Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 158

This challenge is to make something for a special woman, and in this case, I chose to make a card for my daughter. It doesn't seem natural to me to call her a woman because she's my little girl, but she's going to be 22, so it really does apply!

I've used an image and paper from the Bebunni collection from Crafter's Companion, although I will admit to altering the shading in the paper to better match the image, and I added a personalised sentiment to the image - both in Photoshop Elements. I kept the design fairly simple, just adding some matting and a floral frame made using, I think, Cheery Lynn dies, and finished the flowers with a drop of Liquid Pearl.

I hope you can join us this time.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 157

The challenge theme this time at Crafty Cardmakers is Love, Love, Love! So, anything that depicts love is fine!

At this time of year of course, with Valentine's Day just around the corner, I decided to make a card for my husband, who like other men in my family like things fairly plain. Hence, I've gone for a fairly simple design on this one.

The image is a very old digi from Cuddly Buddly to which I added the sentiment in Photoshop Elements. I coloured with Promarkers, and took a section of the image and tiled it to make the background paper. And, apart from rounding the corners of the image and mat, that's it.

I hope you can join us this time.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 156

This time, at Crafty Cardmakers, we want you to use dies or punches, but other than that, you can create whatever takes your fancy!

I was asked to make a card for a colleague to give to someone.

The background paper comes from a CDRom called Flower Power. I designed the greeting in colours to match in Photoshop Elements, and die cut both that and the mat. The flowers are all made using die cuts - mainly from Sizzix dies, but there are a few Cheery Lynn ones and a couple of Creative Expressions dies there too.

I hope you can join us this time.

Crafty Cardmakers and More Challenge 155

This time at Crafty Cardmakers and More, the challenge is to make something to celebrate something new. So, it can be for a new baby, marriage, home, or something else that's new - so long as you let us know what it is that's new, you're welcome to join in.

I bought several dies last year that I still haven't used, and one of those was a lovely one from Impression Obsession.

First, I assembled the house. I layered it onto some silver-grey card using foam pads to give some depth through the windows. Having measured the result, I then set about putting the sentiment on top of some backing paper from the Thomas Kinkade CDRom set from Joanna Sheen. (It's actually a sky and cloud image but that's not too obvious in the photo. I used my new tablet to take the photo and I suspect I need to fiddle with something to get better results.) After printing, I added the house, using another layer of foam pads for even more dimension.

I hope you can join us this time.