Lou's 3C's Challenge

As if Lou hasn't been busy enough, it was her turn to set the challenge for April on Charmed. No prizes for guessing that she thought of Dottie. She's even given forum members a FREE and EXCLUSIVE Dottie to use if we wish. I made my card using the curvy card template that Lou designed too.

This is what Lou said:
To celebrate the launch of Dottie I challenge you to make a ‘Dottie’ card (Dottie the character, not polka dots LOL). Don’t panic if you don’t have any Dottie’s because I’ve drawn a free, exclusive Charmed Dottie, only available to forum members who take part in this challenge, you can use her as much as you like after that but only if you take part in the fun! (you can leave out the sentiment if you wish)

Okay so here are the points· For making a Dottie card........ 30 points· For adding Scalloping....... 10 points· For Dry embossing...... 5 points· For using buttons..... 5 points ~~ 50 points in total

This is what I did:
I managed to cut the card in one piece rather than the usual two plus hinges. This eliminated the need to cover the hinges after assembly.

To decorate the card, I cut a piece of red pearlised card and scalloped the edges. Dry embossed curves and doodled using a black pen. I also dry embossed "Hello" to the right of Dottie who was coloured using brush markers, cut out and stuck to the red card. Pink buttons were added to her hair. I stapled ribbon and ric-rac to the top of the card and stuck a piece of orange ric-rac to the bottom.

The staples showed on the inside, so I cut some card, folded it to create a place to write a note and stuck it to hide them. I held the flap with a striped paperclip.

I'm pleased and proud to say that it's full marks to me. Thank you so much Lou for a great challenge and for the two great bases to start with. I only put them all together with my little extras.

I've Finished My Christmas Crafting

I never thought I'd say I've finished my Christmas crafting, but I have, so I can. My nephew is Arsenal mad and Niece is High School Musical mad, so I've made them cards, fridge magnets and door plaques. Hope they like them.

Here's my first attempt at a star card (I think that's what they're called) with it's box

Just so I can give Lou another mention, here's the last 2 curvy cards I made

That's my crafting and probably blogging finished until Boxing Day. Off this afternoon to deliver a couple of cards and presents, then hopefully a relaxing evening before the big day. I'll be spending Christmas Day at Mum's and coming home Boxing Day - hopefully with new crafting goodies if Santa's been listening to me!

I hope you all have a very merry and safe Christmas

xxx

My Christmas Cards

Well, here's the start of the cards I've made for people other than neighbours as there's have been done a while.

I've made a couple of springy cards using a template kindly supplied by one of the forum members of DoCrafts.

Christmas Tree
I've stamped the background in red and the edge of the topper in gold. The Christmas tree is stamped in green with a gold star and heat embossed. I then used pearlised red paint to colour the background of the topper card. Merry Christmas greeting on the base is stamped in red and heat embossed.

Rudolph
The background is a free paper from a craft magazine and I've heat embossed a frame using white powder. Rudolph is stamped and heat embossed. I coloured his nose in red and matted him onto green card. I've added liquid dome gel to his nose, eyes and collar before sticking him onto the card using foam pads.



K-Card
I'm so clever - NOT!! I downloaded the instructions and a couple of pictures for doing these cards and forgot to download the template then forgot where I got it from. So, I've had to wing it. Here's my first completed attempt. The picture doesn't show the design very well. After trying with paper for a bit, I managed to get the card cut so it would just about work. The background is stamped. The teddies and the greeting are stamped in gold and heat embossed before being washed over with red pearlised paint.

Curvy Card
Cut out of cream card, I coloured the front and back using red pearlised paint. Images are stamped in black and heat embossed before colouring in in pencils. Greeting is stamped in black, heat embossed and matted onto cream card. I've put them all on using foam pads. The hinges inside are covered using the same cream card as the base card.
Thanks to Lou once again

Lou's Curvy Card Competition

The fab Lou came up with a very novel, interesting and hugely popular card design. After great interest, she shared the template and instructions and they were available for FREE download. Unfortunately for anyone who hasn't already got it, you are going to have to wait a while as a company has snapped it up and will be marketing a template some time. So popular was this design with her fellow crafters (myself include), that she ran a competition for people to make one of these cards.

Here's my offering which I made this morning. I used green and silver gliteer paper, a die-cut Father Christmas, red ribbon, green brads and stuck silver snowflakes on with foam pads. I follwed her instructions to the letter and it was much easier to do than it looked.

Thank you so much Lou for this new and fantastic design. This may be the first card I've made like it, but I know it won't be my last.