CRAFT Challenge 121, Using Parchment

Morning all,

This Thursday we bring you a different and exciting challenge at CRAFT Challenge, this time our challenge is 'Using Parchment'.
We realise there may a lot of our followers not familiar with using parchment. We therefore have a lovely tutorial for you written by our fellow trimmie Tina, aka Paperlace, who has some lovely parchment work in her gallery at Trimcraft and on her blog. She will also be joining us as a GDT for this challenge. Thank you, Tina!

You can find her tutorial here.

This week we were due to have as our sponsor Digi's With Attitude. However, they will be closing their doors very soon and will therefore not be sponsoring us any longer. Thank you for your sponsorship so far, we are going to miss you and your great digi's. For this week's DT project I have used a combination of one of their digi's and one of our new sponsor Digital Stamp Club.

Hope you like it, it was great fun to create it.

Have a great weekend, thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Crafty Pad Challenge card with parchment.

Good evening everyone.

I did it. But only just. I wanted to make some time this week to make a card for the Crafty Pad challenge. So, after the ironing was finally out of the way this afternoon, I started on a card. For this I used my newly found hobby of parchment crafting. It wasn't easy to find a circular design to fit in with the sketch Debbie asked to follow, but I did. Just put one of her stamps in the middle of it and then started to emboss and colour it.

Hope you like it and Debbie likes what I have done with her stamp. Belinda, the flowers, even the butterfly and the grass have been embossed, it does however not show very well in the pictures.

Thanks for looking. All comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Challenge 35 at CRAFT Challenge, Paperpiecing.

Morning all on this Thursday morning!

It is time for another challenge at CRAFT Challenge. This week we want you to make a project using Paperpiecing. If you don't know how to do that or if you would like some further instructions on this, please have a look on our blog for a tutorial by our very own DT member, Julie. It is very easy to follow.

Now on to my project for this week. I have actually done 2 cards, the first is a card using my own image of a pirate with treasurechest and is some digital paperpiecing. The second is proper paperpiecing of a lovely stamp by one of our fellow DT members Claire, a cat playing with a ball, mounted onto parchment. I enjoyed the first parchment card I did so much, I decided to use it for this card as well. Hope you like it.

Our sponsor this week, is our very own and very talented Claire from Shophandmade.

So, now for a closer look at the cards, first the card on parchment.

And now the digital paperpiecing. Hope you like the image, it can be found on my sister blog, 'Trimgym's digistamps and images', here. It is free for download, but leave my signature on, do not claim as your own and for personal use only.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Looking forward to seeing you at CRAFT Challenge again this week.

Love,

Jo.

My second parchment card.

Evening everyone,

I have just finished my second parchment card today. This was set as a challenge/task on trimcraft by one of our fellow members, who is trying to teach us how to do parchment craft. I must say, I'm in danger of getting hooked. For this card I used a free pattern from here. It is meant for a gatefold card, but I felt it was a bit of a waste of good parchment and therefore used it as the front cover of A4 card. For the centre I used a digistamp from my fellow DT member Magda on CRAFT Challenge. Hope you like it.

I think that will be enough views of the card. Hope you like it. Thank you for looking, any comments are very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

First Parchment card, Simon Says Stamp Challenge and DT call.

Hello everyone, hope you are enjoying your Saturday.

I have managed to make a card for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge for this week, which is also part of a challenge/learn a new craft at Trimcraft. This week at Simon Says Stamp, it is 'Punch It', I have used an embossing corner punch for the corners of this card. At Trimcraft one of my fellow members is trying to teach us how to do parchment craft and this is my first attempt at it. Not bad for a first time I think. Not as difficult as I thought it would be and real fun as well. I am also entering it in the 'Punch It' challenge at Creative Card Crew.

I followed a free pattern and instructions, which are available here.

Hope you like it, it is certainly something I am going to try again.

The first image gives you a full image of the card, the second a detail of the corner of the parcment with a detail of the punched and embossed area.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.