#72 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

Thanks for entering my hosting challenge over the last two weeks. I’m going to find it very difficult to whittle it down to just three for my Top Three picks. 

Get yourself comfortable – there’s a lot of steps to the card for this fortnight’s challenge!

As usual the theme at The CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes - remember you must have used something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download, you must state where the item used is from and you must make a physical item and not a digital one.

I started by taking a paper into Serif Craft Artist so I could get the size right for the card blank (7x10 inches). I didn’t want to print A4 and chop bits off as I liked the images at the edges of the paper. The paper is from a USB – Imagination Crafts Mixed Media Rice Papers USB Volume 3. I chose this paper because I love the face at the bottom left. I didn’t print it on rice paper though - it’s Fabriano white paper. 

After gluing it to the card blank I drew around the edges with a black marker. I’d dithered about putting a layer of black card first but it just didn’t look right so it was a bit of a gamble that the black pen would look OK. But the best thing about using USBs is that you can always print another sheet off!

I masked off the 3 yellow butterflies and then stamped over them in black with an Indigo Blu stamp from their box magazine number 3.

I also stamped the corner filigree at the bottom left and the cameo and lady at the top right which were 2 separate stamps that I combined to make the cameo image.

I then went over the butterflies with a glitter pen and used a white pen on the white areas of the paper (mainly the edges of the flowers and the spots on the edge of the largest printed butterfly) which has helped them to stand out.

I glued the skeleton leaves in the corner and added a jewel embellishment – it’s actually a brad but I cut the legs off and used Pinflair glue gel. I went over the leaves with the same glitter pen to give them a shimmery look.

At this point I thought I was done but there was a large ‘gap’ in the middle to the right. 

I still had the sheet of Indigo Blu stamps on my desk and there’s a very large butterfly stamp on it. I stamped it onto yellow card using a grey inkpad and after cutting it out covered it in the glitter pen but it was too bright a yellow and the other butterflies are more orangey. I searched everywhere for a different shade of card but couldn’t find one that was right. I had the remains of a sheet of vellum on my desk so stamped the butterfly on that again in grey ink. Ink stays wet on vellum for ages so I turned the butterfly over and used the glitter pen on the ‘back’. I then glued the two butterflies together and added a small brad. I shaped the butterfly wings before gluing just the body to the card.

Items used: 

Creative Crafting World:7 by 10 inch card blank, Fabriano white paper and large white half pearls.

Imagination crafts: Mixed Media Rice Papers Volume 3 USB.

Indigo Blu: stamps from box magazine issue 3.

Items from stash: Cameo and scroll stamps, pearl brads (possibly Creative Expressions?), skeleton leaves (many years old!), Sakura white pen. 

The challenge will close on Saturday 6^th November 2021 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. You must also make a physical item and not a digital one. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.

We also have a Facebook page if you don't have a blog - The CD Sunday Plus Challenge.