Christmas Tree Tent Card

Finally found the time to make my entry into this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge tonight. This week they added a twist to the sketch and you either had to make a tent or easel card. I decided on a Christmas themed tent card. Hope you all like it. :D

Christmas Tree Tent Card

I used plain white card to make my tent card. I covered the front piece of card in green and white polka dot card, and the back piece in red and white polka dot card. I cut a square slightly smaller than the front piece of card out of green textured paper, and cut another square out of the center of it to make a frame. I then glued 2 pieces of red holly ribbon (slightly shorter in length than the card) down the right side of the front piece of card. Next I glued the green frame to the front piece of card. I then cut a circle out of the front card to the left of the green and white polka dot card.

For my image element I decided to make a little 3D Christmas tree. I drew a Christmas tree on a scrap piece of paper and then cut 2 of them out of green textured card. I cut a slit 1/2 way down one of the trees, and I also cut a triangle out of the bottom about 1cm up. I then cut a slit 1/2 way up the other tree. I folded about 1cm of the bottom of the first tree to a 90 degree angle and used this to attach it to the base of the tent card. I then slid the 2nd tree onto the first at a 90 degree angle. I then folded and made some little tabs (kind of like a cube with only the sides) out of white card which I attached to the front and back cards as well as the base of the 2nd tree on the front and back, so that if the card was folded closed the tree would spring back out when it was opened again. Lastly I closed the top of my tent card by making small slits about 1.5cm apart and 0.5cm from the top of the card. I then threaded gold edged red ribbon through the slits to bind the card closed.

For more info on how to make a tent card Check out Hazel's great Tent Card Tutorial. It helped me heaps, thanks Hazel. :-*

I had so much fun making this card, was also great to learn a new technique and I would like to thank Kelly from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a fun twist and sketch. Good luck to all that enter. :D

Apple Card

Here's a quick card I made for my Boyfriend's brother for his Birthday. He's a huge Apple fan, so I decided to make him a card incorporating the Apple logo. The photo doesn't bring up the colours that well, but the apples are red and the card is a lime green. Hope you all like it. :D

Apple Card

I used a lime green card as my base card. Using a sheet of Apple logo stickers I laid a piece of scrap paper over the top and shaded over it using a lead pencil until I could clearly see the outline of the apples. I then went over the outline of the apples using a lead pencil. Next I cut the apples out and traced around them onto the back of a piece of red paper. I then cut the apples out (and put the leaves aside) and glued them together so they overlapped. Then I glued the apples and leaves onto a piece of pale green striped paper and trimmed around the edges. I then glued it onto the card. Lastly I glued some fluorescent foam letters to the apples to spell out "Happy B'day". :D

Christmas Stocking Card

Here's my 3rd and final entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. Phew, made it just in time. ;) Again I decided on another Christmas card, as Christmas is very quickly approaching us. Hope you all like it. :D

Christmas Stocking Card

Again I used a red textured card as my base card, I then cut a square out of gold paper slightly smaller than the card itself and glued it to the card. Next I cut a slightly smaller square out of green textured card and glued it to the card. Again I cut a slightly smaller square out of Christmas patterned paper and glued it to the card. I then cut 2 small rectangles and 1 small square out of gold paper. I made red "Santa", "is", "coming" sentiments in Photoshop, printed them, trimmed around them and glued them to the rectangles and square. I then glued the rectangles and square down the right side of my card.

For the image element I made a Christmas stocking. Firstly I sketched a stocking shape onto a scrap of paper, I then cut it out of red textured card. Next I layered and glued a variety of Christmas ribbons across the stocking. I also folded the ends of the ribbon over the back of the stocking and glued them down. For the final touch to the stocking I glued 3 white Pom poms across the top of it. I then cut a rectangle out of gold paper and glued it to the left side of my card. Lastly I glued the stocking to the gold rectangle.

Once again I had great time making this card, and I would like to thank all of the DT from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a fantastic prize for this week's challenge as well as a great sketch. Good luck to all that enter. :D

A Spot Of Gardening Christmas Card

Well has been a busy few days for me, but I have finally managed to take some time out to finish my 2nd entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. Am hoping to have the 3rd card done tomorrow. Once again I have used the Willow "A Spot Of Gardening" digi stamp that I won in their challenge 2 weeks ago, although I have made a slight twist to it, hope the willow DT don't mind. Hope you all like it. :D

 A Spot Of Gardening Christmas Card

I used a red textured card as my base card, I then made a red and white polka dot paper which I cut  a square out of slightly smaller than my base card and then I glued it to the center of my base card. Next I cut a square slightly smaller than the red and white polka dot paper out of dark green textured card and I then once again glued this to the center of the card. Lastly I cut another slightly smaller square out of a green and white polka dot paper I made and also glued this to the card. I cut 3 rectangles out of red textured card and made a "Merry" and "Christmas" sentiment which I glued to 2 of the rectangles. I glued 2 paper flower embellishments to the 3rd rectangle. I then glued the rectangles down the right side of the card.

