Summertime

Hi, hope your feeling well, in good spirits and busy crafting.

Today begins a two week challenge at My Time To Craft

Monika has chosen  Summertime.

I believe we in the UK are going to have a few days of

summer to look forward to over the next week.

Please check out the blog to see the lovely projects by the DT.

My card was created using print outs from Halcyon Days CD.

Artist Abigail Mills - by Crafter's Companion, 

I have added the bunting. Hope you enjoy the challenge. 

By The Seaside

Hi everyone, today starts a new weekly challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz.

The  challenge chosen by Jan is By The Seaside.

Please check out the wonderful creations by the Design Team.

I had great fun making my card for the DT gallery.

By no means could this be called a quick card, but you know 

when you just go along and the ideas keep flowing? It just kept

growing and growning.

I started with an 8" sq card.

I used three blue shades of TH Distress Inks, patted onto an 

A4 piece of watercolour paper. Sprayed all over with water. Allowed

it to form the globules of coloured water. Placed the A4 paper

over onto the inks, Dried with my heat tool, repeated the process

several times. This formed my background for both panels. 

The larger panel on the right was enhanced adding printed

beach huts, greetings and bunting from Crafter's Companion CD Halcyon Days.

The left panel was enhanced using all stamps from Sweet Desire 

Lighthouse, yachts and birds. The lighthouse and yachts were 

stamped again, coloured with Promarkers and decoupaged onto the panel. 

Both panels edged with Black Soot  DI, matted onto black card. 

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Quilted Fun

For the next two weeks  CD Sunday Challenges  are challenging you to create some Quilted Fun. Please pop over to the blog to check out the guidelines and few rules we have. We would like to see something quilted, as long as you have used a CD to provide part or all of your project. For my DT inspirational card, I have printed the background sheet of pink dotty paper from the Dreamees Rain or Shine CD, I find this an invaluable recource for beautiful coloured background papers. The main image is from Halycon Days by Crafter's Companions. I decoupaged the cakes , added some bunting. I drew a sewn effect where the main image joined the backing paper to provide an extra quilted layer. Have fun everyone with this real fun challenge, I am so looking forward to seeing what you all create.