Monday 13 May 2013

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #91 - Three different techniques

The latest challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers is hosted by Sharon, who has chosen the theme 'Pick Three Different Techniques'

Sharon has taken inspiration from her 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

The three techniques that I chose are Dry Embossing, Masking & make your own flowers.

For my card I knew I wanted to create some kind of Fairytale scene, so started by picking the digital stamp 'Soya takes a nap' by Milk Coffee Stamps, who are one of the sponsors this week, then coloured her up with Promarkers and cut her out.



I then used a Sweet Poppy 'Love Tree' stencil to emboss the tree, I tried several attempts directly onto the card but was left with the stencil outline embossed too, so I decided to cut it out and then add to the background.

The background was done with some masking and laying down some Adirondack inks with my blending tool, then I used a Lavinia Stamps mini stamp to add the flowers.

The Butterflies are punched in velum and the flowers are cut with Cricut 'Flower Shoppe'.

I'm not sure that I am entirely happy with how the masking turned out and I really think if I had managed to emboss the tree on to the main card, I would be happier.



This weeks challenge is sponsored by




WITH A PRIZE OF 5 DIGIS FROM THEIR STORE

And also by



with this fabulous prize:-


One Kit containing 5 small pots of the new Fran-tage Mica Fragments from Stampendous
Colours include: 

Pearlized
Guilded
Bronze
Tarnished
Tea Stained
Each pot contains 7.5grams

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Pink Gem Challenge Blog - Things with Wings
Brown Sugar Challenge - Angels & Fairies
Creative Corner - Things with Wings
Challenges4everybody - Anything Goes
No Matter Which Challenges - Things with Wings
Stamping Sensation - Embossing & Texture



Thanks for visiting :)

13 comments:

  1. What a gorgeous card Jules, your colouring and inking are fab (and the tree looks fine!) xx

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  2. Beautiful card, love the texture. Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations this month.
    Pinky

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  3. A lovely card Julie, and yes, the tree is fab!! Where there's a will there's a way huh?! Thanks for playing along with my challenge theme. Sharon xx

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  4. This is an interesting card! I think it is lovely... :)
    Have a nice day!

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  5. A lovely creation. Thanks for sharing with us at A Gem of a Challenge and good luck.
    Mags
    x

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  6. love your card and the image thanks for sharing with brown sugar happy crafting to you

    Rachel DT

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  7. Fab card hunni,great background that you have created.

    Really cute image.

    Thanks for joining us at Brown Sugar. Good luck.

    Tracey DTxxxx

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  8. How very sweet Jules, such a pretty image.

    Thanks so much for joining us at Stamping Sensations challenge this month.

    B x

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  9. oh, a pretty scene card. I love these. Thanks for joining our things with wings challenge at Creative Corner Challenges this week.
    Tammy DT

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  10. Rest assured your background is fabulous! So soft and pretty with perfect clouds! LOVE the image and this card overall. Thanks so much for joining us at A Gem of a Challenge this week!

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  11. Fabulous card Jules, and the tree looks fine to me.
    hugs Kimx

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  12. what a sweet card. Thanks for joining us at NMWC and hope to see you again.

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  13. Darling card. Beautiful image. Thank you for sharing and joining us at NMWC. Hugs, Velma

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Jules :)