This afternoon one of my dgs’s came to visit. I was in my craft room when he arrived (I know you won’t be surprised to hear that) 😆 He saw the card I am about to show you and wanted to play with it, which I let him do under my strict guidance. He giggled and was not too keen to give it back. I took that as a very good sign that all little boys would like this card.
Today’s card is for Mo’s Digital Pencil Challenge #135 – Circle Card. I love circle cards so straight away knew that I wanted to enter the challenge. I looked through my Mo’s digi stamps to find one which would fit into a circle very well. Georgie Cartwheel was perfect I thought. Here is my circular easel card –
Georgie can actually do a cartwheel. What a clever little fellow.
So that Georgie could swivel I printed 2 images and cut them out. Coloured one just around the edges and the copy which was to be the top was coloured fully with Copics.
I cut out the die shapes in card and patterned paper. Adhered the patterned paper to the teal card and placed the half coloured Georgie on the centre of these. Then I punched a hole through the centre of them and set on eyelet. Next I attached the fully coloured Georgie with ds foam dots to the top. (I actually had to loosen the eyelet a little so it would swivel well). Voila – Georgie could cartwheel.
Kids love to sumersault and cartwheel outside on the grass so I wanted some grass under him. I diecut some grass and folded it up. This not only satisfied my requirement of grass but also kept the front focal piece of the card in place. You might see more clearly in this photo.
The grass folds down when posting the card.
The sentiment is from Hero Arts and usually goes with shoe stamps, but I thought it suited this card – he is definitely kicking up his heels.
Bye for now,
I used to play tennis and really enjoyed it but haven’t played for a very very long time (not going to mention how many years – let’s just say there were only white dresses, no colours, in those days :shock:). You might be asking why I am mentioning this – well the challenge over at Copic Oz is to create a “Sporty theme”. I love this theme.
Here is my entry –
I wanted to try to create the effect of a net – don’t know if it worked exactly but I tried.
Here is a closer view to show which parts have been raised with foam tape.
Card recipe –
- Stamp image – La La Lands (Tennis Marci)
- Coloured with Copics of course
- Sentiment – Computer generated
- Card – PTI
- Paper – Echo Park (Summer Days)
- Embossing Folder – Swiss Dots
- Dies – Spellbinders (Circles), MFT (Grass)
- Butterfly punch – unknown
Hope you enjoyed today’s card.
Just thinking back to my sporty days and how things have changed. In summer I would play tennis and winter it was badminton (don’t know if I would be able to find a badminton stamp). We had a great time. At school it was swimming and softball in the summer (do they still play that?) and in winter – netball (we used to call it basketball). What is my sport now? mmmmmm – running – running to the letterbox to see any new “crafty things” have arrived. :;:
Bye for now,
Today I am “creating a scene”. Not in the nasty, loud and angry sense but for a card challenge. Catch the Bug Challenge this week is to “create a scene” on your card using more than one image. I have had the set of Har Repotter characters hiding away in a file and thought this was the perfect chance to let them out and have a bit of fun. Gorgeous images.
Here is today’s card –
As you can see I have made an easel card. You should also be able to see from this angle that I have raised the 2 little figures with foam tape. Here is a close up of the card from the front –
I thought this scene would make a great “teacher and student” card. Har looks like he is trying to produce an orb like his teacher but all he can do is make 2 small sparks.
Card recipe –
- Digi images – Bugaboo Stamps (Har Repotter)
- Coloured with Copics
- Sentiment – (I typed on the computer)
- Paper – My Mind’s Eye (12 days of Christmas) just bought this weekend – love it
- Card – PTI
- Dies – Spellbinders circles & MFT clouds, grass
- Felt from stash
- Rhinestones – Kaisercraft
- Star pins from stash
The Harry Potter films very often have dark threatening skies and backgrounds but I didn’t want to make a completely black card. So on top of the grey base card I added some fun with the bright papers and then added grey clouds just to give a bit of that dark magic from “he who must not be named” effect .
One of my ddil’s loves the whole Harry Potter phenomenon so I hope she enjoys my attempt today.
Off to add my card to the Challenge page…..
Bye for now,
Another day … another card. Yes I am really back in the swing of card making. Hooray!
The card I have made for the Some Odd Girl challenge “Stitching” was totally inspired by my dgd who visited us a few weeks ago. She has learnt to whistle – well done – and is so proud. We had lots of little bottles of “bubbles” left over from a party and we all had fun blowing bubbles. The best part was that dgd whistled every time she blew bubbles. So cute. Her favourite colour is PINK, so of course I have used pink as the feature colour. (Hope she likes the photo of the card.)
For today’s card I have used the digital stamp from Some Odd Girl “Tiny Bubbles Tia”. The sentiment is an AmyR Stamp from the “Best Birthday Wishes” set. Tia is coloured with Copics. The paper is MME Hazel Papers “Stella Rose”. I have die cut (MFT) the cloud then stitched around it. I also stitched around the Pink and grey dotty paper and attached the bobbley ribbon with my sewing machine – hope it shows in the photo.
Here is today’s card –
I’m off now to link to the Some Odd Girl Stamps Blog.
See you tomorrow,
I needed a card to go with this cute gift for a new grandson of a woman who works with my husband.
You can tell it is navy blue in this photo but when I first saw him I thought it was “black” so I made a black and white card. I don’t think I have many navy blue papers anyway.
Here is the card –
Another quick post, so bye for now,
Cards & Co
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