January 2023 Elemental Inspiration Challenge-Daring Cardmakers

 Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome back to my blog for the very first challenge of the year. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break and I wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous year ahead.

Its the January Elemental Inspiration Challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog and this month's mood board is set by DT member Shabneez. All you have to do is choose any three elements from the moodboard for your cards. Remember colours count as one element. There's lots of elements to choose from and I hope you will enjoy joining in.

For my card I chose woodgrain, colours, fabrics and foliage. I have always wanted to incorporate fabric pieces onto my cards and this has been a perfect challenge to do just that. After choosing my background paper in woodgrain, I added a few small pieces of fabric from my stash. I then added some stitching using a sewing machine. The leaf stamp is from Carabelle Studio, which is stamped onto watercolour card and coloured using distress inks. I thought the sentiment was very fitting for the new year and hope that it is a good year for all of us.

 I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

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Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx

One word prompt-BELIEVE-Daring Cardmakers Challenge.

 Hello and Happy Saturday!

Today I am back with another challenge as we continue our One Word Prompt over on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Its the last week before our Christmas break so this challenge will remain open for your entries until our return on 6th January 2023! This weeks word prompt is;

BELIEVE

Remember it doesn't have to be Christmas themed, and anything Goes when it comes to sharing your makes Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, boxes - whatever you want to make
We're looking forward to seeing what you create!

Its great when you can find a stamp to match the theme. This card is inspired by the movie 'Polar Express' which I can't wait to watch with the family again this year. 

The background was created using distress oxides and an Aallandcreate stencil. The swirly Christmas sentiment stamps are by Lili of the Valley which absolutely love, as they stamp so perfectly. I neatly edged all four sides using a blue metallic marker pen and mounted the card onto a card base. I added a few jingle bells threaded through a silver ribbon and attached that just above the sentiment. To finish it off I added some silver glitter dots to add sparkle.

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

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Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx

December Elemental Inspirational Challenge- Daring Cardmakers

 Hello and welcome to December!

Wow where did the year go! I'm still in October so this is a bit of a shock to the system knowing we are at the end of the year already. Then I feel like this every year especially when the clocks go back. The days are so short and the constant rushing around trying to fit everything in makes me want to hibernate and emerge in spring, but then I'll miss all the seasonal festivities so that can't happen. Deep breath and relax is what I need to remind myself of and take one day at a time and enjoy the everyday simple things in life.

 So are you all ready for December? Have you got all your Christmassy things done? Have you created all your Christmas cards? If you haven't started creating your cards yet or thought about putting up the Christmas decorations come and have a browse through the Daring Cardmakers blog. Here you'll find lots of inspiration and ideas to create your own works of art.

This week we have an Elemental Inspirational Challenge where you card create anything you like using three elements from our December mood board. Remember colours count as one element.  

For my project this week I decided to create a Christmas Candle Centrepiece. I chose colours, foliage and a candle. I created my candle by folding pages of an old book and then adding some hessian ribbon around it and decorated the front with some berries, leaves, mini pinecones and tartan ribbon. I made the base from thick cardboard and decorated it with things from my stash. 

 

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

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Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx

One word Prompt- SHINE - Daring Cardmakers Challenge

Hello and Happy Friday!

Today I am back with another challenge as we continue our One Word Prompt over on the Daring Cardmakers blog. This weeks word prompt is;

SHINE

Remember it doesn't have to be Christmas themed, and anything Goes when it comes to sharing your makes Tags, Bags, Cards, Décor, boxes - whatever you want to make
We're looking forward to seeing what you create!

This weeks prompt just makes me think of bright shiny stars and the Festive Luxe papers are perfect for this challenge. I love this one with the star bunting which I have used as a background. Bright glittery stars have been die cut and placed using foam pads. A thin strip of glitter card was placed along the bottom and the sentiment mounted on top. I found some Christmas stickers in my stash and this tree looked cute so it stands proudly on the glitter strip. 

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

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Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx

One word prompt -WHITE - Daring Cardmakers challenge

  Hello everyone!

Its been a while since I've posted anything on the blog. Life's been a little crazy lately, I feel like I'm always chasing time. I'm not a big fan of the winter months as it gets dark too quickly but I love the build up to the seasonal festivities.

We have a Christmas challenge countdown over at the Daring Cardmakers blog. This time we are changing things a little bit and having one word prompt challenges as well as the elemental inspiration challenge coming at the beginning of December. This week's word prompt is;

  WHITE

How will you use the word white on your creations this week?  Remember it doesn't have to be for Christmas and could be other projects not just cards.

White makes me think of snow and snowflakes. So for my card I have embossed the background using a white piece of card and a snowflake embossing folder. I then die cut a snowflake from silver glitter card using one of Tim Holtz dies and glued it in place. Then I mounted that onto a silver mirri card before adhering it to my base card. To finish it off I added a sentiment and some sparkly gems to the snowflakes.

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

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Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx

Super Scary Season- Daring Cardmakers Challenge

 Hello and happy Friday!

Welcome back to my blog for another Daring Cardmakers challenge. This week I’m challenging you to join in for the:

Super Scary Season Challenge  

Its not long until Halloween so I would love to see some scary ghosts, witches, monsters, bats, spiders or any other ghoulish characters on your cards this week. You can use cute Halloween characters if you like and the usual Halloween colours purple, orange and green OR try something different.

This week I’ve gone all out on digital stamp images (Jack O'Lanterns and Hello Pumpkin) by Vera Lane Studio by Janet Klein. I layered the pumpkins on top of each other in a word document and then coloured them in using Ohuhu markers. The cute girl character was also coloured using alcohol markers and then fussy cut. I had created a number of backgrounds using distress oxides whilst preparing for last weeks challenge and this one went perfectly with all the shades of orange.

 I arranged all the layers onto a black card base and then mounted the girl image using foam pads. The sentiment is also part of the set which I cut out and doodled some lines around to create a frame. 

This has been a really fun card to create I loved colouring in all the fun pumpkins. 

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

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Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx

Big On Backgrounds - Daring Cardmakers Challenge

 Hello and happy Friday!

Daring Cardmakers are back again with another new challenge. This weeks challenge is set by DT member Nat and she wants us to go; 

Big on Backgrounds

She would like to see you create your own background design/print/pattern for your card.
Get creative with stencils, stamps (big and small), dies, and create a background that really stands out.

I love creating backgrounds and I always have some pre-prepared backgrounds as it saves a lot of time. I usually create a fair few backgrounds while I have all of my inks and sprays out. It certainly pays off when you need to create something quickly. This background was also created recently and seems to fit perfectly with the challenge. I have used distress oxides to create this background and an Aall and Create stencil #126 Lotza Stars. The die cut star and sentiment are by My Favorite Things.

I hope you enjoyed my take on this weeks challenge. Show us some of your creations and don't forget to share on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Thank you so much for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy weekend. Check out all the inspiration from the DT over on the Daring Cardmakers blog;

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Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana xx