DT 187 - Triple Panel Floral Card

 Welcome to Double Trouble Challenge 187!

This week, you can choose your own 3-2-1 recipe. Please be sure to identify the elements in your description. The small graphic is below - please visit the Double Trouble Challenge Blog for additional information. 

My 3-2-1 recipe is as follows: 3 colours (blue, green, grey), 2 layers and 1 sentiment. 

I foiled all the images and then stencilled and die cut them. The base layer is blue cardstock and I used a brick patterned paper for the second layer. The images were arranged on each panel, along with a place to write a message on the back panel. A hot foiled sentiment was placed across the front. 

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

You have two weeks to link up your project. 

I am also entering my card in the Creative Creases challenge (fun folds).

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Smooshed Ink Cards

 Ink smooshing is fun but it can be unpredictable. Perhaps that is what makes it a fun and unusual technique. 

For these two cards, I used Catherine Pooler inks. The background for the first card was done using a large acrylic block. The ink was pushed onto a glass mat and water was added. I picked up the colour using a large block and pressed it onto white cardstock. The edges of the block were visible so I trimmed the card front down to remove those lines and added a die cut sentiment. Clear gems were placed around the card. 

The second card was also ink smooshed but I used smaller blocks and created a random pattern while covering the full card front. That piece was trimmed down and a birthday sentiment was added. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Postage Collage Card Sets

 When I attend crops, I make sets of cards to give to cancer patients. 

This set was made using the postage collage set from Waffle Flower. I masked the die cut pieces and used a stencil from Gina K. Designs to stencil the flowers in eight colour schemes. I stamped several different sentiments and added them across the cards. Each front was adhered to green cardstock and a coordinating cardstock base. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Beautiful Blossoms March - No One Compares to You

 Welcome to Beautiful Blossoms and the March challenge. 

This is a new design team for me - I love working with floral images so it is a great fit! 

There is an inspiration photo - you may use that or you can create anything with flowers. 

I drew my inspiration from the colours in the photo.

I stamped, stencilled and die cut the flowers. A light grey floral frame was adhered to a white card base and I added the flowers with thin foam tape. The sentiment was hot foiled and added in the centre with some gold metallic thread underneath. Gold gems were placed around the card. 

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

You have until April 12 to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

CD 643 - Thinking of You Anemone

 Welcome to Colour Dare Challenge 643!

This was a tough challenge for me as I really struggled to use only these two colours together.

I pulled out an old set of layering dies and die cut the pieces from white, blue and pearly white cardstock. They were layered together and I cut a circle from the centre and added a stitched circle around the opening. The flower was die cut from purple and silver and lightly inked before it was assembled. I added some silver leaf images around the flower an stamped a sentiment that was placed on the right. Some clear gems were placed on and around the flower. 

Come and join us at Colour Dare 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

MTTCC 108 - Striped Ribbon Poinsettia Card

Welcome to My Time to Craft Christmas Challenge 108!

The theme for this challenge is to use a supply of ribbon. 

I embossed a piece of white cardstock and added ribbon strips in red and green across the raised sections. The poinsettia flowers and leaves were stamped, coloured and die cut and I arranged them in the centre. A heat embossed sentiment was placed across the flowers and I added clear Stickles to the yellow centres. 

The first card I created for this challenge was a big OOPS! I used the same design but with thinner ribbon. The image was stamped, stencilled and die cut and also has a heat embossed sentiment. Clear gems were placed around the image. 

Too bad it wasn't a Christmas card! I guess I need to watch the challenge requirement a little more closely! 

Come and join us at MTTCC 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

Dearest Friend Swivel Card

 This is such a neat card style - the inside circle swivels around and moves the attached elements. 

The swivel mechanism is quite detailed and it is not the easiest thing to make. I chose to use some scene paper and elements that go with that paper (die cuts and stamped images that were die cut). The sentiment was added at the bottom and I used some of the die cuts on the front circle. The others can be seen when the card swivels around.. 

A short video is below so you can see how the card works. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

With Love Event 2

 These are the rest of the cards made as part of the With Love virtual event. Some have been photographed individually as they are interactive cards. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

With Love Event 1

 I recently participated in a one day card making event run by Scrapbook and Cards Today (SCT). Their events are always top notch and this is the best one I have done to date. 

The theme of the event was "with love" but it wasn't about Valentine's Day or the like. It was about sharing our cards as reminders that we care for others - and that is so very important, especially in today's society. 

This post shows half of the cards that I finished that day- I did 13 in total. The second half will be in a future post. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

AH 620 - Bold Just a Note

Welcome to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 620!

I followed the sketch very closely because I loved the design. 

I chose the colours based on one of the Colour Cubes from Sarah Renae Clark. The backgound was sprayed with Distress Oxide spray and then splattered with gold paint. I adhered that to a green background and die cut a blue frame to add on top so just a small white edge was showing. The orange rectangle was stencilled with a darker orange ink and I added the partial circle and leaves according to the sketch. The sentiment was added across the bottom and some gold gems finished off this card. 

Come and join us at Atlantic Hearts and show us how you interpret this sketch. 

You have until Sunday evening to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson