52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge
It's that time of year when everything turns to love. Hubby and I have been together many years. Over that time, we have given each other most types of cards, so it's not easy to try to make something different.
This year, I decided to go in a slightly "Steam punk" style. He's an engineer, so I think he will appreciate the cogs etc.
I have had a pack of coloured textured paper for years, so I decided to use some of it on this card. The brown paper looks a bit like leather. I found an off-cut of tape measure paper and cut off a couple of pieces and stuck them into position.
The MDF cogs came in a Craft Box from last year. I coated them in Cosmic shimmer "Old Gold Gilding Wax" and then stuck on top of the textured paper.
I then die cut a heart (using a Tonic Die), in red paper and backed it with cardboard to stiffen it. I added a touch of the gilding wax to the edges of the heart. I glued it into position, but had to elevate the area that doesn't sit on the cogs with a double layer of foam pads.
I used a Stampin' Up "Expression Thinlits" to die cut the love word and punched the small red hearts with an Xcut punch. Finally, I glued the key and the little fluted edge sequin style discs into position.
The prompt for Week 12 is "Thinking Of You".
For the past week or so, I have been thinking of my Dad. It will be fourteen years since he died this week, so the prompt seems apt to reflect a little. The daffodil has significance as i put one in the coffin with him when I said my last goodbye to him.
For my tag, I started with a background of Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks. I then used a Phil Martin stamp called "Botanica SYR010" to create the chicken wire/scroll background.
I then stamped the daffodil and leaves on white cardstock, the stamp I used is part of an Apple Blossom "March Daffodil Stamp Set" which is part of their "12 Months Of Flowers" collection. I coloured the various sections of the daffodil with Promarkers and then cut the leaves and flower sections out and glued into position on the tag using both normal glue and foam pads to add dimension.
I then heat embossed and die cut the sentiment using Spellbinders "Victorian Tags". I also die cut the numbers and letters for "14 years" using Xcut dies.
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If you would like more information on the challenge, click on the button to the right hand side of the "home" button, where you will find all the information you need, including the prompts from previous weeks.
There is also a Facebook Group where you can share your challenge tags and talk to other members of the group.
I recently purchased a little set of hexagon dies, so decided today I would try them out.
For this card I chose patterned paper from the First Editions "Paper Flowers" paper stack which I purchased from The Range. I cut the paper into hexagons using the Xcut "Nesting Hexagon Die Set" which was a really cheap price at under £3.
I positioned the hexagons on a card blank and glued them into position. I then found a pre cut die cut "thanks" word (originally cut using a Stampin' Up die from the "Hello You" thinlits set). glueing that into position. Finally I added some sticky backed pearls.
