Hi everyone
Today sees the midway point for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Anything but square or rectangle'. Well, this theme was just up my street, so you can imagine I loved making this card. I really do not think you can beat the embossed look for that nice crisp, clean fresh look, and I thought it went well with the snowy look also.
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start for the new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Anything but square or rectangle'. Having just purchased recently this lovely Spellbinders Circle die I could not wait to use it and make it into an easel card.
Sarah Kay image coloured with Copics
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'No Patterned Paper. Well, I am not in my comfort zone making CAS cards so I opted to go for embossing again. I dug out my lovely Cheery Lynn Step Card die, cut the shape and then put it through my e-Bosser using an A4 Embossing Folder. Loved the effect. The snowflake and the top doiley die are both Tim Holtz, as are the trees.
Hobby House Topper bearing the image created by Sylvia Zet
Embossing Folders
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'No Patterned Papers. Well that says only one thing to me, and that is embossing. So this time I opted to make a shaped card using my Go Kreate dies. This is actually a one single sheet card with a small easel at the back. I was not happy with how it was standing (or not standing! lol) so I made a little multifold easel which I popped inside the card fixing both front and back to it. It has now worked a treat!
TO DO THIS:
I cut a piece of card just a little narrower than the width of the card with plenty of length. I then scored at half inches several times, then folded some mountain and valley folds and snipped the extra length off. It then has been stuck inside the two layers.
Image coloured by a friend of mine. (Cuddly Buddly image I think?)
Embossing Folders
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the midway point for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Embellish It'.
Last time I used a Vintage image, which I absolutely loved so this time I opted to use one of my favourite Christmas images created by Sylvia Zet. The image has been coloured by a friend of mine. This time I decided to use some of my die-cuts and loved the effect of the heart frame die from Cheery Lynn on the front of this Horizontal Multifold card. And of course I was in my element embellishing the card. I hope you have as much fun making for this Challenge as I did.
Sylvia Zet image
Cheery Lynn die
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start for the new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Embellish It'.
I chose to use this Vintage image, which I absolutely love and had such fun embellishing the card. I just went through my stash and went for it. I am sure you will love making for this Challenge. I know I did.
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the midway point for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled
'Keep it Krafty'. Use kraft cardstock along with white and cream you can also incorporate somegrey or black if you like
I have made another quick card. You know I am quite liking these type of cards for a quick option.
Cheery Lynn dies
Embossing
Stitchy Bears image
Items from stash
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start for the new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled
'Keep it Krafty'. Use kraft cardstock along with white and cream you can also incorporate somegrey or black if you like
Well, I do not often use Kraft, not that I do not like it,
so although it is a bit out of my comfort zone and time has been very short so I needed something quite quick, I actually welcomed making this card and this is what I came up with.
Tim Holtz and Cheery Lynn diesStitchy Bears image
Items from stash
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Sparkle and Glitter, My pile of simple little Christmas cards is gradually growing now. I used two different embossing folders for this one. I must admit I do like the effect of embossing on white.
Image coloured by a friend of mineFlowers from Ebay
Embossing Folders
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start of the new Challenge at CCAYR for the month of August,
which is entitled 'Sparkle and Glitter. I opted to make another embossed card adding lots of sparkle to the embossing, embellishments and image. I coloured this so cute image with Copics.
Poinsettias from EBay
Embellishments from Live and Love Crafts and Ribbon Girl.
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Non Traditional Colours. Well I have been so inspired recently by a lovely Envelope full of tags which Rebecca at http://www.paperprimrose.com/ made recently that I am totally hooked on this, but I actually make them in the form of a card. You will be seeing more of these from me, believe me I am totally hooked! They will be coming in different colours, and all shapes and sizes! Haha - Hey I am not joking! The tags of course are detachable.
Papers & flowers from Live and Love Crafts
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start of a new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Non-Traditional Colours'. I must admit I am a bit out of my comfort zone with non-Traditional colours. I love the deep reds and deep greens for Christmas. So I rummaged through my stash and found these pretty lilac papers and this is the result - one little four inch cards and co-ordinating tag. The card is criss cross style front and has a detachable insert. Have you ever made these little four inchers I wonder? I love making these and they are so useful come Christmas.
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Christmas Angels'
I am going to be in need of some quite simple little cards so decided to make another little 5 inch card. I used the Magnolia Tilda image again and coloured her with Copics adding Frantage.
This is quite a plain little card for me, but somehow I like it.
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start to a new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Christmas Angels'
I opted to make another 5 inch card with aperture, the image being on the inside.
Image from Magnolia and coloured with Copics
Flowers from EBay
Embossing
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Santa/Santa's hat' and sponsored by Chi Chi Memories
The card blank has a little story to it. Some years ago a friend of mine sent me a couple of card blanks similar to this in with a surprise craft parcel. Well, I just recently came across these in my stash. So, this card is similar to the ones I had sent but I wanted it to be a little larger.
Instructions:
I took a piece of A4 card and trimmed it to five inches wide. I then scored in half and then Half an inch down on one side. I then punched two holes (not easy but I managed it by cutting what had not cut with my little decoupage scissors) and threaded ribbon. From there I then trimmed the front to measure four and one half inches from the second scored fold. The topper (mine measures approx 4 and one half inches long and four inches wide) is then placed centrally so it runs even with the foot of the card so it will stand.
Image from Chi Chi Memories and coloured with Copics
The Cuttlebug Embossed Cottage folder was stamped by the same friend and was in the same box as the card blanks. I added stickles.
Flowers from Ebay
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start to a new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Santa/Santas hat'
and sponsored by Chi Chi Memories.
I made this card which is a sort of eassel card. It is simply a large die-cut (Go Kreate) cut twice. One piece is scored two inches from the tip and folded. This is then secured to the reverse of the card to form an easel to make it stand. I saw this done by Debbie Dolphin in an old Magnolia ink magazine. Debbie is one talented lady, take a look at her Blog here I am in awe of her work.
Image from Chi chi Memories and coloured with Copics
Flowers from EBay
Embossing
Spellbinders Die
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Poinsettias' .
Image coloured by a friend of mine
Flowers from Ebay
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start to a new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Poinsettias'
I opted to make a 5 inch card with aperture, the image being on the inside.
Image from Cuddly Buddly and coloured with Copics
Flowers from EBay
Embossing and Frantage
Spellbinders Die embossed
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the half way mark for the Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Step Cards' .
I made this step card using the lovely Cheery Lynn Step Card Die. To make it a little quicker as I was a little behind schedule I cut the shape using a sheet of patterned card. The Magnolia Tilda image has been coloured by a friend of mine.
Cheery Lynn Step Card Die-cut
Image coloured by a friend of mine
Flowers from Ebay
Items from stash
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
Hi everyone
Today sees the start to a new Challenge at CCAYR,
which is entitled 'Step Cards' I used a step card from a pre-made pack but then altered it slightly by cutting away the sides of the centre piece.
Memory Box Papers
Image is a Hobby House Topper bering a lovely image created by Sylvia Zet
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Live and Love Crafts
Tim Holtz On the Edge die-cuts
Frantage from Live and Live Crafts
Items from stash
Machine Stitching
Do pop over to the Challenge Blog at CCAYR, and take a look at the talented Design Team's lovely
creations. I do
hope you can join in with this lovely Challenge.
Thank you so much for looking,
Judy x
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