Up, Up and Away - CD Sunday

Another Sunday comes around and it's time for a new challenge theme over at the CD Sunday Challenge blog. We're doing things a little bit differently now. The winners from last week's challenge, Vintage Love, will announced in a separate post on the blog next week. That means we'll have a new blog post every week so our blog followers will have a reminder in their reading lists. Hopefully this will give people a gentle 'nudge' about the challenge and remind them of when they need to get their entry done by.

So onto the new theme and this time it's Carol's choice and she's chosen 'Up, Up and Away'.

I knew I had a die that would be perfect for this theme (Adventure Landscape Die by Pretty Quick)but needed the 'something from a CD element' so I turned to Craft Artist and found the perfect backing paper in the Classic Transport digi kit. This was glued to a 5 by 7 card blank ready for the die cut.

I don't know if you can tell from the photo but each section in the die cut was glittered individually.

I backed the blue mirri card with double sided adhesive and cut it using my XCut Express machine. You can alter the pressure on the XCut so I adjusted it so that only the mirri card was cut. The double sided adhesive just had cuts in the backing so I was able to peel it away from each section and add glitter without it going into other sections. The topper was then added to the card using foam tape to add height.

I finished the card by stamping Up, Up & Away! down the left hand side. This was originally one stamp but I cut the words out so I could space them out up the side.

Don't forget that the CD Sunday Challenge is all about making items using craft CD Roms. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die as in my card, but you must include something from a CD. So if you like colouring stamped images or digis you can still enter the challenge but you must include something from a CD such as a backing paper, a sentiment or a butterfly for example. In your blog post/Facebook entry you must give the name of the CD you've used. This is important if the items you've used can be bought as a download as well as a CD as the Design Team can't tell which has been used unless you tell us. Your entry can't be considered for a prize if you haven't used a CD or if you haven't told us the name of the CD in your post. The Design Team still leave comments on your blog but there's no chance of winning if the above hasn't been followed.

We now have a Facebook page if you don't have a blog - The CD Sunday Challenge.

Vintage Love - CD Sunday

A new theme for the CD Sunday Challenge and with it being the month of love there could only be one theme! It's Jocelyn's choice and she's gone for Vintage Love. So get your CDs out and look through them for something suitable, it could be an image, a backing paper, a sentiment or a small embellishment. Who's your card going to be for? A partner, a much loved friend, someone who you want to tease or play a trick on? Mine's for my hubby of 39 years. He's really supportive of my crafting and sometime offers me advise if I'm unsure if something looks right.                        

I found instructions for a 'fanfare fold' in Papercraft Inspirations issue 174 and it has several surfaces that can be decorated.

This is the card completed folded:

                                                 

The front of the card.

The second page.

And the last page where the sentiment will be written.

Each page was covered in a plain backing paper that had first had the edges inked and distressed. Then another, floral paper, was layered on top that had also had the edges inked and distressed. Each of the die cuts were cut from backing papers that had been printed onto card. The red die cuts were also stamped before being die cut.

I finished the card off with pink roses and pink pearls.

All dies and stamps are from the Tonic Box Kit magazine number 4. The backing papers are from Serif Craft Artist - All Sewn Up (the two flowery papers), Deco Opulence (the red paper) and Fifties Fever (the pink paper).

Don't forget that the CD Sunday challenge is all about making items using something from craft CD Roms. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp , but you must include something from a CD. So if you like colouring stamped images or digis you can still enter the challenge but you must include something from a CD. In your blog post you must give the name of the CD you've used. This is especially important if the items you've used can be bought as a download as well as a CD as the Design Team can't tell which has been used unless you tell us. Your card can't be considered for a prize if you haven't used a CD or if you haven't told us the name of the CD in your post. The Design Team still leave comments on the blogs but there's no chance of winning if the above hasn't been followed.

We now have a Facebook page if you don't have a blog - The CD Sunday Challenge.

The challenge runs until Saturday 17th February at 1pm.