Hello

I've made another note card for my card box - this one uses lots of snippets of textured card.  Steve bought me the Papermania card pack several years ago and I'm now reduced to a box of snippets which I'm trying to reduce - without much success!

To make this card I used:
     C6 white matt card blank
     My Favorite Things 'Fishtail Flags' and Altenew 'Simply Hello' dies
     Snippets of white matt card. Papermania textured card and white printer paper

I die cut lots of fishtail flags from different colour textured card using the smallest die.  I attached these to a piece of paper using glue so I had a little 'wriggle room' to line up the strips.  When they had dried I used the largest fishtail flag to cut the top and bottom of the strip.  The die wasn't quite the right size to fit across the card so I cut one side of the strip, removed the die and lined it up on the other side before die cutting the rest of the strip.  This panel was then attached to the front of the card blank.  I die cut 'hello' twice from a snippet of white matt card, layered the two sentiments and attached them to the card.

I am entering the following challenges:
     Allsorts - Use Your Dies
     Cut It Up - Use More Than One Die Cut
     Krafty Chicks Challenge - CAS
     Snippets Playground - Challenge 496

Kath x

Hello

I needed a large notecard to send with some cross stitch patterns I've gifted, so used a snippet of paper from another of my favourite Lili of the Valley paper pads.

To make this card I used:
     7" x 5" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Simply Hello' and Memory Box 'Kaleidoscope Butterfly' dies
     Snippets of light brown pearlescent card and Lili of the Valley 'Beach Bliss' paper

I trimmed the edges of the paper, layered it onto light brown pearlescent card and attached it to the card blank.  I die cut 'hello' and the butterfly from the same light brown card and attached them to the card front.  Quick and easy and ready for the post tomorrow!

I am entering the following challenges:
     Allsorts - Patterned Papers
     Ally's Angels - Anything Goes
     Crafty Calendar Challenge - Anything Goes

Kath x

Black, White and Orange Hello

I made this card to send to Daja for the March Card Chain Challenge.  I used the Colour Option (Black, White & One Colour of Your Choice - my choice was orange) and the Theme Option (Friendship).

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Simply Hello' and Tattered Lace 'Mini Butterfly' dies
     Forever in Time 'Vintage 2 Perfect Prints' paper
     Snippets of white matt card and orange card (oops, I forgot to take a photo!)

I trimmed a piece of black and white paper to 5" x 5", layered it onto orange card and attached it to the card blank.  I die cut 'hello' from snippets of both orange and white card, the white die cut was attached to the orange 'hello' creating a shadow effect and attached to the top corner of the card.  I die cut two small butterflies from white card and two from orange card.  The white butterflies where layered onto the orange butterflies and attached to the front of the card.

I am entering the following challenges:
     Ally's Angels - Anything Goes
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
     Snippets Playground - Challenge 477

This is the lovely card I received from Jeanne:

Kath x

Terrific Triangles

I made this card to send to Greta for the October Card Chain Challenge.  I used the Colour Option (Silver, Blush & Frost) and the Theme Option (Friendship).

I die cut a stitched square from pale blue pearlescent card and set it aside.  I die cut four bottom layer triangles from silver mirri card and four top layer triangles from pink pearlescent card.  I layered the pink onto the silver and then attached all four triangles to the blue square.  The panel was then attached to the card front.  I die cut two 'hello' sentiments from white card and one from silver mirri.  The white layers were layered onto each other with the silver layered on top and slightly offset to give a white shadow, this was then attached to the lower section of the square.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white matt card blank
     Practical Publishing 'Terrific Triangles', My Favorite Things 'Inside & Out Stitched Square STAX Die-namics' and Altenew 'Simply Hello' dies
     Snippets of white matt card, silver mirri card, blue and pink pearlescent card

I am entering the following challenges:
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
     Snippets Playground - Challenge 440

This is the lovely card I received from Dee in Kenya:

Kath x

Hello

I made this card to send to Jo for the September Card Chain Challenge.  I used the Colour Option (Ginger, Buttercup & Sage) and the Theme Option (Friendship).

