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Case challenge 15 – winter sketch

Week 15 on the CASE challenge, and we're really getting festive now. This week's inspiration was the winter sketch of a gorgeous card by Chris Smith, more info here. As soon as I saw this card, I knew exactly how I wanted to CASE it. I've fallen completely in love with the Snowflake Showcase suite of products, only available during November. I knew the snowflakes would work perfectly with this design. I started with some thick Whisper White as my base, and used a layer of Night of Navy under another strip of normal Whisper White card. Rather than embossing, [...]

By Craft with Emma|2018-12-07T14:06:42+00:00November 19th, 2018|CASE Challenge, Christmas|4 Comments

Case challenge 14 – two tone diecutting

Week 14 on the CASE challenge is a gorgeous two tone design by Darlene McCallum, more info here. Her lovely card was great for a birthday, but I'm in a more festive mood right now. This month saw the launch of the brand new Snowflake Showcase, a simply stunning set of stamps and thinlits that I just knew would be perfect for this challenge. I started with a Night of Navy base, with a layer of Silver foil on top. I then cut another layer of Night of Navy, and sliced it diagonally along the top. These three layers [...]

By Craft with Emma|2018-11-11T22:06:26+00:00November 12th, 2018|CASE Challenge, Technique|1 Comment

Case challenge 13 – stamping off

Week 13 on the CASE challenge is this beautifully elegant card by Julia Carmichael, more info here. The stamping off technique is simple but effective, and can be used in so many different ways. I decided to go festive, and so started off with thick Very Vanilla for my card base. I used the Peaceful Noel stamp set, with it's lovey winter foliage images. I stamped in Tranquil Tide, Merry Merlot and Soft Suede, with each one also stamped off to get the fainter shadow image beside it. To make things easy, I used my Layering Squares framelits to cut [...]

By Craft with Emma|2018-11-04T23:13:25+00:00November 5th, 2018|CASE Challenge, Technique|1 Comment

CASE challenge 12 – oops!

Hi all For the last 4 days we've been exhibiting at the ICHF Craft Show at the SECC in Glasgow, and sadly my post for today's challenge is not ready, sorry! Come back tomorrow for my entry. To see Becki's gorgeous project click here. To see Sandra's lovely work, click here. Thanks for understanding, and please pop back tomorrow! Emma x

By Craft with Emma|2018-10-28T21:08:24+00:00October 29th, 2018|CASE Challenge|1 Comment