June Colour Combo

This week on Daring Cardmakers it's the June Colour Combo. It's Nat's choice and Nat has chosen red, white and blue. :)
I went with a party theme and made a little bag of confetti from punched out red, white and blue cardstock and a star punch then arranged it on the card blank with some paper scraps, (Crate Paper Storyteller and Paper Heart). I'm on a mission to use up lots of alphabet stickers too so I've been keeping hold of the same ones in my scraps box to keep using. I've used a mix up of Jenni Bowlin, Pink Paislee and 3 Dots Studio ones here.

I'm sure they'll be lots of red, white and blue crafting going on this jubilee week so please pop on over to Daring Cardmakers, www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com and share what you're making with us!
x Leo

May Colour Combo

It's the first week of the month and so that means it's colour combo time for the Daring Cardmakers :)
Keilly has provided the colour palette this month, check out the challenge here, http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

Here's what I've come up with for this week:

I started by pulling out as similar colours from my paper scraps as I could find to the colour palette. There's a mix up of Papermania, Pink Paislee, American Crafts and Crate Paper papers. I used Bazzill cardstock for the base card. I'm making mood boards this week and that crept into the design for this card too with the layering and the tacking on bits and pieces.

Don't forget to have a go yourself this week. The colour combinations are a great starting point to get you digging into your older supplies and maybe mixing them up with newer bits and pieces.

Have fun!

x Leo

Tag, you're it!

This week over on Daring Cardmakers it's Gez who has come up with the challenge and we had to incorporate a tag in our projects. We were also very lucky to receive some lovely button and resin embellishment goodness from Tea House Bridge to use on our projects. Bouncing off the lovely pretty buttons I cut out a button tag from a piece of October Afternoon paper and layered it up with some Crate Paper papers to make my card.

For the background I made a little shaker bag using a glassine envelope and filled it with sequins and gemy bits along with some more of the pretty buttons then stitched the bag to the background paper to seal in the sprinkles as well as attach it to the card. It works really well as a fun different little shaker card idea.

Ready to have a go? There's a lovely Tea House Bridge goody bag up for grabs if you take part in this weeks dare too! Pop on over to Daring Cardmakers to check out all the details, www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

x Leo

DCM- Hats Off

This week Zuz has set us the challenge to create a card featuring a hat. Here's the card I came up with:

I used a scrap of paper and doodled a party hat on it then cut it out to use as the hat element. The star is a wooden Studio Calico embellishment that I glued some American Crafts paper behind. The base card I made with Crate Paper patterned paper.

I covered the inside with panels of cardstock both to strengthen it and to add the greeting to inside.

Pop on over to Daring Cardmakers to check out this weeks dare, http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com

x Leo

Card Catch Up

I've been mega busy just lately so I'm playing catch up today with my finished DCM cards.

I'll start with this weeks dare set by Keilly to make a card featuring fabric. I ended up making two cards because I'm trying to use up leftovers so I kept going finishing off some paper scraps. :)

I'm enjoying layering fabric on cards right now so I used that as a starting point to making the fabric cards. There's a voile type fabric and then a organza with glitter dots layered on too. The jeans I figured could be another nod to fabric. It's a paper scrap from a sheet of Kesi'Art paper I've added colour to with Promarkers.

 The Easter egg on this one is made from fabric too - a layer of patterned fabric and a layer of calico stitched together. I've used another layer of voile in the background to make the paper more pastel coloured. Paper and the boarder sticker are both Crate paper Paper Heart.

This one was from the 'Lucky Green' dare set by Samm. I've not used so much green on a card before but I ended up really liking it. I did move the star to the bottom right corner though in the end. The other embellishment I made from Fimo that was stamped into then backed and painted over the top with watercolour pencils then when that was dry I rubbed white paint into it with my fingers to give it an aged look. The papers here are October Afternoon and the grey dot is fabric from the January/February Quirky Kit as is the star. :)

This one was from the dare I set to make a card featuring a tessellating pattern. I used hexagons and stitched them together like a quilt pattern. Papers are all leftovers from Quirky Kits so a mix up of LilyBee, American Crafts, MME and Pebbles. I thought making these kind of quilt pattern cards would be a good way to use smaller leftover bits and pieces. I used a template just printed from the computer to make the hexagon shapes. You could use anything with equal sides the same way.

Well that's the catch up taken care of!

x Leo