CIU 316 - Grateful

 Welcome to Cut It Up Challenge 316!

The theme for this challenge is grateful or thankful. 

We should be thankful for what we have throughout the year, not just during the autumn season. Our Canadian Thanksgiving holiday was back in October but the US Thanksgiving is in a few weeks. 

I love nature settings for cards related to being thankful or grateful so I chose an old SU rubber stamp for my card. I ink blended a background and spattered it with water. The branches were stamped and embossed in black. I die cut a grateful sentiment and adhered it to a vellum shadow. Nothing else was added to this card but the front was adhered to a black mat and then a purple card base. 

Come and join us at Cut It Up and show us how you interpret this challenge. 

You have two weeks to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Pearly Sparkles November Challenge - Angels

 Welcome to Pearly Sparkles and our November challenge!

The theme for this challenge is angels. 

I don't have many angel images and this one is a small one. I stamped the angel on white cardstock, coloured her and added gold Stickles to her wings. The smaller scalloped border was inked in two shades of blue and the larger one was die cut from blue glitter paper. They were adhered to a piece of holographic cardstock and I added a small sentiment at the bottom. 

Come and join us at Pearly Sparkles and show us how you interpret this challenge.

You have until the end of the month to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

MTTC 546 - Oh Hey Fun Fold Card

 Welcome to My Time to Craft Challenge 546!

The theme for this challenge is to use stencils. 

I decided to create a fun fold card, only because the image I used is quite large and it worked so well for that kind of card.

The Oh Hey was stencilled using four shades of blue ink and the last layer was covered with clear glitter paste. The paste turned the colour to more of a purple shade than blue. I took advantage of the purple and used purple ink to stencil the front of the card with tiny dots, gradually getting darker toward the bottom. The large sentiment was die cut and the outline was die cut from the card front. I adhered the stencilled sentiment inside the card and added a smaller stamped sentiment at the top on the front. 

Come and join us at MTTC and show us how you interpret this challenge. 

You have two weeks to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson