Wk 5 @ Full Deck Challenge

Altered playing card with the prompts zig zag and dark green. I stumbled across a You Tube video of lovely lady who was making a circular pocket for her journal and decided to have a go making one for this card. Love how it turned out. 

FDC4 wk 3 & 4

Bit late posting these so am doing a two for. Up first is week 3 - postage stamp, clock and ticket. I love how this turned out, such a cool and calm looking make. It wasn't what I envisaged before I started, but when I started rummaging around my stash, it sort of all fell together. 

Week 4 -  person, texture

I had watched a video about how to make a little book holder for the playing cards and she had done a plain cover. 

This was the result when I was trying to shut my brain up at 11pm the next night, I thought that one of the altered playing cards would be nice as a cover with a title and Live long and Craft popped into my head - so I had my person prompt. Up I got and I sat and did the background, finally shutting my brain up! Finished it off the next day. 

Full Deck Challenge week 2

Week two for Full Deck Challenge birds - fibres - gold - stencil with texture paste - black splatters - butterfly - orange.

I went looking for a suitable blue tit image I knew I had but found this one first, along with a quote both from design sheets from Gecko Galz and decided to use them.

The original quote is "There is no exceptional beauty without some strangeness in the proportion" but it wouldn't fit so I chopped it up. The backing paper was too bright, as you can see from the photo, so I attacked it with a green scourer, careful not to rub through it.

Finished it all off with a black promarker round the edges of the cars.

Full Deck Challenge

Over Christmas I was thinking about what I wanted to change in the New Year, one thing was to craft more, now this has been a recurring theme for the last year or two, with me going great guns at something and then falling by the wayside as it stressed me out so much I didn't get anything done SO I wanted to start something small, and random with not much pressure or full on commitment needed by me because, boy,  can I pile the pressure on myself! (with no help from anyone.)

Flicking round You Tube, I came across a video from shanouki art launching her Full Deck Challenge over on Facebook - this felt like a sign, I knew I had to join in, I've already got a (nearly) full deck of cards lurking in my stash. 52 weeks of prompts/themes to pick from, use 1 or them all, no set design - back to basic crafting with what I've got -  exactly what I needed!

I'm literally taking it one card at a time, not trying to do too much or too complicated. One  card is done and I'm happy at how it turned out and how I feel.

Prompts used: squares, hot pink, numbers and butterflies.

Thanks for reading

AMANDA xx

grape & glitter

Odd combination! Over at Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge the theme for this times challenge, which ends this evening is G for the colour grape and/or glitter.

I was going to do a card but took a hint decided to do another altered playing card, after posting my first ever one the other day.

Do Crafts Geometric Mono stamps

Stazon ink: vibrant violent, blazing red, jet black

Indigo Blu sentiment

Hot off the Press 'Soft Nostalgia' paper pack

Glittery foam butterfly

I put a thin layer of white Gesso on the card, as it is quite shiny and the ink etc would rub off. Waited till it was dry, doesn't take long, then randomly stamped the red triangular pattern on, again waited a few minutes so I didn't smudge the ink and then did the same with the black honeycomb stamp. Waited then stamped the sentiment 3 times, unfortunately  the purple wasn't that bright against the background and you could hardly see it, so I then had to have a rethink. Decided to stamp onto a scrap piece of card and then using the red ink I smudged lightly to blend it in with the background - made a sentiment topper.

Stuck the butterfly on, then fussy cut round some flowers from the  paper in the HotP kit to fill the spaces.

entering in: Butterfly Challenge = G is for grape/glitter

altered playing card

This was a first, I've seen them before and love the end result.

To be honest, I didn't do much with mine as I had chosen to do a quote card.

standard size playing card

'Beautiful Words 1' Gecko Galz

doily

2 butterfly die cuts Tattered Lace Mini

stick on flower

gem

red & blue pigment ink

silver gel pen

I resized the image form the design sheet and printed it out. The playing card edges were inked using a foam square and Christmas Red pigment ink, I then pushed the edges into Royal Blue pigment ink and gave it a quick rub with the foam to blend the colours a bit. I left some of the red pattern on the playing card showing.

I stuck the image onto the card and then found a bit of doily, butterfly and flower to cover over  the corresponding images. Lastly I edged the letters with a silver gel pen too make them stand out more.

entered into: Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge Facebook group