DT swap news!

Good morning everyone. Autumn has well and truly arrived here and I just love getting out walking Gizzie. The colors of the trees are gorgeous, we have a maple in the garden and it has changed to all shades of orange through to a deep red, when the sun shines through it to casts a gorgeous red glow into our kitchen.

Anyway on to my crafty news. After the sad news that Crafty Girls Challenge is closing at the end of October, Erin the blog owner contacted me and asked me if I would move to other challenge design teams she runs. I of course accepted and this is my first post for Crafting at the Weekend challenge. Which is an odd title for me as I don't craft at the weekend its family time!! The challenge starts the last Saturday of the month but being part of the mid month team I will be posting a reminder around the 15th of the month!

The challenge is always anything goes and has some fab sponsors each month so you can win adorable digis! The sponsors this month are Ditzie Crafts and Aurella but being late in joining I have chosen to go freestyle this time!

 

 

This is a card I have made as a commission for a tree botanist! I used a Sheena Douglas stamp and used distress markers to ink it up so I could have the 2 different colors. The Sentiment was typed on my pc and color changed to match the matting layer. It's one of my favourite styles of cards very clean and simple which sometimes are harder to plan and fussy cards!

 

 

Funky Angel

Good morning everyone! Fall is starting to make it's appearance here, the leaves are turning gorgeous shades of yellow, red and orange and the air has drooped cooler. I am hoping to head in to one of the forests in the next couple of weeks to take some pictures.

There's some sad news over at Crafty Girls, 30th October will be their last challenge. but all is not lost - you will see me pop up as a design team member at Crafting for the weekend challenge blog and Crafting from the heart Face book Erin has kindly asked me to relocate there!

But for now today is the start of a new challenge over at Crafty Girls. Once again they have 2 sponsors, Lacy Sunshine and QKR Stampede. The challenge as always is anything goes and you can find the rules and how to enter here.

 

I love the angels from QKR so chose to use the hug me angel. As she has a great pair of bovver boots on I decided to make her more colourful and funky than the celestial angels we are used to.

 

 

I have colored her with my Spectrum Noir pens in bright purples and blues to match the backing paper which I have matted onto purple mirror card. Her wings have been glittered with 2 shades of pink but it doesn't show too well on the photo. I have then used a memory box die to cut the gingerbread border and a tattered lace one for the sentiment. some small purple sticker dots finish it off.

 

Thanks for stopping by and now go enter our challenge!

 

 

 

CAS card

Good Morning all - I've got a busy week this week so have scheduled most of my blog posts - so if you are reading this it is hopefully Tuesday morning.

The new Facebook Challenge starts today over at Crafting from the heart. The sponsors this month are Delicious Doodles and Bugaboo Stamps. As always the theme is anything goes and the advantage is you don't need a blog you just post your creation to our Facebook page - the rules are in the pinned post at the top of the page.

On to my design team card

 

 

This is a gorgeous digi stamp from Delightful Doodles. The picture is a sketch of Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland - it was the location used for Highlander movie. I have coloured it with my Faber Castel Polychromo pencils and tried to capture the bracken and heather in the hills. As it is such a beautiful sketch I have kept the card clean and simple. I have just die cut a sentiment and matted the topper onto Black and Kraft card.

 

Thanks for stopping by and now go join the challenge!

 

Challenge 28 at Scribble and Scrap Crafts

Good morning everyone, I hope the weather is being kind to you all. We are having another mini summer at the moment but the lovely fall colors are starting to appear on the trees and the harvest festival celebrations are happening in our town.

As well as all that there is another challenge starting over at Scribble and Scraps crafts. The prize is a £10 voucher to spend in the store and as always the theme is anything goes. You can find the rules and how to enter here!

For my design team card this week I wanted to demonstrate that you don't need images on a card and can work with just a couple of papers and embellishments.

The gorgeous papers are in the Scribble and Scrap store and are from a range called Curiosity Corner. This collection also has matching blossoms (which I have used), Doilies, stamps and embellishments. I have used Core'dinations card to matt my paper onto then cut the red striped paper into strips, punched them and folder to make the rosette. The blooms are held together with a Hobby House pearl brad and glued in place. I have then matted the rosette onto one of the gorgeous cream doilies. So no image in sight but still a pretty card. 

Tutorial for a fancy fold card

This is the first time I have written a tutorial. I can teach face to face with no problems but struggle to put what I mean into writing!

The card I am making today is one of my favourite styles. It is simple to make once you get the measurements right so here goes:

 

you need 3 pieces of card stock cut to the following sizes:

Layer 1 6x7 inch

Layer 2 6x6 inches

Front of card 7.5 x 3 and 15/16 of an inch

 

You will also need 4 different backing papers - I have used Scribble and Scrap's Fabulous florals 2 for my sample. and a topper for the front of the card I have used one of the images from vintage photo sheet 19 for mine.

 

Taking Layer 1 you need to score 1.5  inches in on either side of the 7 inch length

Layer 2 needs scoring at 1 inch on opposite sides.

 

You then need to punch along the edges like so:

 

 

You then add strips of backing paper to the punched edges - the width of these will be dependant on the punch you use. Mine are 1 inch and 1/2 inch

 

With the Front piece of card score this at 6 and 6 and 1 eighth and fold. Then add backing paper to the inside long part and double sided tape to the shorter end:

 

your pieces should then look like this:

 

 

Line the shorter edge of the front piece with the outer top edge of layer 2 this is then stuck to the back of layer 2

 

Turn the card over and the inner of your card should look like this:

 

 

As you can see I have added a sentiment!

 

Fold the front flap down over the top of layer 1

 

Then take Layer 1 and glue this to the inner layer of layer 2 with the decorated edges facing you. This will cover the flap of the card front making the back of your finished card look neater

 

All that is left to do then is decorate the front of the card with your choice of papers and topper.

 

 

By folding the  layer 1 punched sides out and layer 2 in the card will stand independently.