#50 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from. 

Thanks to everyone who entered the last challenge which I was hosting. It was great to see so many entries, some from new people too. I’ll be picking my Top Three over the next few days and Carol will announce them on the CD Sunday Challenge Blog on 3^rd January 2021.

This is my design team make for this fortnight’s challenge:

I started with a 7 by 7 inch card blank but cut it down to 6.5 by 6.5 inches as I needed the finished card to fit in a box that held a present. I then cut another piece of card to 6.5 inch square which would become the card front with the finished design on. I was going to wrap acetate around the design once it was finished, gluing it to the back so I wanted to hide the back of the card by gluing it to the card blank.

I then turned to my trusty Serif Craft Artist to look for a snowy winter scene for the background of my card. But I couldn’t find one!  I had to settle for a ‘Layout’ of a Manhattan Winter and then delete all the items I didn’t want – all 32 of them! I printed the scene out and attached it to the piece of card stock. I’d already downloaded the vignettes from Carnation Crafts and die cut the elements I wanted so I then glued them to the winter scene with Pinflair glue gel to add some height.

I’d recently bought a bottle of ‘snow’ effect and added it to the house, trees and fence where snow had been printed in the vignette.

 I also used a Tonic Nuvo Aqua Shimmer pen to add sparkle to some of the flat areas of snow, the snow man and Santa’s fur on his clothes.

I’ve had some snow effect acetate for many years but never used it but it was just what I needed to finish of this card. I attached the acetate to the piece of card with the scene on by sticking it to the back on one side. I then brought it around to the front of the card and ‘bowed’ it before sticking it to the back of the other side. I could now glue the design to the front of the card blank, hiding where the acetate had been joined on. I’ve taken a couple of photos to show the bow front – one is taken from above looking down through the card. 

 

 

Items used:

Snow scene background using a Craft Artist digi kit – CraftScapes Manhattan Winter.

Craft Artist vignettes and dies from Carnation Crafts – A Christmas Eve.

Snow acetate from Hunkydory.

3D Dimentional Snow Medium from Crafty Devils. 

The challenge will close on Saturday 19^th December at 1pm. The next challenge will be in the new year so I'd like to wish you all a Happy Christmas - enjoy it the best you can while staying safe,

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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#49 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

 

It’s my turn to host the challenge at CD Sunday Plus. I haven’t hosted one for almost 2 and a half years. My teamies have been very understanding and let me take a break, and even let me dip in and out as I felt able too. Most design teams would have told me I had to leave and wouldn’t have been so understanding. The CD Sunday DT are the best!

The theme for the CD Sunday PlusChallenge is, as usual, Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

I’m taking part in a Secret Santa swap on a crafting forum and I usually make an object as well as a card. Last year I made crocheted table mats and matching crocheted tree baubles. This year I wanted to have a go at making a Finnish Star that I’d seen in a craft magazine but gave up as my ‘star’ was looking decidedly rough! Then a friend of mine blogged one that she’d made following a tutorial on someone else's blog. So I clicked on the link and the instructions were so clear and easy to follow that I was able to make three smaller versions to hang on a Christmas tree. So thank you Hazel (Didos)! Click on Hazel’s name to go to her Finnish Star and the tutorial is on this blog – The Craft Cavalier.

To make the star you need double sided paper so I printed on both sides of Pro Paper. There’s a right and a wrong side to Pro Paper so the design printed on the back came out slightly muted compared to the colours on the front but I liked the finished look. Once assembled I die cut various sentiments and images to decorate the middle of both sides of the 3 stars, and added gold peel offs. I added some cord that used to be the handles of gift bags to hang them up.

WARNING - there now follows A LOT of photos LOL!

This is the front:

And the back:

And these are the individual stars close up:

     

   

Items used:

Two backing papers from My Craft Studio Winter Twilight CD. Papers #91 and #117 printed onto both sides of Pro Paper.

Narrow gold peel offs.

 Die sets used – Carnation Crafts Brilliant Bauble, Tonic studios Leaping Deer, Religious Bauble and ‘tis The Season Christmas Wreath.

The challenge will close on Saturday 5^th December at 1pm.

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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#48 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

 I bought a pack of large MDF tag blanks a while ago and thought I’d have a go at decorating one for this challenge using printable Sumi paper (similar to handmade paper). The Sumi paper has been printed on one side using a design from a Sharon Duncan CD called Garden Textures (2015!). It was a nightmare trying to get it through the printer – the first piece just screwed up into a ball and I had to open the printer to get it out! So for the second attempt I used a tape runner to stick the edges of the Sumi to photocopy paper and it worked. Sadly in the finished item you can barely see the Sumi! I ran around the edges of the tag with a gold PenTouch pen and also sprayed Tonic Nuvo Mica Mist through a stencil. I might as well have left this stage out as you can only see a tiny bit under the topper!

