Cecilia's Cards: BlogHop

This is a special post for a magazine that I feel rather close to. It was announced recently that the Paper Crafts and Scrapbook magazine will cease publication after January next year. It is sad to see a lot of magazines heading in this direction. You would have reached this blog post from Jennifer Cuthbertson's I'm Crafty blog. I have been inspired to create beyond my comfort zone with the submission themes for the magazine. I have also been lucky to have four of my cards accepted for publications in the last two years since I started blogging. I've made these two cards for the blog hop and below that are the cards that were published in PC&S. Thank you for dropping by and the next stop is Laura Sterckx's Making Cards is Fun. There are 212 links in this fantastic blog hop (links at the end of the post), enjoy them all!

The second card was made for a PCS publication but was not picked up. The challenge was to use multiple inks for the one card. Since I used mainly distressed inks, I'm submitting these to Virginia View's challenge #10 - All things distressed and the second one to Addicted to CAS -#33 Code word 'dots'.

My published cards on PC&S!

I would like to thank Susan Opel and her team for giving me the great opportunity to see my cards in print. Thank you for liking them in the first place!

Sep2014 - Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking

Geek is Chic Category, pg 56
September Gallery Challenge - Make a Nerdy Card

Nov2013 - Paper Crafts Magazine

Sketch Category, pg 25

24Sep2013 - Paper Crafts Magazine - Handmade Cards
Basics Category, pg15

Mar2013 - Papercrafts 'Card Creations' magazine:Volume 11 Pg32.

Here are the rest of the blogs, enjoy hopping!!

Hi All

I'm participating in my first Bloghop today on Cups, Crops and Creativity. The brief was to Get Scrappy and use up left over scraps and we have to show the scraps beforehand. I had this week's Retro Sketch #57 in mind and it did not take me long to find some left over scraps and put the lessons I learnt on the Online Class Pattern Play to use. Here is the sketch and the scraps that I'm going to use.

This is the result of my scraps on my card! I used dimensional foam on some pieces to give it a bit of interest. The patterns on the papers were interesting enough and I felt that they didn't need any stamping or inking just to keep it simple. I'm submitting this card to Simon Says Stamp Birthday Challenge.

After finishing off the first card. I had to make another one for my DH's colleague who just had a second baby. I pulled out the scraps from my Kissing Booth papers (last cards made here and here) and this is what I came up with. I love personalising baby cards with the names of the babies (you can't buy these cards in a card shop!). I'm going to submit both cards to Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes and the second card to Basic Grey's Challenge 91 - Clean and Simple.

Thank you for dropping by my blog, please click on the blog links below to see what the other designers have created out of their scraps! A big thanks to Chaitali for organising this bloghop and making me use up my scraps! If you wish to participate in this bloghop, you can link your card to Cuts, Crops and Creativity. A comment on this blog and all the other blogs will also earn you chances for a prize to be drawn by Chaitali.