Say It Loud - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

I have a man down today - a cold but he seems to be suffering so a bit of rest and TLC and he'll be fine for Monday hopefully!

This week the Daring Cardmakers would like to see you use words as your focal point - the bolder the better!  I used one of my favourite birthday dies on my card and used the negative to make a shaker.  

The background was one I had in my stash.  It was a mop up from another project I had done and I thought it worked really well with this simple underwater scene.

The little turtle is just so cute and I coloured him up with my chameleon pens and added a party hat from the same set.  To finish I added a speech bubble with a fun sentiment.

You can see lots more inspiration from my fellow DT HERE and I hope you'll join in.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and see you next week,

Shabneez 

Products Used:

Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday die

Heffy Doodle Shellabrate Stamp & Die Set

Chameleon Pens

Distress Oxide Inks

CrafTangles sequins

Everything else from my stash

 

Catmas Crackers - Time for Tea Designs DT

Happy Wednesday!

I am sharing a cracker of a card today - ha!!!!  It's using products from the new Time for Tea Designs release and I had a lot of fun creating it!

I decided to make a shaker card as in my head I could see lots of sparkles coming out of the cracker when the cats pulled it.  The frame is also cut out of glitter card as you can never have too much sparkle on a Christmas card can you?!

My images were stamped and coloured using my Chameleon pens and then die cut with the co-ordinating dies.  The background is made up of a sheet from the new Winter Wonderland paper pad.

As ever, you can get 10% off all these products and anything else in store using my code T4TSHABNEEZ10.  There are a lot of deals on bundles from the new release.

See you again soon!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Winter Wonderland Paper Pad

Time for Tea Designs Catmas Crackers Stamp & Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Zig Zag Frame & Tags Die Set

Tonic Nuvo Sequins

Chameleon Pens

Dovecraft Glitter Card

Everything else from my Stash

Shake It! - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

How has your week been? Good I hope.  We had a trip to A&E earlier in the week with my little one but thankfully everything is fine.  It was a surreal experience seeing everyone with masks but the practices in place certainly made you feel safe.

The Daring Cardmakers Challenge this week is entitled 'Shake it!' and I do love a shaker card as they are fun.  I'd been meaning to use my rainbow shaker die which I teamed with unicorns. 

I used distress oxide through my stencil to create my whimsical background.  My images were stamped and coloured in using my Chameleon pens.  This time I didn't add anything more to them as I wanted the rainbow to be the focal point.  The only other additions I made were a couple of stamped and die cut clouds and a sentiment.

I filled my shaker with a mixture of seed beads and sequins as I didn't have any sequins small enough for the two smallest arches of the rainbow die.

You can see lots more inspiration for the challenge 

Have a lovely weekend!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Time for Tea Designs Rainbow Mini Shaker Die

Time for Tea Designs Storms Don't Last Forever Stamp & Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Say Anything Stamp Set

Everything else from my stash

Mad March Hare - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

Have you missed me?!  Even though I only missed a week of blogging it feels like forever.......I've had a lot of work on and many miles of travel so it's been a bit tiring.

Joanne has set the challenge this week for the Daring Cardmakers and has chosen the Mad March Hare as her title.  She'd like to see a rabbit or a hare on your creation or even some form of hair would do........  There is a lot of inspiration from my fellow DT members HERE.

I've gone down the cute route using a Darice cut and emboss die for the rabbit.   In fact all the dies are Darice and the 'Celebrate' has been cut out of gold glitter card.  The heart aperture that I turned into a balloon by drawing the string has been filled with a bead mix.

I think the embossing really gives the rabbit definition on the ears and back, don't you?  A simple shaker creation but it's a definite favourite of mine.

I have a Sunday off before another Trimcraft demo next week which I am very much looking forward to.

See you again on Tuesday!
Shabneez

Products Used:
Darice Sentiment Dies
Darice Forest Friends Die Set
Darice Nesting Hearts Dies
Stix 2 Anything Seed Bee'd and Fine Glitter
Everythng else from my stash

Pastel Valentines Collection

Happy Weekend!

It's been a great week and I'm really looking forward to having no deadlines this weekend for a change.  I even managed a day off in the week and met up with a very dear friend of mine who I've known for about 15 years now - it was a novelty walking around the shops and having a leisurely lunch before the school run.

I'm up on the CrafTangles blog today with a collection of pastel Valentine cards.  I don't know about you but I tend to associate red with Valentines and fancied trying something a little different.

For all the cards I designed I used distress inks in soft shades to make my backgrounds with a variety of love themed stencils by CrafTangles.

I added die cut shapes to stamp my sentiments on - all with black ink to make them pop!

For my final card I decided to make a shaker using a nesting die set and I think it's my favourite.  I'd love to know which yours is.

So there you have it - a collection of pastel Valentine cards all ready to be posted!  There is a more in depth tutorial of how I made these cards on the CrafTangles blog HERE. 

I hope you have a good weekend whatever you do!

Shabneez

Products Used:

CrafTangles XOXO Stencil

CrafTangles Heart Mesh Stencil

CrafTangles Quilted Hearts Stencil

CrafTangles I Love You Stamp Set

CrafTangles Love Story Stamp Set

CrafTangles Valentines Day Stamp Set

CrafTangles Cupcake Pink Sequins

Distress Inks in Cracked Pistachio, Shaded Lilac and Milled Lavender

Versafine Black Ink

Sizzix Stitched Oval Dies by Tim Holtz

Everything else from my stash

Magic & Sparkle

Happy Saturday!

Half term is in full swing here with one week down and another to go!  We've been out and about with my parents so the boys and I have been thoroughly spoilt!

I'd like to share a card I made at a recent demo at The Range for Trimcraft. I used all the elements from the Magic & Sparkle range.  It's a beautiful range as the paper pad has a lot of foiled and glittered sheets so half the job is done for you!

I used the torn edge dies to create the base for the shaker part of the card. 

I'm loving gold and silver doilies - perfect for Christmas crafting!  My other current love is that of washi tape. I can never have enough - it's so useful and I think I've sold it to those who stopped at my demos too!

From next week my blogging will be back on track as I will be on the Daring Cardmakers Blog as Guest Design Team member.  I would also like to enter this card into this week's DCM Challenge - Sparkle & Shine as I'm sure you'll agree there's a fair bit of it in this card. Join in with the challenge
here.

Enjoy the weekend,
Shabneez xxx

Products Used:
Trimcraft Magic & Sparkle range
Trimcraft Washi Tape
Trimcraft Metallic Cards
Trimcraft Doilies

First Edition Torn Edge Dies