#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.

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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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.

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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#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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