Gatefold Penguin Card

I was delighted to be asked to make a GD snippets card for the current Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge.  I often use my SU Owl punch for making penguins, so I thought I'd try and make a gatefold owl card using an owl set of dies.  I made an owl card HERE using the owl dies.

I used the  Sizzix 'Owl Fold A Long' set of dies and did a little creative cutting to reshape the head. I die cut a white stitched circle, cut it in half and trimmed a little of both of the straight edges, before attaching to the main penguin shape. It's difficult to see the  pattern on the wings, as both layers are black, but they show up well IRL.  As penguins' eyes are smaller than owls' eyes, I didn't add the die cuts that go around the white eyes.

I used grey and white star patterned paper for the insides and left the white card in the middle black to write the greeting.

Everything I used, except for the black card, was snippets.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Week 466 ~ Fancy Folds

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Animal Magic

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #195 ~ Gatefold or Step Card

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper May 2018 Challenge

House of Cards May Challenge ~ Shaped card and/or Colors

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 410 ~ Birds

Things with Wings

The theme of the Crafty Calendar Challenge this month is 'Things with wings'.   For my DT card, I made an easel card using a digi stamp from one of our sponsors. 

 The digi stamp is from All Dressed Up - 'Flyaway Butterfly', which I coloured with Promarkers and die cut a using Memory Box 'Stitched Rectangle' die.  The patterned paper is from a Dovecraft paper pack, 'Princess Fairytale'.   I added two Sue Wilson 'String Flowers' die cuts, with pearls for the centres.  I coloured white pearls with one of the Promarkers as I used for the dress.

The challenge finishes on 28th May and there are two super prizes to win from our generous sponsors this month.

All Dressed Up


and

Wild Orchid Crafts

I am joining in the following challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Week 466 ~ Fancy Folds
Butterfly Challenge #99 ~ Spin The Butterfly Wheel with the Letter D (Dark Salmon/Diecut/Digi Image/Dimension/ Butterfly)
Scribbles Designs Challenge Challenge #64 ~ Favouring the Feminine
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper May 2018 Challenge

New Chairman

A card today for a friend who became the Chairman of a club recently that I was delighted to be invited to join this year as an honorary member.

I computer generated the text and the logo of the club on the front of the card.  I attached the oval die cut, using the Sue Wilson 'Innsbruck' die from Austrian Collection in the same colour as the logo.  The flower is a Sue Wilson 'Faux Quilled Blooms' with a pearl centre.  This pearl and the three in the corner were coloured with Promarkers to match the turquoise and pale yellow card.

I am joining in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #401 ~ Women Celebration

CraftyCatz Challenge #415 ~ ATG with optional twist, add flowers

I'm mentally preparing myself for being taken out of my comfort zone tomorrow.  I'm going to a local Art Journal/Mixed Media day, there won't be a CAS project in sight!  Apron and wet wipes are packed ready, but I'm just wondering what colour my fingers will be by the time I've finished. 😨

Thank You

A thank you card for a blogging friend, which I can post now that I know it's been received.

I stamped the Little Claire 'Swirly Whirlie Cats' with Memento 'Tuxedo Black' on cream cardstock and coloured the image with Promarkers.  The image was die cut with a Creative Dies 'Squares - Wonky Stitches' die.  This was layered on a black piece of card and attached to a cream card blank.  The sentiment stamp is from the Happy Little Stampers 'Doodled Flowers' set of stamps, stamped with Versafine 'Onyx Black'.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge  - Week 465 ~ All about Pets

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #390 ~ Critter Crazy

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes