chatty chic

• hunkydory especially for her luxury card collection: chatty chic!
• hunkydory especially for her little book
• gold mirri card
• 3 6x6" & an A5 card blank

For the A5 card, I covered my card front with half a sheet of patterned cardstock. I then positioned the topper pieces with the central panel glued flat and the frame raised on foam pads. I added a sentiment topper onto the border of the background, to complete the front. I trimmed an insert down to fit inside and coordinate with the front of the card.

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I trimmed the remaining paper down to remove the pink border, leaving a floral trim along the base of the 6" square card front. I then cut a page from the little book down to create a square topper. I matt and layered the topper onto gold mirri and glued down on an angle. I positioned a sentiment topper in the bottom corner of the card front and added an insert to finish.

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With the other sheet of cardstock from the collection, I created another 6" square card. For this, I covered the card front with gold mirri cardstock. I then layered on the trimmed down patterned cardstock so the image filled the front. I simply finished with a sentiment topper on foam in the top corner and an insert inside.

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I created this final card using the remaining cardstock, insert and topper. I added the image section of the insert to the inside of the card blank. I then placed the border, (trimmed from the patterned cardstock) along the outer edge of the inside of the card. I cut away a section from the front of the card blank to reveal the panel inside. I covered the remainder of the card front with the patterned cardstock. I carefully positioned the topper and frame in the centre of the card, just overhanging the front edge, ensuring no glue spilt over onto the inside.





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Fresh flutterby

• LOTV-hand written phrases
• SU!- butterflies thinlit die
• DCWV- fresh floral 12" paper stack
• White glitter card
• Archival 'jet black' ink pad
• Atyou spica pink glitter marker
• 7x7" card blank

I chose 5 coordinating papers to work with the die cut for this card. I trimmed the 2 main papers to size for the card front, following the sketch layout. I then glued these down flat. I finished the joining edge using a line drawn with the pink glitter marker. I die cut the butterfly from white glitter card and glued this into position. I stamped the sentiment onto the yellow paper and matt and layered onto the pink paper. This was glued in place to complete the card. 

I would like to enter the following challenge:
Case this sketch #234

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Happy reindeer

• LOTV- happy reindeer stamp
• SU!- flurry of wishes stamp set
• SU!- softly falling textured impressions embossing folder
• Memento'tuxedo black'ink pad
• Neenah classic crest cardstock
• Copics- skin:E51,21,93. hair:E35,37. raindeer:E42,43,44,47,49&93. carrots:Y38,YR16,G14&17. aqua:BG10,32,23,49. pink:R81,83,85. white:C00,1.
• Archival'jet black'ink pad
• American crafts pink baker's twine
• White cardstock & 6x4" card blank

I cut a piece of white cardstock to fit the front of my cardblank. I embossed this to make a snowfall effect. I tied baker's twine around the top of the matt and tied a bow, before I glued it to the cardblank. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the image. I added a sentiment stamp below then glued onto the bottom of my card blank using foam tape for dimension.

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The cgallenge I would like to enter:
Simon Wednesday says- for a child

pretty peacocks

• hunkydory especially for her luxury card collection: 'pretty peacock'
• hunkydory little book of especially for her
• teal & silver mirri card
• a sheet of hunkydory cardstock I had spare from another set
• my favourite things: stitched rectangle scallop edge frames die set
• 7x7", 5x7" & 3 A5 card blanks

For this 7" square card, I cut the background to fit the card blank with a matt of teal mirri card, trimming off the top border. I then positioned the topper in the centre of the top section. I placed the message on the border beneath the topper. I completed the card with a trimmed down matching insert, which I will later stamp with a sentiment.

 

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For the 5x7" card, I used the remaining cardstock to matt directly onto the card blank. I then die cut a frame from teal mirri card. I trimmed down a page from the little book to sit inside the frame and glued these onto the card. I cut down the insert to decorate the inside with an image and sentiment.

 

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For the first A5 card, I used half a sheet of cardstock and positioned an image and sentiment topper on using foam. Again, I added a section of insert inside ready to add a message onto. 



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For this A5 card, I trimmed the image from the remainder of the card above to use as a topper. I framed this with die cut teal mirri card. I used more mirri card to matt onto the card blank before adding a sheet of coordinating cardstock. I glued down the topper and completed the design with a sentiment border across the bottom.  The insert used the same image along with a message to finish off the inside of the card.

 

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The last A5 card used the rest of the coordinating cardstock along with a page from the little book. I simply matted each onto silver mirri and glued to the card blank. I completed the inside with an insert which echoed the borders on the topper image.

 

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 I love the pretty images in this collection, so I was pleased to make five good sized cards to make the most of it by adding a few extra bits from my stash.

 

I would like to enter the following challenge:

simon Monday says: happy birthday

 

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yellow roses

• DCWV fresh floral stack 12x12" paper pad
• sentimentally yours 'elegant milestone birthdays' stamp
• do crafts papermania stamp set (mum stamp...lost the packaging so I cant be certain)
• archival 'sepia' ink pad
• 7x7" kraft card blank

I chose this paper as the focal point for the card. I fussy cut the flowers and leaves from the background to fit the card front, making sure they remained connected as one piece. I took the remaining paper for the background and trimmed this to size as a matt on the card front. I then stamped the paper with the two sentiments, carefully positioned to sit together with the floral paper cut piece. Once the pieces were ready, I glued the paper flat onto the card blank, then added the flowers using foam pads to create dimension. It's fiddly work to fussy cut an image like this, but I think the results feel special enough to be a worthwhile celebration for a special someone's big birthday!

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monster mash

• hunkydory tots to teens luxury card collection: monster mash
• hunkydory tots to teens little book
• 2 x A5 card blanks
• holographic mirri card

 

For this card, I cut the backing cardstock down to fit the card front. I then added the layers of decoupage to the topper, using foam to create dimension. I added the topper to the card front along with a sentiment topper, both stuck down with foam pads. I completed the card with the matching insert, trimmed to fit in the card blank.

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For the other card, I used the remaining paper matted onto the card front. I layered a page from the little book onto holographic mirri card to create a topper. I placed this onto the card front with a sentiment topper from the monster mash collection. I added the other half of the insert onto the inside to finish the card.

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I still have a sheet of cardstock and the matching insert leftover from this collection. As these are just confetti with no monsters, I thought they could be used either with the little book or for other projects, so they have been added to my stash to use later on.

 

I would like to enter: simon says 'food and drink'  

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