Good morning. Once again we’re up to Thursday in the week which means a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This week it’s my very first time hosting a challenge as a member of the design team and although I planned to make my card before setting the challenge, in typical “just in time delivery” fashion, I completed my card last night. I’d been trying a different idea but yesterday morning thought that Swirly Scribbles would be the way and last night after work, that’s what I used.

And here’s the banner showing the three blues that I chose:

Challenging? Yes. But I think, definitely fun. I kept wanting to add a pop of a different colour (not allowed) so this took some thought but I’m extra happy that what I ended up with was a masculine birthday card.

It’s a fairly simple card to put together once you’ve cut out your three swirly scribbles in the three colours being careful not to lose any of the cut out pieces. I started by laying it out on scrap paper so that I could decide exactly how I was going to fill in the spaces. It changed between the scrap paper and the final card! Once I had that decided, I placed the night of navy outline onto the card to get the placement right for my sentiment and started by stamping that in night of navy. The sentiment is from the Paper Pumpkin bonus set, All About Everything that just fits so nicely into the curve of the cutout. Only then did I actually glue down the night of navy outline! I used the 2 way glue pen (because there’s no oozing challenge) and then started filling in some of the gaps with dapper denim and marina mist. Of course I have sufficient cut out pieces to make a couple more of these using the other colour ways.

I hope that you’ll pop along to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team have made and to have a go yourself. I’d love to see you in the gallery.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

I’m still playing with the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits dies and it’s still the swoosh. I did cut a number of the round scribbles out so I expect that they will make their way onto a card soon, but for today, it’s the swoosh.

I already had a real red swoosh cut because I’d used the insert pieces in my Mondrian inspired swoosh card, so really I’m just using up leftovers this morning! I like the way that the real red swoosh flows into the card base so that at first glance (unless you know what the swoosh looks like) it’s not obvious whether the swoosh has been added onto the card or whether I’ve cut out pieces of the very vanilla to reveal the real red below. I then cut out a few pieces in gold foil and glued them into place using my 2 way glue pen. I trimmed the overlapping edges of the swoosh easily with paper snips using the edge of the very vanilla as my guide. The sentiment comes from All About Everything, the bonus set that came with April’s Paper Pumpkin and is stamped in real red to match. Then I put the very vanilla onto a real red card base.

I didn’t have a real red envelope liner precut, but I did have this rather flashy gold one. It’s from last year’s holiday catalogue and unavailable these days. Envelope liners are a great way to use up leftover paper. I just checked the retiring list and I hope that if you wanted the envelope liner thinlits you have them because they are no longer available.

See you tomorrow,

Liz