Saturday, 22 March 2025

Craftlandia Challenge #22 ~ Spring

The first Craftlandia Challenge of 2025 begins today with the theme of  'Spring', or you can go with the theme of Anything Goes.  Our sponsor this month is Gecko Galz.  For my DT project, I made a Tri Panel Z Fold card.

Our sponsor kindly gave the DT images to work with and I chose to use one of the images from the 'Garden Time Digital Collage Set'.  As the image had a vintage look, I used a font on the computer which I felt went well with the image for the sentiment.  The patterned paper is from The Works.

The card folds flat for posting.

Prize: $25 voucher to spend at Gecko Galz.

The Craftlandia Challenge runs until the 30th March, so hop over to the challenge blog to see all the beautiful creations the DT have made for inspiration.



Friday, 21 March 2025

Spring Card

A new style of card I saw demonstrated on the Nifty Noodles Crafting Facebook page this week called a 'Double Front Card'. I was sorting out my box of stamped images this week, some coloured and some ready to be coloured.  I came across this one I coloured ages ago but never used.  I thought the colours would be suitable for a spring card, so I dug out some old orange and yellow papers.
The image is an old wood mounted Francoise Read stamp, 'Glasgow Rose Garden', which I've had for well over ten years.  I coloured the flowers with Promarkers.  The sentiment is a Bugaboo digi stamp.  The patterned papers are from a very old Papermania paper stack.

On the inside front, I added a Poppystamps 'Petal Ribbon' white die cut and added yellow punched circles in the centre of each flower.  I used the Petal Ribbon for the first time, so I'll be sharing my card in the NBUS Challenge.

On the inside panel I attached a Poppystamps 'Leafy Branch Oval', backed with an oval of the orange paper.  I added three tiny punched flowers.


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Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Thinking of You

A Thinking of You card to share today which was sent to a friend whose daughter recently passed away unexpectantly.

The circle die was preloved when I bought it and I'm not sure of the brand. The flowers are Creative Expressions 'Daisy Blossoms' die cuts.

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Monday, 17 March 2025

Zigzag Card

A Zigzag Card to share today after watching a recent video on the Nifty Noodles Crafting Facebook page.  It really easy to make, just two cut lines and six score lines.  I changed the dimensions slightly so I could get two card bases out of one A4 sheet of card.

All the patterned papers were snippets from the same paper pad from The Range, so I'll be sharing my card over in The Playground.  The sentiment was a Creative Expressions 'Happy Birthday' die set.  I finished off my card with six Card Candi.

The card folds flat for posting and easily fits into a 6" x 6" envelope.

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