#147 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

I love making birthday cards for my next door neighbours’ eldest daughter. She’s into a Steampunk/Goth look so I get to use my vast Steampunk crafting collection. Not to everyone’s taste but it’s what she likes.

Items used:

Magik Graphics: Belleza Mortals Dos CD.

Creative Crafting World: Lynda Chapman’s World of Paper black card.

Limetree Crafts: Steel Blue mirror card.

Crafts-too: Burgundy Essentials Card.

From stash: 8 by 8 inch card base and finished with gems and ‘nail heads’ from stash.

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is 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. 

The challenge will close on Saturday 7^th December 2024 at 1pm.

 

 

#52 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

The theme for the current challenge at the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. 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.

When I was on Facebook in a Serif Craft Artist group someone posted a photo of a card they’d made using a digikit that I knew would be perfect for my next door neighbour’s oldest daughter. She’s a very pretty girl and likes to wear clothes and style her hair and makeup to look a little bit goth/punk. She has one of those earrings in her ear lobe that makes a hole and stretches it bigger and bigger! She also likes images of bats and spiders and their webs. 

Originally I just designed the layout in Craft Artist and printed it out with the intention of just gluing it to a card blank. But then my mind started working overtime LOL! I went back into Craft Artist and undid the layout. I then arranged each element onto a page with plenty of room around them - all together there was eight items. The two girls were placed on a page of their own and copied so I had two of each girl, these were printed onto Pro Paper. The other elements were then printed onto printable Sumo paper (rice paper) and using a water brush torn away from the blank areas of the Sumo paper. The design was then built back up again, on a piece of card, which involved using a fabric decoupage glue to stick the items down one at a time and waiting for them to dry. Before the next layer could be added I painted white Gesso where it was to be placed and waited for that to dry. I needed to use white paint under each layer as rice paper is thin and the layer underneath would show through making the background look ‘muddy’. By using white Gesso the upper layers remained true to colour and as bright as when they were on screen. Eventually once it was all dry I was able to add the four faces using Pinflair Glue Gel to add height. I added sparkle pen to the lips, eyes and hair. There was already necklaces on the images but I added Nuvo drops and gems to them.

The finished design was then matted onto black card and then a card blank that I made from cardstock.It's an 8.5 by 6 landscape card blank with the fold on the left hand side.

Items used:

Serif Craft Artist and digikits from Paper Studio – Silke’s Boos and Booze mini kits.

Printable Sumo paper from Create and Craft.

Tonic Studio Nuvo Drops – Ivory Seashell Crystal Drops and Fiery Volcano Stone Drops. 

The challenge will close on Saturday 30^th January 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.

#51 Anything Goes - CD Sunday Plus Challenge

The Top Three for the challenge I hosted, 22nd November to 5^th December, has been announced over on the CD Sunday Challenge Blog. Thanks to everyone who entered, it was great seeing so many entries and some from new people too.

The theme for the current challenge is Anything Goes. 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 a physical item must be made not a digital one.

After watching a Facebook live from Carnation Crafts I decided to have a go at making a triple easel card. I’m loving using the Carnation Crafts flower dies and downloadable vignettes – they make the card look amazing.

For the central easel I used the Carnation Crafts A Little Bit Fancy Card Shape. I cut the back layer from green card by The Paper Boutique’s It’s A Dog’s Life. The detailed layer was cut from the downloadable vignette. The two side panels are cut using a Tonic Studios die from the Swirling Frame Layering Die Set.

I then decorated the card using Carnation Crafts flower dies and downloadable vignettes. From left to right they are – Balloon Flower, Night-scented Stock, Peony, Agapanthus and finishing on the right sided easel - Balloon Flower. Some of the die cuts were snipped into and pieces slipped in to fill gaps.

  

The heart shaped stoppers are cut using Tattered Lace Heart dies. The green card as before and the purple is Paper Boutique again but this time from The Walled Garden set. Finally the sentiment and backing layer were cut using The Paper Boutique Happy Anniversary Doily Die set.

I made the card for my next door neighbours. They sent me a text saying ‘Wow!! You have out done yourself on this one. It’s amazing, we love it and are touched that you remembered our wedding anniversary’. They’ve been a great support to me, and my late husband during his illness, and since he’s passed away.

The challenge will close on Saturday 16^th January 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. 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.

#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.

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

#38 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.

In my previous blog post I mentioned a street party that was held for the VE Day celebrations. We had a great time and laughed a lot! I don’t drink alcohol but my neighbours do and as the evening progressed the stories became funnier and funnier. My card depicts a very funny story that one of my neighbours told us – I won’t repeat the story as you ‘had to be there’ to appreciate how funny it was. The scene was created in Serif Craft Artist.

  

Items used:

Creative Crafting World 5 by 7 landscape card blank.

Digi kits used – Craft Scapes Landscapes, Craft Scapes Italian Escapes, Craft Scapes Stately Home and Pirates.

The challenge will close on Saturday 4^th July 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.

#37 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.

For the 75^th VE Day celebrations my neighbours and I had a ‘street’ party. We’re at the end of a cul-de-sac and sat in the middle of the road whilst keeping to social distancing rules. During the course of the evening I found out it was my neighbour’s birthday in a couple of days and her husband hadn’t been able to buy a card because of the lockdown. So I made this card for him to give to her.

I covered an 8 by 8 card blank with a rose embossed card from Tonic Studios. The next layer was printed from the same CD as the flowers and embossed using a Tonic folder. The floral arrangement is a charisma printed from a My Craft Studio CD and die cut using the matching dies for both the flowers and the leaves. The card was finished off with a gold Happy Birthday peel off.

Items used:

Tonic Studio Ivory Toile card from Tonic monthly kit no.15.

Tonic Studio Just For You Dimensional Embossing Folder and Die Set.

My Craft Studio CD Magical Midnight for the pink backing card and also the flower and foliage charisma.

Magical Midnight Just Because flower and foliage die and Anniversary Bouquet foliage die.

The challenge will close on Saturday 20^th June 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.