Going outside...

... in a manner of speaking... Our lovely Adele gave us a great challenge on Dottie's World today "The Great Outdoors", these were the specs:

Please make a card, project with an outdoor theme. That's the only requirement apart from obviously using one or more of the fabby Charmed Downloads

I went to town on this one, it's quite an extravagant card in terms of expense so it would be for someone very special. It's an easel card so get ready for lots of pictures as that's not too easy to photograph.

Stray leaf on some of the pictures, ignore that LOL

The paper used here are from the new Prima Fairy Floral pad - both the main paper plus the blue paper. Flowers are Prima Flutter Vine Pacific Blue plus a Prima Medicci Citrus flower (both sadly no longer available). I roughed the edges of my main Prima paper with a Tim Holtz paper distresser.

These show the side of the card. For an easy to follow tutorial on how to make these go HERE:

I used a pixie from our Pixie collection, available both in digi form and as a clear stamp. I coloured her in with Copics, cut her out and sat her on the branch:

The blue panel is likewise from the Prima Fairy Floral pad. I cut it with a Martha Stewart Deep Edge punch. For the middle I folded a little remnant of the paper concertina style. Small pearls were added, as well as a Girls Paperie charm (I LOVE these). Finally a little Prima lace adorns the bottom of the punched panel:

Blue flowers from the Prima vine plus a Prima Medicci Citrus flower (both no longer available). The sentiment is a Basic Grey rub-on rubbed onto shaped cut with a Nestabilities (virtually blow that stray leaf away please). Pearls are Prima.



The very base of my card is just plain cardstock. I have inked all edges with brown Tim Holtz
distress ink.
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Easel Card Challenge

Enjoying the Bank Holiday yet? So far it's been a total wash-out here in London with rain all day Saturday and blimming cold. Had to put the heating back on; oh the joys of an English summer! Hopefully today and Monday will be better, fingers crossed.

BUT because of the dire weather it was a perfect day for a spot of crafting, so I spent some time creating my challenge card for Dottie's World. I set the challenge this week and I want to see EASEL CARDS! If you don't know how to make one then I created a little tutorial ages ago on the main Charmed site HERE. So an easel card, with a Charmed download of course. Here is my effort:

I used a Mikey image from the Mikey Bundle which I coloured with my Copics - must start writing the colours down again, I will do I promise. Wroom sticker is a Imaginisce Let's Roll Vinyl sticker.

On the bottom I used another Let's Roll sticker (the arrow), some ribbon from the same range and the road paper is likewise from that range. I painted some wooden buttons in black and popped an extra large green pearl on top of each one to make it look a little like the buttons are tyres.

Why is it is so darn difficult to get a good picture on a dark day? If you see any good card picture taking tutorials anywhere let me know please.



Please pop over and join in, we would love to see your creations. The design team has created some fabby examples for you.

Have a great Bank Holiday. I'll be drawing my candy tomorrow so see you then - GOOD LUCK to all who entered xx

Easel Cards

This type of card is just fab. It takes a simple card and makes it look complicated and dead difficult. Have a look how to make these cards right here on the Charmed Cards & Crafts site. If you haven't visited our idea section then I implore you to look, we have some fabulous work from our design team.

You can make them as complicated or as simple as you like, they always look great.

I used Imaginisce Perfectly Posh paper
Queen & Co's Mini Felt Fusion has been wrapped around the top.
Prima Lace for the bow
K&Co Que Sera Sera Adhesive Gems
Prima Sugar Coated flower
I coloured the image with Copic Markers
a Tim Holtz Paper Distresser was used to roughen the edges of the paper.
I created the personalised greeting myself.
Nestabilities was used to cut the scalloped frames.
There's also a Basic Grey Glazed Brad on there - from the Sugared or Sultry collection I think.

Did you know that we are probably the largest K&Co and Basic Grey stockists in the United Kingdom? We stock a huge selection from these two giants, as well as many other fab ranges, such as Prima, Bo Bunny, Fancy Pants, Karen Foster, Hot Off The Press, Martha Stewart, Imaginisce and many many more. Charmed Cards & Crafts really are your one stop shop :-)

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