Bonjour

 

Bonjour Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. As challenge hostess for the month, I continue to issue the challenges.

Apparently today is Eiffel Tower Day - create a card with a French theme, bonus points if you include the Eiffel Tower. 

For my card today, I pulled out a couple of Paris/Eiffel Tower themed stamps and dies. For the girl and poodle, I used stamps from La-La Land Crafts Marci in Paris stamp set, this was previously the April 2019 club kit which I was lucky to purchase back then.

The Eiffel Tower in the background uses Karen Burniston's Eiffel Tower Pop Stand die from her Pop-It-Ups collection when she was designing for Elizabeth Craft Designs. I die cut the Eiffel Tower from Shimmer Sheetz, I found this one already die cut in my die set and as the color worked I made use of it.

I created a Terrific Tower Card using the 6" x 6" Terrific Tower die set from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott. 

For the "Bonjour" sentiment I used a stamp from the Marci in Paris stamp set and a speech bubble from Whimsy Stamps Comic Speech Bubbles die set.

Here is another view of the card, this time when it is lying on the desk. Hopefully you can see the side panels a little better.

On the back of the card, I added another of the large panels I used on the front. I added Picket Fence Studios HB2U die set for the sentiment.

To keep with the Paris/Eiffel Tower theme, I added the Eiffel Tower from La-La Land Crafts Paris Die set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Other Supplies: 

Eiffel Tower Pop Stand Die Set - Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs (discontinued)

Bonjour, Life is a Journey

 

Bonjour Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Slimline card I created recently, using stamps and dies from Honey Bee Stamps.

To create the background scene, I used Honey Bee Stamps Slimline Borders die set to create the various hills above the the road. I used the Paris Skyline Scene Builder die set to add the Eiffel Tower and other Parisian buildings to the scene.

I used stamps from the Enjoy the Ride stamp set to add the bunnies on the moped and sentiments.

I added red clay hearts over the background to finish off the front of my card.

For the inside of my card I added the birthday sentiment from Concord and 9th's Perfect Pairings - Birthday die set. I die cut this from red and black cardstock, offsetting the sentiment slightly so a shadow is seen.

I added another Eiffel Tower to the lower section of my card, so that the uppermost part of the tower was between the sentiment.

I also added the sentiment and heart to the top right hand corner of the card.

Bonjour

Hi Crafty Friends,

My card today is for a challenge I do with a couple of friends of mine. Each month we challenge each other to create something using supplies we all own.

As one of my friends and I had recently purchased a few international themed stamps/die sets we decided that this month we would have the theme ... International for our challenge.

A few months ago I got La La Land Crafts monthly card kit which had a "Paris" theme and as I had only used the poodles so far I decided to use this for my card today.

I created a Double Z Fold Card for my card today. I adhered the girl to the right hand side of my card and then added the speech bubble to the card attached to some acetate, so it appears like it is floating. 

I die cut the roses using pink and green cardstock and paper pieced these together and then adhered to black cardstock.

Here is a look at my card when it is closed ready to be placed in an envelope.

I added a panel to the back of my card, so I could add another of the sentiments from the stamp set and also give a place for a handwritten message.

Supplies:

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Marci in Paris - La La Land Craft
Poodles of Love - La La Land Craft
Paris - La La Land Crafts
Rose Bouquet  - La La Land Craft