Gem of A Craft Challenge: August 2023

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So let's get to the inspiration for today's new Card Making & Paper Craft challenge...

Martine - Do you like flowers? I do! And Peonies are one of them.I enlarged this one a bit in the printer so i could make this large card. So i had many to color ! Lol. And that sentiment suits very well... ( Let's hang out 37 ). I used gorgeous cloudy paper with it from Paper Heaven 1- Horace & Boo .. See you all next time!

Kim Stewart - Hard to believe we've already dropped into August. I picked one of the Blooming Lovely flower bundles called Blooms 1. I printed out the black and white digi image 2 times and then cut apart sections of the flowers. I also cropped the image down to give me the flowers only in different sizes. The flower images were coloured with my Copic markers and then i added Glitter glue to them to really make the pink pop. I added extra foliage from the Springtime Smiles Cute Chicks bundle for some extra interest. My paper selection is from Winnie Sunshine Delights pack 1 . Fnally, my sentiment I chose from the Perfect Peony bundle. Instagram: @lady_kashmir/

Catrin - Hi Everyone! For my Sunshine and Flowers inspired card I have used the 'Hearts &Flowers Butterfly clear stamp set 1 , set 2, Rainbows - Stamp Soup 19 clear stamp set and Flowers and Things - Stamp Soup 27 to create this circular card. To begin, I distressed the backing buy adding distress ink colours to a glass mat, spritzzing with water and placing the card on top, pressing down lightly, pulling the card off and setting asside to dry. I used Scrap Card on the reminder ink left on the glassmat so not to waste, and once dried I stamped the flowers and fussy cut. For the butterfly I used vellum and heat embossed with WoW Bright White and fussy cut, I then used distress ink on the wings. once the backing paper was dry, and flattened, I added some stamped images from the set, placed all the flowers and the butterfly to complete. Happy Crafting!

Judy: My DT card for this week's challenge is "school" themed. I have used the Wanda Working Study Phone Printable as my focal image. She was colored with Castle Arts Soft Touch Pencils and fussy cut. Part of the sentiment was stamped with the Funky Alphabet A5 Stamp Set. I also stamped borders and numbers from the same set. The other part of the sentiment was printed using Wanda Printable Messages and Quotes. I added a strip of patterned paper behind Wanda from the Wanda Printable Paper Set 3.

Nunzia: It is so much fun to play with summer themes on these hot days, which is why I chose to color the cute Rocco Surf's Up. I fussy cut the stamp and glued it onto a combination of Just Lovely - Honeypie papers. Finally I printed the sentiment from Quotes Winnie-special-moments framed with a banner of Winnie-celebrations-1-banners and numbers bundle.

Pam - This adorable Panda in her 'Beach Inflatable Flamingo' is ready for the Hot Days of Summer! I've colored her up with my Copic markers and used Polkadoodles Starfish & Sandcastles papers along with the Sunshine from the Zodiac digital pack. She'll be catching the rays and chilling by the water!

Renske - I used the cute Lollipop Lady School Crossing Patrol/Security Guard digital stamp for my Back to School themed card. I coloured the digital stamp with my alcohol markers. For the girl's outfit, I chose a yellow jacket, white shirt and a blue cap with yellow accents. The floral-print skirt was decorated with yellow and blue flowers and I added subtle accents to enhance the overall look. The finishing touches included using glitter on the flowers and paper glaze on the plate. I set her in a scene with a road, pavement and trees in leaf. A lovely scene. Hope you like it. Happy crafting! My instagram: @renske.wishes.you

Jane – These gorgeous pre-coloured flowers are from the WATERCOLOUR FLOWER STEM digi deal and simply copied, pasted and manipulated in Word to create a bouquet. The paper and sentiment are also from this amazing value collection.

Candace - For today's challenge project, the theme is Sunshine and Flowers, Bright Colors and no people images. I used the image Too Cute Hamster. For the background pattern paper, I used Spring into Easter - set 3 and used Posydoodles Square dies to cut out the paper. The sentiment is from Rebel with Attitude Easy Snip Message Strips- these are great!!!

Wow! Such fun projects & so many great ideas from the team this week - thanks so much for all your wonderful inspiration, ladies!

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Welcome back to our card making & paper craft challenge!

This challenge blog is sponsored by Polkadoodles.

The winners of the last challenge are at the end of this post.

Thanks so much to all of you who entered!