I die cut four green triangles from snippets of green textured card and attached them to the corners of the card.  I die cut the triangles from lots of snippets of yellow textured card and inlaid them into the green triangles.  I cut a piece of brown cad so it was slightly smaller than the inner square and attached it to the card.  I die cut 'hello' from both green and yellow card, offsetting the yellow on top of the green before attaching it to the centre of the card.  I die cut three stars from green card and punched three stars from yellow card.  I attached the yellow stars to the centre of the green die cut stars and attached them to the card.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white matt card blank
     Practical Publishing 'Terrific Triangles', Altenew 'Simply Hello' and Xcut 'Nesting Star' dies
     Unbranded star punch
     Snippets of brown, yellow and green textured card

I am entering the following challenges:
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
     Snippets Playground - Challenge 438

This is the lovely card I received from Julia:

Kath x

Hello

When Hilary sent me my Card Chain Challenge card she also enclosed the pink die cut from her card which I've used for this notecard.

I trimmed around the edge of the pink die cut, layered it onto a snippet of dark maroon, blue and grey marbled paper and attached it to the card  I attached another snippet of the marbled paper to a piece of white card and die cut hello.  I also die cut 'hello' twice from white card.  I layered the two white die cuts and attached them to the bottom of the card before attaching the marbled die cut, slightly offset to create a shadow.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 4" white matt card blank
     Lisa Horton 'Background Collection Solar Circles' pink die cut panel (thanks for the die details Liz)
     Altenew 'Simply Hello' die
     Snippets of white card and marbled paper

I am entering the following challenges:
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
     Snippets Playground - Challenge 425

Kath x

Hello

I made this card to send to Gundi for the February Card Chain Challenge.  I used the Colour Option (Aubergine, Crushed Rose & Coffee Cream), the Sketch Option and the Theme Options (Hearts & Friendship).

I attached a piece of cream patterned paper to the front of the card blank, leaving a border around the edge before attaching a strip of burgundy paper (the nearest I had to aubergine) down the left side.  I die cut three hearts from snippets of pink and cream patterned paper and followed the sketch to attach them to the card.  The largest was glued to the card and the smaller hearts were attached with foam tape.  I die cut 'hello' from another snippet of burgundy paper and attached it to the lower edge of the card.  To finish I added dark red enamel dots to the hearts.

To make this card I used:
     7" x 5" white matt card blank
     Spellbinders Nestabilities 'Classic Hearts' and Altenew 'Simply Hello' dies
     Snippets of Lili of the Valley 'Heartfelt' and 49th and Market 'Vintage Artistry in Blush' papers
     Dark red metal nailhead stickers

I am entering the following challenges:
     Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
     Snippets Playground - Challenge 422

This is the lovely card I received from Jo - it's so pretty and arrived on a day when we were both in need of a few hugs.  Thank you Jo!

Kath x

Hello (again!)

I made this card to send to Mia for the April Card Chain Challenge.  I used the Colour Option (Walnut, Lavender and Jade), the Theme Option (Friendship) and the Product/Technique Option (Die Cut).

I used brown ink to stamp the flowers onto lavender textured card and the leaves onto jade textured card, stamping them a couple of times to get a good depth of colour before embossing them with clear embossing powder.  I then used the coordinating dies to cut the flowers and leaves and highlighted the pattern on the flowers with a brown Copic pen.  The two smaller flowers were attached directly onto the card and the larger flower was attached with a foam pad with the leaves tucked underneath the flowers.  I die cut 'hello' from dark brown textured card and attached it to the lower corner of the card.

To make this card I used:
     7" x 5" white matt card blank
     Lil'inker 'Modern Mehndi' stamps and coordinating dies
     Altenew 'Simply Hello' die
     Copic E25 pen
     Snippets of dark brown, lavender and jade textured card

I am entering the following challenges:
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Clean and Simple

This is the lovely card I received from Gundi:

Kath x 

Hello

I needed to make a few more notecards and used the last snippets of my 49th and Market 'Vintage Artistry' paper pad.  

I had made another card with the top section of the paper, so used the Curved Border die to cut the largest shape possible from the remaining paper.  After die cutting, I embossed along the edge of the curved border.  I die cut 'hello' from the paper, setting the pieces to one side, before attaching the paper to the lower corner of the card blank.  I die cut 'hello' twice more from more snippets from the same pad - the papers have a coloured core so I wouldn't get a white edge when stacking the sentiment.  I inlaid one 'hello' together with the small snippets I had set aside before layering the other two sentiments.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 4" white matt card blank 
     Spellbinders Borderabilities 'A2 Curved Border' and Altenew 'Simply Hello' dies
     Kars tan embossing mat
     Snippets of 49th and Market 'Vintage Artistry in Blush' paper

I am entering the following challenges:
     Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - April challenge
     Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies - April challenge
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes
     Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 401

Kath x

Hello

This is another notecard I made with paper from my Vintage Artistry paper pad - this card was to send with a cross stitch swap.

