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Saturday, 10 December 2016

C4C366 Previous Sketch , Christmas Twist Card

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our December 2016 Hostess is Frances Byrne, and this is the last C4C Challenge of 2016.

Frances' challenge is a fun one - Create a card using your favorite “Crazy” sketch from our 2016 sketches. Check out the C4C Blog to see all the sketches in one convenient spot.

I chose Peggy's sketch C4C323, from February 2016. Click here to see that post, with all the fun takes on the original sketch.

Here is the front of my card with the sketch below it ...

Inside, I made it a Pop-Up with the Twist Circle Pop-Up by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. See how the decoration is sideways as the card is opened?

Then it twists and pops up in the centre of the card. The centre circle seemed just perfect for the coordinating wreath sticker. I added some 'Merry Christmas' Washi Tape to the front and a small piece inside, and the matted white circle is where we can add our signature.

Supplies:
Twist Circle Pop-Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
White card stock
Patterned paper & coordinating stickers/embellishments- My Minds Eye
Red card stock - Recollections
Washi Tape - Recollections
Mittens stamp and dies - MFT Stamps
Snowflake border - Sizzix
Clear double sided adhesive, 1/8" width - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Labels and Circles (small stitched circle), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Card size - 5 x 6" (which fits into a 5 x 7 envelope and mails for a single stamp)

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Saturday, 3 December 2016

C4C-365 PEACE Holiday Card Duo

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog, and since it's a new month we also have a new Hostess! Our December hostess is Frances Byrne.

Here is her challenge for this week: STAR – Stars decorate our Christmas Trees and also helped show where Jesus was laying in his Manger

all those many years ago. So for our challenge this week we are using the word ‘STAR’ – incorporate

something starting with each of the letters in the word.

Here are a few suggestions to help you, but of course you are not limited to these ... Use your

imagination!

S = Santa; Sleigh; Stockings; Star; Snowman; Snowflakes; Snow; Sage; Saffron; Sapphire;

Scarlet; Sepia; Silver; Square

T = Tree; Toy; Train; Tiger; Teddy; Teacher; Turkey; Triangle; Teal; Taupe; Turquoise

A = Arrow; Apple; Animals; Aqua; Apricot; Amber

R = Red; Reindeer; Rabbit; Rainbow; Rain; Rose; Ring; Rug; Round; Rectangle

Since I was planning on using both the positive and negative images of the Snow Drift Cover Plate, I decided to make two nearly identical cards while the supplies were out. I've had this die since it was first released, but hadn't used it very much at all. This Christmas I've managed to make a few cards with it and I have some different ideas as well.

Here are my letters:

S = Snow banks
T = Trees
A = Anita Frames Pop-Up
R = Row of Houses
and I also included an actual STAR inside my card.

The little houses were trimmed from a Lawn Fawn border and tucked into the drifts.

I cut the 'peace' three times for each card, then glued them one on top of each other for a chipboard look.

Inside I used the Anita Frames Pop-Up and added the house border on either side.

The deer were cut from white glitter paper.

There it is - the star for the challenge. (It's from the Christmas Tree Pop-Stand) and was cut from white glitter paper.

The second card is nearly identical, but has a glittered deer in a different pose than the first card.

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Saturday, 26 November 2016

C4C 364 Cake Day!

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our November 2016 Hostess is Maryann Einam and our Guest Designer is Doreen O'Brien from Doreen's Dream.

Maryann's challenge is: According the days of the year calendar today is cake day, please add some cake to your card.

I had just purchased this pretty gold foiled washi tape, so I wanted to find away to use it on my card. Folding it over the spine on the card front seemed like a good place to start. I added Stickles to the patterned paper for some Birthday Bling.

Inside is where you will find the cake for the challenge. I used the Cake Pop-Up by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs for my cake, gold glittered card stock for the icing and candles, and more of that pretty washi tape on the cake layers.

This is a larger card, but I will be tucking it into the Christmas parcel that will be heading east so I don't need to worry about all the extra postage.

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Saturday, 19 November 2016

C4C363 Sketch, a 60th Birthday Pop-Up Card

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our November 2016 Hostess is Maryann Einam and our Guest Designer is Doreen O'Brien from Doreen's Dream.

Maryann's has a sketch for us this week:

Here is my card - I wanted to make a family friend a 60th Birthday card and when I saw this sheet of double sided paper I knew what I wanted to do. The sketch is on the front - I actually stayed pretty close to it!

I added the Happy Birthday from Karen Burniston's Happy Birthday Pop-Up, and the flowers & vine re from the Flower Pot Pop Stand. I put gold glitter dots in the centre of the flower for some birthday bling.

Inside is the Lorna Label Pop-Up, to which I added a die cut '60'. The numbers were also decorated with Glitter Dots.

The flowers from the Flower Pot Pop Stand is SO pretty, and comes in really handy when you want a little somethin' somethin'.

Check out the C4C blog to see how the Crazies have been inspired by the challenge. We'd love to see your take on it, so be sure to stop by the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and link up your creations. If you are uploading to an online gallery, please use the keyword C4C363

On a personal note, we are now back in Canada. We took three days so the longest stretch I had to be in the car was 12 hours. Quite long enough. When I look at the bruising I have from the IV sites and blood work as well as around all four incisions - it's easy to understand that same bruising is throughout my belly. All the jostling that comes with highway driving for hours on end took it's toll. I am SO happy to be home, and I don't plan on getting anywhere near my vehicle today. Hubby has offered to go get groceries so I can stay home. What a keeper.