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So let's get to the inspiration for today's new Card Making & Paper Craft challenge...

Wendy - Hi everyone! How adorable is Winnie Mermaid Mermazing - Octopus Kisses! She's part of the Winnie Mermaid Mermazing bundle. Winnie is one of my all time favorites, and as a mermaid, she's so much fun! I drew some kelp and coral to give this already fabulous image a simple background, and colored it with my Copic markers.

Copic Colors:

Water - BG11, BG23, BG13, BG15

Sand - E31, E34, E37, E43

Seaweed - (G21, G82, G85) (YG61, YG63, YG67)

Coral - YR12, YR15, YR18

Rock - N1, N3, N5, N7, (barnacles E42, E43, E44)

Hair - BV01, BV02, BV04, BV08, V09

Skin - E000, E00, E11, E13

Tail - Y11, YR23 (tip2tip Y11 and YR23), YR24, YR27, YR44, White Gel Pen

Flowers - (R20, R21, R22, Y23) (Y000, Y11, Y23)

Octopuses - (V20, V22, V25, V28, V99) (G21, G82, G85, BG96) (B91, B93, B95, B99)

Starfish - (YR00, R20, R21, R22) (BG23, BG15, BG18) (YR12, YR15, YR18, Y08) (E51, E53, E55) (BV01, BV02, BV04)

I hope you play along with us today. I can't wait to see what you create! Thank you for looking

Judy: My DT project for this week's challenge is "sweet treat"themed. I have used 2 digis from the Coffee, Tea and Cake. Latte Coffee Cup and Cherry Chocolate Sundae Cupcake.

The coffee cup was colored with Spectrum Noir markers and the cupcake was colored with Prismacolor pencils. I fussy cut both images and popped with foam tape onto a strip of patterned paper from Coffee, Tea and Cake Paper Pattern Bundle.I added a die cut heart to the coffee cup. The sentiment was printed from Coffee, Tea and Cake Greetings.

Melanie - For my image today I have used the Lil Miss Mermaid pre-coloured image and for my background I've used two sets of papers from the Noodle Panda set 2 printable papers. To complete the card I used the 'Hope your special day is a really great splash' from the Winnie Mermazing Mermaid quotes and sentiments bundle and added some clear circle and heart bubbles to complete my scene. I just adore how the papers coordinate nicely with the colours of the mermaid. Hope you like it and happy crafting!x

Natalia - We are slowly preparing again for Christmas, although summer is with us now. So today we have holidays in July. I've made two small tags with penguins. They were colored with water markers, and I used Distress Inks for the background. Very simple to make. They will look beautiful as Christmas tree decorations, or we can decorate our gifts with them.

Pam - Our challenge this week was Ocean or Mermaid and I've selected the Zodiac Pisces Fish for my Ocean scene. I love how they are elegantly drawn and have been anxious to work with them for a while. I made an underwater cave-like scene then added a glittery matting and a fishy paper from Polkadoodles Mermazing Ocean Craft Paper pack. Instead of a bow, I finished the card front with this unique brad that is a bottle with a heart - perfect for this fishy couple celebrating in the middle of the ocean!

Kim S - I had to pick WINNIE of course. I created a set of 5, yes 5 cards using the Winnie Mermazing digital super bundle. I also created a purse to put the cards and the envelopes into for gifting to that somebody special. And finally a Winnie Mermaid tag which i created with one of the coloured Winnie Mermazing printables. I coloured all my Winnie Digis with my Copic Markers. And added Aurora Borealis jewels to each card for some added sparkle. My paper selections come from Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles 2, 4,7 and 10 as well as the Zodiac/Horoscope Collection and Winnie Mermazing ....More pictures of the individual cards will be available on my Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/lady_kashmir/

Enrica - Who is greedy? raise your hand! Personally I should raise two...For my card this week I used two sweet digital stamps from the Coffee Tea and Cake Release, Cherry Chocolate SundaeCupcake and Mocha Coffee Cup colored with Copic. The background, the sentiment and the embellishments are from the Barista Coffee/Cake bundle kit, love how these sets match perfectly together!

Jane – I have used this beautiful mermaid from the CORAL collection and she is called NARWHAL WHALE. I coloured her with Copics and added a ‘splash’ background with pigment powders. The sentiment is from STARFISH & SANDCASTLES which I VERY roughly cut into a splashy shape.