I trimmed the paper so I had the flowers in the lower corner of the card and then die cut 'hello' from the upper corner.  I layered the panel onto green textured card and attached it to the card front.  I die cut 'hello' from green card and inlaid it, together with the small pieces of the pink paper.  

I then used the pink 'hello' I had cut from the card to seal the tissue paper I used to wrap my swap gift.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 4" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Simply Hello' die
     49th and Market 'Vintage Artisry - Blush' paper
     Green textured card

I am entering the following challenges:
     Allsorts - Anything Goes
     Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Kath x

February Card Chain Challenge

I made this card to send to Joanne for the February Card Chain Challenge using the Colour Palette Option (Pewter, Ruby & Lapis) and the Theme Option (Friendship).

I trimmed a piece of red textured card so it was slightly smaller than the front of the card blank and then trimmed a piece of blue textured card slightly smaller than the red panel.  These were then layered and attached to the card.  I cut a piece of white card so it was slightly smaller than the blue panel and stencilled a grey border across the top section.  I die cut 'hello' from the lower corner (setting aside the small pieces from inside the sentiment) before attaching the panel to the card.  I die cut 'hello' from both blue and red card.  I inlaid the blue 'hello' into the card together with the small pieces of white card I had set aside.  The red 'hello' was attached over the top to create a shadow effect.  I die cut three red flowers and three blue flower centres and attached these across the card.

To make this card I used:
     7" x 5" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Hello' and Creative Dies 'Flower' dies
     Funky Fossil 'Stacked Lines' stencil
     Memento Gray Flannel ink
     Red and blue textured card and white matt card

Kath x

Hello

Today's card is a quick notecard using a few snippets from my ever increasing snippets mountain.

The pretty butterfly paper was trimmed so there was an equal border around the edge, this was layered onto pale green card and attached to the card front.  The sentiment was die cut from another snippet of pale green card and attached to the top of the card.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 4" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Simply Hello' die
     BoBunny 'Isabella' paper
     Pale green textured card

I am entering the following challenges:
     Butterfly Challenge - E is for ... (I used Eau de Nil & English Rose, plus butterflies)
     Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - October Challenge
     Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 389

Kath x

Hello

I've not had much time to craft over the last few weeks so any cards I've made have been quick, snippets cards and this notecard is no exception.

I trimmed the paper, layered it onto green pearlescent card and attached it to the card front.  I then die cut a butterfly and 'hello' from green pearlescent card and attached these to the card.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 4" white hammer card blank
     Memory Box 'Kaleidoscope Butterfly' and Altenew 'Simply Hello' dies
     Snippets of green pearlescent card and Funky Fossil 'In To The Blue' paperI

I am entering the following challenges:
     Crafty Calendar Challenge - Anything Goes
     Crafty Cardmakers - Things with Wings
     Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 386

This is my last post for a few weeks as we're heading off to Cornwall for in our new campervan Zebedee.

Kath x

Hello

This is the card I made to send to Robyn for the July Card Chain Challenge using the Colour Option (Aqua, Slate & Amethyst), the Sketch Option and Theme Option (Friendship).

I die cut a stitched circle from grey card and die cut 'hello' from the centre.  This circle was attached to the front of the card and trimmed along the edge.  I die cut 'hello' from aqua card and inlaid it, together with the small pieces from the grey hello.  I die cut three stitched ric rac strip (two from aqua and one from amethyst card), trimmed them and attached them across the card.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white hammer card blank
     My Favorite Things 'Inside & Out Stitched Circle STAX Die-namics' & 'Stitched Ric Rac' and Altenew 'Simply Hello' dies 
     Snippets of Amethyst, Aqua and Grey pearlescent card

I am entering the following challanges:
     Crafty Calendar Challenge - Anything Goes
     Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 383
     Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Anything Goes

This is the lovely card I received from Greta:

Kath x

Happy 18th Birthday

Last week I posted a card for my youngest great-nephew and today's card is for my oldest great-nephew who will soon be 18.

