Creative Cardmaking by Janette Goodall
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Hey, check this out! I am so stoked!!! Thank you RetroRubber for this honour 💜
“We are excited to welcome Janette Goodall as our Guest Designer. Janette blogs at Funfull Creating. And talk about creating! Beautiful stunners like this one that Janette made for us! I am in love with how the leaves pop with the papers and splatter in the background. My favorite is the chair – it really ties this whole card together! A masterpiece!”
This challenge is one I haven’t tried before, the challenge is with TGIF Challenges ‘1 Card 2 Ways’ #tgifc438.
The card I chose to make is from the new stamp & die set from Stampin’ Up! Night Divine, and I made a daytime scene in the desert with the matching patterned paper, and a nighttime scene in the evening, just changing some of the elements of the story from the journey to the birth of Jesus.
I love Retro Rubber Challenges because I love using my older stamps that I’ve kept for years. This one is called Wetlands and the challenge is a Tic Tac Toe Challenge and I chose Beach, Die cut and Embossing.
The sand, sea and sky is made using Gorgeous Grunge, and the birds, grass and greeting from Wetlands, both I’ve had for at least 6 or 7 years.
One of the two challenges for June at Alicia McNamara’s Papercraft Secrets Facebook group is One Page Wonder, the other one is a multi-layout scrapbook page. I am not a scrapbooker although I have dabbled in it. My passion is cards, 3D projects, fun-fold cards, mixed-media projects and art journals.
I am privileged to be on the Design Team at Papercraft Secrets, and here is my design for the One Page Wonder. I designed my own pattern for these cards, and you can find it on the Resources page.
I love creating with paper. Since I was a child at school I have loved stationery, papers, pens, colouring, so when I discovered cardmaking more than 20 years ago I was hooked. It is truly my happy place. My hope is that what I post here inspires you to create with whatever medium you love, and to create your own kind of beautiful! We are all creative, it is just finding what you love, what brings you alive.
Love
I first heard this saying a few years ago when I was struggling to make sense of my life. When I created this blog for my handmade cards, I adopted the saying as my tagline, because I believe in it so much. I never believed myself to be beautiful or creative, that was a term for real artists not for me a mere cardmaker, who would copy cards I saw in magazines. What I didn’t realise then was that the cards I made were never like the originals, I had made them my way, using the supplies I had, and chose the colours and papers I liked. They were my creations.
I had been making cards, teaching card making, and even selling the cards I made at the local florist, but still did not believe I was talented or creative.
When I came across this quote from Coco Chanel, it all began to make sense. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” I’d like to add to that now, beauty begins the moment you decide to be, to know, to believe, and to trust who you are, who God has made you to be, and what he has put in you. And he has given me a love for paper and creating beauty with it.
I hope this inspires you to create your own kind of beautiful!
Love
This week’s challenge with TGIF Challenges! is a Colour Challenge #tgifc415. I was so excited to be a winner last week, and so thankful to TGIF for choosing my card. I am entering again this week because I love challenges.
And here is my card for this challenge :
Last week I entered a challenge with TGIF Challenges! It was a ‘use up your scraps’ challenge and I won! I am over the moon! Thank you TGIF!
I have trouble falling asleep, often. So what else could I do than craft?! It’s quiet so I don’t disturb anyone, and it gets my mind off what is keeping me awake.
I haven’t used my gel plate for ages so got that out around 2:00 this morning. What a messy endeavour! But I am in love with how this card came out. (I didn’t enjoy the clean up at that time of the morning though LOL and my husband said he heard the hot tap running for a while).
I finished it off this morning and kept it simple as I didn’t want to cover it up. So a tired but happy crafter today 😃
I couldn’t sleep, so spent time making these fun-fold cards. I wanted to use this lovely paper, and I love fancy fun-fold cards, I love how they turned out.
Funfull Creating 