Crafty Cardmakers #40 Fairies and At Least 2 Punches

Here I am a day and a dollar late again, grrrr. Poppy had to have her injections yesterday and she had a bit of a bad reaction so I was playing Puppy Nurse all afternoon and evening. She is fine now…. She decided 1am was an excellent time to recover and start creating havoc! But hey I was just glad to see that there was not a long term problem as the poor little love had been whimpering in pain for ages on and off. Anyhow back to the business in hand.

This fortnight’s challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers and set for us by the lovely Gill is to use at least two punches (please note NOT die cuts, but actual punching) on your project, along with  fairies.

We are sponsored by the very generous to the tune of £10 to spend in her online shop, which is stuffed to the gunnels with all manner of gorgeousness.

So to my card. I used an image by Mo Manning with a cute little fairy sitting inside a teacup.

This was my first chance to give an outing to the delicious new Marianne cutting and embossing die which sits behind my image. (Look out for another card this coming Sunday with the second of these stunners) I punched around the edge of my diecut shape with the MS PAP set called Layered Arches. The second punch is also by MS and is the doily edger punch. I have also used a third punch to make slots for threading the ribbon in.

The ribbon is white seam binding which I spot dyed with three different Glimmer Mists. I have looked at a couple of tutorials for dying this ribbon and I found that letting it air dry, even though I scrunched the heck out of it,  didn’t give enough crinkle to it, so in desperation I pulled out my heatgun and that did the trick nicely by sort of shrinking the fibres a little. I used the leftover glimmer mess, errr I mean inks on my craft sheet to colour over the top of the teacup so it matched the ribbon. The rest of the image was coloured with Lyra Acquacolours, with a little bit of tonertex glitter on her wings. The flowers are various from Wild Orchid Crafts and the two beaded pins I made myself. There was a little ribbon left over so I made a bow behind the flowers with it.

In case you want to make your own pins a little tip – do you know the cheap clear rubber backs you can get for stud earrings to replace your gold ones if you lose them or are allergic? Well they make an excellent stopper so that you don’t have to try and glue your beads in place on your pins, and trust me I tried that and it’s too much like hard work. When you have assembled your pin you just push one of those earring backs on at the bottom and voila, beads kept nicely in place.

I am entering this into the following challenges

Digital Tuesday Challenge – Use Punches (I have used three here) and something digital, my image

Incy Wincy Designs – Use punches or die cuts. I have used both

Crazy 4 Challenges – Use Dies. The Marianne Die as mentioned above

Squigglefly – D is for Diecut (the Marianne diecut), dying (the ribbon was dyed), doily edger punch

I Did It Creations Challenge Blog – Anything goes

Sparkles Forum Challenges – Fairies. The Mo Manning Image

2 Sisters Challenge Blog – Embossing. The Marianne die has cut and embossed

From Monday 14th March, our normal Spotlight Challenge at Crafty Cardmakers will be moving to a new home Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight Challenges. We hope you will come and join in the fun there. The current main Sponsored Challenge will remain where it is.

Please pay a visit to the new blog as there is a DT team call on there. If you pop over you can read all about it and see if you fancy joining us. Details are all on the new blog.

Don’t forget to call over to the normal blog and enter your fairy card, and whilst you are there you can see all the gorgeous work my team mates have come up with this week. I have to say there are some stunners there.

If you pop back and visit me tomorrow I have a small announcement to make.