BGC#56 - Nautical Easel Card with Jovita

Hello and welcome to a new day!! 

Today I am here to share my inspiration for the Nautical Theme Challenge. 

Challenge Guidelines : 

• Make a Card , LO or paper crafted project with the Nautical theme .

• By Nautical we mean - something concerning navigation in the sea , sailors, maritime, or the sea. Go for elements like anchors , lifebuoys , ships , lighthouses , fishing nets , navigation gear , compass etc.
• Dates : 1st - 15th Aug 

I have never made a card with this theme and somehow it never struck me that a simple challenge would get me thinking and drive me crazy. I jotted down different sentiments to work around but some how I could not get it together... I even made paper boats to get my self to make something but that also did not set together.

Thats when I came across this sentiment... and I just loved it.... From then on I enjoyed every bit of making this card. 

I have made a simple easel card giving more emphasis on the sentiment.

The background paper is a PP from Echo Park - Little Boy collection...

The Lifebuoy is cut using the Spellbinders Circle die and coloured with sketch pens... A little bit of Bakers twine and that completes it.

The Lifebuoy and the Circle with the "Good Luck" Sentiment are given a raised effect with foam tape which when seen in real gives a floating effect.

Oh here I should mention something new that I have tried out . The sentiment Good Luck from the TPC Sentiments stamp set is a single stamp  and I wanted the words one below the other. So in Jennifer McGuire Style.... I cut my stamp in two and placed the exactly how I wanted and stamped. Now its back save in its packaging. So no worries there...

However I don't think I could ever do that to any of my other sets... But yes you can do a lot more with your stamps this way... You just need to think creative.

So I leave you with this wonderful sentiment... 

Do leave some love if you have enjoyed this post and also do join in the challenge

HERE

Have a great day!!!

Hugs

Jovita

Winners day -BGC#54 & July celebrations

Hello everyone !

Welcome back to another Winners post !

Today we are going to look back at our favourites from Bgc#54-lets-get-kiddish

Some of the entries really blew our mind! 

Here are the Toppers !

Dr Sonia

With this sweet little swing card ! she a lovely tute for it on her blog too !! check it out !

Meeta

With this microquilling in a watch !!! what !!!!!!! welll that was my reaction to it when i saw it !

leave alone quilling i could never fit anything inside that watch myself !!! so bravo !! 

lovecraftingpaper 

Well don't judge a book by its cover for sure !!! This album is so simple yet so much of hard work !

Love that :) great going !

We also have an Honorable mention badge to give out this time ! 

which goes to 

 Sujana

 I really loved this pop up ! such a nice invitation ! 

Sujana please email lightbox.c(at)gmail(dot)com for your badge.

The random winner for this challenge is- 

8. Dharshana   

with this card 

Thats wonderful !!! congrats Dharshana you have won 

One  Yours-truly-paper-pad

 

 please check the end of the post for more details. 

Now coming to the July celebrations ! 

first of all thank you so much for flooding our mail box with so many entries and so many thoughtful comments for BGC. we love u all so much for giving us so much love ! 

Here is the Key - 

The brand names were - 

Avery Elle
Viva
Ranger
Sakura
Xyron
WOW
Sizzix
Joy crafts
May Arts
Maya road
Fiskars
DCWV
carta bella
Bo bunny
Prima
lawn fawn

Now the qualifying question - 

From left to right - 

Zubaida , Shafaq , Kalindi , Bipasha 

The quickest person to mail us the correct answers is - 

Hussena 

Congratulations Hussena ! You had all the answers right and you were among 

the first few people to email us ! 

You have won 

Prima Something Blue ATC Cards 3X4 - 15 Designs/3 Each

 DYLUSIONS CALYPSO TEAL INK SPRAY

Winners please email your full Indian address and phone to lightbox.c(at)gmail(dot)com.

With the subject line being - Winner BGC#54  or Winner June celebrations

Thanks for joining us today!

BGC#56 - Nautical pop-up box card with Aneta

Hello in this beautiful morning!
I hope you're doing well.
It's my turn to inspire you in our nautical challenge and I hope I'll. 

Let's start with the rules first.

