Thursday 16 August 2012

Cardigan Card

This is my project from our Monday night craft session, this week we all made cardigan cards based on Ruth Hamilton's design in Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine.  She also has a tutorial on her blog which you can find here.  We kicked off, as usual, with tea and home baking, this week I'd made sticky toffee cake from the new Great British Bake Off recipe book.  It was gorgeous and I can't wait to try out some more of the yummy recipes in it.
The papers I used for the top under the cardi are Papermania Capsule Collection in Boysenberry and I added some faux stitching detail round the neckline.  The cardigan was made with pinky purple cardstock and was embossed with an Embossibilities folder.  I made the pocket in the same way using a different folder.  The lace trim was made with a Martha Stewart punched strip which was then passed through a crimper for added texture.  I made the brooch with some punched shapes placed under a Tim Holtz Fragments tile and finished the card with some Capsule Collection buttons.
We had great fun fun making these, my crafty pal, Alison, made one in pale pink with lots of lace and a wee duck on the pocket as a new baby card, its so cute!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges -
Craft-room Challenge - fashion
Shopping Our Stash - #64 - try something new, I've never made a cardigan card before and I finally used one of my Fragments tiles which I've had for ages and not used.  Faux jewelery is a new one on me too.
Paper Pretties - #219 - square cards
CI Paints - monochrome
Robyn's Fetish - #120 - monochrome

24 comments:

  1. This is fantastic hugs Ginny ♥

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  2. This is wonderful.. My nan would have loved that card,

    Hugs Kelly

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  3. WOW! Such a fabulous design. I love the way you have used the different embossing patterns

    Sue

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  4. This is so realistic - an amazing card

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  5. Great card, Wendy! Glad you liked the idea! Ruth x

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  6. Gosh Wendy, This is truly beautiful x

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  7. This is a very cute card. All the detail stands out great. Thank You for sharing this at Robyn's Fetish Challenge. Good Luck!!

    Michelle (Design Team)

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  8. Love your card Wendy, fab design. Tinaxx

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  9. Great design...very clever. Thank you for entering the craft room challenge this fortnight. Suzanne x

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  10. What a great idea and a lovely card. Thanks for joining us this week at Robyn's Fetish Challenge.

    Laurence DT

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  11. What a great take on our fashion challenge! Thank you for sharing it with us at Craft-room challenge :o) Good luck. hugs

    NIKKI DT

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  12. so stunning wendy.gorgeous pretty design :D

    xx coops xx

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  13. gorgeous card wendy, love this design pam

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  14. WOW! Stunning, love it.
    Wendy xx

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  15. Delightful card idea and so many pretty details! Love the faux jewelry as well! So happy you joined us this week at Shopping Our Stash!

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  16. Oh this is so clever and absolutely gorgeous.
    luv
    Debby

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  17. Very very pretty, love all the little details like the different embossing folders and the paper crimped coller. Thank you for sharing with us at Craft-Room Challenge XOXO Zoe

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  18. This is so adorable! Love all the embossing. Thank you for joining the Creative Inspirations challenge.

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  19. Very cute and clever, the colour you've used has a warm vintage feel-thanks for sharing with us at Craft Room Challenge, Debi x

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  20. Cute card. Great idea. Thanks for sharing your art in the Creative Inspirations Paint blog challenge.

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  21. What a fabulous idea for a card! I love all the details, and the broach!

    Thanks for joining us at Shopping Our Stash!

    PS: I'm jealous you live in Inverness. I didn't get to stop there when I visited Scotland, and it's on my list if I ever get back there! LOVED the Highlands!

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  22. A brilliant card - great design and idea. Thank you for joining us at Craft-Room challenge
    xxx Hazel.

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  23. Wow! This is absolutely stunning! The dps are so perfect for this, I love it.

    Thanks for joining in with our Fashion theme over at the Craft-Room challenge.

    Maria x

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  24. Hi, we're not too far away from each other!

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