A Fitting Wedding Card

 

We're half way through Time Out Challenge 261 and as this card I just finished for a friend works for this challenge, I thought I'd share it with you today!   

Challenge #261 is all about this quote

"I'm a romantic!  I live for long, dreamy walks down the craft aisle"!

An Inspired By Words challenge works exactly as you would expect - you take the words from the featured quote and use them to inspire your creation!   You can use one word, multiple words or just the general idea of the quote.  Whereas my previous card focused on the word "Craft", this card focuses on the words "Romantic" and "Aisle".  

I used a jigsaw die (Stampin Up Love You To Pieces) to emboss a piece of white card stock (using a tan embossing mat), which I then cut down with a heart die.  You lose a little of the detail from the embossing by doing it in this order but I prefer to have the rounded edged of the die cut rather than the ragged edges from the embossing.  I then used the puzzle die to cut three more puzzle pieces from cream card stock and one from black.  I cut a v in the top of the black piece and added it to one of the cream pieces.  Then I stacked the other two pieces, added pearls along the "neckline" and the two pieces fit together perfectly.

The names of the bride and groom and the wedding date were cut from gold paper with Gummiapan Alphabet and Number sets - I really love the quirkiness of the font ...  and the size!  

I liked the design so much I made up some others without names for an upcoming market in June!  They can always be personalised as needed!

How do these words inspire you and where do they lead your imagination?  We hope you can take Time Out of your busy schedule to come play cards with us!   

I'd like to join these fabulous challenges

AAA Card Challenges #263 - Wedding/Anniversary Card;

Die Traumfabrik Challenge #127 - They cloned Tyrone is the featured film and my card uses the same puzzle piece with one turned 90º);

Crafty Chicks Challenge #712 - Week 3 CAS;

NBUS Challenge #61 - NBUS Love You To Pieces set!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate

Cuppa Love

Challenge #161 has just gone live at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge and I thought I'd make a Christmas brew for this challenge - who doesn't love a cup of hot steaming Joe on a Christmas morning!  I cut one of the layers from a Christmas print vellum that I've had in stash for way too long.  I also recycled some gold foiled paper from a box of chocolates that was too pretty to throw out.

The "sending" was cut from brown card stock and gilded with gilding wax.   The other words (WMS Sewing Box Christmas) were stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa and overstamped with Brilliance Galaxy Gold, then cut with nested stitched rectangles (using the partial die cutting technique so the words fitted perfectly).

The Cup of Love set is new so I'd like to enter NBUS Challenge #61!

I'd also like to enter these fab challenges

Caffeinated Christmas Challenge for April - Coffee or Cocoa;

Kraft Chicks Challenge Week 3 - Christmas;

Ellibelle's Craft Wednesday April Challenge - Anything Goes;

Dragonfly Dreams April Challenge - Use a die;

Sweet Stamping Challenge - Earth Day (recycled gold wrapper) and stamped sentiment!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate

Living in a Material World!

 

Not quite what Madonna had in mind when she penned Material Girl perhaps, but perfect for a good friend of mine who likes to sew!   

Perfect for Challenge #261 at Time Out Challenges as well because this fortnight we have an Inspired By Words Challenge with this little quote which will no doubt appeal to anyone who loves shopping for new stash!

"I'm a romantic!  I live for long, dreamy walks down the craft aisle"!

Definitely guilty here - I sometimes think my love of card making comes a close second to my real hobby of buying new dies, stamps and interesting papers!  

An Inspired By Words challenge works exactly as you would expect - you take the words from the featured quote and use them to inspire your creation!   You can use one word, multiple words or just the general idea of the quote.  For example you could choose the word "romantic" or the phrase "down the aisle" and make a wedding card!  Please explain how you were inspired - especially if it isn't obvious!

 This fortnight we are generously being sponsored by Doodle Bugs and they are offering our Top Pick as chosen by the design team a very generous $25 store credit and our Top Pick will also be invited to Guest Design with us in a future challenge.  

Speaking of guest designers, we're joined this challenge by the very talented Milla of Mustesormi as our guest!  Be sure to check out her gorgeous interpretation of our quote as well as the rest of the team on the Time Out Blog!

How do these words inspire you and where do they lead your imagination?  We hope you can take Time Out of your busy schedule to come play cards with us! 

Naturally, my penchant for shopping for stash inspired me to create a birthday card for a good friend of mine who also likes to go shopping for stash - although her addiction is to fabric and wool!  

These dies are all Gummiapan - most of the elements were cut multiple times, snipped apart and stacked up to create dimension.  I cut the table and shelf from Kraft card stock and added gilding wax - there were 4 layers to the table!  I cut the sewing machine from black and added gilding wax so that it resembled my mum's old black and gold Singer machine.  The bolts of fabric were cut from Kraft and again from snippets of patterned paper (I just snipped away the end bits of the patterned papers and overlaid them onto the Kraft).  "FABRIC" was cut from Kraft and then again from one of the patterned papers I used for the bolts of fabric.  The die I used for the floor boards doesn't cut through - you can snip it away easily enough, but I thought it was enough detail to ground the scene and I preferred to leave the whole background white. 

After assembling my elements and creating a little scene I was at a loss for something to say - I know, not like me at all!   So I went through all my sentiment stamps to find something (other than a plain boring "Happy Birthday") that might work.  I was about to go with "Make Today Great" when I spotted this sentiment from the Verve Cupcake set - the set includes a bunch of sayings that can be used with the word Cupcakes (or it's related sets Coffee and Chocolate) and I realised all I needed to do was spell out fabric and it would be perfect!  

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight vision, I should have placed the "FABRIC" on the floorboards - the top half is way too crowded!  

