Magical Day

 

Challenge #264 has just gone live at Time Out Challenges and this fortnight we challenge you to be

Magical

This challenge is generously being sponsored by Picket Fence Studio and they are offering our Top Pick as chosen by the design teams a $25 credit to their store!  The Top Pick will also be invited to join Time Out as a guest designer in a future challenge!

Speaking of guest designers, we are joined this challenge by the incredibly talented Carol McFarland of Saw it. Had to Make it.  Wait until you see what she has created for our challenge this fortnight - do drop by and leave her some comment love!!

What does magical mean to you - magical or mythical creatures, wizards, witches, fairytale scenes?  Carol and my talented team mates have plenty of inspiration for you over on the Challenge Blog!

Today's card is a tribute to a set of books that were pure magic in my family.  Like so many other households across the globe, Harry Potter ignited a love of reading in my boys.  They were the first real novels we read to our boys and it wasn't long before they were reading them themselves (despite not learning to read in English at school).  Before Harry Potter it was mostly Thomas the Tank Engine!  And yes I was one of those people queuing up at 1 in the morning in July 2007 when the final book in the series was released (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) - accompanied by a 14-year old Gavin who started reading it on the way home by torchlight!   Anyway, onto my card.  

The cauldron is from a set I bought earlier in the year from Gummiapan.  To give the cauldron more dimension, I cut it twice and removed the legs from the second.  The I cut just the upper area of the cauldron and snipped away the lip and removed the centre.  I cut the area around the handles from gold  and snipped these away too then assembled the cauldrons.   These dies are made so that the pieces easily separate - it only takes a few snips most of the time.   I have to thank Christine Stokes and Deb Hallett for showing me how to use the beautifully detailed dies properly!  Once assembled,  I rubbed the black cauldron with gilding wax to give it an aged patina (a tip from Christine Stokes).  

The glasses were from a set I had almost forgotten about (Impression Obsessions Sunglasses).  I bought them in Australia last year and then forgot about them after the dreadful trip home and Covid and Christmas!   I have a few sets of glasses but these round ones made me think of John Lennon and I imagined myself making a card for one or two Beatles fans in my life!  The Harry Potter connection didn't occur to me until I started thinking about making up a card for this magical challenge!  Naturally I added glossy accents for the lenses!

 I found a lightning bolt die in a very old weather set and cut it from a snippet of gold mirror card.  

 

Almost forgot to mention the floor - another die from Gummiapan which has been ever so useful in grounding many of my recent projects!

I'd like to enter my magical card into the following fabulous challenges

NBUS Challenge #62 - the Cauldron die and Glasses are NBUS;

The Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge #5 - Anything Fantasy Goes (option of Unicorn);

Kraft Chicks Challenge #717 - All Occasions;

Sisterhood of Crafters - Men;

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge for May - Anything Goes;

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your comments are always appreciated and always bring me joy and if you do leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate