4 Cards

Phew, I managed to find some time, sit down with no interruptions, and finish 4 cards for CDAC Challenges this week! I mean, it's nearly the end of June already, where has this year gone? Before we know it, we will all be making our Christmas cards and buying presents!!! Ok, back to the present - a cold wintery morning - here are the four cards.
 1. Sparkler-girl mage from Guylou Inimitibility for the Girly Challenge.

2. Masked lady image from Digistamps4Joy for the Embellishment Challenge.


















 3. Mushroom image from Just Inklined for the Sketch Challenge.


















 4. Sailboat image from Tiffany Doodles for the Colour Challenge.

John 15:4

I made this easel card for the CDAC Colour Challenge #24, using the digi provided and the two colours of green and purple - always one of my favourite combos. The digi was coloured in with pencils, the colours smoothed with a wet paintbrush, and the whole image cut out with a Nestabilities shape. The paper, ribbon, lace, and flowers are all out of the stash.The Bible verse just seemd to pop into my head when I made this card, so added it.

Flissy fairy

This is a card I made with a free digi from the CDAC colour challenge #23 with which we had to make an orange and green card. The digi was coloured in with pastel gel pens, and all the leaves were punched out of 3 shades of green tissue paper. If I breathed too hard, all the loose leaves blew off the table! The rest of the paper is out of the stash, and I added clear glitter glue.

Using puff paint

I am lucky enough to have a sister who is a professional screenprinter, and who just 'happened' to give me a whole liter of white puff paint (very difficult to find in craft shops!) the last time I visited her! So .... as there is one little animal that God made that lends itself perfectly to white puff paint, of course I had to make a card. The 'ewe' also provided a super opportunity to play with the word - hehe.

I had a lovely piece of bright red card with a white backing that was just waiting to be cut into a heart shape. My little ewe (also compliments from my sister) was cut on the Cricut and I coloured the legs, squeezed out lots of puff paint from a fine nozzled bottle, puffed the paint with the hot air dryer, and then stuck on one googly eye and a red ribbon. Isn't she cute? The words ... 'Thinking of ewe" were printed on the pc, then a border of puff paint put on to resemble a cloud. Both the ewe and the cloud were raised with foam pads. The flowers were an afterthought as I had this large empty space top left of the heart, but they seem to have done the trick!

Cracker shaped 'shaker' card

This card was made for a challenge viz. "make a card in the shape of a cracker and add serviette, clay, and mirror tile". Cutting the shape of the card was not as difficult as I thought it would be, and the shape is actually quite pleasing. It was the adding of the tiles and clay that stumped me at first. That is until I saw this absolutely gorgeous 'fat lady' decoupage paper and the creative juices just RAN! I probably went a little overboard with the 'shaker' oval, but I love making shaker cards and they are always so popular with my customers.

 So this is where I used all the challenge pieces:
1. Serviettes - I cut out 4 purple daisies out of a serviette and glued them onto the patterned maroon coloured paper.
2. Clay - the only clay embellishment I could find that suited this picture was a tiny peach coloured rose which I glued on top of the acetate of the shaker box.
3. Mirror tiles - In the image, the fat lady is looking into a mirror. Yes, you guessed it - I replaced the mirror part of the image with four tiny mirror tiles! Worked like a charm, and as they are all inside the shaker box no one handling this card will get hurt - a bonus in my opinion!

I could not resist the tiny gold shaker beads to compliment the gold colour around the purple daisies, and the gold spotted ribbon just finished it all off. A lot of work, but well worth it.