Crafts Galore Encore June 2023

 It's the 1st of June and it feels like summer has finally arrived. The children have been off school this week and we have been making the most of the gorgeous weather with day trips and garden play. Another nice weekend is on the horizon with a few treats planned.

Meanwhile .....

.... there is a new challenge starting today at

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last month's challenge. The winners have been announced on the challenge blog. This is a month long challenge and you can enter up to three times. There is a full list of rules on the challenge blog.

Our theme every month is the popular

"Anything Goes"

and our sponsor this month is:

Polkadoodles

who are offering 3 single digi stamps for our lucky winner.

I have made two 6" (15cm) cards using the same cute digi set.

The cards are both from the same Digi Deal set called Bob The Dog in a Boat. This Digi Deal set comes with a black and white and a pre-coloured image. Plus six papers, a sentiment and cutting files.

This is, what I call, a Z-fold card. The base is a 6" (15cm) card blank. It's a great fold to use multiple papers without crowding the card. All the matting layers are from a mottled pale blue card I've had for years.

I printed and cut three of the papers to fit the card panels. I used the lower part of one of the papers for the Z-band and created the Happy Birthday sentiment on the computer.

I have used the pre-coloured image and matted it onto a scalloped base. I printed the blue sentiment and matted that too before fixing it onto the image.

I die-cut an anchor and the swim ring as embellishments to finish the card.

For the second card I printed the PNG outline image onto one of the papers and coloured it with my Copics. I printed another of the papers for the backing layer. All the matting layers are a red Papermania card.

I used my Copics to colour the Bob the Dog in a Boat image in similar colours to the pre-coloured version. I created and printed the Happy Birthday sentiment on the computer and cut it into a banner.

I layered the blue and the black versions of the sentiment and added them to the corner of the image before printing. I die-cut another swim ring and coloured that to match the image to finish the card.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog where you can see the wonderful projects and cards created by our talented team using Polkadoodles images.

Grab some inspiration while you're there and enter your "Anything Goes" creations in this month's challenge.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/06/classic-design-challenge-june-6.html x

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2023/06/morgans-artworld-challenge-6.html

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2023/06/challenge-75-anything-goes-with.html x

https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2023/06/challenge-73.html x