Daring Cardmakers Challenge 3 - Getting Corrugated

 

Here's the challenge:

My dare this week is to use some corrugated card on your card - it could be corrugated craft card or an old box etc. taken to pieces :) You could make the card blank from it or die cut shapes etc...

Here's my effort - a birthday card for a friend of mine who, you've guessed it, is called Jen. Unfortunately it was done in a bit of a rush so could be better finished! I've used corrugated card for the background circle cut with cloud scissors, the flowerpot and the mounting card for the sentiment (card all by The Papermill Shop).

Daring Cardmakers Challenge 2 - and CUT!

 

Well, this is probably the latest entry but here it is: my and CUT challenge for DCM this week - to make a card with something on it that you've handcut. Well I handcut both these two flower shapes and then mounted them to be one big flower. Pretty much as simple as cardmaking gets: it's made out of wrapping paper!

All quiet on the Northern front...

Told you I'd be quiet this week - due to a sojourn in the northern country. Have been getting some uni work done and planning some wedding stuff, including the wording on the invitations - whoever thought decisions about fonts could be so fascinating :)

I am very much looking forward to seeing my good friend Ruth from artful ramblings next week for an inspiration session as she is going to make my tiara and maybe some other wedding-related jewellery... check out her blog ORNAMENTAL to see her gorgeous creations!

My entry on Daring Cardmakers is gonna be pretty late this week as well, but I'm looking forward to having another go at it! Watch this space...

More baptism cards cont...

These are 2 commissions I made for a baptism tonight. The first picture is bad quality but I'll upload a better one when I get home (I'm away at the moment, so the posts might be few and far between this week!). Since these pictures were taken I added another butterfly to the right hand side of the red one to balance it up a bit! I'm pretty pleased with how these turned out. More importantly, the baptism was brilliant!

Contents: CraftsUdo ribbon, Hobbycraft mulberry paper, papers from The Papermill Shop, Woodware butterfly, dragonfly and circle punches, etc. etc.!

More baptism cards

More it's up to you!

 

 

Here's a couple I made last night... I'm really happy with them, they were pretty simple to make too. The centres of the flowers are hole punched out of silver, gold and red card; even the mundane hole punch can make pretty things!

Contents: Dovecraft paper, Die cuts with a View mulberry paper, papers from The Papermill Shop, Woodware flower punch.

Christmas Card 2

 

Here is another Christmas card... I am now rationing myself to making 1 card per day and only after I have read my dose on Thatcherism for my dissertation. I really don't like this card that much, I'm posting it to see if it's just my taste it doesn't appeal to, or everyone else's as well! It's just too "busy" - sometimes I think my cards are too bare so I tried to redress the balance but I think I've overcompensated! Anyway, let me know what you think.

Contents: Woodware snowflake and circle punches, green card from The Papermill Shop, green ribbon from CraftsuDo, Dovecraft Christmas Blues papers, silver peeloff.