Basket Weave Card

My first ever Basket Weave Card and I am excited to share it here. I just made a simple one, since it was my first try. Was searching for something different and came across this basket weave, so at once gave it a try. Will try to find some time and share a tutorial with you.

August is here and so far I only made 1 christmas card. Yes only ONE. I am soooooo way behind. Need to start desperately soon. I have had a busy week and didn't have much time to sit at my craft table and get creative

But there is a good news. I just received 3 beautiful digital stamps from Fabrika Fantasy for a challenge that I won at Scrapping4funchallenges blog. Its for my When A Butterfly Sees Flowers handmade card. I decided to choose all 3 christmassy digis so that I can have some unique and fun christmas cards.

Basket Weave Card

Back to my basket weave card, I used a light green card as base. That's the card that I used the basket weave technique on. It's actually very simple to make. I then layered the base card with pattern paper. And used gold border stickers for all four sides of the pattern paper. Using my spellbinder's Sapphire, I die cut a 'With Love' sentiment from a piece of black coloured cardstock.

The paper roses are also die cut and hand rolled then I glued them on a stamped leave that was hand cut. To make the card look more presentable, I added a few purple pearl embellishment.

In my next post I will be sharing with you my first handmade christmas card for 2017. Hopefully can share it by tomorrow. Until then, Craft With Love

CRAFT CHALLENGES

Come And Get It - Just Add Flowers

Crafting With Friends - Challenge #48

Crafty Sentiments Design - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - ATG (Aug 1-7)
Little Miss Muffet - Challenge #168
Through The Purple Haze  - Challenge #130

Crafty Creations Challenge - Challenge #347

💖Karen Monica💖

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When A Butterfly Sees Flowers

Good afternoon craft lovers. When A Butterfly Sees Flowers, that's the name of my latest handmade birthday card. Actually I made this card sometime last week, but only today I have some free time to post it here.

When Butterfly Sees Flowers

I used a light green card as base and layered it with a yellow card. But somehow in the photo, my yellow card look more like gold card. For the final layer, I decided to used two different shades of patterned paper. For the front, I used a black background with tiny gold stars pattern paper while for the back or should I say inside of the card, I used a green and white patterned paper.

I die cut two border patterned oval shapes (one yellow and one black) same sizes and glued it to the front and centre. For the front part, I used the oval shape card as the background of my sentiment. While for the black oval shape, I used it as a frame for my decoupage flower. It has been sometime since I used a decoupage image in my card. Maybe I should do it more often.

For the final touch, I added some pearls and a die cut butterfly. Oh yes...and some gold border stickers too.

During the weekend I managed to find some lovely coloured cards. My flower box is also becoming empty, so I need to start stamping and die cutting or maybe hand cutting some flowers and leaves. For those of you who are familiar with my Craft With Love blog, will definitely know by now that I just love floral theme projects.

Looking forward to completing more projects this week, hopefully. Until then, Craft With Love

CRAFT CHALLENGES

Scrapping4Fun - Challenge #94 (birthday)
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (Sheepski Designs)
Simply Papercraft - Challenge #48
Making Memories Crafting - Challenge #7

Craftyhazelnut's Pattern Paper - July Challenge

Lil Patch Crafty Friends - Challenge # 62
The Corrosive Challenge - Challenge #7

💖Karen Monica💖

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A Special Fold For Raya

Hello Craft Lovers,

I am back again to share with you the special card fold that I made. Again its for Hari Raya or Eid al-Fitr. This is the second time I am making this card fold. What I like about this fold, is that it reminds me of one of my childhood games.

This card fold needs some extra measuring and I have my Ultimate Crafter's Companion board to thank for to get the right scoring and that makes it so much easier to fold. I also added some embossing and stamping with embossing folder to make this card fold unique. It took me some time to complete, with all the added touch included but I am satisfied with the completed project.

Instead of cream or white, this time I used a black card as the base card to highlight the yellow and green. Only at the center I used a piece of pattern paper to give a little pattern border for my sentiment.

Sorry I am in a rush at the moment, so can't include any tutorials for this card fold. But will share a tutorial in future posts.

The sky has gone dark, I better go and take the laundry in. Until then Craft With Love.

CRAFT CHALLENGES

613 Avenue Create - Challenge #198
Moving Along With The Times - Challenge #47
Scrapping4Fun - Challenge #92

Creative Knockouts - Challenge #198
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes

💖Karen Monica💖

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