Cupcake Inspirations

 I haven't been here in ages. Lots has happened; Covid, cancer, family losses, but I'm still here and still card-making.

Cupcake Inspirations has a lovely challenge of kraft, red and brown.

This card fits the bill. 

More Sympathy cards

This just seems to be the time when sympathy cards are needed and it's all so sad. Here are two more. 

I'm having another go at the current Cupcake Inspirations Challenge which is Taking Flight. Last week's wouldn't go through. I hope I'll be better at it this time.

https://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2021/08/cupcake-inspirations-challenge-526.html

And here are my cards.

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge: red, aqua, brown

Just a little card for a neighbour who just lost her dog. There are never the right words, are there?

This is for https://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/

SJ Card Kit Club February

Hello all! It's the end of the month and that means reveal time for the SJ Card Kit Club.

Here's a reminder of Debbie's kit that she sent out to each of us.

I've been busier candle-making than card-making lately, but I managed 5.

February kit sneak peek

Here is Debbie's kit. Aren't those pinks and aquas pretty?

SJ Card Kit Club January 2017

This month is Claudia's month, and she has sent some deliciously inspiring pretties, including a pre-cut card and a box card.

Here are my efforts - the pre-cut card. I expect everyone's will be pretty similar.

The box card. This arrived with just the box cut and ready to put together, and we could decide what we used to decorate it. I really want to see which papers and embellishments everyone else picked for their box cards, because there was so much to choose from.

 

The next two are the same design because there were 2 roses and enough papers to make them both.

There is one more but I can't post it till after Valentine's day, if you get my drift.

Next month is Debbie's kit - can't wait!

SJ Card Kit Club October

It's the end of October, and that means the SJ Card Kit Club reveal again.

This month Jenny sent out the challenge kit. It was indeed a challenge for me, because it was mostly Thanksgiving and Hallowe'en, which of course we don't celebrate here, although Hallowe'en is getting bigger every year. By the time I had taken out those elements, there wasn't much left to work with, but that just means a better challenge, and you know how much I like those!

Here are the cards I made with my pack:

This started life as a cream card, dry embossed with this lovely scene. I got out my almost unused brayer (as you can tell from my rubbish technique!) and my Distress Inks. The pumpkins are coloured in with Wink of Stella pens and glimmer gorgeously.

This simple one came next, because the green didn't go with anything else so I singled it out. I added a birthday greeting, although that was not the theme.

The leaf that I die-cut from the previous card then got the inking treatment and was added to this one. The orange spider paper made a beautiful tree because it looks almost like branches at first glance.

The dry embossed greeting was painstakingly coloured over with another Wink of Stella pen, and more die-cut leaves added. 

My second attempt at brayering - I'm getting better - and my first attempt at a spider.

Now this spider is much better - I'm learning! The "wall" paper began arrived a brightly-coloured Trick or Treat design, and I painted over it with sand texture paint (a Lidl special from last year) and I'm thrilled with the result.

I might add a "Hang in there" greeting, and a thread to the top of the window-frame, but for now they're fairly universal.

Next month it's a Christmas theme. I know today is Hallowe'en, but I can't believe Christmas is already in sight. I'm not prepared in the slightest...