The April challenge at Christmas Craft Creations is always a fun one...
We are looking for your Christmas projects that use non-traditional colours... I chose to showcase some pink on my card!
I'm participating in the Birthday Bounce Instagram Hop today... each month, a group of card makers gets together to hop with birthday cards based on a theme... this month our theme is "funny"
We've talked about this before... my idea of humour usually involves swearing... so I used a fun stamp set from Sassy Pants to create my card.
I had a vision in my head for this card... but I guess my vision wasn't quite as good once it hit reality.
I promise... we'll get to some cards I like soon!
I am back with a second post today... with a card I am IN LOVE with! I made this card yesterday when two of my creative friends came over to play in my craft room for a few hours. I bought this die set on Saturday and decided to play with it yesterday... and it goes perfectly with the current challenge at Just Add Ink! I feel like the colours I chose lend themselves to something like a sympathy card... soft and muted.
I have been struggling to make cards lately. I've been doing OK with the cards for the design teams I'm on, but I'm struggling with cards to make "just because". I struggle to find inspiration... I struggle with how to interpret that inspiration... I struggle because I truly love the clean and simple style but I'm not making super clean and simple cards... I struggle because things look better in my vision than they do in reality.
And this is one of those cards. I really love this rainbow paper and wanted to use some of it on a card... and while there's nothing wrong with this card (and I kind of like it), I don't love it. I don't feel like it's the worst card I've ever made... but it's certainly not the best either...
I guess they can't all be masterpieces LOL!
I have another card to share for the {BYSHC} Spring Into Christmas Linky Party! I had a lot of fun playing with some different small and medium snowflake dies as well as that beautiful Lawn Fawn Iridescent cardstock.
I'm playing along in an Instagram Hop today, showcasing three cards following our monthly theme (which is rainbows). For this hop, I have to have at least one common element in all of my cards, showing that our supplies can be versatile and used in more than one way.
I chose to make 3 mini slimline cards, all using the same patterned paper and the same sentiment set...
It's time for the Spring in to Christmas Linky Party with Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers... and it's so easy for you to join in the fun!
Simply make some Christmas cards and link them up on our website (HERE)... you can enter as many times as you like. And each time you share a card with us, you get entered in to the draw for some fabulous prizes!!
Our sponsors this year are:
Tawny Owl Paperie
Unity Stamp Co.
Twiddler's Nook
Therm O Web
Not 2 Shabby
Fresh and Renewed with Teresa
Pink & Main
Newton's Nook Designs
Angie Blom Digital Designs
Colorado Craft Company
RAM Stamps
Gina K Designs
Taylored Expressions
Jaded Blossom
Gina Marie Designs
A Colourful Life Designs
Lawn Fawn
Kat Scrappiness
My friend Bonnie gifted me a partial sheet of this beautiful paper and I wanted to use it for my first card for the party. It's just such a pretty paper!
It's time for a fun new sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge... I'm having a lot of fun mixing up some patterns for these challenges!
Mixing patterns is easier to do thanks to companies that sell their papers in pads or packs... you know that the colours to go together and often the patterns complement each other well. I hope I succeeded with this card!
It's time for a new colour challenge at AAA Colourful... we show you a colourboard and you take inspiration from it to create something beautiful...
I decided to go super clean and simple for my card... and chose to use some alcohol ink to create my splash of colour. I only wish that my Yupo paper was more of a true white...
It's a monochromatic challenge at Addicted to CAS and I decided to go super simple with just black and white. I just love this striped pattern paper... I need more of it!
It's time for a new challenge at CAS on Friday.... our theme for the next two weeks is "Spring". I decided that there's nothing that says spring more than some pastel coloured flowers.
It's time for a new challenge at Time Out Challenges... and it's an inspired by words challenge...
I don't have any stamps that are craft related... but I do have a couple of sentiments with the word craft in them... so that's what I went with.
Just a quick post from me after a workout and before a trip to Costco (another type of workout lol). We joined a local rec centre about 6 weeks ago and have committed to working out 3-4 times per week. I did a class yesterday with a friend of mine that showed me just how out of shape I am.... and left me feeling muscles I forgot I had today. But I went back to did some weights in the weight room today. Stairs are NOT my friend today. LOL!
Anyway... Sharing a card I ade a few days ago... sure widh you could see those scored diagonal lines a little better....
Happy Friday my friends... I am here with my first of two cards for the Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers April sketch...
I need to tell you that I don't love my card. I love the idea of it, I love that it's clean and simple... but I feel rather "meh" about how my card turned out... It might be because I am not used to so much unpatterned dark space on a card front (most of my card fronts are white).
We have some wonderfully spring-inspiring colours for you to play with for the next two week at CAS Colours and Sketches. I can't wait to see what everyone does with this fun colour combo!
Soft Sea Foam and Flirty Flamingo are not colours I reach for regularly, but that's just a personal preference. In the right proportions in the right setting, they can be beautiful colours!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend. I am back to work tomorrow after a wonderful four day weekend... it didn't look or feel much like Spring here in Calgary this weekend with cool temps (around the freezing mark) and about an inch of snow but we are warming up for at least a few days this week.
Here is the sketch for this week at Atlantic Hearts...
I took inspiration from the sketch and used some wonderfully spring-like colours for my card.