Challenge Guidelines : Make a Card , LO or paper crafted project with the Nautical theme .By Nautical we mean - something concerning navigation in the sea , sailors, maritime, or the sea. Go for elements like anchors , lifebuoys , ships , lighthouses , fishing nets , navigation gear , compass etc.

Dates : 1st - 15th Aug 

I prepared pop-up box card. It's still my favourite type of the card, so creating was pure pleasure to me.
In my creation you can see red, white and blue colors and details connected with a sea: seahorse, anchor, boat and shells. There are also small waves inside cut out from the blue-and-white paper.

I have also a few photos - my a work in progress.

Here are my supplies. One of the reason why I like pop-up box cards is, that I can reuse all small pieces of paper remaining from different projects.

I started with a white cardstock. I cut it to 16 cm x 30 cm and scored at 7, 14, 21, 28 cm. Then I rotated the cardstock and scored it again at 7 cm. This way every square has 7 cm x 7 cm and the scored cardstock looked this way.

Then I cut down scored lines along (stopping in the middle) and prepared six squares (6,5 x 6,5) cm and one bigger rectangle (6,5 x 13,5) cm and decorated outside of the card. I also cut off a small rectangle on the right.

My next step was decoration of the inside part.This part is more visible when your card is finished.

This time I inked each white-and blue patterned square using dark blue pigment ink. I usually decorate it as it's shown here, but you can also add patterned squares to the rest of the white pannels and make your pop-up card even more colourful.

Next, I attached the small rectangle inside with adhesive and prepared two strips of paper and placed them inside of the opened box, near to the edge. They are a base for small waves and nautical embellishments: seahorse, shells and anchor. I added the rest of the chipboards.

The last step was placing the sentiment on my card. I stamped it on the white-and-blue patterned paper and sticked to my card with 3D foam tape. When it was ready, I finished my card adding dark blue gems.

It  is not so difficult, isn't it?

I would like too see your nautical project. You can share it with us HERE.


See you soon!
Aneta

BGC#56 - Nautical Slider card with PJ

Hello my lovely friends ! 

We are so happy to have so many wonderful entries for the challenge #55 !!!

We hope to have some amazing entries this time too ! 

My girl Karen here challenged us to do something NAUTICAL this time ! 

Lets take a look at the guidelines first 

Challenge Guidelines : 

• Make a Card , LO or paper crafted project with the Nautical theme .

• By Nautical we mean - something concerning navigation in the sea , sailors, maritime, or the sea. Go for elements like anchors , lifebuoys , ships , lighthouses , fishing nets , navigation gear , compass etc.
• Dates : 1st - 15th Aug 

Oo i so love the theme ! i thought of doing something fun and interactive this time. 

So here it is a Circle Slider Card 

I had been looking at these kind of slider cards for quite some time on pintrest !

So i just wanted to give it a go ! 

Here is a video of how the lifebuoy moves. 

So for the Nautical theme .

I decided to go for the lifebuoy as my main element. I built the rest around the sea :) 

Love how this turned out !

 The lifebuoy is handmade. I cut a circle inside a circle coloured the sides red and added a anchor in the centre. 

Hope that u liked my effort . 

So do join us in the current challenge HERE

BGC#56 - Nautical Karen

BGC#56 - Nautical

Hello Hello Hello my crafty friends!! Let me start by saying I had a blast going thru all the entries from challenge #55!!  I truly enjoy seeing all of your great creations! Hope this finds you well and ready for a great new challenge!!  The challenge for August 1 - 15 is nautical! Fun fun fun!!  I love the ocean and hope to have my toes in the sand again real soon!

Challenge Guidelines : 

• Make a Card , LO or paper crafted project with the Nautical theme .

• By Nautical we mean - something concerning navigation in the sea , sailors, maritime, or the sea. Go for elements like anchors , lifebouys , ships , lighthouses , fishing nets , navigation gear , compass etc.
• Dates : 1st - 15th Aug 

Here is my Nautical themed layout.  I used a die cut from my silhouette. I layered the anchor and then covered it with stickles.  Hope you all enjoy it!!

Thanks for looking!! 

Here is the prize from our very generous sponsor!!

Prize : 
Eiffel Tower Marianne Designs Craftables Die