#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.

#70 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.

On one of the craft forums I belong to we have a birthday card swap. Originally it was set up so we only had one person in each month to make a card for. Sadly the numbers have dropped and we now only have nine people. Three of them are in September and with several family members also having September birthdays I try to get ahead with the cards in August.

This is one of the cards I made for the September birthday swap.

 

The backing paper is from a Paper Pantry USB with several collection on it. This one is called The Walled Garden. It was originally a paper pack but with it now on a USB I don’t have to think about running out of any of the designs.

The dies are by Becca Feeken for Spellbinders, she also has a blog called Amazing Paper Grace which I’ve followed for many years. She designs the most beautiful dies and her cards are always stunning. So when Create and Craft had some of her new range recently I just had to buy a couple. It’s very rare for the UK craft channels to have any of Becca’s dies. 

 

 The flowers are handmade using a very old set of dies by Creative Expressions from 2014. They’re still very useable even though they’re quite old. The dies are in 4 different sizes and I was able to use two sizes that were just the right fit for the card. I placed tiny grey half pearls in the centres of the flowers and large grey pearls on two of the edges of the card.

  

Items used:
Creative Crafting World: 7 by 5 landscape card blank, The Paper Pantry Vol I USB – The Walled Garden Collection, and grey and maroon card.
Spellbinders: Becca Feeken Birthday Wishes Vignette S5-455
Creative Expression: Sue Wilson’s Finishing Touches Camellia Complete Petals dies.

The challenge will close on Saturday 9^th October 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.

#40 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.

I follow the blog of a someone who used to be on the design team for CD Sunday – Jane Willis (click here for blog). She made a card with lots of cats on it and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to make one for my cat loving niece. Jane used cat silhouette stamps but I don’t have any so I bought downloads and designed the card digitally in Serif Craft Artist before printing it out and then cutting the shapes.

  

The card blank was covered with a piece of white card that I’d embossed with a pawprint design. The placement of each hexagon had been worked out in Craft Artist I just needed to make sure when I die cut them that each cat was in the right position. On the central hexagon I cut away the bottom edge so the cat’s tail hung down on the hexagon below so it looked as if the lower cat was trying to take a swipe at it!

Items used:

8 x 8 card blank from Creative Crafting World.

Pawprint Lattice embossing folder by Creative Expressions.

Nesting Dies – Stitch Dot Hexagons by Presscut.

Craft Artist digi kits – Nativity, Birthday, Winter Hamlet, Cosy Up Christmas, April Showers and Victoria Nelson Day Trip

Cat Silhouette downloads – RetroWallDeco on Etsy.

The challenge will close on Saturday 01^st 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. 

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