, and a few ideas – they didn’t all pan out, but a couple of them worked out OK … I’m also going to enter them in a couple more challenges too:
The first card is the one I entered for the challenge. In hindsight I think I’ll add a fun ‘like Netflix’ or other non-traditional sentiment underneath.
The second card I completed is one for a craft group friend who recently lost her Mum, and I added the names inside of everyone that contributed to a floral tribute we gave her on Saturday at our group. It was my first time using the pansy dies, and I definitely see more of these in my future!
Love you card:
Pansy sympathy card:
One of my favourite love sentiments of all time … suitable for any occasion really – but teamed up with the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp/CZ Designs I just couldn’t help myself! And this card is going to be my entry to the following challenges:
