My first challenge for Word Art Wednesday

One of my crafting blog buddies, Karen Letchworth, asked me if I would take part in the challenges over at Word Art Wednesday and I was happy to go look.

They give you the scripture to use for each challenge or you can choose one of your own favourites. I decided to go with the one provided. I'm afraid that I brought my proof reading into play with this one and I made some corrections in the passage. I hope I'm forgiven.

I used a Craft UK card blank and rounded off the corners. I used the image of a castle and sky backing paper from Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade CD. They were both matted on to gold card which was from a Secret Santa pack from a friend. I printed the scripture in dark blue and red in Old English Text and then cut it out, rounded the corners and backed it with gold card. I cut a shiney gold star to go in the top right to complete the design.

Happy New Year

with love

I'm back

I've had a few days when I just wasn't up to making any cards or entering any challenges.  However, I've made the decision to stop making any more Christmas cards and buy some for this year. I had chosen a design that was taking up a lot of time - and money - I've got enough for family and close friends and all the others will get a bought card! The stress of HAVING to make them has gone and now I can nearly relax and try to catch up with the fun side of crafting.

This card is a Craft UK large square card blank and the navy blue card is from Papermill. The background scene is from Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade CD. I used the digi image of a Tree from Ladybug Craft Ink and coloured the trunk with a brown Promarker before adding a Sakura gelly roll Stardust to the branches. I then touched the branches with a Quickie glue pen and added DecoArt Glamour Dust to give it a lovely wintry shimmer. I tore round the edges of the image and coloured them with Distress Ink in faded jeans colour. Two metal squares from WOC are in the top corners.

I'm entering it in to the following challenges:
Crafty Sentiments - Some metal
Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge 47 - Winter blues
Lollipop Crafts Challenge 58 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Christmas Cracker
The CD Sunday Challenge - Trees

Winter Wonderland

.....is the theme for this week's CD Sunday challenge. It's my last week as Guest Designer and I've enjoyed the whole process. Thank you for inviting me, it was much appreciated.

I chose to use Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade CD for my main image. I added Glamour Dust to the snow on the trees and bushes and backed the image with Papermania silver paper to give the whole image a look of wonderland. I used a Spellbinders Impressabilities Snowflake to stencil a piece of white paper in Broken China Distress Ink. A small panel of plain aqua paper was attached to the stencilled panel and they tied in with the colour scheme to match the door of the cottage in the image. The large silver snowflake was cut with a Hobbycraft punch.

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Dies to Die For