Friday, 3 January 2025

Conjurer of Dreams: Winter Windows

 


Hello

Today I'm sharing some projects I made using Conjurer of Dreams images. I hope you'll pop over to the store and take a look at the Digital Art on sale for collage, scrapbooks, journals, cards and more.

We have an open, worldwide challenge at the Conjurer of Dreams Blog.
The challenge theme is always 'Anything Goes', and this month's optional theme is 
We hope you'll share your projects with us.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where we would love for you to share your Conjurer of Dream projects.

Here are my DT make.

A frosty winter window with cardinals:


I wanted to have a white on white-ish background, so I used a white die cut window frame onto of white textured paper. I placed a cosy winter living room scene behind the 'frosted glass' (a piece from a clear, but textured storage envelope) and decorated the outside with die cut branches and two beautiful fussy cut cardinals from the Winter Visitor collage set. The beautiful, puffy snowflakes were gifted to me.


My Time to Craft #550 New 08/01 (new window die cuts & snowflake stickers)
Critter Crazy #94 AG Critter 25/01
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A pair of cardinal Note Cards


The lovely Winter Visitor images needed no embellishment, save for some sparkle in the form of glitter on the snow. I matted them onto white glitter card and then onto a blue pearlescent card.

Creative Crafting Uncles #60 Christmas/New Year 14/01
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A window with a view


The stunning view is from the Frosty Winter's Night set. I made it into a shaker card and added it to a 3D embossed background coloured with oxide inks. A die cut cat sits on the window sill.


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A set of Gothic Window ATCs


The window frames are from the Gothic Architecture Clip Art set.


Through this window you can see a Frosty Winter's Night scene. The window is set atop a 3D brick embossed background with plant stickers on the windowsill.


Through this window is a Winter Pines snowy scene. The stonework is from a Tim Holtz 3D embossing folder colored with oxide inks.


And through the third window is a snowy, wooded scene from the Twilight set.

ATC Around the World #121 AG 31/01
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Window to Masterpieces

My next windows are NOT winter windows, but I liked the idea of looking through a window to see a facsimile of a famous painting.


Here we look through the die cut window to see Monet's bridge over the lily pond. The scene is from the Monet Inspired Mosaic Glass set and the stonework is from Distressed Colour Stone.


Here we look out to see a starry night from Mosaic Sky The stone wall is from Sandstone Backgrounds set 

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An Eclipse Card


The City Lights images are beautiful. The buildings' windows are lit up in different colours and all is reflected in the water.
I decided to die cut a word 'shine' into the image to make an eclipse card. Each die cut letter was adhered onto another 4 die cuts of the same letter to give some depth and thickness to the letters. They were coated with Glossy Accents and put back in their place on the original image. along with a sticker sentiment.
(It was difficult to take a good photo in the gloom of winter and when lights were used they caused the image to lighten.) 


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And finally, some digital pieces, all using Frosty Winter's Night images:




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There is a free image give away on my DT post with Conjurer of Dreams today. 
The sample is below - please pop over to download  yours -----> free image here.


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That's all for now.

Please visit the
Conjurer of Dreams Inspiration Group on Facebook (freebies available)

CoD Monthly Challenge always ANYTHING GOES (option Winter Window
  Open worldwide to all participants, using any digis, stamping, mixed media etc
Please hop over, become a Blog Follower and join the fun.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo




Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Crafts Galore Encore: It's A Spring Thing

 

 Hello

Happy New Year

Today sees that start of a new challenge at Crafts Galore Encore. 

The theme is always 'Anything Goes' and you can enter up to 3 different projects.  The challenge runs all month until mid day (GMT) 30th January.

This month's challenge is kindly sponsored by SheepSki Designs.

Here is what I made:


I used the digi called It's a Spring Thing which features a cute little gnome on a swing which is hanging from a tree branch. I decided to add the png image file onto a photograph of a woodland path in springtime.
I coloured the image with Copic markers and mounted it onto black card. I teamed it with some Tim Holtz paper for a vintage look and embellished simply with a vertical strip of paper and green velvet trim with a knot bow.


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That's all for now.

Many thanks to Andrea at SheepSki Designs for her generous prize of 3 digis for our random winner.


Please pop over to Crafts Galore Encore to see the DT's wonderful designs and to enter our challenge. 


We'd love to see your creations.
Remember the challenge is always 'Anything Goes' and so you can create any type of project - it doesn't have to be a card and you can enter up to 3 times.

Thanks for stopping by today!
xoxo

                                                                
I'd like to play along in these challenges:


Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo



Gecko Galz: Gatsby Girls Mini Book


Hello
Happy New Year!

It's a new month and we have a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.  

The theme this month is Gatsby Girls.

As always, we have free images to download to make projects to enter the Card Challengethe Christmas Image Challenge, the Fantasy Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk Challenge and a Gothic Challenge,. The free images can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog pageWe also have a quarterly challenge on the blog.

If that isn't enough challenges, we also have Facebook challenges each month.
We hope you can find some time to join in the fun.

The winner of the Customer challenge will get a $25 Gecko Galz Etsy Store voucher and the runner up a $12 voucher. There are plenty of free Gecko Galz images if you don't already own any. Each blog post has a free image to collect and, if you sign up for the monthly newsletter, there is the chance to claim a free collage set each month.  Also if you make any purchase of $2 or more you receive a free image.

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Here is what I made as inspiration for the Customer Challenge..

 It's a mini book with scalloped edges and an accordion spine, decorated with Art Deco papers in black, navy and gold. 

Here are the pages:


The left side of each page has gold paper embossed with a folder and quotes from the film 'Great Gatsby'. The right hand side has an image from the Gatsby Girl collage set. On the first page I used craft dyed feathers and sequins for embellishments.


This page has gold and copper stickers and sequins for embellishment.


Gold corner stickers were applied to this lovely image and thin copper lines applied around the sentiment block.


More feathers and sequins ....



The closure is gold elastic which holds on the pearl brad.
Each photo is matted onto gold card.
The front and back cover has sequin trim.

Front:

Back:







Gatsby Girl collage set

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That's all for now!
I hope you'll join our 'Gatsby Girls' challenge where the winner will get a $25 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz shop.



The only rule is that you must use at least one Gecko Galz product (this can be one of the freebies or, of course, you can buy at the Etsy store!) Also if you sign up for the Gecko Galz newsletter, you'll be able to claim a free collage sheet each month.

Please pop over to the Gecko Galz blog to see the fabulous designs by the very talented DT.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where there are 4 monthly challenges, each with a bespoke digital prize. 
Do come and join us!



I'll be back on the 10th January with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:Current Challenge  "Gatsby Girls"

I'd like to enter these Challenges:

Alliy's Angels #89 AG 10/01
Crafters Cafe #314 AG 21/01
MMM Challenge #272 Fave from 2024 challenges (patterned paper) 12/01
Paper Funday Challenges #7 AG 02/02


Thanks for stopping by today.
xoxo

I'd really love some feedback :)      
I read and appreciate all your comments. 
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