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DCM – Stencil It

This week at the Daring Cardmakers it's Gez’s turn to come up with the dare and the theme this week is:

Stencil It!

We'd like you to use a stencil in the creation of your card this week. It could be one you've made or a bought one or maybe something you have around the home you can use as a stencil? Have fun!

Don’t forget to pop over and see all the DT’s cards – there’s some lovely ideas.

For my card I went for a very subtle colour scheme, and sprayed the background through a bird and birdcage stencil onto white card with silver pearl glimmer mist.  The little circle frame and flower stamps are from Papertrey, and the butterfly is from Doodlebug.  I’ve added more glimmer mist to the butterfly after colouring it with pastel Promarkers.

To finish off the card I added some American Crafts chevron ribbon in grey/white, a little acrylic Dahlia and some leaves cut with a Sizzlits die.

Craft storage

I’ve been a bit quiet on card making this week because I’ve been busy sprucing up an old metal filing cabinet I bought on ebay.   I’d like to get a couple more if I see them at a good price, then I can have all my paper stored in them, and free up some space on my shelf unit for other stuff.

I’ve had the cabinet a little while, but this was the first time the weather was nice enough to get out in the garden with the spray paint!

I painted the main part of the cabinet with a spray paint for metal in Antique White.  It really could do with another coat, but I ran out of paint, so I’ll have to perhaps give it another coat later – probably when I get another cabinet to do.  I wanted the drawers to be a similar sage green colour to the rest of my storage and couldn’t find a spray paint in the right shade, so I sanded and primed the drawers first, then painted them with some gorgeous Farrow and Ball paint in Cooking Apple Green, it’s the perfect shade.  I’m really pleased with how it turned out.  As you can see I’ve currently got it labelled for both plain and patterned sheets in the various basic shades, but when I get another cabinet I can add more colours, such as lilac, yellow, etc.

DCM – Ink It Up

It's Keilly’s turn to set the dare this week at the Daring Cardmakers and she’s chosen:

Ink It Up!

She wants to see cards using ink - there are lots of choices, perhaps you could ink up an image or patterned stamp or even use spray inks to create a background.  Let's see how inventive we can be with this crafty basic!

I decided to use both glimmer mist inks and some white Distress Stain for my background.  I flicked the white ink all over the kraft card, and then used some sequin waste as a stencil for the glimmer mist.  To carry on with the inky theme, I thought this stamp free with this months Craft Stamper magazine was just perfect!

The chevron paper is a digi paper from Design House Digital, the flower dies are Sizzix.

Don’t forget to pop over to the blog to see what the rest of the team have made, there’s such a wide range of ideas this week :)

final samples for my card class in June

Some more samples for my next class.  This first card uses some lovely shimmer card that’s been run through the embossing folder, it makes a lovely background.

For this next card, I used a brass stencil through the Big Shot to emboss the wedding cake design – far easier than dry embossing by hand with a lightbox!

And another cute Father’s Day card.  I’ve rubbed white ink over the embossed design to highlight it on this one.

And finally, for this last card I’ve rubbed white ink over kraft for the script background, then the heart designs have been created with C’oredinations card which has been sanded.  The gorgeous Congrats stamp is from Papertrey.

more class samples…..

More samples for my class next month, these cards are using different c’oredinations papers that have been sanded.

How cute are the stamps on this Father’s day card?  They’re from Paper Smooches.

DCM – monthly colour combo

Well it’s the beginning of a new month, so that can only mean one thing – a colour combo challenge for this weeks Daring Cardmakers dare!

Before I give you the details, there’s also some fabulous news – the wonderfully talented Svenja has agreed to join our design team full time.  We’ve really enjoyed having her as a guest designer so we’re delighted she’s agreed to stay.

It’s the lovely Nat’s turn to choose the palette this month and she’s chosen a really pretty combo.

I’m in love with those pink and mint earrings!  I wanted my card to have quite a lot of shimmery gold, so decided to use some gold embossing powder on this lovely French design stamp from Purple Onion Designs.

It was quite hard to get a good photo with the gold, but I’m really pleased with the result.

Don’t forget to pop over to the blog to see what lovely summery creations everyone else has designed this week.

Card making class, Bromsgrove 8 June 2013

Over the next couple of days I’ll be sharing a sneak preview of the cards we’re going to be making at my next class in Bromsgrove.  (There are just 2 places left so if you are interested in joining us, please email me – backdated@hotmail.com)

All the cards for this class are using embossing folders and glimmer mist stencils with the Big Shot.

These two cards use embossing folders that have been inked up prior to running through the machine.

I’ll be back later with some more cards to show you.

New Class Venue!

I am now running classes at The Holiday Inn, High Wycombe, starting in June.  Please contact me for more information.

These classes will be on Sundays, from 10 - 4pm, and the cost for the day is £38 which includes all materials.  (the daily rate is slightly higher than my Bromsgrove classes as the venue cost is more).

Booking is essential, and I'll only run each date if I get a minimum number of bookings, so if you're at all interested, please get in touch.

DCM - Recipe

This week at the Daring Cardmakers blog we have a bit of a recipe challenge for you to try.  We don't mind what sort of card you make but it must feature all of these "Ingredients!"

An Aperture of some kind

Something beginning with the letter P

A Die-cut or Punchie

The colour Blue

This one sounded really hard until I sat down and started, and then it all came together quite easily actually.

There’s plenty of blue, and I used the Papertrey mat stack die with matching stamp.  I stamped it twice so that I could have the scallop border in green and the rest stamped in blue, and then I punched an aperture through the centre.  The elephant stamp is also Papertrey and the Baby ticket stamp is by Stampin’ Up.  The only thing left to add is my ‘P’, so I added a little blue pearl to the star on the elephant!

Don’t forget to pop over to the blog to see how the rest of the team have got on with this fabulous ‘recipe’!

DCM – Child’s Play

It’s my turn to set the challenge this week at The Daring Cardmakers, and I’ve chosen

Child’s Play

I’d like to see cards for little people – it can be a new baby card, a card for a young child or perhaps a card for a sulky teenager.

I decided to go for a teen card:

I used some Oak House Studio Colour Chemistry ink for the background – I just flicked some across the card front.  The stamp is from Hobbycraft, and I stamped it twice – once onto the card front, then again on some pale blue card and cut out and layered the star part.  I then added a bit of glamour dust to the star.  The greeting is from Paper Smooches – and how perfect is that for a teen?