Kool Kitty Musings: 2015 card challenge

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Sunday, 02 August 2015

2015 card challenge - August

Well, despite the lack of crafting going on in my own life right now - if anyone is still wanting to play along with the 2015 card challenge I have some new prompts for you to work with. :D

So this month's sketch gives some scope for digging out those decorative border punches!

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You can go as simple or as intricate and bold as you want with this sketch. But I really like the idea of the front decorative panel being on 3D foam to really show off a lacy border punch against a bold base colour.

Obviously there are plenty of alternatives to a decorative border punch: dies, real lace, border stickers, decorative paper, stamping, fabric, ribbon...

For the colours this month I was really taken by the shot of purple in this collection:

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Lovely against those pinks and blues - makes me think about floral designs incorporating the purple and pink tones as flowers against navy and aqua in the background. Or mixing these colours together in a word where each letter is a different shade: HELLO, HAPPY, LOVE U, THANK you...

And finally the Pinspiration prompt is all about handmade with love:

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So many little inspiration items here - you could just CASE the design of the card shown, but I really love all the handmade elements, like...

The little tags with twine
The ribbon flowers
The use of unusual buttons
The felt stitching
The crochet doily
Using stick pins

Plenty to work with. :)

As mentioned on Friday, my day job has changed slightly in that I became self-employed yesterday so there's still a lot of stuff I am sorting out in addition to trying to ensure work-work is coming in. Until a more regular balance is found again crafting has kind of had to take a back seat as I just don't have the energy or creative ideas coming to make anything on top of my existing crafty commitments. I think once my very long work-related to-do list shrinks to just a few items I will be there and ready to get back to fun crafty shenanigans. Hopefully it won't be too long!

But in the meantime, I wish you as always some very happy crafting time!

Posted by Handmade by Natty at 11:06 AM in 2015 card challenge | Permalink

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