CD Sunday Challenge - Sketch

For the new challenge over at CD Sunday, Carol has given us a great sketch to follow:

Here is my card:

The gorgeous image and backing paper are from Pollyanna Pickering's The Story So Far DVD-rom from Creative Crafting World.  I used their Kraft card for all my layers as I thought it worked really well with the image.

I used a Nellie Snellen die and Kraft card for my die cuts, Lili of the Valley Sentiment stamp, and Crafters' Companion flower dies to create my daisy, finished with flowersoft in the centre, to pick out the daisies in the main image.  Finally, I added green gems to the other 2 corners.

Inside the card I added a matching insert from the DVD-rom but forgot to take a photo of this!

Thanks for the sketch Carol, I really enjoyed following it.

Jo x

CD Sunday Challenge - Spring Colours - 2nd Entry

Here, as promised, is my second entry for the current CD Sunday Challenge:

I used my very neglected Morehead Cd-rom from Crafters Companion to make my card.

The card blank is from Hunkydorey and I cut out the printed backing papers to fit the aperture.  I cut a Creative Expressions die twice and attached these to the base image to frame it.

I printed the decoupage elements onto 140gsm super smooth paper and layered them using foam pads to add the wonderful dimension to the image.

I'm really pleased with how this came out and must try and use this cd-rom some more.

Jo x

CD Sunday Challenge - Spring Colours

My favourite challenge is celebrating it's 7th birthday.  Happy Birthday CD Sunday and thanks for inspiring me to use my cd's (I've got a lot of them and my collection continues to grow!).

I've made 2 cards to enter in the current challenge and this is the first one:

I used the Sugar and Spice cd-rom from Crafters' Companion for my card.  The name was created using Stamps which I then cut out using a die and triple-embossed using Ultra thick clear embossing powder,  I created the rose embellishment using roses and rose buds from my stash, die cut leaves and white feathers, all ties together with some narrow pink ribbon,

To create the butterfly tag, I cut the image with a circle die and then cut another slightly larger circle from pink card.  I added a second butterfly to add dimension and added tiny gems to the centre.  This was then attached using bakers twine.

I added spotty ribbon diagonally across two corners.  Finally I added more gems to finish.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

CD Sunday Challenge - Second Entry

Hello Again

This is the card I have made for my niece's birthday using a fabulous Pollyanna Pickering image from Creative Crafting World.

The image was printed onto glossy photo paper and matted onto Lynda's black card.  The backing papers were taken from a Paper Popper Pad, again matted onto Lynda's black card.  I rounded off all the corners on this card for a different look.

My 'any old iron' elements on the card are parts of the horses bridal and the brad and charms I added to the corner of the card.  There are two cards attached using bakers twine, one is a horse, and the other is a little hand the says 'hand made' on it.

I die cut the sentiment twice, using a die from Crafters Companion, cut once into black card, and once into yellow card, and offset them slightly.

Here is the link to the latest challenge - CD Sunday Challenge - Any Old Iron

Jo x

CD Sunday Challenge - Any Old Iron

Hello

Welcome to my blog today.

I was delighted to see that I had a card placed in the top three in the recent CD Sunday 'Punch It Out' Challenge.

The current challenge theme is 'Any Old Iron'.

I needed to make a birthday card for a Westie lover.  I went to one of my rather neglected cd's - Paws for Thought by Sandra Coen, it's a Creative Crafting World cd.  I thought that the traditional watering can depicted in the image fitted the current CD Sunday Challenge perfectly:

My apologies that the image is a bit fuzzy.  I took this photo on my camera phone and posted the card before checking the quality of the photo.  Hopefully, you still get the general feel of the card.

I decided to make a twisted stacker for a change and printed the image onto glossy photo paper.

The co-ordinating backing paper was printed onto a satin paper.  I used Lynda Chapman's black card to create my mats and used a black peel off for my sentiment.

I'd love to know what you think of my card.

Jo x