Critter Crazy Challenge #109

Hello and welcome to my blog.

This is my Design Team card for the April Critter Crazy Challenge. Challenges start on the 1st of the month and are anything goes. but you must include an animal of some sort as the main focus. This is in the broadest sense of the word and can be furry, feather or insect etc. 

The main focus of my card is the Maximum Crafts Spring Bunny die.

I also used the following:

A5 stepper card blank
Card/paper: Craft Artist Christmas Green, Textured mid green card, White textured card, Hunkydory Spring Meadow floral paper
Dies: Creative Expressions Happy Easter, Spellbinders Cross 
Yellow Promarker pens to colour the daffodils

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges: 

Classic Design Challenge #03 Mar/Apr 

Crafts Galore Encore #146 

Crafty Animals Challenge #104
Crafty Catz #710
Creative Crafters Challenge #98
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #319
Love To Craft Challenge Blog #91 

I hope you like the card I've made. If you've got time it would be great if you could leave me a comment to let me know what you think of it. I would really appreciate it.

Please also join us at the Critter Crazy Challenge this month. We'd love to see your Critter makes 

   

Easter bunny

Hello there,
Here's my April card for the Fairy and Unicorn Challenge, as usual it's anything goes with the option of Easter bunny. This month we're sponsored by Fabrika Fantasy, I've used the Cute Toy 1 stamp as theme is Easter bunny. It's a very simple card as I was pushed for time and having messed up my colouring attempt I've used the pre-coloured version.

What I've used

White A5 landscape card Mont Blanc from Anna Marie Designs
Lilac card from Lime Tree Crafts for the mats
Anna Marie Designs super smooth printing card for the image
Background papers from Cardmaking & Papercraft Issue 194
Lilac gingham ribbon and pearls from my stash

I hope you like the card and will leave a comment if you have time.

Please also join us this month at the Fairy and Unicorn Challenge, sponsored by Fabrika Fantasy.

Easter cross

Hello there,

this was the only religious Easter card I made this year. My non-religious Easter cards are here.

I started with a Pickled Potpourri image of a cross, stained glass window and daffodils, and picked out parts of the image in grey, green and yellow. I'm not a colourist so needed to keep it simple! I used the Tonic Deco Trellis die to cut the image out and then layered this on to a black mat I'd made using the same die cut twice and put on top of each other. The background is grey pearlescent card embossed with a brick embossing folder, and layered on to a black mat.

I made the sentiment using the PC and cut it and the yellow and black mats using a Spellbinders Petite Labels die. Both the topper and sentiment were put on the card using foam pads to add a little dimension.

Thanks for stopping by, any comment you'd like to leave would be really appreciated.

Easter cards

Hello,

I usually make religious cards for Easter but this year I decided to make a couple of non-religious ones. My religious card is here Easter Cross.

I chose images from the Little Book of Everything to match the recipients' interests, birds for my Mom, cats for Mother-in-law and rabbits for an Aunt.

For the bird and cat ones I found some patterned Hunkydory backing card which co-ordinated with the images. For the rabbit one I recycled the green card Tonic pack their dies in! I then used some plain card to mat the image and patterned backing card on to.

I stamped a sentiment, added a bit of colour with my Promarkers and then matted them on to the plain coloured card. I finished them off with a bow in the case of the rabbit and bird one, and an acetate butterfly for the cat one as it had butterflies in the image.

These were quick and easy to make which was what I needed as I had to make them in a hurry!

Thanks for stopping by, if you've time to leave a copy it would be really appreciated.

Easter cards

I make a few Easter cards every year, some more religious than others.

The first one is for my Mum and doesn't need to be very religious so I decided to use A Hunkydory kit Pretty Petals which has lilies in it, I decoupaged them using glue gel and used the matching backing card matted and layered onto gold mirri then on to an 8x8 cream card blank. I added cream ribbon and bow and created my own Easter blessings sentiment using the Spellbinder Petite Labels 1 die.

For the second card I used what was left of the backing card and layered that with gold miri onto a DL card, attached a wooden cross I had in my stash which I'd put gold gilding wax onto and added the same sentiment as above.

I made the next card with a Spellbinders M-Bossabilities folder using the cross design side and white pearl card, I dusted it with gold ink and then highlighted the individual crosses with gilding wax. Again layered it onto gold mirri and used the same sentiment.

The last card was made with the same folder embossing white pearl card but using the other side of the folder. I coloured the lilies with yellow and green Promarkers, layered it on to yellow and green card, and added a stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by, any comments welcome!