 I then decorated the front with various die cuts and Nuvo drops to make an autumnal scene.

The large die in the middle was cut from a Paper Boutique set of dies but before adding the double tree die cut I embossed it using a folder free with Papercraft Essentials magazine. You can only just make out the falling leaf impressions but without it there would be an empty space. For the pumpkin I printed a design from the aforementioned CD onto card, this time in orange, before cutting it out. I liked how it gave the impression of texture to the pumpkins. I also cut it out in green and light brown to add the stalks and tendrils.

I filled the space under the pumpkins with lots of leaf and acorn die cuts using dies from the sets listed below. I then opened Craft Artist on the PC and designed the ‘Autumn’ using various digi kits.

Finally I cut out the letter ‘A’ using an Xcut set and filled it in with more acorns and leaves!

 

Items used:Items used:

MDF tag shape from Crafty Devils.

Fabric Decoupage Glue by Cadence

Garland at the top was a free die with Die Cutting Essentials magazine.

Paper Boutique dies – You Are Tree-mendous Doily and Follow Your Dream Doily die sets.

Embossing folder free with Papercraft Essentials magazine.

Pumpkin die from Joanna Sheen.

Tonic Crystal Drops in Autumn Red and Pumpkin Pie.

Xcut Carnival Alphabet die set.

Craft Artist digi kits – Autumn Leaves, Autumn Foxes, Craft Scapes Autumn Country and Pumkin Patch. 

The challenge will close on Saturday 21^st November at 1pm. Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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#47 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

Earlier this year I made a card using a backing paper I’d printed off. I’d printed 4 copies of this paper as I kept slightly altering the printer settings to get the colour and look I wanted. I’ve blogged two other cards I’d made with this paper and this is the third one – they all look so different!

Today’s card is for my youngest sister – the baby of the family, she’s 51 LOL! I’m from a large family of 5 boys and 4 girls and the ages range from 52 to 74.

I attached the aforementioned backing paper to a 6 x 6 card blank and then added various die cuts over the top. I finished it off with a resin flower and pink pearls. 

 Items used:

Tattered Lace USB Ultimate Magazine Collection Issues 1-40 (paper is from issue 12).

Tonic Studios Seamlessly Beautiful Crystal Sphere Die Set and Verso Corner Pansy Arch die set (won in a blog draw many years ago)

Green card from my stash.

The challenge will close on Saturday 7^th November at 1pm.

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These are the other 2 cards made with the same backing paper.

                            

#46 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

 The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

I belong to a craft forum and we have regular card swaps using a theme. The latest one was ‘Use green, pink and white’. I’d just had a new die collection from Carnation Crafts delivered and had printed out the downloadable vignettes ready to make a card and luckily the colours I’d chosen fitted this theme.

 

I used an A5 card blank and cut a mat from the A Little Bit Fancy Perfect Papers - it’s actually 300gsm card. I then cut out the card shape die from the collection using the vignette in pale green. I used it as a sort of trellis rather than the card base. I then cut out several of the Balloon Flowers and snipped into some of the die cuts to make a fuller flower arrangement which I also layered up. 

Items used:

Carnation Crafts: Perfect Papers, Card Shape die and Balloon Flower die all from the A Little Bit Fancy Collection.

The challenge will close on Saturday 24^th October at 1pm.

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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#45 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

I needed to make a birthday card for one of my niece’s and it was the perfect ‘excuse’ to use some new dies from Carnation Crafts. They’re a company that has downloadable ‘vignettes’ to use with the dies. Some are free from their website but you can buy other colour ways as well. As this was the first time I’d made a card with their products I opted for the free colourway.

The yellow background card was run through an embossing folder before being attached to the base card. I then used the Sunny dies from the Summer Daze Collection and a Happy Birthday die from Creative Crafting World. I finished off with some gems from my stash.

Items used:

The Summer Daze collection from Carnation Crafts – Sunny die set and Perfect Papers.

Daisy Chain embossing folder – free with Cardmaking and Papercrafts magazine in 2014!

The Paper Boutique Happy Birthday sentiment from Creative Crafting World which was cut from Its’ A Dog’s Life card collection.

