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Thursday 27 August 2020

Patchwork cards

Hi! thought I would share with you some 
new "patchwork" cards I have made. 
I just thought these were a bit different and 
something I have been wanting to try for a while.

This first card is a regular pattern patchwork card...

 

It is made of 9 squares of paper, cut from Pink Petticoat papers. 
Each square has been inked around the edges and a little faux-stitching
has been added with a fineliner pen. 
I dry embossed a simple line around the edge of the squares.
I stamped the sentiment and added a couple of punched butterflies,
with a little sparkly gem on each.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
The sisterhood of crafters - sentiment  focal point - 8 Sept
Crafty Calendar - atg - 1 Sept
Di's digi challenge - lots of squares - 30 Aug
Creations in pink -  mainly pink - 15 Sept


This second patchwork card is more of an irregular patchwork, made for my friend.


She loves these muted, neutral colours. 
I took a couple of papers that worked well together 
and careful cut a different sized piece from each paper. 
It was trickier than I thought, to get all the pieces to match up 
while making a patchwork effect. 
Like the last card, I inked the edges of each piece and used a brown fineliner pen to 
draw some faux-stitching around the edge of each piece. 
Again, the sentiment was stamped and punched butterflies were added. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Simon says stamp - atg - 3 Sept
Paper funday - atg - 2 Sept
Sparkles - use at least 3 patterned papers - 15 Sept
 

Friday 7 August 2020

Summertime

Hi! Hope you are all well! 
I'm sharing my card for the Colour Crazy Challenge...
with our (As usual) anything goes theme,
I used "4 block tulip square " from Bugaboo.


This is such a versatile image. 
I coloured it with my promarkers and cut out each square. 
Placing it in the middle of my card, I cut a piece from the middle of the green
paper, to make a frame. 
I added diecut corners, a diecut cat and some punched butterflies. 
A few white dots, with my white sakura pen, finished this card. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
2 crafty critters - my favourite animal - 26 Aug
Diecut Divas - flowers - 1 Sept
Creative moments - atg -  21 Aug
I love Promarkers - atg - 18 Aug
Lil red wagon - happy days - 13 Aug
Show us your pussies - a cat - 1 Sept
Jans digi stamps - atg - 5 Sept

Beach time

Pattie, at Patties Creations, is challenging us with...
"Beach / Under the sea"
this month.... 
I took the beach element and used her image "Beach Cabana Trio".


It was a simple image to colour... with my promarkers and other alcohol pens. 
I used the pointilism technique to try and make the sand look textured.
(Lots of little dots, in slightly different colours)
I added a sea-line, behind the sand, as I felt it needed sea too.  
A little strip of Dovecraft paper sits above and below the image,
with an embossed line the other side of the paper: one on top, on along the bottom.
I found a spotty paper, which I cut a couple of bunting flags from. 
The birds are lovely little diecuts.

Sheepski designs - atg - 1 Sept
Creative moments - atg - 21 Aug
I love Promarkers - atg - 18 Aug
Lil red wagon - happy days - 13 Aug
Jans digi stamps - atg -  5 Sept