Harvest Home - Daring Cardmakers Design Team

Friday Greetings!

It's my turn to choose a challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers and I have gone with 'Harvest Home' - the boys have a Harvest Festival at school today and I'd like to see any fruit, vegetables or grains on your card.  I've made a couple of cards because I wanted to make full use of a Spellbinders stamp and die set that I recently won which happens to fit in with the challenge!

For my first card I stamped and heat embossed a stitched circle and the sentiment before making up the pea pods and adding a couple of extra peas near the sentiment!

For my second card I stamped a paint effect background and made up the carrots, adding the stamped sentiment.

They are simple cards but I think they really show the dies off well.  

You can see more inspiration over on the blog HERE - they certainly made me feel hungry!  I hope you'll play along as I'd love to see your interpretations on the challenge.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Spellbinders Peas and Carrots Stamp & Die Set

Nuvo Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

All Adhesives from Stix 2 Anything

Everything else from my stash

Welcome to Wonderland - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

It's Svenja's turn to host the new challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog today and she's chosen Alice in Wonderland as her theme.  I went all out on my inspirational card using a famous quote from the book together with the Queen of Hearts and the white rabbit which feature in the book.  

Fortunately, I had all the items in my stash apart from the white rabbit which was a free digi stamp that I inked and coloured the hearts to make them pop a little.  The clock was part of a free stamp set from a magazine and I used perfect pearls on it after heat embossing and added a peel off resembling a chain which I coloured in black.  I admit I almost used a Lego chain my son offered to make for me!

It was such a fun card to create and a great challenge.  Please take a look at the DT cards and join in the fun HERE.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, whatever you're doing!
Shabneez

Products Used:
Rangers Perfect Pearls
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Adhesives from Stix 2 Anything
Tonic Embossing Powder
Versamark Ink
Everything else from my stash

Paper Straws - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

We took the boys with us to vote yesterday as they had already been doing some work on voting at school.  My eldest was not impressed that nobody won this morning.

Over on the Daring Cardmakers blog, Dawn has set the challenge this week to use paper straws.  We have loads of straws in the house but they're all plastic and although I can see my boys using them on their projects I thought they looked a little cheap for mine.......so I made my own!

I'm still on the Father's Day theme although a little more grown up this time.  However, I did have fun spraying the background and making my own straws!  I thought it would be a fun activity to do with the boys in the holidays.

I heat embossed the wooden frame to give it a glossy sparkly look and used foam stars and sequins to embellish.

You can see all the wonderful inspiration my fellow DT members have created HERE.  I hope you'll join in!

Enjoy your weekend,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Heidi Swapp Color Shine Spritz

Tonic Nuvo Embossing Glitter Powder

Versamark Watermark Ink Pad

Docrafts Mr Mister Paper Pad

All Adhesives from Stix 2

Everything else from my stash

All That Glitters Is Not Gold! - Daring Cardmakers Challenge DT

Happy Friday!

I'm all excited as it's the first time I set a challenge on the Daring Cardmakers!  Of course, it wouldn't be a challenge for me unless it had had some bling and sparkle in it would it?  So, I went with a glitter theme - use as much as you can and make it sparkle!

I decided to make an unconventional wedding card.  I recently bought a new Dovecraft sentiment stamp that I was itching to use so I heat embossed it in black glitter embossing powder to begin with.

I used glitter washi tape in different colours and widths and die cut flowers from glitter card, using my beloved Fiskars heart punch for the black glitter hearts.

It's been a glorious couple of days weather wise and although it's wet and miserable today at least it's not cold.  I, on the other hand, have been suffering with a cold - thank goodness for the cold and flu pills!

Hope you'll join in with the challenge HERE and have a wonderful weekend!
Shabneez

Products Used:
Tonic Nuvo Embossing Powder
Versamark Ink Pad
Dovecraft Painted Blooms die set
Dovecraft Sentiment stamp
Trimcraft First Edition Sweet Nothings paper pad
Fiskars medium heart punch
All cardstock and adhesive from Stix 2 Anything
Everything else from my stash

May Elemental Challenge - Daring Cardmakers

Happy Friday!

The first Friday of the month means an elemental challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers.  My inks and heat embossing are making an appearance again for this one! I made a background using the distress inks and die cut the butterfly.  The butterfly came with a thinlit which I cut and used to to place over the the inked butterfly like a stencil.  I then used the versamark on it and heat embossed it.  I love the sparkly effect you get with the Tonic Nuvo Glitter Embossing power.

I'm going to personalise the card for my son's classmate whose party is tomorrow.  Well, who doesn't love a glittery butterfly?!  I'm sure she'll love it!

Below is the the fabulous mood board Joanne chose.  I love the colours and all the different elements.  You have to choose at least 3 of the elements for the challenge.  I chose the pattern from the socks (embossing folder), the colours and the butterfly.

There's lots more inspiration from the DT members HERE so I hope you'll join in!

Enjoy the weekend,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Sizzix Butterfly Thinlit

Sizzix Butterfly Die

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Tonic Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

Unbranded Stamp

Craftwork Cards Sentiment

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Stix 2 Anything Adhesives