CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #145- hosted by Pamela

  

My first  Halloween card for this year.

I  love making Halloween cards.  All those wonderful images just cry out to be used.  The yellow background card is from Hunkydory.  The wonderful Cheshire Cat with the pumpkins is a digital image from 'Halloween in Wonderland' from Etsy.

I added the Moon from Kate Hadfield's 'Whatever the Weather' and, to the Moon, I have added one of Beccy's witches from 'Witching Hour'.   The spooky sentiment also comes from Beccy's 'Witching Hour'.

The orange, yellow and black borders were added using my ACDSee graphics.

As well as being a teamie on CD Sunday Plus I also belong to several card and ATC swapping groups each with an annual Halloween list. I will show you some of those after Halloween but now I want to show you a special Halloween card that I have made for the two youngsters that are my neighbours.  They have just had birthday cards from me but this one will be a surprise first.

I had such fun making this one.  The hollow forest tree is an image downloaded from somewhere.  All the rest are digital images from the many sets I have purchased since I decided to investigate using digital images.  I am so glad I took the plunge to add that to stitching, decoupage, die-cutting etc etc.

I am looking forward to seeing many more Halloween Cards  - as much as I know my fellow teamie Pamela is.  I actually think she is nuttier than I am about Halloween.

Take care 

and Boo til we meet again.

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #140 - hosted by Meg

 My team offering for this challenge is my first Christmas card made for 2024:

The background was one of a selection I purchased.  I used my trusty graphics programme to expose the image which heightens the colours.  I added the borders after I had chosen which digital images I was going to use as I can pick out the border colours to match to whichever ones I want.  Clever gadget.

The snow people are 'The Snow Globe Family' from Jan's Digitals, as was also the sentiment, from the folder 'Baby it's cold outside'.

From Kate Hadfield  came the Xmas tree (All bundled Up) and Santa in his sleigh from 'Jingle all the way.'

I added some red pearls to the holly berries.

I am still enjoying mixing up the different crafts I am using.  I have though bought  a couple of new sets of dies to play with - so watch this space.  But I must get on with Christmas cards.  I am way behind this year.

Stay safe and well.

Carol

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CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #128 - hosted by Jo

My card for this challenge is a mixture of digital images, photography and die-cutting.

Here is my card:

 The green and blue background mats were die-cut using my favourite 'Carnation Crafts Shabby Dies'.

The photographic scene is of a village house in the depths of rural France.  The photograph was taken many years ago by either myself or my sister on one of our many trips together in  France.  I have kept these old photos on my computer for many years and rediscovered them whilst looking for a suitable background for the ladies and gentleman from the Deco Follies folder from the My Craft Studio programme.

I had fun choosing which of the figures were most suitably dressed for the photo shoot. Then to complete the scene I turned to my Kate Hadfield downloads and found a pussy cat for the top of the steps and a beautifully behaved dog to sit neatly beside Doris.  Hazel is climbing the steps and Robert is trying to look very manly.

The final borders around the photo were made using my graphics programme and finished with tiny brads.

I hope you enjoy my scene. I had fun making it.

Hugs

Carol xx

A little bit more of Halloween 2023

 On the CD Sunday Plus challenge before last I showed a digital Halloween card as my team card  - and also four others that I had made for a card swop.

Here now are the others that I made for that same swop.

I confess to showing the 'Pumpkin People' again as that was my favourite.  This one went all the way to Australia - and it was on time!

They were made using things from different sources. The two 'Cats' were from a CD by Linda Ravenscroft.  Several of the die-cuts were from Carnation Crafts, and I think from  Tattered Lace. The various backgrounds have been collected over time and used many times.

I have collected even more Halloween 'stuff' for 2024 so watch this space.

Carol xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #121 - hosted by Pamela

I have a Halloween card for this challenge.  Although I don't personally celebrate Halloween, and never have done, I love the the 'arty' side of the celebration.   I love making cards and ATCs with the Halloween theme.   I also am a serious 'all things Harry Potter' fan.  The films and especially the Audio CDs read by Stephen Fry.

Here is my card which is all digital:

 

The background comes from some Alice in Wonderland downloads purchased from Etsy.  The cauldron and the nasty looking potion both come from Kate Hadfields digital shop folders -  'Franknfriends' and 'Wizadry' . The sayings come from Jan Mayhew.  Folders - 'Haunted' and 'Witches Brew'.

