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Monday, 2 June 2025

Something Fishy



Hello and welcome to my blog. Today we begin a new challenge at Make My Monday, Guylaine has chosen #253 Somthing Fishy. I so love this title, there are many ways to include fish in our craft world, I think the design team have shown this in their inspirational cards. Please visit the blog to see them. 

For my card, I started with a white 6" card, I folded the front page back, to create a Fold back card or maybe called a 'Z' fold card. I mounted black card on the half piece and the back page. The following papers/card added are from a Hunkydory Sporting Silhouettes design kit. I added 3 small square gems to complete. I hope you enjoy the challenge. 


 

Sunday, 1 June 2025

Include the word 'Merry'.


Hello and welcome to my blog. Today we begin our Sparkles Christmas Challenges for the month of June. Do you feel as thought the year is going SO fast? They say as you get older the years go faster. Melanie has chosen for our challenge #173 Include the word 'Merry' on your project. To see the wonderful inspiration from the design team, please visit the blog. 

I began with a white 6" scallop edge card. From the long strip of Snowmen on the 'Snow People' stamp by Woodware, I masked off the lower two and stamped the upper three. I drew a rectangle around the stamped image and cut out all the white background, leaving only the snowmen. These were coloured with Promarkers. Lots of Sparkly Glamour dust was added. There is a blue insert to provide a colourful background, which can be see throught the gaps in the panel. The sentiment including the word Merry for the challenge is a die cut. 

 



Dragonfly Dreams - One or More Butterflies


 Hello and welcome to my  blog. Today a new challenge begins over at Dragonfly Dreams.  Claudia has chosen for the month of June - Butterflies - One or More. To see the remainder of the desisgn team's inspiration please visit the blog. 

I began with a white 6" base card. The mat is a piece of sillky silver Mirri card, I then added a further mat of blue glitter card. For the topper I began with a sheet from a Hunkydory Little Book -  Butterfly Jewels.This was added onto a piece of silver Mirri card.  Each butterfly has two additional layers added to the original sheet. These are all decoupaged with 2d- 3d  foam strips. Silver Stickles glitter has been added to the thorax of each of them. I further added pale blue gem stones to the navy border and a few sprinkled onto the topper. The sentiment is added inside. 

Masculine at Pearly Sparkles




Hello and welcome to my blog. Today we begin a new challenge at 


Our challenge for June, chosen by Cass will be Masculine. 

For my card, I folded a backing sheet from a Hunkydory Dapper Chap collection of toppers and backing sheets. I made it into a fold back card, The topper was added with foam pads to the front section, along with a circle topper - Vintage Barber Shop. Inside their is a circle topper with Happy Birthday. This type of fold back card is complete, a base card is not required. It fdits nicely into a 7" x 5" envelope. 


 

Friday, 30 May 2025

D is for Dogs


 Hello and welcome to my blog. Today we begin a new challenge at Alphabet Challenges. It being my turn in the design team to choose the theme, I have chosen D is for Dogs.  To see the design team's inspiration please visiti the blog. If this is your first introduction to the Alphabet Challenges, please do visit us again, our challenges can be entertaining, fun and of course creative provided by a wonderful team. 

For my card, I began with a 7" scallop edge white card. I added a pink card for the base. I then arranged a kennel, small picket fence and of course the wonderful six die cut dogs. These were a gift to me, a few years ago and this is a wonderful opportunity to use them. The sentiments are from a Hunkydory set of stamps - I hope you enjoy the challenge.


Thursday, 29 May 2025

Floral Frenzy


 Hi, welcome to my blog. Today we begin a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz. Helen, from the design teram, has chosen #251 Floral Frenzy, there just can't be enough flowers. To see the design team's inpiration and different styles please visit the blog. 

For my card, I based it on a 7" sq. card. I randomley added Hunkydory Flower tiles of  'Beautiful Blooms' Topper Tiles on the card, then cut off all the pieces over the edge of the card. This gave me a background of a Frenzy of Flowers. The main topper is 6" x 4" topper from the same set, mounted onto a silver mirri card. I added a purple bow and a die cut sentiment. Stay well and safe.

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Shades of Blue


 Hello and welcome to my blog. Today at Cardz 4 Guyz we begin our new challenge. Melanie from the design team has chosen #373 Shades of Blue. To see the remainder of the team's inspiration, please visit the blog. 

I began with a 5" x  7" inches card, covered with a lovely shade of blue for the mat. To this I added a panel consisting of a silver mirri background for a sheet of a seascape from a Little Book of Nautical Moments by Hunkydory. I cut this into three pieces, making it into a triptych. The centre panel has an extra layer added wiith 3d foam pads. The sitting seagull has been decoupaged. A sentiment was added.