Old(er) Papers

A couple of cards made using old(er) papers from stash;


Papers are (I think) K and Company and Sassafras Lass
Images are Tigerfrogg

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Holiday Festivities...

I used;
Cosmo Cricket papers,
Tigerfrogg Image,
Paperchase snowflakes
Doodlebug brads
Basic Grey ribbon
Martha Stewart punch

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Say it in Sepia

The lovely Lynda's turn to dare this week, with a fantastic dare to help get us all prepared for the after Christmas thank you cards;

I've been sorting through some "Old" family photographs with the intention of Scrapbooking them and I just love the Sepia ones. So I thought it would be nice to see a "Thank You" card made using "sepia" tones. So that's just brown/white or brown/cream depending on your card base colour. . We will all be needing "Thank You" cards after Christmas so that's why I chose that sentiment just to help us all get started.

I made this;


I used;
Papers and digi stamp from 2peas
Prima flower
Old Accucut die for the stem and leaf
Basic Grey letters
Stitching and inking.

The DCM DT have made beautiful cards using Sepia, you can check them all out here.
Today's Christmas card;


I used;
Cosmo Cricket papers
Basic Grey buttons
Paperchase stickers
October Afternoon rub ons
Tigerfrogg Image

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Favorite Things

Kathy set this week's dare - the 1st dare of the 4th year of Daring Cardmakers!

It's me (Kathy) here with a challenge this week and as we're still in celebratory mood I thought we should have as much fun as possible and make a card to share and show our most favourite crafting bits and pieces.

"These are a Few of My Favourite Things"

This is a chance to go mad with the papers, embellishments, tools and styles you really love to use.
I'd like you to use at least 5 of your own personal favourite things on your card this week - if you can make it 10 then you can claim our DCM Gold Star - virtual, of course lol.
If you can't bear to give it away when it's full of all those treasured goodies, then make the card for yourself - you can always stick it up on your wall and enjoy seeing it every day!

So me not reading the dare properly made a card with 5 of the same thing on, which are one of my favorites; buttons! I then read the dare properly and realised that there are at least 10 of my favorite things on the card - it all worked out ok in the end!


I used;
5 buttons - Basic Grey, Doodlebug, Scenic Route
Rub ons - Melissa Frances
Patterned paper - Doodlebug
Cardstock - Bazzill
Ink - Tseukineko
Eyelets - Papermania
String - Ikea
Kraft card
Ribbon - Bazzill
Flowers - Prima
Image - Tigerfrogg
Floss - DMC

Lythan set the last dare of our 3rd year of Daring Cardmakers last week;

I can see clearly now
and I would love to see something clear on your card. It could be an acetate card, an acetate embellishment, a window cut in the card, clingfilm, OHP sheet, Mirror fragments - anything that shows that your card is clearly one of the best!

Acetate and clear stuff not being one of my favorite things! I made this;


Using a card bag to make a big rosette style flower!
Cardstock - Doodlebug
Paper - Cosmo Cricket
Flowers - Sizzix (cut from vintage paper)
Gems - Karen Foster
Ink - Colorbox
Ribbon - May Arts
Letter Stickers - Jenni Bowlin

TFL :)

Away with the fairies

A dare this week chosen by our fabulous guest designer Gail;

Away with the Fairies -
and we'd like to see lots and lots of them on your cards this week



I used; a Tigerfrogg image, coloured using PS, October Afternoon and Scenic Route papers,Basic Grey brads and fibres, a Melissa Frances rub on, Bazzill cardstock, inking and stitching.

and a couple more cards and a tag;

Both made with October Afternoon papers;





and one made for the Moxie Fab Challenge



I used Recycled parcel paper, pages from a magazine, thread from an old cross stitch and an old book (after carefully checking on abebooks to see that it was not worth a fortune...!)

TFL :)

Good Times (and some cards too!)

Two really fantastic bits of news this week;

1)I made it into the Papercrafts Gallery Idol top 20! There were so many amazing cards entered into the auditions gallery, I am so excited that one of mine was chosen!

You can see all the fanastic entries here, and the top 20 announcement here :)

2)I made it through to the top 5 in the 2Sketches4You Ultimate Card Showdown!

a good week so far!

and some cards I have made this week;

I used Cosmo Cricket papers, Poppicrafts Ribbon, Docrafts letter stickers and die, Prima flowers.

