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DCM – ooh la la and wunderbar!

It's Lythan’s turn to set the challenge this week over at the Daring Cardmakers.

“Well, this weeks dare is a little bit retro. As it is the European Day of Languages today I would like your card to feature a foreign language.

This takes me back to one of the very first Daring Cardmaker Dares (November 10 2006 to be precise) which was a similar challenge. So why not also see if you have any cards to show from 5 years ago to see if your style has changed? “

I knew straight away I was going to put something Spanish on my card as it’s the only other language I can speak a bit of.  I lived in Spain for a couple of years and that’s where I met Andy, so I decided I’d use the challenge to make a card for him.  (Unfortunately, he’s not daft and will probably suss me out when I give him this and ask if it was for a challenge!)

The lovely image is a digital stamp from Pink Petticoat and the gorgeous polka dot papers are also from PP.  I printed the text from the PC and it says Happy Christmas to my boyfriend.   I just hope he thinks it’s romantic that I’ve put it in Spanish rather than realise it was to fit in with a DCM dare!

Lythan also challenged us to find a card from 5 years ago.  This was one of the very first cards to appear on my blog – and scarily, those were digital papers that I still use fairly regularly.  I know my style has changed quite a bit really but I don’t think you’d think so looking at this card – I’m probably not quite so heavy handed with the distress ink as this nowadays though!

Shabby in Pink

Here are a couple of cards I was commissioned to make – a thank you card and a card for baby twin girls. 

This first card uses my new Papertrey bloom builder die – I’ve cut the layers from a lovely handmade paper in dusky pink which goes lovely with the kraft card and pearls.  I bought some seam binding at Ally Pally and decided to die some of it with tea to give a bit more of a vintage feel and I’m really pleased with the results.  (if you fancy trying this all you need to do is make a big jug of tea – one tea bag is enough, then put some of the ribbon in and stir it around.  Leave it for half an hour or so, then squeeze the ribbon out and put it on some kitchen towel to dry – don’t lie it out flat, leave it scrunched up as this makes a nicer effect).  As you can see, it’s a lovely colour.

Holly Wreath

This card is for my mother-in-law.  I’m not entirely happy with it, I think it’s a bit too busy, but I know she’ll love the stamped holly wreath with the green glass glitter, and red is her favourite colour so I’m sure she’ll love it anyway!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year….

I went to the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking show at Alexandra Palace yesterday and got some lovely new stamps.  I need to make a start on the cards for my boyfriend’s family, so used this lovely new stamp from Little Claire Designs to make a card for his sister.  Another purchase was some German Glass glitter, and I’ve added this to the tree.  You can’t tell too well from the photos but it really is lovely – it’s quite different from normal glitter – very heavy and crunchy with a subtle sparkle.  I think I may have another addiction :)

Daring Cardmakers - Green Eggs and Ham

It's Jo’s turn to set the challenge this week and she’s decided to dare us with the theme of Dr. Seuss:

 
I loved reading Dr. Seuss books when I was little and my children love them now so this week, I would like to see Dr. Seuss inspired cards - whether they feature Green Eggs and Ham, The inhabitants of Whoville, The Cat in the Hat or are inspired by the colours, font or rhyming phrases, it will be brilliant to see what you make!

I have to admit, this one stumped me for quite a while.  I’m not that familiar with the Dr Seuss books, and in terms of characters only really knew the Grinch and The Cat in the Hat.  I spent ages looking at the Dr Seuss website and google images before inspiration hit.  My nephew Toby is going to be 2 in a few weeks time, so I decided to make a card for him.  I cut some strips of red card to make the background, then found this lovely Cat in the Hat image (it’s actually a picture of a Dr Seuss plate!), then I downloaded a Dr Seuss font to personalise it.  I think Toby will love the bright colours:

Shabby Tea Room challenge

This weeks challenge at the Shabby Tea room is vintage white, and to create a monochromatic card using cream or white, kraft and brown or black.

Here’s my card:

I used my new Papertrey bloom builder die to make the flowers with brown card, and I used some gorgeous pearly vintage buttons (that don’t show too well in the pics), along with my parisian doily and a little tiny tag with a cream pearl.   I’m sorry the photos are so bad – now the evenings are drawing in the light isn’t so good.  I’m going to have to experiment a bit to come up with a solution for the winter months!

DCM – How Many Candles?

This week it's Kathy’s turn to set the challenge, and there’s also a wonderful prize to give away to one lucky winner.

We are joining in the celebrations for the launch of Funky Hands latest Papercraft Factory CD

Happy Happy Birthday

our lucky random draw winner will receive a copy of this fabulous, brand new CD Rom.  Pop over to the Daring Cardmakers for full details and the rules to enter to win this gorgeous prize.

Here's the challenge:

How Many Candles?

I'd simply like you to make a Birthday Card with at least one candle on it this week

The DCM team have all used Funky Hand papers from the Happy Happy Birthday CD to make their cards this week so you'll see what it's all about, but of course you may not have any (yet), so you can use anything you like. 

If you would like to try using a Funky Hand Freebie, visit Get Funky! where you'll find this months new Funky Fifteenth freebie available to download right now.

And here’s my card – I chose to use some lovely bright papers from the collection – quite out of my comfort zone but I think they work really well with this theme.

You can't see too well from the photo (I took it last night when the light had gone so had to use my daylight lamp)  I've added glamour dust to the flowers on the candles so in real life they are very sparkly!

The production line has started….

I’ve finally decided on the design for my personal Christmas cards this year and have made a start.  First job was to cut 400 green and 400 white card squares – already I’m thinking this might not be the best design to pick!!  I think that’s the worst job over with though, now for the stamping and colouring – you’ll have to wait ‘till December to see the finished product though, there’ll be no more clues as I don’t want to spoil the surprise ;)

Tis the Season

 

I’m still at it with the Christmas cards.  For these cards I’ve combined some non-Christmassy stamps with Christmas ones – the little house is from the Papertrey Wonderful Whimsical set, and the branch for the card below is from the Bitty Birds set.  I’m just loving my new doiley die cut too, doesn’t it look lovely in green?

 

What’s the Story (Morning Glory)

I’m a bit late this week as I’ve had such a hectic week I didn’t get a chance to make my card before now.  The challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers is the next in our monthly series of flowers.  The flowers for September are Aster or Morning Glory.  I started off snipping my own petals to make some asters, but to be honest, they looked a bit pants, and then my Papertrey delivery arrived and I decided to cheat a little and use my new bloom builder die.

I’ve had a hectic but lovely week, and I took the afternoon off yesterday afternoon to meet with my friends Lou and Yvonne.  We had the nicest time – we went for a fabulous lunch at Quaglinos, then went shopping in Fortnum and Masons.  It was lovely to catch up and have a girlie afternoon.  The weather was glorious too, and Yvonne and I had a lovely walk through St James’ park past Buckingham Palace on our way to Victoria train station.  Here’s a piccy of us in Quaglinos: