BON VOYAGE - Daring Cardmakers Challenge

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

I'm so glad we finally got some sunshine even though the kids holidays are at an end. It means I can plan a few day trips and enjoy our time together as a family. There's a new challenge starting over on the Daring Cardmakers blog which I'm hosting and I have based it on travel. There's all sorts of restrictions and quarantines for holiday makers and I wondered if people still looked forward to travelling abroad!! So I've named the challenge:

BON VOYAGE

Holidays seem to have a whole new meaning and experience now.
Is there a favourite place you'd like to travel to or revisit?
This week's challenge is all about travel so I would love to see maps, directions, tickets, planes, trains or automobiles.
Anything travel related you could even use your best holiday destination.

 For my card I have used First Edition Bon Voyage papers. I found these were perfect for this challenge. I mounted one of the papers onto my base card and one to create a striped border. I cut a large circle from the paper with the world map using a circle die which would give it a globe effect. I then fussy cut some of the tickets from another sheet from the Bon Voyage papers. I added some wooden embellishments and a die cut plane. Then finished it off with a Bon Voyage sentiment. 

I'll be posting a few more ideas on my Facebook and Instagram pages this week for more inspiration. you can check the out here:

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 or our Facebook page Daring Cardmakers Create and Share.

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 https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana

10 Green Bottles -Daring Cardmakers Challenge

  Hello and happy Friday!

Welcome back to my blog for another Daring Cardmakers Challenge. This weeks host is DT member Ruth and she would like to see anything to do with a bottle - or maybe even 10 green bottles. Wine bottles, Beer bottles, Perfume bottles, Small ones, big ones, full ones, empty ones.....

I think the Aallandcreate stamp set by Tracy Evans is perfect for this challenge. It's been a while since I used this set so I am glad it's getting the attention. I created a background using distress oxides in various shades of green. Once dry I stamped the stamp with bottles and used stencils to create interest in the background. So to make the bottles and the flowers stand out I created two backgrounds one in blue and the other in various shades of orange, coral and yellow. I restamped the the bottles and the flowers separately and then fussy cut them. I used a ball tool to shape the bottles so they had a curved shape and used foam tape to adhere them to the main stamped image. Next I added some more detail onto the flower heads using colouring pencils. I shaped the flower heads and added some black pearl gems to the centre before gluing them in place. I added a sentiment from one of Tracy's new releases called 'Bring on the Sentiments'. I then added some black thread before mounting it onto the front of the bottles. To finish it off I added tiny bits of details with some washi tape.  

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 or our Facebook page Daring Cardmakers Create and Share.

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 https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana

Very Superstitious- Daring Cardmakers challenge.

 Good morning and happy Friday!

Welcome back for another new challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Its Friday the 13th and this week we are looking at different types of superstitions. How superstitious are you? Is Friday 13th unlucky in your book? Today's challenge is to be inspired by a superstition! Here are a few examples to get you thinking:

Throw a pinch of spilled salt over your left shoulder to blind the devil - you might feature an image of a little devil or a salt pot. Or use actual salt in your project (e.g. make a salted watercolour background).

Knock on wood for luck - use woodgrain pattern or something made of actual wood on your project. 

Breaking a mirror is seven years’ bad luck - use mirror card, a mirror image or a shattered pattern.

Many superstitions are specific to a culture so tell us about the superstition you’ve used in case it’s one we don’t know! 

So for my card I have chosen a few different superstitions. How many have you spotted?  There's the black cat, the number 13, the colour green and salt. So I started off by creating a salted background using distress oxides and coarse salt. Once I had picked up the distress colours onto the card using the smooshing technique I added salt onto the wet background and left it to dry naturally. Once dry I rubbed off all the salt this gave the background a mottled effect as it absorbed all the access water. I added some details using some stencils by Aallandcreate like the number 13. I coloured one of the cats from the Felines stamp set by Janet Klein and then fussy cut it. Washi tape was added at the bottom of the die cut circle and then mounted onto black before adhereing it to the main card. I decided to stamp the fish bones around the circle and then added the cat and sentiment to the card.

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 or our Facebook page Daring Cardmakers Create and Share.

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 https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana

August Elemental Inspiration Challenge- Daring Cardmakers Challenge

 Hello and welcome back to my blog!

Its the first Friday of the month and its time for another Elemental Inspiration Challenge. This months mood board is full of inspirational elements. To join in all your need to do is to choose 3 elements for your card. Remember colours count as one element.

For my card I chose the cute bunny, colours and words. I die cut one of the frames from white card and stamped this cute bunny from one of the Uniko stamps sets called 'Some Bunny'. I decided I wanted the bunny just peeking in from one side, so I stamped it at an angle with just the top half of the bunny. I used alcohol markers to colour in the image. I stamped the words welcome baby using one of Waltzing Mouse stamp sets called 'Say It Loud', these stamps are unfortunately discontinued. I mat and layered some mint coloured card onto some pale pink. I die cut the star bunting from a First Editions die set and placed it across the top of the frame. I added a pink strip at the bottom of the card and adhered some pearl gems to it and to the centres of the stars. 

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 or our Facebook page Daring Cardmakers Create and Share.

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 https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

Crafty Hugs,

Rizwana