For my "A Spot Of Gardening" digi I decided to make it as Christmasy looking as possible. Once again I coloured it in using Photoshop, and trimmed around the image. I made a little santa hat for Winnie by cutting the shape out of red foil card, I then glued on a white pom pom and used cotton wool for the fluffy trimming. I cut her dress out of dark green textured card and again glued cotton wool on for the trimming. I also glued cotton wool onto the top of her boots. I replaced the shovel in Winnie's hand for a candy cane, which I made out of red foil card and white paper strips. I then glued all of these onto the digi. I cut a rectangle out of red foil card and attached Winnie to it, and then glued it onto the left side of the card.

Once again it has been a blast making this card, and I would like to thank all of the DT from Willow Sketchie Challenge for such a lovely digi and a great sketch. Good luck to all that enter. :D

A Spot Of Gardening Thank You Card

This week's Willow Sketchie Challenge prize is a big one, so I have decided to enter it the maximum 3 times. Here is my first entry which I made last night. I used the Willow "A Spot Of Gardening" digi stamp that I won in their challenge 2 weeks ago. Hope you all like it. :D

A Spot Of Gardening Thank You Card

I used a white card as my base card, and cut a square of purple paper slightly smaller than the card itself and glued it to the card. Next I cut a square of pink polka dot paper slightly smaller than the purple square and glued it to the purple square. Lastly I cut a piece of Grace Taylor large flower paper slightly smaller than the polka dot paper, and glued it to the polka dot paper.

The new Grace Taylor range of papers comes with a smaller print of some of the designs in the pack, so I decided to use both versions of this gorgeous flower print for my card.

As I have not yet got myself a set of markers, I chose to colour in the "A Spot Of Gardening" digi in Photoshop. I then printed it out, I also printed out a copy of the original uncoloured digi. Using the original uncoloured digi I cut out the skirt to use as a template, I then turned it over and glued it to the back of my Grace Taylor smaller flower paper. I let it dry and then cut  around the template, so that I had a skirt that now had a flower print on it. Next I glued the skirt onto the digi, and then trimmed around the digi itself. Lastly I cut a rectangle out of purple paper, glued the digi to it and then glued it to the left side of my card.

For the small rectangle elements down the right side of the card, I cut 3 rectangles out of purple paper and glued each to the card. I then made a flower embellishment for the middle rectangle using a blue paper flower, a pink flower which I cut out of the Grace Taylor small flower paper and a purple flower diamontie. I then glued it to the middle rectangle and left to dry. For the other 2 rectangles I made a "Thank" and "You" sentiment on the computer, printed them out and cut around them and then glued them onto the rectangles. 


I had a lot of fun making this card, and I would like to thank all of the DT from Willow Sketchie Challenge for such a lovely digi and a great sketch. Good luck to all that enter. :D

Willow Sketchie Challenge Mega Prize Reminder

The Willow Sketchie Challenge Mega prize challenge has gone live. :D You have until Wednesday 28 September at 8:00pm (UK Time) to get your entry in for the chance to win a Letraset wallet filled with Promarkers. To win this fantastic prize you must not only create a card using the fab sketch the DT at Willow Sketchie Challenge have provided, post it to your blog and enter the challenge on this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge page, but also post the prize picture with a link to the challenge on your sidebar. This is definitely one challenge not to miss... Good luck to all that enter. :D

White Christmas Card

This is the card that I made tonight for my entry in the Polka Doodles White Out Challenge. This is the first Polka Doodles challenge I have entered, and I would like to say thank you to my good friend Donna for sending me the link. :-* Is also the first non sketch challenge I have done. Hope you all like it. :D

White Christmas Card

 

I used a white textured card as my base card. I cut a rectangle 1cm smaller than the card out of A4 printer paper, which I then scrunched up several times, then smoothed out and flattened under a book. This gave my paper a scrunched effect, I then glued it onto the white base card. I glued a piece of lace approximately 1/2 the way down and across the card. I then stuck a stick on pearl to each corner of the white scrunched rectangle. I made a green "Merry Christmas" sentiment, which I glued to the bottom of the scrunched paper.

To make the tree I first drew a rough sketch of it on a scrap piece of paper, I then cut it out of green craft foam. I then traced around the foam tree onto a piece of white card, and cut it out. I then trimmed a couple of millimeters off all the edges of the white card tree, so that it was slightly smaller than the foam tree. Next I glued the white card tree to the center of the foam tree. I then applied glitter glue to the tree (to give the impression of tinsel) and stuck on some sticky diamonties and pearls (For baubles). I then made an angel for the top of the tree...

First I cut a semi-circle out of A4 printer paper, and covered it in lace. I then rolled it over to create a cone shape and glued it together. I used cotton wool for her hair, which I stuck a stick on pearl to for her face. Next I stuck the back of her hair to the back of her cone body. I then drew a face on the pearl using a black marker. Next I made a little halo out of beading wire and stuck it to the top of her head. I then cut her wings out of vellum, and applied glitter glue around the edges as well as to her lace dress. Once dry I glued the wings to her back and then glued her to the top of the tree. I then glued the tree to the card.

I had so much fun making the tree and angel, and I would like to thank Enfys from Polka Doodles for a fun challenge. Good luck to all that enter. :D