January Blues

It's Blue Monday today according to many of the media pundits, when we are all supposed to be at our lowest ebb after Christmas.  Over at Daring Cardmakers, they are having the January Blues too, but in a much nicer way - as a prompt or dare for a card design.

January Blues

You are free to use the title however you want; it could be a "just to cheer you up" or "sorry to hear you're feeling blue" card,  a card with shades of blue as the main colour, or something else inspired by the heading.  Lets chase the January Blues away with some quality time spent getting creative!

This simple card is made with a couple of free papers from Simply Homemade magazine (not recent), a butterfly image from a pad of images I've also had so long that the front page has gone, so I know not from where it came, a ribbon from my ribbon box and a Papermaze greeting.

Elemental Inspiration for Daring Cardmakers

It's been a long time since I made a card, but I saw the Elemental Inspiration challenge come up on the Daring Cardmakers Facebook page and I just loved the inspiration piece so decided to see if I can restart my crafting mojo!

I'm not entirely pleased with this card, however it does meet the criteria for the challenge which is to include elements from the original inspiration, pop over the the site to see the original.  Here are the elements I used:

Colours
Hearts
Vintage woman image
Vertical lines

I haven't made any resolutions this year, but I would like to do a little more crafting, so this is a good place to start.

DCM - Patterned Paper

This week it's Leo here and I've got a killer of a dare for you,

 'Patterned Paper Mania'

This week your mission if you choose to accept it is to create a card using a minimum of SIX different patterned papers. 

You can use more if you want to but you must use at least six different ones.

It's some time since I did a DCM dare, but I had a card to  make and a pad of Pink Paislee papers, so the six patterned papers really appealed to me. Pop over to the Daring Card Makers blog to join in.

DCM - Kitchenalia

Websters Pages: Sweet as Cherry Pie & Cafe Vienna (digi) collab from Inspiration Lane

Every now and then I try to take part in the Daring Card Makers dare, this week the theme was Kitchenalia so, given my love of all things kitchen, I  thought this week would be a good week to make a card!