June 2023 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 June 2023, I made a card to send to Suze in New Zealand - this is what I sent her:

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

Theme Options: Birds / Wheels / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Something a friend sent you / Stitches

I have used the sketch for inspiration, as well as the theme option "wheels" as the flowers resemble wheels!

I have used the In Bloom Clear Stamp Set and the coordinating In Bloom Outlines Dies from La-La Land Crafts. First I stamped the flowers on to water colour paper using Versafine Onyx Black ink and my MISTI, then I coloured with the following Distress Markers/ink:

• green - mowed lawn, pine needles, lucky clover
• red/pink - fired brick, festive berries
• yellow/orange - spiced marmalade, wild honey
• purple - milled lavender, seedless preserves, dusty concord, chipped sapphire
• brown - tea dye, vintage photo, weathered wood

I die cut the three separate flowers and fussy cut the larger image. Then I die cut a Scalloped Sentiment Labels Dies from white cardstock. I stamped a sentiment from Showers of Joy Clear Stamp Set using Versafine Onyx Black ink and my MISTI, then brushed some tea dye Distress Ink on to it.

I adhered the bigger image using double-sided tape on to a Kraft card from Envelope Solutions. Then I positioned the separate flowers and the sentiment label - adhering the flowers with foam tape and the sentiment with double-sided tape. 

Once everything was on the card, I sprayed it with Cadence Shake & Gilt in Multicolour - I found it in my stash upstairs and it was begging to be used!

Here are some photos from a different angle and flat so you can see the dimension and glitter:

Also, here is a photo of the card before I adhered everything and sprayed the glitter:

Here are the flowers before they were fussy or die cut:

As usual I found inspiration from La-La Land Crafts DT, who showcased some awesome projects on the La-La Land Crafts blog and as usual, from the wonderful Alyce at Kit and Clowder and her fantastic monthly classes.

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

A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge #7-2023 - Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge July 2023 #7 - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness Challenge #144 - July Anything Goes

Mix It Up Challenge MIUCB #66 - Anything Goes with the option of Aperture

Creative Fingers Challenge #258 - Anything Goes

I hope that Suze likes the card, I was a little late posting it as it has been so wet here in Adelaide, that the glitter took ages to dry - then I escaped up to Darwin for work!

Thanks for looking!