Good morning everyone!
Happy New Year!
And welcome to this year’s cardmaking challenge.
Hopefully you’ve recovered from last night’s celebrations enough to switch your brain to a creative gear.
This year our challenge is all about being Pin-spired! Yep, Pinterest to the rescue. 😀
So here’s how the 2019 card challenge will work:
- On the 1st of the month, I’ll share a Pinterest prompt here on my blog.
- The prompts will include many elements – you can interpret what you see in any way you like: design elements, colour combos, words, patterns, objects, layout… so many possibilities! Whatever inspiration you take from the image, incorporate it in your card! As always I will try and come up with a list of what immediately springs to mind when I look at the image to give you a few ideas if you’re stumped.
- What about Christmas cards? As we reach the end of 2019 the prompts will become more festive and wintry themed, but there’s nothing stopping you from creating a festive card from the images posted each month. In fact you might welcome the challenge to get ahead!
- How many cards you make is totally up to you, but the more the merrier!
- All prompts past and present for this challenge can be found here on my blog and you can find them easily by clicking on the 2019 card challenge tag over there on the left.
- Speaking of tags, if you’re also on Instagram then I’ll be using the hashtag #2019handmadecardchallenge for any posts related to this challenge, feel free to use this tag on Instagram too!
- You can share your cards by linking them up here on my blog – just add a comment to the relevant monthly prompt – or by sharing them in the dedicated challenge thread over in the UK Scrappers card forum.
- If you are ever stumped about the layout of your card, then definitely check out the sketches I pin to my Pinterest board here, hopefully there will be something there to inspire you!
- What if you don’t have time to start now or play along every month? No problem! Just dive in and out of the challenge when you feel like it. 😀 Do as much as you want or as little. It’s always lovely to have lots of people sharing their makes, but real life doesn’t always allow for crafty time as we well know!
Now with all the formalities out of the way, it’s time to get on with the show. Here’s your Pinspiration for January!
Design ideas get you started:
- A New Year’s card
- Has there been a recent new addition you want to celebrate or a significant year – why not include the important date on the front of your card?
- Take inspiration from the shapes you see: strings of stars, rosettes, balloons, sequins…
- Pattern: there are diagonal stripes, spots, what about a text background?
- Celebration and party theme – balloons, champagne, confetti, streamers, cake – lots you could incorporate or focus on
- Cocktails: if you have anything punny on this theme, now’s the time to use it!
- Colours: metallic gold or another metallic shade with navy or black and room for ivory as a neutral colour. Lots of opportunity to use your foiled embellishments and papers.
Happy crafting!
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