just-us-girls-challenge-597-trend-week.html has a black and white challenge this week and I decided to try my hand at a black and white card slimline. Using my new dies from MFT I cut the circular floral pieces and after measuring the placements glued them to a white scrap piece. Added this to the same black CS and then onto the white card front. I then used the stamp set from the MFT kit called Friends Like You, to create the sentiment. Heat embossed in white and I added some black gems here and there to finish it off. This will be going to a good friend who is struggling with her hubby’s declining health. He has dementia and it is very challenging for her lately, although she never complains.

I figured making a card for a challenge was the best way to get back into creating on a regular basis. Using a new die set by Recollections (found on sale at Michaels) and a new stamp set from The Cat’s Pajamas I first cut the border piece and used the center shape to stamp the image. I coloured the water, the gift and the scarf with InkTense pencils then added some Nuvo Crystal drops to the bears nose, eye and water hole. I also added some snow lines, to ground the bear, with a Sakura pen and went over that with the drops too. The bear himself has been done with a white Sakura glaze pen so he has dimension but the camera didn’t pick up on that texture. I added the die cut and image pieces to the blue background piece and then added that to the white CS. Using a scrap piece of the same blue I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed in white.

It is hard to believe that the last card I made was in March and when I sat down yesterday to try to create something, I almost couldn’t remember what to do. My craft room is not ready, but my hubby set up my work tables for me and placed boxes so I could open and get into them giving me the opportunity to get back into my hobby. I can’t find everything but at least managed to set up some basic items for cutting, scoring and inking. I feel happier knowing I can sit and play even if the set up isn’t perfect.

This card came about from items I had been saving from other store bought cards. The colours aren’t showing as well as I wanted as the card looks blue in the photograph when in actual fact it is a purple stripe on a purple card front. This striped piece was part of a thank you card that I cut up because I liked the stripe. The images are from a Papyrus card that was set up for a crafter to reuse. They even provided a piece that would scrape off the tiny gems from the card front. I used some of the tiny gems here but still have a few others for another design. I used a sentiment from a new set received, but not opened since it arrived, by MFT. Stamped in VersaMark and white heat embossed. The card is slightly bigger than normal so I shall make an envelope when sending it later on,

I also repaired the two cards I posted that had spelling mistakes so I can now use them later.