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Monday 18 October 2010

Crafty Cardmakers 32 - Use a Freebie.

Hello everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I have been away babysitting at my daughter's since Wednesday evening. We only actually had to babysit all day Thursday and Friday afternoon but since she lives about 2 and a half hours drive away we had to go on Wednesday. Yesterday we just spent some time with them although my hubby was roped into some gardening with Catriona while I stayed indoors with the kids. Today we stayed until Poppy came back from Sunday School and then gathered up our bags and the dog and came home. The dog is very quiet tonight! You can tell I'm writing this on Sunday evening and scheduling my post for Monday!!  She is used to Catriona's dog but had never met Catriona's in-laws Weimaraner before. She was only there till Friday afternoon so Maddy and Missy had the kids to themselves again. Oliver is only 11 months old but he loves dogs.

Anyway enough waffle, here is the card I made for Crafty Cardmakers latest challenge which is to use a freebie. I have used a stamp I got with Craft Stamper but you could also use freebie papers if you have any you got with a magazine. And of course you could use a free digi image.



I stamped my free flower stamp randomly on Kraft paper with Versamark and embossed with bright white embossing powder. I edged the Kraft paper with Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink. The blue DP is from Tim Holtz. I stamped again with Memento ink, coloured with Promarkers and cut out with a nestie. I added some blue organza ribbon across the middle and popped the image on top of it with sticky pads. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards as is the card candy. I also added some jewels from Hobby House and finished off with some blue flowers from my stash. I added some glitter with a Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

I followed the sketch over at Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog so I'll enter that challenge this week.

Since I have a day off today to catch up with some washing and ironing I'm also hoping to be able to get some crafting done too. Hope you can join us this fortnight, I'm sure lots of you can find a freebie of some description. Looking forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you've done with your freebies. If you need some inspiration pop over to the challenge blog at Crafty Cardmakers and see what my talented teamies have done with their freebies.

16 comments:

  1. Lovely card hun, Great work with my sketch :) Thanks for joining us this week at Wednesday's Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog! xxx

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  2. a beautiful card in soft shades of blue. sorry I've not been by in a while .. .. not feeling 100% just at the moment.
    hugs, annie x

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  3. Pretty elegant card !! love it ! good luck with your challenge !
    greetings, martina
    x

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  4. what a beautiful card hun, thanks for joning us at Creative Inpirations this week.
    Shell xx

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  5. Super card Kat - love the colours and the music paper is lovely!
    Hugs
    Ei
    x

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  6. Lovely card Kat, love the flower stamp, think I have it somewhere, but never used! Love the use of the blues and fab music paper. nnalorac.xx

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  7. Lovely card! I think I am going to have to get some of Tims papers! look great on your card! Samantha :0)

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  8. Oh Kat
    This is just fab!
    So love the simpleness but the gorjussness...ness hee!
    Hope you had some wee crafty time and left the horrible housework hee!!
    Hugs melly xxx

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  9. fabulous!!! Love the blue!! the music score is fab!!, the flower stamp is gorgeous!! I have this stamp you have inspired to me to get it out and ink it up!! hugs Juls

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  10. Lovely elegant card Kat - great colours :o) Lisa x

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  11. I love the monochrome feel. Great freebies! Fabulous layout!

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  12. What a fabulous card you've made with that stamp. I've got that one but haven't used it yet. xx

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  13. Gorgeous Kat, love the blue with that stamp x

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  14. Love the colours on this one Kat, and the text on the flower is gorgeous, great challenge, thanks for the DT inspiration
    x
    Vicky

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  15. This is gorgeous. I love how you have found a flower embellishment which is an almost perfect match for your freebie image in the centre. The whole card is very calming.

    Lin xx

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