Emergency Crafters DT card -

Good Morning my crafty blog friends,

How are you all? I've missed you these last few days...I've been very busy papercrafting almost every waking hour that I haven't been in work, but all my projects have been for commissions and design teams! The commissions I only put on here after the recipient would have had the card, so I can't show any of them yet.

I can however now share my design team card for the new Emergency Crafters challenge, which is a card recipe using one element from each of these categories: glitter or gems,ribbon or flowers, die-cut or sentiment and this is my card...

This is the first time in ages I have used an A5 card blank, I much prefer to work with square cards, but somehow this size fitted the design. I covered the card front with 'midnight' blue card. Then I embossed some of the lovely coconut white card using a polka dot 'That Special Touch of...' mask. This card was trimmed to create a layer and the rest was die cut using two sizes of Spellbinders Labels Four Small. For the bottom edge of the first layer I used a Martha Stewart punch. Then using the same card (al this was from one sheet of A4) I die cut one of the butterflies from the Spellbinders 'Papillons' set. I cut the card and a piece of wax paper at the same time and used this as the bottom layer.

If you live near a 'Kitchens' store, do try a roll of their wax wrap for your more intricate dies, not only does it make them easier to pop, but the wrap itself has a lovely texture and  can easily be used instead of vellum.

To finish off I inked the edges of all the white layers with broken china distress ink and added ribbon and gems.

So the elements I used from the recipe are: gems, ribbon and die-cuts. This is a really fun challenge, we do actually look at all the entries and choose a winner (though thankfully I'm not involved in that part!) and there is  a prize to be had, so why not hop over to Emergency Crafters and  have a go? 

Before I go, Amy and I delivered another workshop on Thursday evening..as usual I have a few photos but haven't had a chance to upload them yet...will do so tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Carole X