#No:97 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

Thanks to everyone who entered the CD Sunday Plus Challenge over the last two weeks. I was host so I get to pick the Top Three. We had lots of Halloween themed entries and as I love Halloween I’m going to find it difficult to narrow it down to just three! I made several Halloween items but as they’re my design team makes I haven’t been able to blog them. The first one is my card for today and I’ll use the others over the next two challenges.

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’ve recently joined a new card swap on Facebook. It’s called Card Exchange and the admin is Linda Trigg if anyone is interested in joining in. It’s only been running since September so there’s only about seven members at the moment.

The theme for October was to make a multi-tiered pop-up card. I’d never seen one before but there’s plenty of videos on YouTube. The one I followed was to make a card that fits a 6x6 envelope but after making a prototype from white card I decided to make a larger one that fitted an 8x8 envelope.

After cutting out all the pieces it’s easier to cover them with backing papers before joining it all together. It’s not as difficult to make as it looks and it’s great for displaying all the decorations. I don’t think it will be the last one I make.

Lots of photos showing the coffins on the sides and the various layers.

Items used:

Backing papers: All were designed by a friend who used to offer them as downloads for free on his blog, Sadly his blog has been dormant for many years and he now longer designs any crafting things.

Carnation Crafts: Wedding Volume, Pumpkin Corner, Season Décor die sets cut from their 2021 Halloween bundle vignettes. A Little Spooked die set cut from the vignettes of the same name.

Tonic Studios: The RIP is from the Spooky Coffin Treat Box die set.

The challenge will close on Saturday 12^th November 2022 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.

#96 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

It’s my turn to host the CD Sunday Plus Challenge for the next two weeks. I always like to make something a bit different/special when I’m hosting and the last day of the challenge is also my birthday, so it had to be extra, extra special - I think I’ve managed that LOL! 

I was looking through some old magazines and came across a fairground carousel in a Hunkdory magazine. The download is from the Craftworld website and is available as a template and SVG files. I didn’t follow the instructions completely as I used card from my stash and not what came with the magazine. I also didn’t use the stamps supplied as they were a unicorn and I wanted a proper carousel horse. I knew I had a stamp and matching carousel horse die in my stash so used those.

I ran the red card through an embossing folder but it had a white core so I rubbed a wax over it to knock it back a bit. I then used gold peel-offs along the edges and between each section.

The centre pole is the inner of a roll of clingfilm covered in gold card and sparkly gold peel offs wrapped around it. The base is also covered in gold corner peel offs – they fitted around all the poles perfectly. The pole that the horses are attached too are paper straws that have peel offs wound around them in corresponding colours. Once I’d stamped and die cut the horses I the rubbed wax over them which highlights the embossed areas.

The base is in two halves so the carousel can be turned. I went a bit crazy with star peel offs on the base. Well I have to use them up somehow LOL! I’ve wound tiny lights around the inside of the base but didn’t glue them so they can be removed if they ever break.

Finally I added a ‘knob’ on the very top to make it easier to turn the carousel. It’s made from a plastic ferrel painted red. It’s what they put on the end of metal chair legs to stop them scratching the floor. They can also be found on the end of a walking stick!

Photos of each of the horses and a video of me turning it around!

Items used:

Creative Expressions: Necessities – Carousel Animals Dies (CED23042) and Carousel Clear Stamp Set (CEC938).

Hunkydory: Red pearl card.

From stash: gold card, peel offs, wax, paper straws, and lights.

Special mention for my neighbour who saved the inner of her cling film for me LOL!

The challenge will close on Saturday 29th October 2022 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.

#95 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus 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.

Back in 2018 I made a birdhouse instead of a card for my husband’s birthday. Little did I know it would be the last birthday I would make anything for him. The original blog post can be found here.

The template and papers are by MJM Design Studios on Etsy. This time I used the papers supplied in the download except for the roof where I used the papers from a Crafter’s Companion CD Rom with Issue 17 of their Inspiration Magazine.

The sparkly paper used around the front edge of the roof and the ridge is from my stash.

The challenge will close on Saturday 15^th October 2022 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.