Not Just Paper Challenge #387 Week #1

Hello everyone and welcome to our new challenge!

Not Just Paper

We want to see your creations featuring something that ISN'T paper.

Maybe you love fabric, ribbon or metal? Beads, gems or buttons?

Whatever you like, you can't just use paper to create you project.

Before we see what our Featured Artist Dori created, let's see who won

our last challenge.

For our Top Spot we selected

#13 Cynthia O.

She used: 5111 – Loads of Fun Set – Art Impressions

(retired)

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to claim a free stamp set of your choice!!

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Our Lucky Random Winner was:

#8 Pineywoods Papercrafter

She used:

SC0651 – His & Hers Campers

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to claim a free stamp set of your choice!!

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Congratulations!

Now let's take a look at the fun Halloween card that Dori created using mesh, string and an enamel dot!

It's SO cute!

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Happy Thursday AI Friends!

 My card for the "Not Just Paper" challenge is a fun Halloween card featuring the #5934 Spooky Crew stamp set.  I don't usually decorate for Halloween, but Bonnie makes the cutest Halloween stamp sets that it's very hard to resist creating a card or project.  I made a fun-fold decoration using specialty halloween spider web mesh (from the dollar store) as the background.  You can easily turn it into a card by just adding another layer to the back.  This can fold flat and fit nicely into an A2 size envelope.

To create the fun fold, cut an A2 top folding card base out of black cardstock.  Cut another piece of black cardstock 4 1/4" x 6" and score at 1", 3 1/4" and 5 1/2".  Fold this piece on the score marks as a valley, mountain and valley. 

To create the background, cut a 6" x 6" piece of the spider web mesh and a corresponding 6" x 6" piece of iron on fusible webbing (which I found at my dollar store).  Iron the fusible webbing onto the mesh.  Let cool and peel the backing off.  Then iron onto a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of black cardstock.  To save your iron, take a piece of parchment paper and fold in half.  Place your mesh and webbing in between the parchment paper and then iron the parchment paper vs. directly onto the mesh or webbing.  

Before adhering the background to the inside of your A2 base, do two things.  1) Adhere the pattern piece to the front of the A2 base and cut the window with the 5062 Rounded Rectangle A2 Double Stitched Die.  2) Take your fun fold piece and glue the 1" fold piece onto the bottom on the back side of the A2 top fold base.  Adhere your background to the back side of your top fold base.  Add another piece of pattern paper (striped paper) to the front of the bottom fold.

I stamped the images onto copic friendly paper and colored with copic markers listed below.  I die cut the images with the corresponding dies that are included in the stamp sets.  I then adhered the front 1/2" fold piece to the back bottom of the front A2 card base.  Your project is now ready to decorate with the images that you have colored and cut.  I layered these images and placed the spiders throughout, placing some on the web background.  I tied a black string bow and placed a glow in the dark enamel dot in the middle of the bow. 

I hope my project inspires you to join in the current challenge - "Not Just Paper".  

Have a great day and keep creating!!

Copics used:  W0, W3, W5, R20, 

V15, V17

E21, E23, E25, E27, 

Y15, Y17

YG21, YG23, YG25, 

YR14, YR16, YR18

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation. You can make any item you wish; this is not limited to cards!

✻ Limit two submissions per person. You will receive extra votes if you use Art Impressions stamps!

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