Soft tonal coloured birthday card

I usually manage to do the Stick It Down card challenge at the start of each month. This month I've been too busy, but I've squeezed it in.

Here is the sketch to work with:

Here is my design:

You can see part of my lobby is decorated, ready for Halloween, in the background. The colour orange may have influenced me. haha

Happy Halloween for Monday.

Dale x

ARTastic October scrapbook layout

Hello.

I've got my Design Team layout for you to look at today.

The display window to take inspo from is below.

My inspiration included a busy navy and white background. I immediately thought of Basic Grey and Graphic 45. I used a G45 paper called Anchors Aweigh from the Catch of the Day collection. Then I added orange papers and made a feature with squares.

I couldn't use foxes but there are a few birds so I thought I'd add a winged animal and I popped this big butterfly die-cut with foam squares.

Thanks for looking. Head to ARTastic's fb page to enter.

Dale x

Archi-scraps DT scrapbook example page for October 2022

I love October. It's my birthday month!

Check out this great challenge from Archi-scraps.

Use this photo and add string/twine.

The building in my pic reminds me of the guitar building, with the lines and the blue. They are actually wonderful greenhouses.

I've got the garden/palm tree and colours as well.

I've added green twine through my chipboard button.

Here's my layout.

Head to the fb page to enter.

Dale x

Card featuring hand made purple flower

 Here is the image for this month's card challenge at Stick It Down.

I created this card for it.

I created a fabric flower for it. I used a top that fell apart in the wash. It was actually brand new so I didn't want to waste it. Poor quality sewing. I also cut some lace from an offcut. 

Thanks for looking.

Dale x

September ARTastic challenge. Bright.

 Wow, look out. This month's window display is a bright one. Who loves to work with bright colours? I think some art journal pages would look good using this month's inspo.

This is the pic to work from:

Pretty fun huh? I thought so.

Here is what I did.

I've gone for colourful. I've picked up the colours from the booth frames, aqua, bright pink and yellow. I've made a rectangular shape like the booth and zentangled with coloured pens. That was fun to do.

The ladies are wearing bright coloured outfits. I got a vintage vibe from the window pic.

Hope you can join us at ARTastic. Go for it.

Dale x

September Archi-scraps challenge - rolled paper

Hi there.

It's time to have a bit of fun with paper. Archi-scraps challenge is to used rolled paper on your paper project. Below is the inspiration pic.

I decided to make a card. I came up with the idea of creating a fan.

I got a book out from the library and it had a pattern in it for rolled paper tubes, but I downscaled the size to suit my project.

I chose some pretty paper from a Daphne's Diary magazine.  I didn't want it to be thick as cardstock so that it was easier to roll.

I chose some patterned paper for the base of the fan that matched the rolled paper tubes and added a strip of reddish pink for the bottom. I bought some twine from Kmart, their Anko brand to finish off.

I used pink cardstock for the background to make the blue of the fan pop.

The sentiment reads Have a FANtastic birthday. A cute pun I think.

Sometimes I quite like to decorate the inside. It's a nice surprise, plus the card is quite big so that would be a lot of room to write otherwise.

ARTastic cyber crop

 ARTastic are holding their second cyber crop. Go to the link for all the details.

They are playing some fun games and doing 3 challenges. I have examples for the following:

Challenge One

RECIPE CHALLENGE

Please use:

1 x photo

2 x buttons

3+ other patterned papers

Arrows (you chose how many)

Enamel dots (you chose how many)

Challenge Three

THIS or THAT CHALLENGE

BOY themed or GIRL themed

BLUE tones or PINK tones

BLING or BRADS

FLOWERS or CHIPBOARD

TWINE or WASHI

PAINT or INK

My choices were:

This or That
Used boy, blue, bling, cb, washi and ink. The nautical buttons and the title are cb stickers. I particularly wanted to use bling on a blue page. I've said boy because it's not a girly page.

RULES

To be eligible for each challenge prize draw your entry must be placed into the appropriate album (or left as a comment in that album) by midnight Sunday, 28th August. Any entries only placed onto our wall will not be included in the prize draw. Entries must be your original work created exclusively for our Cyber Crop. International entries welcome.

Get on it. Still plenty of time. We'd love to see your entries.

Dale x