Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #92 - Tri-shutter card with a stamped image

Hi everyone

Sorry this post is a little late but Blogger seems to have been misbehaving over last day or so and wouldn't let me upload the photos for this post!

Anyway, better late than never....

Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Annette, who has chosen the theme of a  'Tri-shutter Card' 

Annette would like to see a tri-shutter card with a stamped image, either digital or rubber, with an added twist of using the colours Blue, Yellow and Green.

Please ensure your card includes a stamped image, digi or rubber to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot, whether you add the twist or not is up to you. 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE DELETED

We are sponsored by  

DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS

with a $10 gift voucher

And also by

HOBBY ART

with this fabulous prize:-

Anna's Collection Oriental and a Colorbox Chalk Queue.

So, onto my card for the challenge:

Making the card base was a challenge for me alone....I had to search the internet to find out what a Tri-shutter card was!!! I made it using yellow pearlescent card and matted blue linen card with a green patterned paper from my stash on the segments. The stamped image is the lovely Hydrangea clear stamp from Inkyliscious stamped in Agean blue and Tea Leaves ink pads - I brushed over the image with a dampbrush to pull some colour into the image and lose the stark white. A few gems and a ribbon complete my card.

Don't forget to pop along to the Challenge and see the fab inspiration from my fellow team-mates. Whilst you're there, why not have a go yourself - this challenge runs for 1 week instead of the usual 2.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything goes - with a handmade bow

Make it Monday - Anything goes

That's all for now, back again soon

Sharon x

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 91

Happy Monday everyone!

Welcome to our latest challenge, I am hosting this challenge and have chosen the theme 'Pick Three Different Techniques' 

I've taken inspiration from my youngest daughter's recent 3rd birthday and therefore would like to see 3 different techniques on your card or project. Take your pick of 3 from the following list and be sure to state which 3 you've used:

• Embossing (wet or dry)
• Distressing
• Masking
• Making your own flowers
• Paper piecing/patchwork
• Shrink plastic 
  
  
  
  
  Please ensure your creation has three techniques from the list and that you tell us which three you have used to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot. 
  
  
  
  
  
  PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 
  
  
  
  
  
  We are sponsored by
  
  
  
  
  
   MILK COFFEE DIGITAL STAMPS 
  
  
  
  
  WITH A PRIZE OF 5 DIGIS FROM THEIR STORE

Milk Coffee Stamps is a digital image shop specialising in cute and girly images. We provide high quality digital images with high resolution so you could resize at a big enough size for your project. We have many different image styles; sophisticated lady, cute girl, whimsical image, cute stuff, fairytale creature, and many other varied themes so they can fit many different crafting styles.

And also by

SIR STAMPALOT

with this fabulous prize:-

Sir Stampalot is a retail shop and online website that specialises in stamps, die cutting and paper-crafting goodies.  We try to offer exceptional delivery times on your orders as well as keeping our stock fresh, new and exciting!  Our dedicated team of card makers means we have a wonderful, inspirational online card gallery with many more cards still to upload!  Sir Stampalot ships internationally as well as domestic so why not check us out if you haven’t already – www.sirstampalot.co.uk.

 Happy Crafting!

So onto my card:

I made this for Maya's 3rd birthday and used the following 3 techniques:

• Distressing (ink-distressed the image edge and scuffed up the background paper edge with my distress tool)
• Masking (I made the background paper using a mask and Picket Fence Distress Stain)
• Shrink plastic (look closely...it's small!! the Happy Birthday sentiment was cut from shrink plastic using a Marianne die, shrunk in the oven and then coloured with a ProMarker

The image is from Wee Stamps and is coloured with ProMarkers. The leaves, circles, oval, swirls and no 3 were all die cut using Marianne, Cuttlebug and Spellbinder dies.

Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the ribbon is from my stash.

I love the cute mermaid image and as Maya seems to love swimming, I coloured her hair blonde to look like my own little mermaid!!