Supplies:
Patterned paper - Photo Play
White card stock
Stitched ovals - MFT Stamps
Flower Pot Pop-Up (flowers & vine), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Happy Birthday Pop-Up (Happy Birthday), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Number dies - Stampin' Up
Blueprints #12 (banner) - MFT Stamps
Words - MT Stamps
Wink of Stella
Ring Frame Edges (open scallop 'banner'), Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Card size - 6 x 5"

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Saturday, 12 November 2016

C4C-363 Stitches and thread

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our November 2016 Hostess is Maryann Einam and our Guest Designer is Doreen O'Brien from Doreen's Dream.

Maryann's challenge is: Stitches and thread add some form of sewing to your card.

I RARELY sew on my cards, but I knew I had these stitched felt elements in my stash. I made a Centre Step Christmas Card using sparkly papers, and the cute stitched elements for my challenge card.

I always find the Centre Step cards work better when you add an extra support layer to the arms, which I did inside with white card stock.

Check out the C4C blog to see how the Crazies have been inspired by the challenge. We'd love to see your take on it, so be sure to stop by the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and link up your creations. If you are uploading to an online gallery, please use the keyword C4C363.

On a personal note, I am feeling better again today so the healing continues. I've decided to come off the prescription pain meds as they are SO hard on my system, instead moving to Tylenol. Which means the pain isn't as controlled as it would be with the narcotics. But worth it in the end I think. I'm not yet able to do any crafting or Zentangle, but thankfully had a bunch of cards made ahead so I could keep posting while I recover from the surgery.

Supplies:
Patterned paper - My Minds Eye
Centre Step card - Sizzix
White card stock
Stitched felt embellishments - K & Company
Labels and Circles, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Red card stock - Bazzill
White card stock
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Inside stamp - Hero Arts

card size - Standard A2

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Saturday, 5 November 2016

C4C 361 Strawberry Challenge Crd

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog, and since it's a new month we also have a new Hostess! Our November 2016 Hostess is Maryann Einam and our Guest Designer is Doreen O'Brien from Doreen's Dream.

Maryann's challenge is: Who resist fresh fruit that is in season, for me it is strawberries, so add some to your card. You don't like strawberries, just add you favorite fruit.

My knees had been really painful and filled with fluid so not working that well at all. I needed to do things that required little walking so I went through my bin of stamped, die cut and Cricut cut embellishments. Haven't looked in that bin since we moved and that was over two years ago! Found lots of fun goodies I look forward to creating with in the near future. One was a couple of these Cricut cut barrels, all inked and assembled and ready to go. Perfect timing for Maryann's challenge!

I chose a Centre Step card and some strawberry stamps & dies that I got when I belonged to the Stamps Of Life Die Hard club. I only used them once or twice so the challenge also worked for me trying to use some of my older products as well. The cute little fence? It's a Sizzix original die that I've had almost since I got my first Big Shot and it still makes me happy.

A little hand lettering inside and my card is ready for my Mother in Law's upcoming birthday.

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Saturday, 29 October 2016

C4C360 In a Name

Good morning friends

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. Our October 2016 hostess is Caz Counsell and our Guest Designer is Heidi Green - The Crafty Goat Girl

Caz's challenge is: In a name.... using your initials make a card using dies/stamps that start with your letters

Since my first initial is 'K' for Karen, I chose Joset's KITE die and my favourite Pop-it Ups - the Spiral Circle Pull Card.

The card was cut from white card stock - remember with Pop-it Ups you get to choose the size of your card - and the patterned paper was cut with the Pull Card Edges. The little clouds were leftover on my craft table from a different project, but the shape worked perfectly with the paper. Love those happy surprises ... and using things up!

The notches that cut with the SCPC keep the card closed until the sides are pulled.

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Saturday, 22 October 2016

C4C 359 Bee Happy Card

Caz's challenge is: "Bees and Bugs – include bees or bugs on your card this week"

I immediately wanted to use Joset's cute bee dies ... so pulled out the Triple Circle Flip-Its to make my card.

The black is actually self adhesive velvet and I love the look it gives the bees. You just want to touch them when you hold the card.

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Saturday, 15 October 2016

C4C 358 - Pop-Up Panel Card.

Caz's has a sketch for us this week, which I used for the front of my card. The striped patterned paper has some glittered, embossed stripes and the squares were outlined with a gold gel pen. The centre circle was fussy cut from a piece of paper in the same stack and I added glitter dots for even more shimmer and shine.

Karen Burniston and her cousin Jessica came up with an amazing way to create these Pop-Up Panel Cards that have been all the rage in the card making community. Using the Twist Circle Pop-Up and extending the arms ... you get this fabulous Pop-Up card that folds completely flat for mailing. You can find Karen's video and instructions on her BLOG, HERE.

I die cut the leaves from this beautiful heavy weight burgundy embossed card stock, then added Glitter Dots. The patterned paper has either gold foiled bits, embossed & sparkly bits or both!

Another view of the pop-up portion, in case you haven't seen this type of card before.

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