CAS 43: U and I, the special day

 

This card is my second attempt to the Hexagon challenge over at CASology.

 

 

 

"Thinking out of the box" is one of my goals as a crafter for this year.

 Whenever I made a card I reminded myself of that phrase and tried to apply it to the process of cardmaking. It is unable to be creative all the time but I know it is important to implant a seed of creative mind in each step of making a card.

 

 So a creative seed in me is telling me not to use hexagon die or stamp but to use other shapes that could possibly make hexagon. Do I have to use a triangle stamp? I tried several times with some stamps of triangle shapes but didn't get any satifactory results.

 

 

I ended up with this card.

 It didn't give me satisfaction either.

But I would like to give me a credit to the point that I tried to think out of the box.

 

 

The stamp set I used here is "Today Was" from Sweet Stamp shop.

When I saw a photo frame stamp with grid lines in it, my thought immediately went to draw a line to shape a hexagon. I was also thinking that the hexagon I created with hand drawing would be good for presenting a simple word like "U and I."   

 

As you see It is not a perfect shape because it's hand drawn hexagons over the grid lines.

It has some squiggly lines but the hexagons are good enough to celebrate our(U & I) "the" special day. :D

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. 

Hope you have a good weekend. 

 

Sophia.     

   

     

CAS 43: Hexagon and Christmas

Happy Saturday!

 

 

I am happy that I am able to make two cards for the HEXAGON challenge over at CASology for this week.

 

The first one is a simple Christmas card.

 

I used a pattern paper in which a Santa Clause was printed (I thought it's from My Mind's Eye 6*6 paper)and went the paper through my Big Shot with a hexagon die template from Papertrey Ink. To adhere the cutout frame to the base Kraft cardstock I used a two-way glue. It was a work that required my patience. 

  

 

 

The last touch I made was a bit of fun. 

In contrast to the neat and clean result of the hexagon die, the Santa paper was designed to be seen as worn-out and aged. So I added some aged effect on the Santa image by rolling some pieces up. Can you see that fun roll up? 

  

  

 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

 

I have one more card to share with you in the next posting.

 

Sophia.