House of Cards First Project

Good Afternoon All,

(well it is here in Europe, if you've clicked over from House of cards guess it's morning!)

Here is my first Design Team offering for House of Cards Challenge...

House of Cards runs on a four week (sometimes five) rotation and allows different kinds of card styles to be featured. The challenge although over a four or five week span is the same every week.  It will either be a colour challenge or a sketch challenge.  You can enter for one week or all of the weeks.

Now onto this weeks challenge, I hope you all join in...

Use at least 3 colours from the colour palette

 

Week 1: Fun & Cute

Week 2: Clean & Simple
Week 3: Classic & Elegant
Week 4: Shabby & Vintage
Week 5: Your Fave + Photo

I entered into the Classic and Elegant style and to my surprise I was one of the lucky ones to be chosen to join the Design Team.  I would never have classed myself as neither Classic nor Elegant but apparently my card making is!  I do, as you can see from my blog, enjoy making other styles of cards, but I have a thing for balance and structure which makes my style kinda classic I guess just can't get a grip on the shabby garden fence kinda thing.

 

For my card I chose the burgundy red shade, the turquoise and the pale / pastel blue.  The paper is my minds eye which matched the colours perfectly and I teamed it with matching Core'dinations cardstock which I embossed with the Do'crafts secret Garden embossing folder and sanded.  The patterned paper was cut with Spellbinders Bracket Borders die and foam mounted over the base.

 

Next I cut #3 die from Spellbinders Gold Labels four in a pale blue and foam mounted #2 die from Spellbinders labels four which I stamped with a sentiment from Waltzing mouse and edged it with a matching ink (no idea which one by this stage I was grabbing any colour that matched)

 

Finally I cut flowers using the patterned and plain card and added foliage cut in the same papers.  to balance the main element I mounted some of the plain blue card onto more of the background cardstock and used it as a strip down the side.

 

Now it's your turn.  Lets see your Classic and Elegant  card I know that all my followers and commenters are themselves, experts in this style!.  Not your thing, then check out the other styles that are running this month at House of Cards.  I'm sure there is at least one style that you enjoy making and we would all love to see your card in it.

Enjoy...

First post of the day!

Hello Friends,

This is a quick taster for my offering today which for international timing issues (ooh get 'im) will go live later, hopefully about 4pm U.K. time I think!

Later Guys!  John x

Sunday Mojo

Hello,

It is Spanish Crafter Wendy's turn to choose the stash for this weeks challenge.  When I got home from work I found This

sitting on my window ledge!  There was no card, embellishments or any other inspiration.  I was well and truly stuck.

After wracking my brains for ages I remembered a jewellery box I made for my, failed, attempt to join the Core'dinations design team!  View it here

I decided to make a fold over cover for the tissue box so that I could replace the contents when empty.  I also thought this would make a nice gift.



I made the box using small squares of Core'dinations cardstock, in various shades of blues, which I embossed using Spellbinders Harlequin M'Bossabilities folder then sanded.

I then stitched all the pieces in place using my sewing machine with a zig zag stitch.  I finished with my ever present, at the moment, pearls!

The whole top folds open to cover the box and ties, with matching ribbon, at each corner, like this...





I have started a tutorial for this which will go live next week, if you want one, for now click here to view Wendy's creation.

Enjoy...

Boxes, Boxes, Boxes

Happy Something Different Saturday Everyone!

I am continuing my theme of Boxes after Boxes!  Todays are the same style as I made a couple of months ago however this time I will do a tutorial for them.  I have made them in different sizes, styles and colours.


Firstly the tall blue box...





I have used both boxes as packaging for different candles, the rose on this box is cut with Bitty Blossoms.  The tag is a leftover from tomorrows Sunday Mojo tune in tomorrow to see how this is done.  Sunday Mojo was made early this week as OH is over today so I always like to schedule my posts, by Monday I will be having craft withdrawal!








Here is a side view...



Next is the fatter green and turquoise box (paper from My Minds Eye)  This one I have used to contain a stack of fragranced tea lights.  I'm not 100% happy with the contents of this box but I love the look of the window!

I have used a matching ribbon and buttons as embellishments as the paper is quite busy enough.  I edged the sides and the tag using tumbled glass distress stain to give an antique look to the piece,  Kinda like old Victorian wallpaper, love it or hate it!








Not sure what to call this style of box, answers on a postcard please.  Actually whoever comes up with the best name will win one of these as a prize!

Tutorial next week,  Enjoy...

Black and Silver

Good Morning,

A few days ago I posted this card and quite a few people commented that they would like to see it in pastels.  I tried but just couldn't get the colours to work, honest!  I will keep trying and see if I can cone up with a pastel version of this filigree card.

Instead, therefore, I started back at basic black, I would call this card a Happy Accident as nothing on it was planned.  I started, after cutting the Filigree base, by cutting a circle out in the centre.  Next I placed a piece of silver Mirri card beneath the aperture when I noticed how nice the sliver looked showing behind the filigree edge.

Next I edged the circle with my bargain gems form the local Chino shop, these come in strips so surrounding the circle with the correct spacing was easy.  Finally I added one of my bows, made with a check and an organza ribbon in black and white, and two of Wendy's hat Pins.  The sentiment was easy as this card looked, to me at least, so celebratory therefore Celebrate ( perhaps that it's Friday!) 

Enjoy...

On The Same Wavelength

Good Morning All,

On Monday afternoon I sat down in my craft room and the image of a blue and White card floated into my vision.  I had found a stamp on Sunday that I hadn't used before.  I thought that this would look really kewl embossed in white on blue card with, perhaps, a little glitter.  Little did I know that Ang (Mrs Duck) was having the same thoughts at the same time.  When checking my ever growing list of blogs I check daily I came across this post

Please view Mrs Ducks Post Here it will make sense of my post!

This is the card I came up with (on Monday Honest)

I have stamped the image, from Creative Expressions, in versamark and embossed it in detail White embossing powder.  Next I 'coloured' the butterfly in the image with a quickie Glue Pen and added glitter in white.

If you have viewed Mrs Ducks post you will see that she has embossed a similar image in blue on white, she even added glitter!  Great minds think alike I guess!!!

I cut the edge of my card using Spellbinders Bracket Borders one and folded over another flap which I matted with white card.  When the card is closed the white shows through the filigree on the border.  Despire trying I couldn't get a good shot of this.

I have a added a close up of the stamped image instead, Enjoy...

Double shift quickie

Hello,

I've just got in from a double shift so todays planned post will have to be delayed until tomorrow, sorry Mrs Duck!  Here's a quickie as I hate leaving a day without something.

A quick card to make and post lol enjoy the sentiment ...