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Friday's Festive Silhouette

Good Morning Ladies,

It's that time of the week again, where we get to see all of the Amazing cards that you made for our Weekly Challenge, this week I decided to challenge you to make a card featuring a Silhouette,  I know that this one made you all stop and think but as always you have designed and created some stunning cards. 

So let's see what you all came up with..........

Cheryl

Cheryl has designed a fantastic Steam Punk card for this week's challenge, featuring an absolutely incredible Mechanical corner die, with so much detail, who would have ever believed 5 years ago that we would be able to cut our own incredibly detailed dies!  The stop watch and Male Silhouette finish the design perfectly, thank you Cheryl for taking part in this week's challenge.

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Danielle

Danielle decided that she would like to join in this week's Silhouette Challenge, so she got busy and designed 3 Challenge cards, each one is stunning and I have to say that my favourite piece is the little Light Box card, I think that Dannii has used the same die for each of these projects, the Stampin'Up! 'Hometown Greetings' Edgelits Dies.

I love what you have done with all of your projects Dannii, showing how versatile the die set is.  Thank you so much for taking part Dannii, it's lovely having you as part f our little blog family.

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 Michele

Michele has also designed 3 cards for this week's challenge, all made on her day off on Thursday, Michele has cleverly shown how simply changing the colour of card we use with a die can change what we use it for, as you can see above,the orange colours make you think of Autumn, use blue and white it's Christmas, green can be anything I guess but Spring and summer come to mind.  I will now add Michele's Description.....

"Challenge cards-all made with the same Dies(free with Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine). I wanted to show that they can be used all year round. I only used scraps of card to make all 3 cards."

Thank you Michele for 3 fantastic cards and a little bit of crafty education too!! 

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Karen

Karen has designed two stunning cards for this week's challenge, the first is an amazing, detailed Winter forest scene that creates the perfect image for a Christmas card , I'm not going to give too much detail about the creation of this card as Karen has given me a tutorial on creating the background, which I am going to feature in a whole blog post of its own, so that you can see in detail what steps to take to create that amazing card.   Karen's second card is just incredibly beautiful, I adore that image and I love how you have used the punched butterflies to create her hair.

I will add Karen's description below........

"Here’s my card I have wanted to do a card in this sort of style ever since I saw Jodie Johnson do something similar on C&C with Petal Pairs punches (remember them!)

So it’s a 6x4 card which I’d edged with Antique Linen Distress inks - will they ever dry up so I can justify buying some Oxides instead! I found a copyright free image on Google and cut her out in black card on ScanNCut I printed some copyright free sheet of music onto cream card which I cut some butterflies (approximately 55) on ScanNCut all edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink The black corners are a Marvellous Squares Die cut and a few pearls I’m quite pleased with the result Do you like it?
I downloaded a ballerina (a ScanNCut freebie on canvas) which would also work"

Thank you so much Karen for two totally different and totally amazing challenge cards!

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Brenda

Brenda also designed 3 Silhouette Challenge Cards this week, the first a simple but effective design using Stampin'Up! Hopeful Thoughts stamp set, which is one of my

 favourite sets.  The set has some lovely sentiments, which is one of the things I love about Stampin Up, they use sentiments that really do express what you want to say.
Brenda made this card for a friend who's husbands funeral they attended last week, I think this card is just perfect for the occasion, knowing that you are in someone's thoughts is very comforting.
Brenda's second card was made by masking off a strip of the card front and then using Distress inks, blending them together to create a beautiful, subtle background, which is the perfect background for showing off a Silhouette flower, as you can pick out all of the detail, Brenda used Gilding wax to highlight some of the detail too.
Brenda's third and final card was created  by using a Clarity Mask by Barbara Grey which Brenda used to apply Texture Paste to black card.  A very effective design, I like the quirky, almost childlike design of those houses.
Three amazing cards Brenda, thank you so very much for taking part in this weeks challenge.

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Sue

Sue, I found this Silhouette card in my 'Sue' folder so thought I would feature it as another example for this weeks challenge, I love this Christmas card, I wonder how long ago you made it! lol

Thank you for allowing me to share it.

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Pat

Pat I did the same for you, I looked back through the older challenges and found this perfect Silhouette card that you made, I am determined that you will feature on the weekly challenge lists, lol.  I can't remember if this is a stamp or a die set, can you?? .  I hope you don't mind me sharing your card as another example of this weeks challenge theme.  Thank you.

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 Lilian

Lilian has used the Stampin'Up! 'Lovely as a Tree' stamp set to create that beautiful scene on this pretty Christmas card, I love how you have edged the aperture with peel offs to create a more defined edge and draw your eye in to that amazing wintery scene.  I know this is an older card but it certainly works with our Silhouette challenge and certainly is worthy of a second look.  Thank you so much for sending this card in for me to share.

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 Janet

Janet, I certainly wouldn't have expected a challenge card from you this week as you have spent half the week travelling and the other half catching up with jobs at Marigny.

I absolutely love this stunning Silhouette that you have used for this card, the pretty paper and embellishment compliment the image perfectly.

The second trio of cards have all been created from Janet's Silhoupage cd rom, I love all three of these cards Janet.

Thank you so much Janet.

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Val

Val has used a lovely Silhouette of a Bicycle for this card, placed upon a beautifully embossed background that has tiny hearts die cut out of it.  Val has used pretty stamens to create the look of flowers in the basket of the bicycle, it really works Val, such a lovely card.  I hope you don't mind me sharing it again. Thank you so much for sending it in to me.

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Maria

Maria sent me this card for a Challenge some time ago but the stamped image is a perfect example of the Silhouette theme of this weeks challenge, Maria has created a beautiful blended background upon which she has stamped this stunning scene, a beautiful meadow with a kaleidoscope of butterflies flying off into the distance, it looks like an 'Inkyliscious' stamp but I am not sure, I am sure Maria will let us know.

Thank you so much Maria for sending me this card to share.

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Lynda

Lynda has made 4 cards for this week's Challenge, which is amazing, the first card has been stamped using the  Inkyliscious 'Isobelle' stamp, such a beautiful image, that Lynda has stamped onto a soft blended background.

Lynda's second card features a majestic Stag on a black background, the stamp set is Indigoblu 'Winter Wonderland' stamp.

The third card features the Visible Image stamp 'Where Dreams', which Lynda has stamped on an inked background. I love the grungy feel of this card.

The fourth and final card 'ooh la la'  features a silhouette of a lady in her undies, which is from a Joanna Sheen Cd ROM, your black butterflies are the perfect embellishments for this card Lynda.

Four absolutely amazing Silhouette cards, you have really embraced the theme of this week's challenge Lynda, thank you so very much.

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Margaret

Margaret has designed two Fabulous Festive cards for the Silhouette Challenge this week, using a die range I hadn't heard of 'Pretty Quick' the die is called 'Winter Woodland', you can buy them from Craft Stash.  I love how you have used them with the snowy background Margaret, the are both lovely traditional Christmas cards.

Thank you so much for taking part. 

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I hope that you have all enjoyed looking through this amazing array of cards as much as I have, some of them are older, some created this past week, either way they are all fantastic.

I am so pleased that you all enjoyed this weeks different challenge.

I hope you all have a lovely Sunday,

Love and hugs

Sandra

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