I'd like to enter the following Challenges

NBUS Challenge #61 -  NBUS Gummiapan dies - Sewing Machine, Sewing Accessories, Slim Table, Hanging Shelf;

Snippets Challenge #477 - Snippets of patterned papers used for the fabric bolts;

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge for April - Anything Goes;

Fab'n'Funky Challenge 593 - Add a Sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate

Deer Whittle Fallows

 

Challenge #160 has just gone live at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge and here is my DT card.

Last week, I found a pad of patterned vellum papers that I couldn't resist buying mainly because of this tartan one - I do love tartan for Christmas cards and I do love vellum!  I cut a frame from cream card stock using the two largest dies in the Pink Fresh Essentials Diagonal Stitched Rectangles set and laid it over the vellum and trimmed the excess which gave me a place to hide the adhesive so I could add it to the card base.  

The deer (Poppy Stamps Whittle Forest Deer) were cut from cream card stock and coloured with alcohol markers.  I cut just the noses from some brown card stock and added a little glossy accents to make them shine.  The heads were mounted on foam tape.  I would have loved to add the heads on wobble springs but the wobble springs I have were too large for the heads (I wonder if smaller ones are available 🤔)

I'd like to enter the following challenges

NBUS #61 - The Whittle Forest Deer are NBUS;

Crafty Animals Challenge #82 - Anything with Animals;

Alphabet Challenge Blog : Z is for Zoology;

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes;

Kraft Chicks Challenge KCC#709 - All Occasions;

Christmas Craft Creations March Challenge - Use Designer Paper;

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #55 - Anything Christmas Goes;

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #159 - Non-Traditional Colours;

Girls Creative Christmas Challenge #66 - Anything Christmas Goes!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate

My Little Unicorn

 

Challenge #260 has just gone live at  Time Out Challenges and this fortnight we challenge you to be 

Striped!

This challenge is generously being sponsored by Lawn Fawn and they are offering our Top Pick as chosen by the design teams a $25 credit to their store!  The Top Pick will also be invited to join Time Out as a guest designer in a future challenge!

Speaking of guest designers, we are joined this challenge by Karen our winner of Challenge 256!  If you're still stuck for ideas, Karen and the rest of the team have plenty of inspiration for you over on the Challenge Blog!

I cut a background panel from some candy stripe patterned paper, then cut an aperture using a WMS Pretty Circles die - which is exactly what I needed to provide a pretty focal space for my little unicorn scene and plenty of room for the stamped sentiment. 

I wanted to create a few of these unicorns for future projects (they're so darned cute) so I created a jig and cut some unicorns and fairies with Lawn Fawn A Little Sparkle Lawn Cuts from white card stock.  I then placed my jig in my stamping platform and aligned the matching stamps perfectly and stamped all the blanks I'd cut. 

I coloured the fairies' dresses and the unicorns mane, tail and hooves with some alcohol markers.  Then added a little sparkle with some glossy accents and glitter!

I stamped the sentiment from the set on the panel with black Memento ink and then again with Versamark (what would I do without a stamping platform) and embossed with a holographic embossing powder.

I wanted my aperture to be recessed, so I laid foam tape strips around the aperture and around the edges and a few other strategic places.  Then I cut some puffy clouds (Lawn Fawn Puffy Clouds Border) from some pink vellum and laid these across the base of the aperture so that they would be flat on the card base. Not sure why, but at the time I felt the sky should to be blue so I laid a circle of blue just large enough to cover the aperture and then attached the panel to the card base.  

Then I mounted my unicorn on a wobble spring and placed him on top of the clouds (which is why the clouds needed to be flat against the base) and placed the fairies around him.  Here he is in action

I'd like to enter My Little Unicorn into the following fabulous challenges

The Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge #3 - Anything Fantasy Goes;

Cut It Up Challenge #300 - Happy Birthday;

We Love Stamping March Challenge - Feminine;

Dragonfly Dreams March Challenge - Circles;

Colourful Options March 2024 Challenge - Rainbow Option!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your comments are always appreciated and always bring me joy and if you do leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate

Shake Your Tail Feather

 

If you read my last post you'll know I had one or two birds left over from false starts when creating a DT project for Challenge #259 at Time Out!

This is yet another bird!  But I noticed that Colour Hues Challenge #83 has a cream/blue theme and as this bird was cream and blue, I thought I'd have a go at making him into a card sooner rather than later ... I also needed a birthday card for my wonderful choir director hence the musical theme!

I used the same Spellbinder Cherry Blossom branch to give this little birdie somewhere to roost that I used for my last 2 birds ... what can I say it was already out and it remains one of my favourite branch dies despite being one of the first dies I ever bought!

I wanted to make this card a little special since it's going to someone very special so I mounted the birdie on a wobble spring which in turn gave me the idea for the sentiment!  I used the font "Are You Freakin' Serious" to create the sentiment and cut it with a speech bubble die from a Deco Time Set (which I've just realised is NBUS so I'd like to also enter NBUS Challenge #60)!

Here is the wobble spring in action!

I stamped the musical score background (Stempelwinkel) onto a piece of vellum.  I cut a frame using the two largest dies in the Pink Fresh Essentials Diagonal Stitched Rectangles set and laid it over the vellum score and trimmed the excess.  Then added this to the card base.  

Once I'd laid down the branch and my bird I added a smattering of quavers and the card was finished!

I'd also like to enter these fabulous challenges

The Card Concept Challenge #205 which has this lovely inspiration

The Four Seasons March Spring Challenge;

The Triple B (Birds/Blooms/Butterflies) March 2024 Challenge;

Crafty Animals Challenge #81!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and hopefully how to find you!

Kate