I used Cosmo Cricket papers and Paperchase papers, Bo Bunny ribbon, Poppicraft flower, Basic Grey button, hand stitching and inking

A Christmassy one using more Cosmo Cricket papers, BG button, stash ribbon, cardboard box, Melissa Frances rub on and inking.


and a final one using (more) Cosmo Cricket papers, Tigerfrogg image, Doodlebug rub on, Prima flowers, Papermania and Bo Bunny ribbon and a paperclip.

TFL :)

2Sketches4You "Kazan's Sketch 18"

A little card made for Kazan's fabby sketch this week;


October Afternoon papers, Tigerfrogg and Tombats font images, Basic Grey brads, printed graph paper from here

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Nigella's Chocolate Fudge

Continuing the soon to be a tradition of giving teachers some yummy fudge, the boys were very busy in the kitchen this week.

This batch had a little change with the substitution of nuts and berries for pistachios. Recipe coming up, courtesy of Nigella :)

Spookiness

The boys celebrated Hallowe'en by becoming vampiric and zombified.






Josh was really thrilled as he won a 'best costume' prize at the party that they both went to and I made some tags...

and a quick spooky card...

TFL :)

Spooktastic!

A few halloween cards, tags and toppers....
Images are from Tigerfrogg
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A few cards....

A couple of cards made with the new Papermania Naughty & Nice papers they are Christmas papers but work fantastically well for lots of other occasions...


and a card made for one of Jared's little friends using Rock star digi kit by Dani Mogstad


TFL :)

Cards with a certain a-Peel (off)

Lythan's dare this week....

So go on, rummage around in your craft stash and....

Make a card with Peel Offs

(!)

So my (slightly) tongue in cheek card.....



Basic grey everything I think apart from the peel offs and the text which was printed.

Christmas in June

Aha! my turn to set the dare this week and I decided to go all festive and set a nice Christmas themed dare (yup I know 'tis only June...)



Basic Grey Sultry, Cuttlebug embossing, Doodles, Hobbycraft ribbon, Printed '{Proper Chrimbo}' sentiment.

and this was my little extra this week - using the theme of wood...



Wood effect paper, Doodlebug card and flowers, printed sentiment.

and finally, a card made with Doodley Dillon...



The doodles are not mine - but I do know the person that made them.... :) Scenic Route Papers, Doodlebug ric rac and brad.

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Happy Bird-day!

A commissioned card that fits in rather nicely with Clare's challenge to make a card using something new - I used Bazzill Just the Edge cardstock for the scallops which is new to me, Doodlebug paper with added doodling a la Lythan, a Doodleydoo birdie, Rebekah's Birthday font, MM rub ons, Prima flowers and a from the range.

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10th Anniversary...

This week's Little Extra...
And its for 10 years.
Now there is a choice for this one.... Tin/Aluminum or Diamond Jewellery
Hmmm which would you choose?

^^ I went for both....


Robot from here, colourised using Photoshop, Basic Grey and Doodlebug rub ons, Prima flowers, Docraft brads and Scenic Route papers. 'Better than real Diamond' Bling added with little adhesive gems.


More Robots, faux stitches, Ikea paper string, and a washer ('tis definitely tin for the purposes of this dare)...

TFL :)

Dino and Love Bones

There is a fab challenge on the go over at CBC asking for something fake on a card...

Both have 'faux' stitching and the Skully Love Bones are made from fake chipboard...



Dino from here MM + Doodlebug rub ons, Queen and Co brads, and of course faux stitching...



Faux chipboard skulls are my own design die, Doodlebug and KI Memories papers, Primas, printed sentiment, faux stitching...

TFL :)

A Little Bit of Lace

I made this card for the little extra this week...
A card incorporporating lace or textiles or fur...


Basic Grey, paper lace from the Range, free chameleon image from here coloured in Photoshop, Doodlebug rub ons and printed sentiment.

TFL :)

Doodley Doo Birdies

Following on from this weeks's dare card, made a few more cards incorporating birdies...

Papers are K & Co, Brad and Flower from the Range, Queen & Co Mini Brads, faux pen stitching.

Bazzill White card, scallops made with punched circles, doodled border and poundland gems.

The birds are downloaded from here

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Quoted by...

This weeks dare....

This week we'd like to introduce our new DCM Guest Designer - Jozza This is her first dare and a fantastic job she's done too. Jozza will be with us for the month of June.
The most brilliant Jane this week has dared us all to include a quote on our card. Stamped, Computer Generated or Rub Ons it doesn't matter and choose your own style or occasion.

Random left over papers - Basic Grey, Doodlebug, Bazzill, Papermania, Computer generated sentiment, Primas, DCWV brad, peel offs, Ribbon recycled from an ages old wedding favour....

TFL!