MAWTT Anything but a card

This challenge is to make anything but a card so I recycled a box for a friend. Come along to Moving Along with the Times and see what everyone else has made. Teams A and B are both playing along so there's lots to enjoy.

I buy quite a lot of Craft Box boxes that are full of mixed media items each month. When I empty the boxes they are perfect for recycling as they are sturdy boxes with a magnetic clasp on the front flap. This one happens to be bright pink so I continued the colour theme with my additions to the lid. I prefer to leave the rest of the box plain. The flower paper is from a pad that I've had for ages and I think it was by Stephanie Weightman. I cut the section that I wanted and fitted it to the lid. The top edge was quite plain so I decided to use a Spellbinder die to make a fancy border. I used a pink pearlescent card and the border die was from the Parisian set I believe. The wooden letters were from The Range and I painted them in pale pink acrylic paint before setting them at an angle across the plain section of the paper. Some of my Craft Box goodies came into play again and I added a section of Snipart circles/bubbles under the name. Two cabochons picturing roses were added to the design and the last embellishment was a 'diamond' butterfly that I won in a Facebook competition a while ago. I really loved the box myself and if my name had been Karen I wouldn't have wanted to part with it!! lol

I lined it with pink tissue paper and filled it with gifts for a supermarket worker who had been very kind to me over the past few years. I was due to move house and out of the area so would not be travelling to that supermarket any longer. I wanted to thank her for her kindness and she was thrilled and touched to receive it.

I'm entering my box into the following challenges:


I'd like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and all the best for a wonderful New Year.

OSAAT #189 - Holidays (occasions)

Just to clarify the theme for this week over at One Stitch at a Time - it's Holidays and by that we mean special occasions such as Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Easter amongst others.

This week is a collaboration week by all the creators of the digi images and the DT have no choice of which images to use. We are all allocated an image which we then have to use to come up with a card to showcase that image. This week I've been given two images and so I have two cards for you to check out.  I was given this image of Pumpkincat by Crafty Girl over at Stitchybear Digi Outlet. Obviously this image had to be used for a Halloween card. At first I was daunted by it but once I got started, for the second time, it became easier!

The first time I coloured it I had used too much black and I had to have a rethink. I'm pleased I changed it as it works much better. The orange card and the greeny/black glitter card are both by Papermill. The image was coloured with my Promarkers and a Sakura black pen was used on the cat whiskers, eye lashes and bits of the bat wings. I cut round it freehand leaving a small white border. I matted it on to the glitter card which had been cut with a Spellbinders label die. The card blank is a small square by Craft UK. I wrapped two strands of black silk round the bottom section of the orange card and then added a small 'head' with goggle eyes. I'm not sure whether it's the head of a ghost or just a floating head......... .HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out the OSAAT challenge blog for details of prizes this week.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Card Mania - Anything Goes
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
Melonheadz Friends Challenge - Costumes/Dress Up/Halloween
Parade Your Crafts - Halloween
Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenge 44 - Anything Goes

My second card uses the image 'Christmas Baubles' so obviously this holiday was Christmas.This image is by Stitchy herself.  I'm not making my Christmas cards again this year, second year in a row. I just can't get into it the way I did when Eric was here. We used to discuss what type of card we wanted to send and I always checked out with him before I made a decision. For various challenges I've made about seven cards in total so these will go to certain people who expect and look forward to a hand crafted card.

My card blank is by Joanna Sheen. The red card is from Papermill. The printed vellum is from Create and Craft from years ago - I've still got loads. The image was coloured with my Promarkers - I used the metallic gold and silver on the baubles but I'm not sure that they give the desired effect. The silver starburst is a Signature die by Joanna Sheen. The swirl in the bottom left is from a Tattered Lace die by Stephanie Weightman. The silver glitter round the edge is years old and I've had it for ever.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Card Mania  - Anything Goes
Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts Challenge - Use Glitter
Charisma Cardz Challenge 44 - Anything Goes

These images that I've used and all the images used by my team buddies will be put into one big bundle and anyone buying anything from Stitchybear Digi Outlet will get this bundle free of charge. (Please note: Time span and certain spend will come into effect for this free bundle.) Here's a picture to show you all the images.