Anything but square for a kid...

The challenge this week at http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/ is create a card that is anything but square shaped. All sorts of ideas have gone through my head - christmas stockings - crackers - etc, but when I saw this amazing fold up/stand up card in this month's Making Cards magazine I just had to give it a try.

It was great fun to do and fits in to a C5 envelope (although if you are following the measurements from the magazine cut the strips to 14cm rather than 16 cm).

The card also fits the challenge at http://tandastamps.blogspot.com/ where we are asked to make cards for kids. The card is for my daughter Laura (okay she is 23 but if she sees that I have made a halloween card for Shelley and not her then she will throw a genuine 5 year old type tantrum).

This photo shows the mechanism to make the card stand up.

Then by simply pulling the side tabs the card lays flat to go in the envelope. Thank you so much to Glynis Clark who originally designed the mechanism for the magazine. I shall be using this time and time again.

Materials used:

• Tanda stamps
• black card
• black corrugated card
• white card
• hand drawn bat (wow!!!!)
• water colours and sakura stardust pens
• unknown sentiment stamp
  
  
  

Spooky doodling...

I really thought I wasn't going to have time to craft today. It was my mum's birthday so we were pretty busy cake making and partying for her. She's was 85 today.

Anyway this evening I did intend to wind down but then got tempted to do something for Halloween and ended up making this Halloween card for Shelley. The middle is cut out using circle nestabilities and the witch image is stamped on the white inner card along with a Halloween sentiment and some extra bats. I also used clear alphabet stamps to stamp Shelley's name.

I hope I am not too late to enter this in the challenge at http://thisthursday.wordpress.com/ as I have been wanting to get round to this spooky challenge all week.

I also think that my cobweb doodles fit the criteria at http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ where they want to see crafters doodling and drawing on their cards. Luckily the drawings can be really simple ones which is just as well for me!!

Materials used:

• circle scalloped nestability dies
• black card
• orange card
• white inner card
• witch stamp by Tanda
• bats and Halloween sentiment unknown company (but not a good one as they have fallen off the wood)
• clear alphabet stamps by Stamps Away
• Sakura pens used as paint for moon and cauldron on image

Animal Antics and Alter it...

The fantastic thing about doing challenges (well for me anyway) is that they encourage you to do things that maybe would have been pushed to one side and then never really got round to.

The challenge at http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ is to alter something. I have been having a major sort out at my house and lots of things have come to light that I had completely forgot about including a set of naff fridge magnets (10 for a pound at Poundland). As you can see from the picture below of just one of them the original was not something I would want on my fridge - but then I'm easily scared!!

I decided that triple embossing would be a good idea for this project as being a fridge magnet the finished item needed to be strong. The image I used is one from an unmounted set by Tanda Stamps and is called Cats. I stamped the image on to mount board and then triple embossed it. The theme at http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ is animals so my work also fits their challenge which is great cause I want to enter everything and there just aren't enough hours in the day.

I matt and layered the finished image onto the magnet finishing it off with a metal tag from my stash that has the word 'dream' embossed on to it. Sheenie friends already know where the narrow black ribbon came from but are keeping stum - I hope!

Materials used:

• white mountboard


• black versefine ink


• triple embossing powder


• small scrap of paper from vintage paper pad by DCWV


• metal tag from stash


• narrow black ribbon (source not admitted to!)

Tanda Teaser - Hit the High Notes

I love many of the stamps in the Tanda collection so decided to have a go at the Wednesday challenge - better late than never!!

The music paper background is from Paperstack 5 in the DCWV range and the man and lady dancing came from one of the Tanda Retro Ladies collections. I stamped the image on to gloss card using Stazon.

The inscription which is quite hard to read on my dreadful photo reads ...

'If you want to make beautiful music,you must play the black and the white notes together' - a lovely phrase which came on a sheet of different ones from Kanban.