A LITTLE BIT OF GLITTER: April 2014

Good Afternoon,

Sorry I am late as usual with this post :(

To cut a long story short I am in the middle of getting an extension

on the back of our house and as my craft room is at the bottom of the garden

I haven't been able to access it until now so haven't been in my craft room

for over a week :( and now as I sit here I have no mojo whatsoever

to make or color anything it makes me sad lol

So anyways over at Charisma Cardz we have a new challenge which is

Blue & Purple an easy one right?

Can't wait to see what you create and don't remember we are now a fortnightly challenge blog so even more time to partake in our challenges.

So here's what I made

Recipe

White Hammered Cardstock - The Papermill Direct

Blue Cartock - The Papermill Direct

Bp Lili of the Valley & NitWits Collections Bonnets & Bowties 8x8 pad

Topper - Lili of the Valley Art Pad Set 24 English Charm

Butterfly Punch - Martha Stewart

Purple & Blue Gemstones - Papermania

Thanks for looking and hope to be back on form soon

and making more and posting lots :)

Hugs Mandy xxx

Welcome to the Charisma Cardz Meets Die Cut Crazy Special Challenge & Blog Hop.

Our Wonderful design team have this week teamed up with the wonderful Magazine Die cut Crazy to bring you some wonderful inspiration from the world of Die Cutting

and also a fab packed April Edition which is available for download

on all IOS Apple Devices via the Newstand & in PDF format from the website!

Our designers have made some wonderful Easter and Spring projects

to inspire your own crafting with your die cuts.

This week at Charisma we have an ‘ANYTHING GOES’ Challenge

where you can join in by linking or emailing charisma with your cards/designs

and of course as always there are some fabulous prizes to be won

which the winners will be announced next week on the blog

and featured in next months issue of Die Cut Crazy.

As well as this we have a fabulous blog hop show casing all the designers

which you should have a look around!

And for each comment you leave at each stop

we’ll be drawing some random winners for prizes!

If you just joined our hop,

be sure and go back to the Charisma Cardz Challenge Blog

to start from the beginning!

So here is what I made for the Challenge

List of Materials

Hammered White Cardstock – The Papermill Direct

Green Sparkly Cardstock – The Papermill Direct

Backing Paper – Die Cuts With A View The Year Round Stack

Die Cut – Spellbinders Nestabilities Mega Dies - Labels 17

Image Topper – Lili Of The Valley Art Pad Set 3 Wild Flowers

Yellow Ribbon – Stash

Punch – Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch Garden Trellis

Punch – Artemio 2” Deckle Edge Punch

Happy Easter Topper – Freebie from http://nettyscards.blogspot.ie/p/freebies.html

Glitter – Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles in Butterfly Trails

X cut Guillotine

Grand Calibur

Double Sided Tape

Stix 2 Foam Pads

Create and Craft Silicone Glue

Scissors

How I made the Card

1. I started off by taking an a4 sheet of card and scoring it in half. I then cut it to a 6x6 card using my guillotine. I then cut down a piece of the green sparkly card to mat onto my card and then I cut a piece of the backing paper to mat onto the green sparkly card. I attached all of these to the card with some double sided tape.

2. I then punched out a border with the Garden Trellis Punch and attached this in the middle of the card with some double sided tape in the middle. I cut a piece of the yellow ribbon and stuck that to the middle of the Garden Trellis punch out. I then made a chocolate box bow with the remainder of the ribbon by cutting it onto 3 piece and taking the longest piece and sticking the ends to themselves and I did the same with the next piece which is slightly shorter and then finally I took the smallest piece and wrapped it around the middle of the two pieces I stuck all of these together using some silicone glue.

3. I then cut out my topper with the labels 17 Die and added some glitter to the embossed edge. I attached this to my card using some Foam Pads.

4. I then printed out the Happy Easter Sentiment and cut it out with some scissors. I placed this on to the punched deckle edge topper that I punched out.

Thanks for stopping by the Charisma Cardz Meets

Die Cut Crazy Magazine Blog Hop & Challenge .

I hope my project inspires you to create your own Spring/Easter project.

Please leave a comment to let me know you stopped by.

Next up in the hop is Sarah - http://www.sarahshandmadecardsx.blogspot.co.uk/

If you just joined the hop, here is a list of designers so you don't miss any.

Charisma – www.charismacardz.blogspot.com

Carlyann – www.sweetncrafty.blogspot.com

Emma Pountney – http://tinyurl.com/m42q998

Sarah sw – www.sarahshandmadecardsx.blogspot.co.uk

Mandy – www.mandysparkles.blogspot.com

Marie – www.cardmakingmazza.blogspot.co.uk