Tuesday 21 May 2013

Shadow Box Card and Some Cake

It was, of course, craft night, yesterday, and, after tea and home baked milk chocolate and pistachio squares, we all made shadow box cards.  I decided to go down the Christmas route again, and used another of Janet's lovely Ginger images, this one's called Ginger With Garland and you'll find her in the Pink Gem shop here.

 To make the card base, I cut two pieces of mint green card to 6x9 inches and placed them, one at a time, landscape on my Hougie board and scored at 1, 1.5, 7.5 and 8 inches.  I then die cut a circle in the middle of one of the pieces to make the aperture that the image is viewed through.
 I coloured the cute image with Promarkers to match these rather appropriate papers, which were mag freebies many moons ago, they couldn't be more perfect for this image.
I used a Martha Stewart cupcake border punch to continue the sweet treats theme and finished my card with buttons, pearls and a big bow made from ribbon and floss.
I'm entering this card in the following challenges -
Kaboodle Doodles - Stripes and/or Circles
Passion for Promarkers - #199 - Anything Goes
Hobbycutz - #6 - More Than One Fold
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Sweet Treats
Crafty Hazelnut - #125 - Festive Food/Drink
My Time To Craft - #222 - Christmas in May
Speedy Fox and Friends - #160 - Window
Card Crafter's Circle - #75 - Construction Cards
Crafts 4 Eternity - #124 - Sweet Tooth
Christmas Cards all Year Round - Gingerbread Person, Ribbon, At Least 3 Buttons

34 comments:

  1. I'm going to pretend I didn't see those yummy cakes Wendy and go straight to your card which is so prettily coloured.

    B x

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  2. Gorgeous card Wendy and wonderful cakes mmmmm
    Hugs Kelly

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  3. I'm putting on so much weight looking at all your scrumptious cakes. Lovely card, I do like the Gingerbread Man, and your design is fab, kate x

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  4. I am loving your food theme today gorgeous cake and brilliant card xx

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  5. I can't think of anything nicer than chocolae and pistachio - especially as I'm on day three of my diet and doing very well so far!!!! Love your card too - fabulous image! Hugs Rachel xx

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  6. Scrummy cake... er I mean card! Love the colours and clever design! Thanks for joining us at Hobbycutz Challenges.
    Chris
    x

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  7. What delicious cake and equally delicious card - gorgeous - thanks for entering my CHNC challenge 125 - you could also enter this into my CHNC challenge extra for May - I'd love to see it there too. x

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  8. Fabulous shadow box, not got around to making one of these yet. Thank you for playing along with us on our Anniversary challenge at PFP & good luck. Jane x

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  9. Gorgeous card wendy, love the fab design & details. Ooh! those cakes look yummy!

    Donna x

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  10. What a lovely card! Love the Gingerbread lady with her lovely bow!
    Thank you for sharing with us at Hobbycutz this week. Goood Luck ....
    Crafty Hugs
    Denise
    xox

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  11. A lovely design and pretty colours and fabulously coloured image x

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  12. I just gained 5 pounds by droolin' over that cake, ha! Had to tear my eyes away to take in the gorgeous shadow box card you created....and you used GINGERBREAD...another 5 pounds, lol...but have to say I love every little detail of this sweet creation! Thanks for joining in at Card Crafter's Circle this week.

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  13. a gorgeous card wendy! always look forward to these blogs after your craft night-the cakes and cards are both inspiration for me and my other half!! x

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  14. Wow gorgeous card, love the image
    Sue xx

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  15. This is a lovely window card! Thanks for linking up at Speedy Fox and Friends this week - good luck in the draw and have a great crafting week! Gail DT

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  16. YUM, this post is scrumptious! LOVE the sweet card you made--amazing coloring and fabulous color scheme! Those goodies that you've baked look simply divine, too! Thanks for joining us at 52CCT! :)

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  17. Oh WOW!!! This is so cute.. Thanks for joining Speedy Fox and Friends.

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  18. Brilliant card and even more brilliant cake - you make both wonderfully.

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  19. so stunning wendy.fabulous design and papers and I love the image :D

    xx coops xx

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  20. mmmmm yummy cakes again , Fab card , thank you for joining us at Kaboodle Doodles this week xxxx

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  21. MMM....those bites looks lovely...would make a lovely midnight snack...lol Thank you for entering our challenge this week at Hobbycutz...Hope to see you again next time...Hugs Kobie

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  22. Gorgeous card! Thanks for joining us at Crafts 4 Eternity this week hugs x

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  23. Absolutely adorable!!!! Thanks for playing along with us this week at Speedy Fox & Friends blog challenge!

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  24. Wonderful! I love the colours - the soft greens and subtle reds are just lovely. That image is super sweet and I adore the tiny gingerbread/tree garland! Fabulous! Thanks so much for playing along with 52CCT this week!

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  25. My mouth is watering...please can I have a piece of that cake???

    Gorgeous card...I love the image and great layout.

    Thank you for sharing with us at My Time to Craft this week, we hope to see you again soon. Wedgie xxx

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  26. That's one delicious looking cake!As for the card I love it - it's a great design, fun to make and your little gingerbread man looks perfect. Beautifully coloured too. Thanks for sharing your card with us at 52 CCT

    Louise xx

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  27. Yummy, Yummy! Amazing card details are FAB! Thanks so much for joining us at HobbyCutz

    Hugz
    Kim

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  28. Oh my! What a fun night, chocolate squares AND card making! Super cute card. Love the fun fold! The DP is gorgeous!

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  29. I forgot to say...... Thanks for playing along with us this week at Speedy Fox & Friends blog challenge!

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  30. The shadowbox card is a really neat technique that I haven't seen before! Your card is so cute with the little gingerbread man and I love the colors too. Thanks for playing at 52CCT!

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  31. Yep that paper is absolutely perfect for this darling gingerbread image. Nice coloring and wonderful shadow box effect - must try that. Thanks so much for joining us this week at 52CCT!

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  32. lovely card!!! thanks for joining us this week at kaboodle doodles

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  33. Hi Wendy, what a gorgeous card. I love the image and your colouring is fab. The papers are so pretty. Thanks for celebrating our birthday with us at PFP this week! Hugs, Denise x

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  34. oops me again wendy.
    Thanks for joining in our `Special Anniversary` challenge this week at PFP :D

    xx coops xx

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