Craft Your Days Away #15

Here's my card for today's challenge over at Craft Your Days Away.  We had some lovely entries for our sketch challenge - pop over to the challenge blog to see who the lucky winner is and the Top 3 and Guest Designer spot. 

I've gone with a complete change of style for this card - no image, no glitter and no pro markers for once!!!  Our challenge for the next two weeks has been set by DT member Lisa and it is:

BLACK & WHITE

We are being sponsored by our regualr sponsor for this challange - Simon Says Stamp.  They are offering a $10 voucher for the winner of our Black & White challenge.

Onto the card now .... the paper is by DCWV and I made a pleated flower with it, layering it up onto a nestabilities scallop circle.  The flowers are really easy to make - basically taking a length of pleated paper, joining the two ends to make a pleated tube, then pushing the one end into the centre and glueing it down to create the flower shape.  If that's totally confused you I've found a video tutorial HERE that might explain it easier than I do!  I've used a Sizzix texture plate to emboss the black card, added a bit of faux stitching and an old button with a bit of garden string for a bow.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft - Anything but a square

Fun with shapes and more - Happy Birthday (use die cut/punch)

4 Crafty Chicks - Stitching - real or faux

Don't forget to join us at Craft Your Days Away and thanks for looking!

Amanda