February 2022 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

 

I signed up again for the Card Chain Challenge! Essentially you sign up and make a card that you send to the person before you in the sign up and the person that signed up after you, sends you a card!

For February I made a card to send to Nat in Canada - this is what I sent her:

Here are the options that we had to make the card:

Theme Options: Hearts / Mushrooms / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Paint / Shaped Card

I chose the mushrooms, the colours (sort of) and sort of the sketch!

I have used Ferns and Fungi stamp from the wonderful Marcella at Power Poppy, along with one of the sentiments. This beautiful stamp and sentiment are actually part of a set of clear stamps called Woodland Carpet that is now not available. I die cut the image using one of the rectangles from Scalloped Rectangles Die set from La-La Land Crafts. Then I have used a scalloped circle from KaiserCraft decorative dies - nesting scallop circles for the sentiment. The background paper is from the Awakening Paper Pack also by La-La Land Crafts.

I have stamped Ferns and Fungi stamp on to X-Press It Blending card using Rich Cocoa Memento ink and then coloured with the following Copics:

• mushrooms - R24, R46, R59, C1, C3, C5, E70, E71, E74, E77, E79, white gel pen
• violets - B60, B63, B66
• butterfly - B63, B66, R24, YR23, C5
• ferns - YG03, YG21, BG72
• geraniums - YG03, YG21, BG72, BG75
• grass - YG03, YG17
• snail - YR23, E71, E74
• soil - E70, E71, YG23, YG21
• sky - BG0000, BG000, B00, BG01
• outline - B66

I found inspiration from Nancy Sheads, who is part of the Power Poppy DT and as usual, from the wonderful Alyce at Kit and Clowder and her fantastic monthly classes.

I used Elderberry Memento ink to stamp the sentiment and then adhered everything to a white square card from Envelope Solutions.

Here are also photos of the card taken outside and inside:

Here are some close ups of the colouring of the image:

As I was taking the photos outside, William decided that he wanted to get in the photo!

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge 15th February - Feb/Mar Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge March 2022 #3 - March Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge for March #3-2022 - March Anything Goes

Love to Craft Challenge Blog #67 - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness Challenge #121 - Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters Challenge #49 - Anything Goes

I hope that Nat likes the card, although with the delays in postage at the moment, it may have not arrived yet!

Thanks for looking!