Design Team Make for "My Time To Craft Challenge Blog" #398 Kraft

It's time for another challenge on the "My Time To Craft Challenge Blog" . Challenge #398 has a theme of "Kraft".  If you have a moment, please do pop over and take a look at the fab makes my Design Team colleagues have produced.

I decided to use Kraft card as the base and used a Tim Holtz Distress Ink in the shade of "Barn Door" through a Funky Fossil "Orb" Stencil.

I stamped the Papertrey Ink sentiment in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink.  Finally, I die cut a flower in black card using the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Thinlits set called "Wild Flower Stems #1".

70th Birthday Card

My crafting friend will be 70 this month, so I needed to make her a card that was a bit different.

I started by applying Distress Oxides (in shades of Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistashio) to a card.  I then sprited and dried it.

I then used a die to create the cut out detail at the base of the card (sorry, I don't recall where the die came from).  I needed to die cut it in two directions to get the area I required.

I then used a Stampin' up set called "Dragonfly Dreams" for the sentiment and the dragonfly, stamped in Versarine Clair (Monarch shade) Ink.

Using a small Lavinia pound stamp, I stamped the stars using a Momento "London Fog" shade of ink.

I then die cut the "70" and adhered the centre of the "0".  I also die cut the dragonfly wings using the Stampin' Up "Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits".  I used a glue to stick the central section of the wings.  I applied sticky backed silver gems to replicate the eyes.  I also applied some to the underside of the wings, so that they do not sit flat on the card, in the hope that it replicates movement.

Finally, I stuck further gems to the middle of the large stars and stuck the green/blue top to the purple card.