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Hello,

Welcome to another Challenge over at the Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog.  As always it starts the first Saturday of the month, and as usual it lasts for about a month. I do hope that you'll join us. 

The theme of the Challenge, as always, is Fantasy, however as long as it's Fantasy pretty much anything goes. If you're not sure what we mean by that just check out the guidance in the Challenge Rules, and in the side bar on the Challenge blog. We also have a monthly optional theme, this month it's Cupid. I've chosen to create a card I will be able to use as a Valentine's card for my husband next month.

Card recipe

8 x 8 black card blank

Red glitter card and White card

White heart embossed card

Cupid from the challenge blog website

Tonic Affections heart die

Craft Artist Mica Magic to enhance the embossed card

Black gems, ribbon, and sentiment die from my stash 

I hope you like the card I've made, please leave a comment to let me know what you think if you've got time. I do appreciate them and like to read them.

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

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge Challenge #1 January 2025
Crafts Galore Encore January 2025 #131

Please also join us over at the Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog this month, we'd love to see you.

Happy Valentine's Day

Hello and Happy New Year, 

It's time to let you know that we've a new challenge starting today over at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog. Our theme this month is no using designer paper. I decided to get ahead of the game and make a Valentine's Day card for my husband, February will be here before we know it! 

I do hope you'll join us over at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog this month and share your makes with us. 

Card recipe

8 x 8 white card blank

Red card for mats

White heart embossed card

Woodware stamp, coloured with Cardinal Red Promarker

John Next Door alphabet stencil dies for the name 

Press Cut plain and stitch dot dies

Ribbon from my stash

I hope you like the card I've made, please leave a comment to let me know what you think if you've got time. I do appreciate them and like to read them.

Please also join us over at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog this month, we'd love to see your makes.

Love is in the air

Hello,
Valentine's Day this month so love is definitely in the air.

Here's my card for the Fairy and Unicorn Challenge for February where the theme is a bit of loving. This month we're very kindly sponsored by the fabulous Ike's Art, and my card is made using the Athena image. As you may know Athena is the Greek goddess of Wisdom, Handicrafts and War  - so unfortunately not of love!

I've tried something I've not done before and made it 2 tone using cream and red - the colour of love - and just spot coloured the image using red.

What I've used

8x8 cream card blank
Lime Tree Berry Red card,
Lime Tree Ivory Cream card
Promarker's Poppy Red for the spot colour
Sizzix hearts die for the small hearts and border
Tonic Will's Hand Love die

I hope you like the card, please leave a comment if you've time.

Also please do join us this month at the Fairy and Unicorn Challenge, and thanks again to Ike's Art for sponsoring us this month.

Valentine Fairy

Hello,

Among my new year's resolutions was to make more cards, enter more challenges and post more often. Unfortunately it's not gone very well! This is only my second post - although I have prepared and even made a few cards which I can hopefully post soon.

This is my DT card for the February Fairy and Unicorn Challenge which is sponsored by the fabulous digistamps4joy this month, and has the theme Use Red. I have used the Spring Fairy image, which I coloured using a mix of Promarker and Spectrum Noir pens. I used Promarkers: Black, Leaf Green, Poppy and Cardinal Red. Spectrum Noirs: EB2 (basket); GB1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 (hair); FS2, 3 and 6 (skin); CR3 (cheeks); IG1, 2 and 3 (wings) plus Powder Blue.

I started with an 8x8 card blank which I matted with red card and then white card which had been embossed using the Tonic Amelia folder and then dusted with red ink. I cut the mage out using Tonic's Art Nouveau die and put it on to a red mat cut using the same die. I finished it off with a red ribbon bow, some die cut red hearts and Tonic's Will's Hand Love sentiment.

I hope you like my card, if you've time to leave a comment that would be great too!

Please join us this month at the Fairy and Unicorn Challenge, sponsored this month by Digistamps 4 Joy

Sent with Love Valentine's card

Hello,
this is the Valentine's Day card I've made for my husband this year.

I used a white 8 x 8 card blank matted and layered in red and white card, and also panels. The 4 square panels were cut with the Tonic square dies and embossed with hearts, and I used a Tonic Miniature moments sentiment die in the middle.

He really liked it and I hope you do too.

Valentine's card

I thought I'd show how different the Tonic Studios Affections dies can look by posting a Valentine's Day card I made using different colours and a different centre to the Mother's Day card I posted which used the same die set.

I used an 8x8 black card blank with red, white and black contrasting card which were matted and layered. I rounded the corners of the mats to match the rounded corners of the dies. The large white matt card was embossed and then I just added 3 black pearls in two of the corners.

Thanks for stopping by, as always any comments are welcome.