Lucky For Some - Daring Cardmakers Challenge

Happy Friday 13th!!!!

Phew! I cut it fine this week as I've had the most Mothers' Day card orders ever so have been super busy with those.

So tell me are you superstitious?  I'm not in the slightest!  The Daring Cardmakers are balancing unlucky Friday 13th with the luck of the Irish as it's St Patrick's Day on Tuesday.  I had to research this one and found out in my studies that bamboo is lucky in the Chinese culture.  Luckily (Ha!) I had the perfect stamp set to fit the challenge!

I used the Time for Tea Designs Pandemonium stamp and die set along with a couple of die sets.

I cut and coloured lots of bamboo and leaves with my Chameleon markers and as a background I used the Time for Tea Quilted Square Die set which makes for the perfect backdrop for the panda.

You can see lots more inspiration and join in with the challenge HERE.  If you fancy any of the products I've used you can get 10% off using my code T4TSHABNEEZ10 at checkout on Time for Tea Designs.

Have a lovely weekend,
Shabneez

Products Used:
*Time for Tea Designs Pandamonium Stamp & Die Set
*Time for Tea Designs Quilted Square Nesting Dies
Time for Tea Designs Smile Sentiment & Scalloped Die Set
Chameleon Markers
Everything else from my stash

*Gifted as part of the Time for Tea Designs DT

It's those penguins again........ - Tubby Craft DT Tutorial

Happy Monday!

I'm sharing a couple of the new release Tubby Craft stencils in different ways.  As it's cold and nearing Christmas I thought I'd use those adorable penguins once again.

For my first card I had a brainwave to use the brick stencil to make ice bricks for my igloo!  Isn't it cute?  In order to make my igloo I die cut an igloo shape and used the Tubby Craft inks through it with a foam pad.

This is the result I got and I also die cut a smaller nested shape and inked it in the darker blue.

After colouring in my penguin and fussy cutting him I added to my card which I had backed with some glitter card to resemble snow.

For my next card I decided to do a fun shaker using artificial snow flakes.  To begin, I inked the stencil with blue to create a cloud background.

I then added the snow directly on to the background.

Finally I die cut a frame and added acetate to it and double sided foam tape them placed it over the snow and the background to create my shaker.

I added a sentiment and one of the coloured and fussy cut penguins to finish.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that you'll have a go at making some fun winter cards.

See you again soon!

Shabneez

Supplies Used:

Tubby Penguin Love Stamp Set

Tubby Craft Stencil 

Tubby Craft Stencil 

Tubby Craft Dye Ink – Jet Black

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Sapphire Blue

Tubby Craft Dye Ink - Aqua Blue

Dovecraft Artificial Snow

Time for Tea Scalloped Frame Die

Darice Glitter Card

Everything else from my stash

Natural, Gold & White - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

It's been a strange old week, I started off really productive then things started getting in the way so I wasn't able to achieve as much as I wanted to.  I had a horrible start to the day today though - a van veered my car on to the other side of the road.  This was on a main road but thankfully it was clear in the other direction.  It was so scary and I was shaking afterwards.  I've decided I'm buying a dash cam as driving is becoming increasingly hazardous.

Anyway, there's a lovey Christmas theme challenge just begun on the Daring Cardmakers - Natural, Gold and White.  I must admit initially I found it hard as I just had sooooo many ideas going on but settled on this one!

Earlier on in the week I was lucky enough to win a Papermill Direct prize draw and so I used the kraft card from that on my design.  I also used a newly purchased Stitched Sentiment & Scallped Frame Die from Time for Tea Designs which you can find HERE and it fits perfectly on a 6" x 4" card blank.  So many of the scallped frames are the American A2 size.  I also have a 10% off code so if you want to order the die set then you can use code T4TSHABNEEZ10.

The Merry Christmas sentiment die is a freebie Crafter's Companion one and the snowflakes are from the Trimcraft Simply Creative Range.  To finish, I added some Tonic Nuvo drops to add a little texture.  I hope you'll join in with the challenge and you can see more inspiration HERE.

I'm very much looking forward to this weekend as my current cycle of demos are over and tomorrow we are going to celebrate our neighbours' Ruby Wedding Anniversary with them.  The husband has organised a surprise for his wife and has ended up hiring an entire restaurant!

Have a wonderful weekend whatever you do and see you again soon,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Papermill Direct Kraft Card

Time for Tea Sentimen & Scalloped Frame Die Set

Darice Glitter Prints Paper

Simply Creative Snowflakes

Crafters Companion Sentiment Die

Tonic Nuvo Drops 

Everything else from my stash