The challenge will close on Saturday 10^th October at 1pm.

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#44 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

 The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

A very good friend of one of my niece’s recently got married. The Corona virus restrictions have really plagued their wedding plans this year. The ceremony was rescheduled from March and everything down sized to fit in with the rules. But even up to the day before the wedding they were having to alter things. They’d planned on having an afternoon tea style reception – all socially distanced in the church hall but the day before the wedding the Prime Minister changed the rules and they had to cancel the reception. Luckily, the company providing the food allowed them to cancel with no loss of money.

I felt so sorry for them and wanted to make a wedding card that fitted the style of their wedding. My niece told me that the wedding theme was a rainbow. Nothing to do with the ‘thanking the NHS/essential workers rainbow’. Apparently a rainbow has a biblical connection of hope and promise and the bride and groom are both Christians. Their original wedding invites from March were very simple and basic so I wanted to follow the same style. I wanted a central ‘topper’ for the card and turned to my trusty Serif Craft Artist as I knew I had some Purple Ronnie digi kits that would have pictures of stick people and luckily there was a bride and groom image. 

 

 First of all I found a rainbow and stretched it out to fill the width of the card.  I then added the church image and resized it so it fitted perfectly inside the rainbow.  

The bride and groom were added at the bottom of the card and I resized them so the church appeared to be in the distance behind them. I added a few pink hearts and recoloured them to have a silver effect as their invites had had silver hearts on them. After quite a lot of work I eventually managed to stretch a path until it flowed from the church grounds and ended up under the feet of the married couple but still the colour was wrong. I played around with the ‘Style’ button and eventually changed the path’s appearance and it just happened to be a similar colour to the grounds of the church. I printed the bride’s bouquet and the hearts twice so I could layer them up.

So now I had a topper that I was happy with I could concentrate on the rest of the card. I had the crazy idea to make layers of rainbow coloured card! I looked up the order the colours were in a rainbow and luckily I had almost all the colours in my stash – except indigo! I had to use a very dark purple. Who knew card making involved the use of maths! I needed to work out the size of the eight layers so I could fit them on a card blank that was 7 by 10 inches.

  

 I also designed a paper for the inside of the card that had rainbows with hearts at the one end. I copied the image, flipped it and joined it to the first rainbow so it looked like the top of a heart.

 

I was thrilled with how the card turned out but decided I wanted to do more for the couple. I found some rainbow coloured bunting to download and made two long strands of bunting. They were originally meant to decorate the room where the reception was going to be held but instead used them for the church itself.

 

      

 

Items used:

Serif Craft Artist digi kits: Purple Ronnie Wedding, Home From Home, Seasonal Garden, Country Garden.

All card from my stash

Bunting from The Purple Pumpkin Blog

The challenge will close on Saturday 26^th September at 1pm.

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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#43 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

 The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

My next door neighbour does a lot of DIY and is a handyman for someone with rental properties. He was really impressed with my pop up card in the style of a tool box. 

  

I used a set of dies that were free with Die Cutting Essentials magazine, issue 51. It includes the base die for the box plus dies for all the tools. There’s also a free download for the papers which qualifies it for the CD Sunday Challenge. The ‘pin board’ at the back looks very realistic – for free downloads they were very good quality.

No ‘items used’ list as everything was a printed download onto card from my stash except the tools which were die cut from card in my stash.

The challenge will close on Saturday 12th August  at 1pm.

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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#42 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

Recently my nephew was 10 years old – technically he’s my nephew’s son so my great nephew but I don’t know of anyone who uses that term.

He loves Pokémon and I’m told he really liked the card I made him.

  

I searched Pinterest for ideas and came across lots of Pokémon images. I printed off a picture that had lots of the characters and luckily had enough to cover every area that was in view on the pop up box. Unfortunately, I can’t credit the person who’s file it was as I forgot to make a note of where I found it.

 

I then found a link to a blog of someone who had free party printables – For Geeks Oh My Fiesta. After downloading the ones I wanted I took them into Serif Craft Artist to resize them so they would fit the box. I printed them onto light card and then fussy cut them out (my least favourite thing to do!).

  

I lined the inside of the box with bright yellow card from my stash before putting it together and attaching the characters and number 10 to acetate. 

No ‘items used’ list as the white and yellow card was from my stash.

