Alice in Wonderland

This is a card I made some time ago for a friend to give her daughter.  She wanted an Alice in Wonderland themed card and something big and special due to it being a special birthday.  I was  a bit stumped at first, but them remembered an Alice themed digi kit bought some time back which turned out to be just perfect to work with.

I decided to do a gatefold card using two of the main characters decoupaged onto the front.  Check out the hat detail - the girl's name is on the little tag in his hat.  I love the way you can plan things like that using Craft Artist.

This is the inside of the card complete with verse and a really funky Alice. The kit was by somebody called ChrisScrap or something like that!  I don't know whether it is still available or not, but when I got it you could buy the commercial license which I did because I used it to make some posters for a story event at the local library.
Not easy to see in the photo but the images are mounted on to black glitter card and silver mirri to add oomph!

Challenges...

• Allsorts - Happy Birthday (Happy 6th Birthday to the team there - great challenges each and every time)
• Polkadoodles - girlie but no pink - I think this card counts 
• Seize the Birthday - anything goes for a birthday
• Scorepal - more than one score - lots of scoring done on the Scorepal to make this as not only is it a gatefold card I had to score pieces and attach them together to create the large black base card.  The box was made on the Scorepal also.

Well hope you like today's offering.  I was on holiday last week and today I'm going dinosaur hunting with my gorgeous grandchild.  I hope if we find one it's friendly!

Have a great day whatever you are up to and thank you for all the lovely comments on my cards 'n' stuff.

Ann xxx

Get Well Soon...

Yeah it's Thursday and that means it's Aud Sentiments day and my week to showcase my project for our present challenge which is a sketch one.  I love sketches as they give a great starting point for a design and sometimes explode into something totally unlike the original, but still amazing.

I tried really hard to stick to the sketch but the sentiment was a little wayward and toddled off to the other side of my card, but hey ho I think I got away with it.

The main image is a fun and funky one from Sassy Studio Designs called Get Well Soon Sassy.  I printed the design on to different designer papers and then paper pieced the image using Promarkers for Sassy herself.  The orange looks way brighter on the photo than in real life - think I overdid it with the brightness button on the computer!

Challenges...all anything goes...

• Crafting from the Heart
• Craft your passion

Have a great day whatever you are up to.

Ann xxx

One topper sheet - five cards!

Finally got round to making the 'sympathy' cards asked for by the Events Co-ordinator at the home my mum is in.  Only the two largest ones are for her as they need to be large enough for all the care staff to sign etc.  Having made the two larger cards I didn't want to put the last few toppers in a drawer where they might get forgotten so I set to work making some smaller cards which may sell in the Charity Shop I volunteer at.  It was quite a challenge to use the last tag, but I can honestly say that only the debris left after removing the toppers has gone in the bin. 

Card number 2 ...

Card number 3... a 6" by 6" scalloped edge card.

Card number 4...another scalloped edge card slightly smaller than A5.  Lacy oval die by xcut.

Card number 5... last but not least using the very last thing on the sheet of toppers.  Embossed lilac vellum creates background for sentiment topper.

Phew that was a challenge just uploading all those!!

Now for the Card Challenges...

• OLLCB - use a pre-coloured image
• Pixie's Snippet Playground - last card surely must count as using up a snippet!
• My Time to Craft - Sympathy cards
• Allsorts - more than two die cuts - cards 1 and 2 have two sizes of flower and a flourish.
• Simon Says Stamp - Let's get sentimental - card 1 and 5 have sentiment as main image.
• Crafty Cardmakers - make your own background - card 5 has embossed background.

Have a great day all.

Ann xxx