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Saturday 6 April 2013

Kraftyhands April Challenge

It's the first Saturday of the month, so, that means a new challenge on the Kraftyhands Challenge Blog. This month our theme is
"April Showers - Shades of Blue"
If you use a Kraftyhands product you could win a £20 voucher to spend in the Kraftyhands webshop so pop over there to see what fabulous goodies you can pick up.


For your inspiration I made a circle easel card by die cutting an 8"x 8" card blank with a Spellbinders scalloped circle die. I left a portion of the spine joined and folded the front in half. I then cut a matching circle for the new front and inked the edges with Salty Ocean Distress Ink.


The next layer for the front and base is a smaller scalloped circle cut from a paper on the Vintage Treasures CD called Billowing Silk, in a gorgeous shade of blue. I then enlarged one of the beautiful toppers from the Kew Floral Collection CD and die cut it for the main image. I also printed one of the butterflies on the CD a few times in different sizes.


I created the stopper with a sentiment from the Kew Floral Collection and added a small butterfly. I cut the leaf flourishes from royal blue Core'dination card using a Cheery Lynn die.

A full list of the challenge rules can be found on the Kraftyhands Challenge blog. There is a £20 voucher to spend on the Kraftyhands website for the lucky winner if they have used a Kraftyhands product, and blinkies for the top three entries.  Please pop over to the blog to see the wonderful cards the other DT members have created for your inspiration.

20 comments:

  1. Simply stunning Andree! Beautiful image and so well designed!

    Hugs
    Laurian

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  2. Hi Andree .Beautiful easle card .pretty image and love the swirl with sentiment .
    hugs Shirley-Anne. DT

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  3. Gorgeous card Andree, love the who ambiance of this stunner.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  4. Oh wow! love this card Andree, fab design and colours. Love the butterflies and the die cut on the stopper x

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  5. Gorgeous card,love the shape.xxx

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  6. Rubbish! Next!!!! :p

    Just kidding! Great shaped easel and love the colours.
    It's fabby dabby.

    xx

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  7. thats stunning hun, love it x

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  8. Really lovely card, gorgeous colours too :)

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  9. I love what you have done with this challenge Andree,. A beautifully crafted card. hugs Linda x (Linny)

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  10. This is stunning Andree Hugs Sandra xx

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  11. Andree this is just so beautiful.

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  12. Beautiful, love the colours and the butterflys are stunning :-) xxx

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  13. Beautiful card Andree. Love the scalloped circle easel card. I think the billowing silk baking paper on the Vintage Treasures cd is beautiful. Love what youve done with the image and the butterflies. Love the colours. Wendy H xx

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  14. This is stunning Andree! Adore the beautiful colours and those fabulous butterflies!
    Hugs, Tracey x

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  15. So beautiful, I LOVE the shape and the colours and the butterfly is gorgeous
    Lindsay xx

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  16. What a beautiful card, Andree I do love blues and your inking with those gorgeous backing papers is stunning. Such a lovely dreamy quality; I just love it. Vee xx

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  17. A really gorgeous "shades of blue" card. I love the flower with the butterflies flying around it.

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  18. Hiya

    This is very pretty indeed. Lovely papers and image.

    Clever idea about cutting the easel card.

    Happy crafting

    Traceyxxx

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