Week 7 cards

Well, you have all been busy again this week!  Here are week 7's cards.

Jackie

Brenda

Chris S

Chris S

Lorna S 

Lorna S

Pat P

Shirley H

Wendy S

Weekly stash challenge - week 7

Well here we are at week 7.  I thought 2019 went by quickly, but 2020 is going even faster.  Halfway through May, already, and no real sign of restrictions easing to let us all get together again.  I do hope that these weekly challenges are being helpful to you!

For this week, I thought we could try for some extra embellishments, so I have included flowers and a bow!

This week, I went to a paper boutique pad - farmyard friend.  I added some flower stamps and dies, some background mat dies, and a couple of distress ink pads. 

And this was the card I came up with.

I used a 5 x7  card base because that was to hand - the sketch was square, but the whole point is to use it as inspiration, not a fixed rule, so I went with it -  and from the paper kit, I chose a piece of patterned paper, a topper and a sentiment.  

I matted the patterned paper onto a piece of white card.  I then cut a die cut base from another piece of the paper using my dies, and layered the topper onto that.  I then stuck that onto my piece ofwhite card too.

Using the remaining parts of the paper, I die cut the flowers and leaves, and then stamped onto them using the distress ink.   I edged the petals with the ink, and then put the flowers together and stuck them onto my white card, and put a pearl from my stash in the centre of each.

I then stuck the white card onto my base card using foam pads.

I stuck the sentiment onto some backing paper, and put it on the base card, then stuck on my bow using a hot glue gun.  Lastly, I picked a couple of die cuts from my box, and put them in the top right corner to balance the card out.

I hope you enjoy this week's challenge as much as I did... I am looking forward to seeing the next lot of cards, and can't wait until we can meet up and work together again.

Have fun - happy crafting and stay safe.  We can make it!

Week 6 cards

Here are the cards for this week...

Jackie

Chris S 

Chris S

Lorna S

Lorna S

Lorna S

Brenda

Janet B

Pat P

 Wendy S

 

 Shirley H

Weekly Stash Challenge - Week 6

How can it be 6 weeks already?  Time is flying in lockdown for me - and the summer is rapidly approaching.  Shame by the time I roll out of my house I will just want to cover up!!!!

Anyway, time for another sketch - here is week 6!

I went back to my box of die cuts and another box set for my card this week. 

And here is my card - a simple mat and layer of the papers, and judicious use of some hearts from my diecut stash.

The free papers in the set were all rainbow colours, so I made a thank you card - all set to go to an NHS hero.

Along with the backing papers, there were some stamps and dies, but also an embossing folder, and I used that on the orange layer, and the base heart.  Then, I used a stamp from my stash to make the sentiment, and stamped it onto the top heart, which was plain white cardstock.

The last step was to add 3 punched small flowers, and I added a small gold gem in the centre of each.

Have fun this week everyone - I look forward to seeing your cards very much.  And remember, this time WILL end, and we will be getting back to normal.  I can't wait to see everyone again!

Week 5 cards

Wow, lots of beautiful cards this week!!

Here they are:

Jackie

Brenda

Chris S

 Chris S

Janet

 Lorna S

  Lorna S

  Lorna S

 Pat P

 Shirley H

 Wendy S

Weekly Stash Challenge - week 5

Hello everyone - time for week 5 of our weekly challenge.  I hope you are all feeling inspired and creative.  On to the sketch!

Sketch week 5

As I have said before, these sketches are for your inspiration - if you hate portrait, make it landscape.  If you hate squares, make them shapes.  It is your card - and I can't wait to see what you come up with.

For my card this week, I picked some items from my stash.  I had a boxed set (I've had it for ages, and shamefully, it wasn't even opened!) and the latest Creative Stamping magazine and some random dies (that in the end I didn't use).

Both the cards I made this week were 7 x 5, mainly because they were the blanks I had easily to hand.

The first was made using the box set.  It came with papers included, so I chose the colours I liked and cut them to fit as a mat and layer.     I picked a toning paper to stamp the flower onto, which I did with gathered twigs distress oxide.  I cut them down to fit the squares, and layered them onto the top.      To finish the card, I used some ribbon to make a bow, and stamped the sentiment onto a die cut from my stash box, which I had edged with the same distress ink.

My second card was made using the Creative Stamping magazine stamps.    This had come with a

stencil, so I first used it to make the background on the 7 x 5 card blank with the help of some distress inks.  I distressed the edge very lightly with frayed burlap distress ink.     Then I added the ribbon across the bottom third of the card.   There are lots of iconic stamps in the set this time, and I had great fun stamping and colouring them, before fussy cutting them out.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment onto a heart shape from my stash, and stuck it in the centre. 

The card looked a bit empty and unfinished round the edge, so I added some faux stitching in blue.

All done!  2 very different cards, but the same sketch.  I am looking forward to see all the cards you make - enjoy, and Happy Crafting!

Week 4 cards

More lovely cards made this week.

Jackie

Brenda P

 Chris S

 Chris S

 Lorna S

 Lorna S

 Nicky B

 Shirley

 Janet B

 Pat P

 Wendy S