Creativity Club Sketch #331 Cards

Here's a couple of square cards that I made based on Creativity Club Daily Sketch #331. The first one I made using the new Home To Nest Ultimate Die-Cut pack from Papermania. I chose one of the small square images and mounted it off-center on a square of Kraft card. For the background I used the bird patterned paper, which I inked around the edges in chestnut and mounted onto Kraft card before attaching to the card blank. The sketch has a horizontal and vertical line across it so I used the egg patterned paper with a little bit of Kraft card behind.

I punched individual birds from the same paper I used in the background using a circular punch and mounted them onto Kraft card. To complete I added a message banner from the die-cut pack and some gold glitter glue around the edge of each embellishment. For my second card I used the Wellington Ultimate Die-Cut Pack and followed the same sketch layout as the Home To Nest card.

The pack contains small circular elements that are pre-cut so I just mounted three of these onto gold Mirri card and then onto Kraft card. To complement the gold in the circular elements I used gold brads to attach the message banner to Kraft card, some gold gems in the corners of the teddy image and some gold glitter glue as before.

Vintage Notes Cards

I discovered a 6 x 6" pack of the Vintage Notes paper last week that I didn't even know we had, which just proves that my mum and I clearly have too much craft stuff! I used a couple of the Docrafts Creativity Club sketches again for these cards. For this first one I layered up four different papers, stamping a best wishes greeting onto one of the more subtle patterned papers. I chose a beige button from the Vintage Notes button bag and threaded it onto some pale pink ribbon to tie in with my background paper. To complete the card I made some pink roses using the Spellbinders Bitty Blossom dies, added some pink pearl gems and some brown faux stitching.

I re-arranged the sketch a little bit for my second card and added a scalloped circle element to tie in with the background paper. I then embellished round the circle with gold gems to co-ordinate with the gold Mirri card that I mounted each of the papers on.

Finally I added pale pink and blue gems to the corners of each rectangle of papers, a greeting banner with pink brads and some hand-cut love hearts from the embellishments page in the paper pack.

More Forever Friends

Anyone would think I quite liked the Kraft Notes range! Here's another two cards that I made in combination with the Docrafts Creativity Club Sketches. I liked the quirky angles and shapes on this first sketch so I went with a slightly more adventurous colour scheme. The background papers are from Craftwork Cards but they matched quite nicely with the dotty background of the Forever Friends image (which I double mounted on dark purple and lime green to tie in with the colour scheme). I kept the embellishments simple by adding a circular message tag, purple & gold Candi and black faux stitching.

For my second card I kept to the Kraft Notes range, going for a lime green spotty paper in the background and the button flower paper to tie in with the buttons on the greetings die-cut. I went for gold and pink double mounting behind the image this time to give the card a bit of a colour injection! I punched some flowers out of a gold and cream paper that came from an old Forever Friends "Black and Gold" pack and layered them up with smaller flowers and buttons.

To complete I added a co-ordinating purple butterfly, gold gems and some pink spotty buttons to the top corner. That's all for today as I've just received a parcel of crafting goodies from Craftwork Cards...which is technically my mum's but I'm sure she won't mind me taking a peek!!!