Papermates March 2012

Hi Everyone, 

Welcome back to my blog, I have a lovely collection of cards to share with you…

These cards were made from kits of materials supplied by the members of Papermates.

Papermates is a group of card making ladies who meet up once a month out at Mudgeeraba, Qld.

The idea is to put a number of  kits together – all the same. Then you take that same number of everyone else’s kits on the day and make what you like with it.

It’s a great way of seeing what someone else will do with the same items.

    

It’s also a great way of trying something with an item you wouldn’t necessarily buy. Kind of makes you step outside your comfort zone, which is great to do from time to time.

Thanks again for stopping by, hope you liked my collection.

Better yet, if you are the owner of the kit, I hope you like what I did with it and that it was something different to what you would do

Have a great day! Vicki aka CardarTart xx

More Papermates

Hi Everybody,

I finally finished off the remaining cards from the kits I received at Paper mates. (see previous post for the first lot).
I’m going to post these ones into a couple of challenges each, so I’ll link challenges up under each card.

First is my own kit – I really love what Trish did with these materials and found it hard to come up with something remotely as good (love you anyways Trish!)

Here are the two cards I made with my own kit…

This first one is a favourite of mine, simply for the sentiment – if only we could get away with doing all the Nothing we want!

The second one below, I took advantage of a pattern that was on the reverse side of the butterfly paper and used it as a central piece and layered the gorgeous little butterfly over it. The paper around this decal was a lovely script writing (as seen on Trish’s card).

Here’s a close up of that butterfly – it was a cheap shop find and very pretty.

 

a few gold brads down the centre to go with the little badge sentiment of beauty.

I’ll post this into these challenges:

http://kbchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/06/challenge-16.html

http://suchins.blogspot.com/2011/06/challenge-59-sponsored-by-amber-ink.html

The next  card was the remaining bits from Cheryls kit…

I coloured this in with twinkling H20’s and did a pile of distressing and even used the bag the bits came in. I had to add my own sentiment here, but that’s not a bad thing.

These are the challenges I’ll enter this into:

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/challenge-155-here-comes-summer.html

http://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/challenge-145-distress.html

Last but not least is from Anne’s kit (and I still have one more to make with this kit!)

There’s that feather I was telling you about in the first post. Looks fab with the little silver fan and that swirly paper. A silver foil Happy Birthday sticker and  a little ribbon and there you have it!

These challenges suit this card

http://scrappyfrogschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/happy-b-day.html

http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/06/challenge-39-clean-simple.html

Well that’s it for me for the moment. My Mojo card for this week will be along in a day or two – it’s almost done!

As always – hope you like the cards

Papermates June 2011

Hello again,

Our Paper-mates get together was yesterday and we did a paper craft swap day where everybody who wanted to participate put enough bits and pieces into a kit (x6) to make a card with. Most of us put too much in and we got enough to do 2 cards from each kit at least.

I haven’t finished with all of mine yet, but did get 5 cards made in the day! yahoo.

I really enjoyed this concept as it made me work with things that I wouldn’t normally look at or consider.

Here are the cards I’ve made so far…

Kit 1 (from Toni)

     

Got two cards out of this kit and still have some lovely little die cuts left over, one of a bird on a branch which is just adorable.

Kit 2 (from Cheryl)

Ahh yes – it is my Mojo card for this week (see previous post for details). I also have left overs here – the other four corners of paper and a lovely stamped image of a sunflower inside a border which I have coloured in but not used yet).

Kit 3 (from Trish)

I absolutely love the simplicity of this card. I used dimensional magic on the die cuts provided (or should I say cricut cuts provided ) I did it in two stages, I wanted the frame and the sentiment to be glittered so I did that first and when it had dried I put the dimensional magic over the head of the cameo. 

Here’s a closer picture…

It’s a bit hard to tell but the head really is quite glossy and deep. Trish’s kit also has other bits – a whole another card to make in a vintage style with lace and all. Can’t wait to get to that one!

You can go over to Trish’s blog to see what she made with the same materials if you like – Here.

Kit 4 (can’t remember the lady’s name! aagh how rude of me!)

I made a stand up card with these lovely bits and once again there was enough in the kit for a whole other card – some doily and corrugated card to name the least! Will be onto that one asap too!

The little turtle started out just as a chipboard and I coloured him in with just plain texta pens, drew his shell pattern on and just thought he was missing something. Then I remembered I had taken my twinkling H2o’s with me, so i coated him all over in green and now he really shimmers…

 

ahhh that’s better he looks all mossy now.

I have two more card kits that I haven’t even started on, one has a feather in it even! I guess I’ll have a busy afternoon and what I don’t finish today I’ll have to put my Ugh Boots on and get stuck into after work this week!

Thanks for checking out this monster of a Paper-mates posting, hope you enjoyed it.