A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Monday 22 February 2016

Merry Monday Bells

I was thrilled to win the "chalkboard" challenge at Merry Monday last week!  It means they've invited me to be the Guest Designer for the upcoming challenge "Make a Card with Bells on It".

 Here's my card:


I had run off a bunch of pieces using a friend's musical score embossing folder and had this narrow strip of it sitting in my UFO box.  The space at the bottom made me think of a new stamp I recently bought - I thought it would work well with the curviness of the embossing folder.  Here's the stamp:


I knew I couldn't fit in the whole stamp, and all I really wanted was the sentiment, so I used my Versamarker to ink up the part I wanted and then heat embossed it in gold. It just fit!!  

I die cut three bells out of dark gold glitter cs and strung them on gold cord, keeping the curviness idea going.  The bells and the whole panel are popped up with foam tape.

Thank you, Merry Monday, for the honour!






Supplies:
Stamps - Great Impressions "Jingle All the Way"
Ink - Versamarker pen
Paper - white cs, gold glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - L'il Inker bell die, musical score embossing folder, gold cord, foam tape



11 comments:

  1. I love those glittery, shimmery gold bells! Thanks for being our Guest Designer this week!

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  2. Love all the white space with the embossed music score, Susan! And the gold jingle bells are perfect for this challenge! Thanks so much for joining our team this week!

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  3. Lovely CAS card with the white and gold. Thanks for joining us this week as our GD.

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  4. Love your pretty card, Susan! Those bells are perfect and I love the embossed music panel and the sentiment! Thanks for being our Guest Designer this week! :)

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  5. Love the colors and textures! So pretty! Thank you for being our Guest Designer this week. :0

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  6. LOVE the embossed musical score background ... perfect for your Jingle all the way sentiment. And those bells are so pretty in the glitter gold card stock. xx

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  7. Love the gold glitteryness of this card and the wavy music and greeting. Very nice!

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  8. I love that embossed music background! Beautiful card!

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  9. Beautiful card Susan, I love the musical textured background. So glad you could join us as Guest Designer this week.

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  10. So pretty! I love those glittery bells!!!

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