Make Your Own - Challenge

I finally managed to get a challenge card made tonight for the Cute Card Thursday Blog, the challenge this week is to make your own embellishments and not use shop bought ones. As I am concentrating on Christmas cards at the moment I decided to make it Christmas themed and kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
















If I can manage to give all my challenge cards a Christmas theme it might just mean I can actually enter some challenges over the next few weeks and still be working on cards for the fair. Today's card is a couple of really cute decoupaged penguins, the image was from the pcCrafter site. I have to hold my hands up though and admit that the coloring isn't my own, images come in both color and black and white and I printed the image over a year ago before I discovered Pro Markers.

For the hand made embellishment I used my Wizard and my new snowflake dies which I brought last week, I cut the snowflakes using a pale blue vellum and held them together with a white brad.

As it's now getting late I'm going to head off to bed.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Tweet and a Flutter!!!

Back for my third post of today, my second of tonight, I have another challenge card which I am entering into the Cute Card Thursday Challenge Blog. The theme this week is birds or butterflies.

















I wanted to keep my card simple and chose my favourite color scheme of pink and brown. I started with a die cut bird from my Spellbinder Wizard in pink and worked my design around that. You can't tell from the photo but the scalloped circle is raised off the card so it looks like the bird is set back within the card. This is one of the few cards I make where I haven't used a stamped image which is strange for me as I love to stamp.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Colours of Autumn

The first challenge card I have made tonight is for the Colors Of Autumn challenge over at Allsorts Challenge Blog. I took my inspiration from my back garden which is looking rather bare at the moment, although I still have leaves on the tree's which are green it won't be long now before I have a carpet of brown and red on the ground.

















I used a stamp from C.C. Designs, it hasn't got a lot to do with autumn I know but I started coloring the image in weeks ago but only got as far as her hair. I was going through a faze of using burnt orange and coral colours which I thought was perfect. The flower is a Spellbinders die which pieces together, before I took the pieces out I inked it in brown.

Onto my second post.

Happy Crafting

Michelle