Thursday, 3 April 2025

Cool Chick

My great niece is celebrating her 14th birthday today and this is the card I've made for her.  She keeps chickens and sells the eggs to neighbours, so I thought this image would be perfect.

I've made a few of these ZigZag cards lately and decided to use embossed card for the panels this time.  It’s pretty easy to make the base card, just a couple of cuts and a few scorelines.  The image is a pre-coloured digi stamp from Beccy's Place 'Cool Chicks' set of stamps. (Beccy's online digi stamps will no longer be available after June and this set is currently in the sale HERE.) I used Couture Creations 'Fireflies' embossing folder and made the flowers with punches.


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Tuesday, 1 April 2025

The Sound of Music

The current Time Out Challenge theme is 'Inspired by Your Favourite Movie'.  I have so many favourite films, but this week we watched 'The Sound of Music' as it's the 60th Anniversary of when it was first released.  It is the first film I remember seeing at the cinema and I still love to watch it, so this was the inspiration for my card.  I decided to make a masculine card in black and white.

I had a crafting evening with a friend a few days ago and borrowed her large treble clef die to die cut some shape.  She found the die in a charity shop recently, so I'm not sure of the brand, but it was a perfect size for this card.  The patterned paper is from Anna Marie Designs. I used a Crafts Too 'Musical Notes' embossing folder and attached the treble clef with foam pads to add some dimension.  I thought that the top right corner need something, so I dug out and old Sizzix musical notes die..... one of the old thick green one, which I hadn't used for years.  The quavers were a perfect size.  Everything, apart from the card blank, was snippets, so I'll be sharing my card over in the Playground.

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I'm looking forward to joining in the fun and getting lots of inspiration for making tags and ATCs.