Craft Roulette Episode #255

One of my favorite card-making challenges is Craft Roulette.  By spinning the roulette wheel, you are presented with four parameters with which you are to make a card.  This week's parameters were:

    *    Project - an A2 card 

    *    Color - Valentines

    *    Element - February

    *    Random - Metallic or Foil

After much deliberation, I created this card:

    *    an A2 card

    *    a favorite Valentine color of red

    *    February is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month

    *    Metal "wires" around the basket are silver metallic cardstock.

I didn't have any strawberry stamps, so I had to scour the internet to find some strawberry free clip art, which I printed and cut out.  The base of my card is the Karen Burniston Flower Pot Pop-up, into which I glued the individual strawberries.  I found some woven basket patterned paper in my stash for the outside of the "basket" and glued some silver cardstock around it to create "wires."  I found an appropriate sentiment for the front in a very old stamp set I've had for years.

Craft Roulette always makes you think.  Sometimes the answers to the parameters come easy; other times you really have to think hard about it.  This one was relatively easy.  I look forward to 7:00 on Friday nights each week for a new challenge.

Craft Roulette #247 For My Crafty Friend

This week's Craft Roulette was rather fun.  The Parameters were:  Project/Card for a Crafty Friend; Colors/Pretty Paper; Element/Bell(s) and/or Belle(s); and Random/Something Gold.  Using the Karen Burniston Landscape Accordion die, I was able to include all four parameters.

The sentiment on the front indicates that this is definitely for a crafty friend, and I used pretty purple patterned paper around the edges.  There are two gold-colored bells on the front panel.  That took care of all four parameters.

I've had that scrapbooking girls stamp for many years, but the sentiment on the third panel is a relatively new acquisition.

Here are all three panels close-up:

I'm always up for a new challenge, and Craft Roulette definitely gives me a challenge every Friday night.

Craft Roulette #246

I have recently been doing challenges with Craft Roulette.  The idea of this challenge is to take four different parameters (project, colors, element, and random) picked by spinning a wheel and make a card.  This week's parameters were Project/Holiday Card, Colors/Trees, Element/Drinking Vessel, and Random/Something from your floor.

I met these parameters as follows:

    Holiday Card -- New Years card

    Trees -- shades of green (even though they appear tan in the photo)

    Drinking Vessel -- Champagne glass

    Something from your floor -- My cardstock is in boxes stored on the floor.

I used several of Karen Burniston's dies on this card:  Postage Pop-up, Fireworks, and Mini Alphabet and Numbers, as well as a stamp from her Season of Cheer stamp set.

I'm enjoying the challenge each week and was glad I could incorporate some of Karen's dies in my card.