Funky Felt

Happy Friday! This week was the turn of uber-talented Gillian to set the dare for us cardmakers.

FUNKY FELT

that's right..... felt is just so HOT at the Moment....
so you can create what ever sorta card you like, just as long as it has felt included....

ideas... cut flowers with your U-Bute Cutting Machines... or hand cut them...Borders cut with pinking shears... lots of Naive stitching with embroidery floss onto it... check out all the different types of felt you can get these days..
And I believe you can even buy premade scrapbooking felt flowers..( not that my LSS has them..grrrr...)
oh and don't forget to have fun

Hmm well as anyone who knows me understands I have a bit of a sensory, tactile obsession. Somethings I can touch for hours (freshly cut mens hair, paper, suede) others I cant bear touching (corned beef, certain plastics) unfortunatly felt also falls in the second heading. So imagine if you will, a lone crafter stood at the table, tools in front of her, paper pattern attached to said felt, scissors in hand..... and this is how it went

Step 1 - pick up felt whilst pulling faces


Step 2 - Cut felt for as long as can bear


Step 3 - drop felt, shudder, shout "urrrrgggghhhhh"


Step 4 - Repeat until piece cut!

Yes trust me I looked a sight! So onto this weeks dare......

CUPCAKE


Using a piece of scrap paper I quickly drew out the shape of the cupcake, which i then cut out and put the relevent part on the right coloured felt and pinned it in place. Following the above steps I cut each piece out. I found a piece of white embroidery floss in my craft box and (repeating the drop, shudder, urrggghhh technique) and used it to roughly sew the outline of the cake case, and again round the edges of the icing. I made a sprinkle topping by using aforesaid thread to sew little beads randomly to the topping and a big heart bead at the top.

I drew roughly round the offending item ( ;o) ) on white card, cut it out and edged it with pink ink then 3d mounted the cupcake on it. I then cut a piece of pink felt and a piece of Rasberry Ripple Sassafras Lass Paper from this months self addressed kit and mounted it all together. I attached the whole lot to the white square papermania card base with 4 mini pink brads by makingmemories.

And there we go, a pretty pink cupcake card for any occasion. Dont forget to hop on over to the blog to see what other felt creations the design team have designed this week.

Crossing Continents

This week it was Saffa's turn to set the dare over at Daring Card Makers

I come from a very multicultural background and love being able to see them all from within and this is what has inspired this weeks challenge....take a deep breath...
I would like you lovely ladies to make a card that celebrates and reflects a festival from another culture to your own....

So here are some ideas to get you started:
Chinese New Year,
Eid,
Hanukkah,
Persian New Year,
Diwali,
Sinhalese New Year,
Kwanzaa,
St. Patrick's day,

So you get the idea....Good luck...
xxSaffa

Quite unsually I knew straight away what I wanted to do. I chose the Pagan wedding ritual of This is a sort of marriage ceremony in which the bethrothed couple's hands are tied together to symbol their unity with ribbons, rope and cords. Click the link to find out more from wikipedia

On Your Handfasting.

I started with a small brown textured card blank (from an old Self Addressed kit I think) in landscape view. I handrew a heart onto a piece of cream card and cut it out and attached it to the centre of the card. In the depths of my stash (so no supplier details I am afraid) I found a piece of random script (at least I hope its random Ros!) vellum in gold. I tore it to the rough shape of the card and attached it with mini gold brads by Making Memories. Using a piece of brown grosgrain ribbon from Ribbon Mad I tied a small bow and attached it with a 3d pad just off centre of the heart. With a gold gel pen I wrote "on your Handfasting" on another piece of cream card, drew a gel pen border and doodled a heart and squiggly bits. I attached this at the bottom with 3d pads too.

Why not head on over to the Blog to see what other celebrations we have come up with.

xxxx

P.s thanks Saffa for reminding me I hadnt added a pic!

Art Attack

This week it was the turn of lovely bride to be Rhi to set the weekly dare over on Daring Card Makers Blog and boy was it a toughy ...

I dare you to make a card inspired by a work of art. If the original art is out of copyright (ie the designer has been dead for 70 years or more) then you may use elements of the original artwork in your piece. Otherwise its inspiration only. Look out for colours, patterns, textures, compositions, shapes or themes that inspire you, and remember to show us the piece of art that inspired you to create so we can see the common ground.

What is art? It's completely subjective, so your chosen inspiration could be architecture, one off design or mass produced products. Please remember to respect the right of the artist or designer not to have their work copied though, take inspiration instead and make your own art.

Right urmmm yeah, now I am one of the most unartistic people I know, I orginally started it off making a cooley dudey digital pop art inspired card but it was purely digital and although I sent it as an E-card, not sure it counted for the dare so have made another. I may show you the other one later in the week.

For this one I enlisted the help of my much more artistic future husband. Lately he has been very much into the artistic styling of a certain Mr Bob Ross, whose Joy of Painting TV show on Discovery real time is a bizarre trip into a very strange world - Watch it and see! (or do a search for Bob Ross on You Tube)

Anyhow back to the story, A while ago W was trying to teach me to paint in that style (which can I add i was awful at), after an hour or so and having done the sea and mountains I got bored and tired and got W to finish the trees and foreground (which is the best part of the pic IMO).

For this card we creatively edited (read chopped up) the painting to isolate W's tree and landscape, and a little bit of MY mountain and sky too!!!!!! I didnt want to do too much to the picture as I felt it was quite striking on its own so didnt want to ruin it. W (full of creativity this week!) suggested a signpost so we made a little one and wrote "wish you were here" on it. This was then simply mounted onto a piece of dark green textured bazzill card with slits cut for the top piece and a leaf motif cut in the bottom corner, inlaid with a lighter green colour. That way if the recipient decides to, the picture can be removed and framed seperately.

And there you have it, a pretty card with a unique piece of artwork. If you havent already head on over to Daring Card Makers to see the other art forms which are inspiring us this week.

In the words of good old Bob Ross

Till next time .... happy painting and God bless my friends xxxx