The challenge will close on Saturday 29^th August at 1pm. Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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66th Wedding Anniversary

An aunt and uncle of my late husband’s celebrated 66 years together and I wanted to make a really special card for them as they couldn’t hold a proper celebration with the lockdown and they were both shielding due to age and health issues. I’ve previously made a bow card for a friend’s big birthday and wanted to make another one for the 66^th anniversary as they’re quite a ‘show stopper’ card. The first time I cut it out by hand which I don’t enjoy doing so for this one I used the SVG cutting file and cut it out on my Brother Scan N Cut.

The papers, both the flowery and the plain, are from The Paper Boutique range by Creative Crafting World. The collection is called Blossoms In The Breeze. I die cut the hexagonal card base using Presscut Plain Hexagons dies from Crafts-too.

There are two layers to the bow part of the card and once glued together they leave quite a large dip in the middle so I filled it with lace. I slip stitched around the edge of the lace then gathered it up and joined the ends. 

The plain pink plaque in the middle is cut using a Spellbinders Sapphire Pierced Tag die that I had in a Create and Craft goody bag at the NEC and the Happy Anniversary is a Paper Boutique Doily Die.

I finished the card off with pearl number  won in a Hochands tombola at the NEC. And the 3 strips of pearls were cut from a long strip of pearls.

The inside was also decorated using the same paper pack.

On the same day as their wedding anniversary it was also Uncle Jim’s 86^th birthday. He has a great sense of humour so I made him this card which he loved.

                                                                        

#41 - Anything Goes CD Sunday Plus

The theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where the item used is from.

My card this time was inspired by another card I’d made, it didn’t have anything printed from a CD or a digital item but I liked it so decided to make a ‘similar’ digital version. A photo of the original design is at the end of this post.

  

I turned to my faithful Serif Craft Artist to make this card. I started with the image of the dressing table. The only items already on the dressing table were the perfume bottles and lamp. I added, resized and changed the colours of the lipsticks, nail varnish, hair brush and hair dryer. This was printed onto card and cut using a square die.

I then copied the image onto a new page made it much smaller and using the ‘stamp’ option copied it across a page to make a backing paper.

Everything was backed onto black glitter card to make the colours ‘pop’ – the deeper pink backing paper is also from Craft Artist.

 

Items used:

Creative Crafting World Paper Boutique: 7’’ x 10’’ card blank and Happy Birthday Doily Die

Serif Craft Artist: Digi kits used - Deco Dressing Room, A Merry Little Christmas, PJ Party and Out On The Town.

Lime Tree Crafts: black glitter card.

Dovecraft: Kiss and Makeup stickers.

The original card that my design team entry was based on:

 

 Items used:

Creative Crafting World Paper Boutique: 7’’ x 10’’ card blank, Happy Anniversary Doily Die, black card and pink card from Blossoms in the Breeze collection.

Everything else is from a Dovecraft collection called Kiss and Make up. It was a huge prize I received from Quick Cards Made Easy magazine (no longer being published) that I have for quite a while and never used.

The challenge will close on Saturday 15^th August at 1pm.

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

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Golden Wedding Bookatrix

One of my brothers and his wife recently had their Golden Wedding anniversary. I decided to make a Bookatrix card – do you remember these when the Glitter Girls were on TV? I still have the Bookatrix board but didn’t want to cut it out by hand. I found an SVG file online and used it to cut my 3 layers on the Scan N Cut.

I used kraft card for 2 of the layers and gold mirror card for the middle layer. I edged all the layers with peel offs that I’ve had for many years! I was emailed a black and white wedding photo and wanted to use it on the card. I die cut it using a set of dies from The Works and also cut a bigger layer from the same gold mirror card. I fixed this to one side of the card and to the other I added another mat. I then cut the number 50 and the Happy Anniversary from plain card. I inked them with Versamark and used embossing powder to add colour and a metallic finish to them. The Happy Anniversary is by The Paper Boutique from one of their early releases and the numbers are Carnival Numbers by Docrafts/XCut.

                                    

I then made the flowers using vellum, Stamps by Chloe (from Issue 3 of her box magazine) and Royal Gold Satin Pearl embossing powder – the same that was used on the numbers and sentiment. Actually it’s called Thermographic Powder which is the same as embossing powder. It was part of a prize from Alan and Barry when they had a forum. The forum is still going strong although it’s not called Alan and Barry anymore and it’s a closed forum so doesn’t take any more new members.

I added some flourishes cut from vellum using a Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish die.

It’s not in the photo but I also cut a stand for the card using a Card Making Magic Christina Griffiths Easel Card Stand.

My sister-in-law phoned me to say it had arrived safely and how much they both liked it. She sometimes makes cards so knows the work that goes into making one.