The borders were done using my graphics programme - ACDSee

I have had some correspondence with Jan Mayhew about Halloween and I promised I would show her  some cards I made - using her digital images -  for a Facebook swop to which I belong.

Here they are:

The two ghosts and the flying witch are by Jan.

Again the two ghosts are by Jan

All the images and words are by Jan

The Pumpkin People and the conducting cat are all by Jan. The skeleton and the Mummies are by Kate Hadfield

Carol xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #102 - hosted by Jo

 My 'team' card for this challenge is one I made especially for fellow CD Sunday team member and friend, Jocelyn.  Her birthday was at the beginning of the month and I know her to be a lover of cats and has one or two? of her own.  So this card I found on the 'Say it with Words' CD from Ooh La La seemed perfect.  Here it is:

The extra three larger pussy cats were added digitally from a folder - Here Kitty Kitty - by Kate Hadfield.

I am still enjoying my forays into the digital world but have now started to do decoupage again and using my die cut machines more. The injection I had a few days ago seems to be helping.  I don't think these things are a cure but I will settle for help and no pain.

I am looking forward to finding more knowledge and inspiration from those who enter our Challenges.  I discovered two new unknown to me digital designers during the last challenge which pleased me very much.

Keep safe

Carol

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CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #97 - hosted by Jo

 When this is published we will still have two days left of the Halloween season so I have a Halloween card for you.  Here it is:

I think I have said before that as a family we never really took part in any Halloween activities but now I do really enjoy creating cards for Halloween. It is just so much fun playing with  all these spooky things and then sending a card off to someone just because. I belong to a little Facebook group and this year I sent off 13 (a good number !!)

The basic card is  an internet download.  The digital images of the ghosts, pumpkin and broom are from Kate Hadfield's - Oogly Boogly folder.  I am a real fan of Kate's work. The images in many of her folders are for the young and very young, but not all, and I always manage to find what I want and need.

So this card found a home and is not lurking in my go to box, and I have returned to Christmas card making.

On a different subject - and keeping all fingers and toes crossed - I have a consultation with my hand surgeon on November 1st.  Not long now.

Take care

Carol

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P.S.

Thank you everyone for your good wishes about my hand.  I saw the Consultant yesterday and it turns out not to be anything to do with the Carpal Tunnel op.  I have trigger finger in two fingers. This was probably masked by the Carpal Tunnel.  I will be having treatment for them.  Injections!!  Whoopee.

 My left hand has healed itself so no more ops for Carpal Tunnel needed.

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CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #96 - hosted by Pamela

 For my team sample this time I am showing some ATCs that I  made for a Facebook group I belong to -  ATC Swap UK.  The theme for the month of October was Harvest Festival.    Here are mine.

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I found the background frame on MCS and then filled them in with digital images from a Kate Hadfield folder - Pick of the Patch.

I am still enjoying the world of digital crafting and I think it is going to be a godsend to me as physical problems make other kinds of crafting more difficult.  The op on my hand has not been the total success I would have wished for and the surgeon herself is now not well and my follow up appointments are getting further apart.  As well as the dreadful state the NHS is in, with waiting lists getting longer and longer, hand surgeons - in particular - are thin on the ground. It is a very very specialist field - a problem.

But I am still managing to do stitching though  and some die-cutting, so all is not lost. 

Stay well and safe.

Carol

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The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Card Challenge - with UKSN

Although the UKSN is 90% about stamping and mixed media they do allow any kind of medium for their ATC section of the club and they have -  graciously -  allowed me to continue to use digital images whilst my hand is healing so that I could enter this challenge.  I had all sorts of ideas buzzing in my head and this is what I produced:

I loved creating this card.  The background of Buckingham Palace was a copyright free image from the net.  'Her Majesty' is a wonderful first layer decoupage image from a La Pashe CD.  This is the first piece of fine cutting I have managed since my op so I am so pleased.  The union flag numbers, bunting, corgis, guards and the princes all come from a digital download purchase from Kate Hadfield.

I am secretly pleased with it (perhaps not so secretly now) and I hope you like it too.

Hugs

Carol

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