I trimmed the marbled paper, layered it onto black card and attached it to the centre of the card blank.  I die cut 'happy' from both white and black card.  The black 'happy' was embossed before the two were layered to create a shadow.  As my printer generally refuses to print on card I followed Carol's tip to 'trick my printer'.  I printed the sentiment in the middle of a piece of A4 paper and then cut a piece of card slightly larger than the sentiment .  I used double sided tape to stick the card over the typed sentiment on the paper.  I then put this though my printer and although it groaned a bit when it met the card, it printed!  There were a few small ink smudges but I used my sand eraser (a prize from Di's Snippets Playground) which removed the ink marks.  I used the flat end of a fishtail flag die to cut the sentiment before layering it onto black card and attaching it to the lower corner of the card.  To finish I attached 'happy' across the top of the card.

To make this card I used:
     7" x 5" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Mega Happy' and My Favorite Things 'Fishtail Flags' dies
     Marbled paper
     Black and white matt card
     Computer printed sentiment 'TW Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold' font

I am entering the following challenges:
     Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - July Challenge
     Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

Kath x

Twofer Butterflies

I made these cards for the Twofer Challenge where the prompt is 'Butterflies'.  I have used my Memory Box 'Kaleidoscope Butterfly' die to make a friendship card and a birthday card.

Twofer One - Hello

I trimmed the marbled paper, layered it onto grey textured card and attached it to the centre of the card blank.  I die cut 'hello' and the butterfly from both white hammer and grey textured card.  I layered the two sentiment die cuts to form a shadow and attached it to the lower corner.  The white butterfly was also layered onto the grey die cut and attached to the upper corner.  The butterfly body was cut from white card and attached at the centre.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white hammer card blank
     Memory Box 'Kaleidoscope Butterfly' and Altenew ' Simply Hello' dies
     Snippets of marbled paper, white hammer and grey textured card

I am entering the following challenges:
     Allsorts - I spy with my little eye something beginning with B (Butterflies)
     NBUS Challenge - Challenge 16 (my 'Hello' stamp is NBUS)
     Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 382

Twofer Two - Happy Birthday To You

I trimmed a piece of white hammer card so it was slightly smaller than the card blank and rounded the corners.  I die cut the wicker panel from white hammer card and attached it across the panel.  I stamped the sentiment below the wicker strip and attached the panel to the card blank.  I didn't have any dark purple card for my butterfly, so I glued two snippets of purple paper together to die cut the butterfly which was then attached onto the wicker panel.  To finish I attached three small white crystal stickers to the card.

To make this card I used:

     6" x 6" white hammer card blank

     Memory Box 'Kaleidoscope Butterfly' and 'Wicker Panel' dies

     Hobby Art 'General Greetings' stamp

     Versafine Imperial Purple Ink

     Snippets of Polka Doodles 'Fourini' paper and white hammer card

     Mark Richard Crystal Stickers

I am entering the following challenges:

     AAA Cards - Made in Minutes

     Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Three of a Kind (I used three Crystal Stickers)

     Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

     

Kath x

Mega Happy Birthday

I was lucky to win a £20.00 gift voucher at AAA Cards for an online store of my choice.  I chose Bumbleberry Crafts  and added a little extra money (as you do!) to buy some Altenew Mega stamps and dies.  I made this super quick card for one of my teenage great nephews.

I trimmed the turquoise star paper, layered it onto black textured card and attached it to the card front.  I die cut 'happy' three times from black card and embossed one of the images.  I layered the die cuts with the embossed one on the top and attached them across the card.  I stamped the sentiment onto white card and used the end of the fishtail flag die to cut around the edge.  The sentiment was then layered onto black card and attached below the die cut 'happy'.

To make this card I used:
     7" x 5" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Mega Happy' and My Favorite Things 'Fishtail Flags' dies
     Altenew 'Mega Greetings 2' stamp
     Versafine Onyx Black ink
     Lili of the Valley 'Galaxy Stars' paper
     Black textured and white matt card

I am entering the following challenges:
     NBUS - Challenge 15
     Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes
     The Male Room - Use Die Cuts

Kath x

Layered Poppy

I love poppies and this summer there seem to be more than ever in the fields - they're definitely one of my favourite flowers.  So I was really pleased to see that the cover gift with this month's Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine is an Altenew 'Layered Poppy' stamp and stencil set.  This is the first card I've made using the layered stamps, but I'm sure it won't be the last!

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white matt card blank
     Altenew 'Layered Poppy' stamps
     Versafine Onyx Black, Satin Red and Spanish Green
     White matt card

I am entering the following challenges:
     Seize the Birthday 'Anything Goes'
     Pearly Sparkles Challenge 'Anything Goes 42'

Kath x