Man About Town

Samples for Create and Craft 

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This is an 8 x 8 card. I used two of the beautiful 6 x 6 inch papers.. wanting to show as much of the lovely papers as possible. They are overlapped the ribbon and buttons hide the joins. The leaves are made from black card and then rubbed over with gold embossing wax.

A 6 x 6 card this time. I wanted to use some of the alphabet tiles on the CD so used the word DAD floating on some bakers twine. Could be a birthday card or a fathers day card. The key is one of the new spellbinders dies. The heart and key. I used matching blue card from the matting and layering and the alphabet tile mounts. Rubbed over with gilding wax it gave the key an old steel look.

A 6 inch gate fold card. I used some wooden embellishments to match the watch. The top left embellishment is a wooden lamp post.

I decide for this card to go brighter in colours so I chose a beautiful blue backing paper and white die cuts.  Using gilding flakes for the first time I embellished around the central image. Does not show up very well on the photo.

Small 6 inch stepper card ...so quick to make. Sorry the decoupage does not looked lined up, I think it was the angle of the photograph.

Great  CD for making 'men'  cards and  the 6 x 6 papers and  ordinary backing papers are gorgeous an addition to any craft room

Kraftyhands April Challenge

Shades of Blue

For this months Blog Challenge I decided to use just the blue flowers from the Kraftyhands Die Cut Flower Kit

All the flowers are from the kit including the small roses in the centre. For the flower centers I used ordinary large brass paper fasteners, inked and embossed them.



Iris Stepper Card

Kew CD Sample for Create and Craft

 

Such a simple card to make thanks to the CD. The Iris looks really 3D when decoupaged. The colours my favourite.

Kew CD

Sample for Create and Craft

Tuesday 12th March  1pm and 6pm

 

Had great fun making this card trying out my new gold spellbinders. Little tricky to get them lined up perfectly in the middle. Love the colours of pink and turquoise in the backing paper.

Happy Mothers Day

Card made with Kew CD

 

 

The background is stamped and embossed with a bright glittery gold powder. The pink roses are handmade using a diecut. The topper is from the beautiful CD.

It would make a super Mothers Day card.

New Kew CD

Card using the  Kew CD by Kraftyhands

 

The background of this card is stamped with a flourish stamp and embossed in gold. I had distressed the edge of the card with Walnut Stain and found that some of the gold embossing powder stuck to it, quite like the look. The pink and yellow background is a piece of paper made at a Sheena Douglass workshop and I thought suited the image.

I coudn't find a matching colour of ribbon the correct width for the slots so I used two. I could still see the slots I had cut so I teased the ribbon upwards to disguise them.
After I had put the hatpins through the matching bow I put small beads on the
points to make them safer.

March Blog Challenge

My card for the Kraftyhands March Blog Challenge

 

This month the challenge is to follow a sketch.

 

 

 

I decided to follow it as exactly as I could. Working with an A3 piece of card I cut it down to be 8x8. 

I used the Fleur Francais CD and chose design 3 of the pyramid selection but only used the first layer so I had a big bold flower in the purple shade. I then chose suitable backing papers from the sets using 3 again so I knew the colours would match. I used a rich purple card to mat and layer.

For the bow tails I decided to make two in embossed silver mirri and the third in the purple card. To lift is a little I embossed it using the swiss dots embossing folder.

The sentiment is aslo from the CD and I mounted that on silver mirri card and cut a very thin border.

The three little flower heads complete the design.

The simple sketch is a good idea to keep to one side if you ever run dry of ideas it will act as a starting plan to get you playing.

 

Hope you like the card and can join us playing with this months challenge using Kraftyhands products.