LPoCF #176

 Hello again, 

Today brings us to an all new Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are being sponsored by Joy Clair Designs

Joy Clair Designs 

Prize 1 Digital Stamp set

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Joy Clair Designs gave the Design Team Just Butterflies set to work with. I have used one butterfly and one sentiment from the set to create a Thank you card, the butterfly was coloured using Derwent Pencils and the sentiment was coloured with an embossing pen and heat embossed in gold.

Here is my card:-

I made a second card as a birthday card adding a sentiment from Clearly Besotted and  some die cut rings, not sure what is happening with the photo, the design paper is much more purple irl. 

What I used:-

Joy Clair Just Butterflies Digi set

White cardstock

Kraft Au A6 card blank 14.8x10.5

14cm square card blank

Derwent coloured pencils 

Circle, pierced circle and scalloped circle dies

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Brown brads

Flowers from stash

Gold thread

Orange, silver and white scrap papers

Cocoa and purple colorbox inkpad

Clear embossing pen

Gold and Clear embossing powder

Paper Rose Nesting rectangle dies

Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiment stamp

Adhesive Pearls and gems

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and PVA glue

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Thank you card

CCC Digi Creations #133 Things with Wings

Crafts Galore Encore (anything goes)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge (anything goes)

Birthday card

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog (anything goes)

Seize the Birthday (anything goes)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Japanese Inspired

 Hello again

Highly unusual for me to post twice in two days! I have a friend who has a Japanese daughter-in-law and asks me to create a card especially for her each year. I have been looking online and discovered a handmade card using Japanese papers which have been padded. I have gone fairly basic with my card and added an embossed background which is also seen in the patterned paper. A further search suggests this technique is called Japanese Padded Paper Quilting here is a link to another blogger Christine where I read about the technique.

Inside each square is a smaller square of cardstock which I attached a very thin layer of quilt batting, about 1/3 the usual thickness of the batting. I then wrapped the patterned paper around and stuck the paper edges onto the back. A little like covering school books.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Embossing folder
Gold paper 
white cardstock
Couture Creations 'Asian Wave' Embossing folder
Japanese paper squares
Stitched square dies
thin layer of quilt batting
Mystery Sentiment stamp 
Clear embossing ink 
Gold embossing powder

I would like to enter this card in:-

Can you Handle the Pressure 1st Challenge use Pink

Daisy Chain Challenge For the Girls

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes 

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday Challenge Anything goes optional sparkle and shine (the patterned paper has a sheen and the gold layer is metallic, you cannot really tell in the photo though)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Rockin' Robins

 Hello again,

Well, we are still enjoying a wet summer here in Aus, our dams are full to over flowing. Having allergy to environmental moulds is no fun during Covid, my doctor tells me that so long as I don't have any other symptoms of Covid I am safe to go about my business. 

During the most recent wet spell I got my Christmas gifts out and made six cards with paper pieced robins, all the scraps came from my scrap bags and boxes, I had intended to stamp the included sentiment in the top corner but for some reason the embossing powder did not stick, so covered up my mistake with little signs.

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-

10x21cm card blanks
white card stock
Woodware stamp Robin Stack clear stamp
Brown, red, orange, and green paper scraps
Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad
Clear embossing ink
Gold embossing powder
Scraps of kraft paper, narrow strips design papers
white loose glitter 
Double sided tape, Helmars tacky craft glue
single hole punch (conveniently fit the size of the berries)

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #581 Cute

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Optional Snowflakes

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything goes optional hearts

Snippets Playground #421 Anything goes with snippets

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week... 
Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment. I truly appreciate them all!!!