This challenge was to make a shaker card, but with vellum in place of acetate. Also, to add images as shaker pieces. I went with one of the new Queen & Co. Endless Halloween Shaker die sets to make my shaker with the spider web, added a spider to the web, and I included more of the spiders inside the shaker. Unfortunately, some of the spiders kind of stuck together once shaken, and all the little orange and black shaker balls stuck together in one place, but that can't be helped.
I only have a few stencils, and the only one I have used is the one I chose for this challenge. The twist was to use 2 different colors of ink. I just used them for shading the brick, to give it a more natural look.
I shaded the window panes, too.
The bushes are a patterned paper from my stash.
I can't say it's my favorite card, but I am satisfied with the results.
I am hosting the CARDtober Friday challenges. My theme is "Outside the Box," which means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective; creative thinking.
Most cards, whether store bought or hand made, are usually a rectangle or a square shape (box like), or sometimes other basic shapes such as an oval or circle. Cards that are different attract attention.
Shaped cards can be made with dies, electronic cutters, or even just with scissors.
If you are using one of your larger shaped dies to make a shaped card, make sure that the fold of your card base is a little below one edge of your die, then cut. You will need a separate complete cut of one layer of card stock to cover your base card shape, whatever shape you use.
I chose a teapot card, which was a card design that I downloaded from the Silhouette Design Store. It's Design #296773 by Lori Whitlock. I used Graphic 45 Cafe Parisian Collection papers, and fussy cut the roses and pastries from a couple of the sheets to enhance the teapot and teacup. I also popped one of the roses on the front of the card.
Today's challenge is to make a shaped card, anything that is NOT rectangle, square, or other basic shape. Try to get creative.
The twist is to fussy cut part of the decorations on the card.
Have fun with this challenge. I'm looking forward to seeing your creations!
This challenge was based on Crafty Al's Sheetload of Cards for April 2021. I adapted. I have a ton of scraps, and I was having a hard time finding any paper that I liked both the A and B sides. I found one among my scraps, but ended up deciding that the bat side of the paper looked best as the small vertical panel rather than as the main background, so I did both cards the same.
I'm not on a team, so the points don't matter to me. I do CARDtober because it's fun, and I enjoy it. I adapt when I feel like it.
The stamp is from Stampendous, and is a very, very old one from my stash. The little witch is a Silhouette print and cut.
I finished the above cards yesterday. While I'm not doing this for points, so I feel that I can adapt as needed, part of me really wanted to do the challenge as it was given. So today, I found other papers that worked better. I even got the tag correct this time. The jar of flowers is a print and cut from Silhouette Design Store. The papers are from Imaginisce 2012. I don't know who makes the stamp I used for the phrase on the tag.
Today's CARDtober challenge is to use the colors red, white, and grey and/or silver. I had a Christmas paper in my stash from Little Yellow Bicycle, left over from a 25 sheet pack find at Tuesday Morning years ago. It was a bright, shiny red, silver, a little gold, and had white accents. I used that for my card base. I used the Christmas Tree die from Queen & Co.'s Jolly Jingles shaker set, and one of their 3D bows, but I'm not sure which set that was from. The silver cardstock was a matte grey on one side, so I pieced the bow to show only the silver (as much as I could), and I used clear Wink of Stella on the little bit of matte side that showed. The ovals for the Noel sentiment were cut with dies from Q&Co.'s Foundation 5 set.
The Noel stamp was from a "free" set that came with an issue of Cardmaking & Papercraft. It's not the best quality stamp, but I liked the design, it was the right size, and it stamped okay.
This challenge was to make a fall themed card, having to do with some event that takes place during the fall. I chose Thanksgiving, and I used a few different Silhouette print and cut files for all but the card stock base of the card. The Turkey is a Stinkin' Cute Paper Piecings file, the pie wedge is from La La Shiba, and the banner is from Carta Bella.
The Twist was to either pop something on the card, or to use AI to create an element for the card. I chose to pop the body of the turkey for a bit of dimension. I printed two turkeys, and hand cut the body separate from the feathers from one of the cuts, then used foam tape to adhere it in front of the full print & cut turkey.
This challenge was to create a set of 3 cards, either using the same sentiment or the same papers. I went with the same sentiment, although I used 3 different "Thinking of You" stamps. I used papers from the Heartfelt Creations Climbing Clematis paper pad, just different papers from the collection for each card, but they at least coordinate. I used Queen & Co. Foundation dies to cut the banner accents.
