This set of garden doors is my first entry to the 2nd Annual Accucut Grandemark Challenge. I didn't get to play in the first one because I hadn't bought my Grandemark and dies yet. I am excited to participate in this one. I have lots of ideas but only so much time!
I bought the Pennants #1 die to make banners. I haven't made any banners yet, but I have lots of other ideas for this shape. Here's the first one:
Doors! I used the smaller pennant to make the inner door. I folded the bottom up before I cut, so it would be a longer door. I unfolded it and used it as a template to cut my inner doors. On some, I drew the wood grain on with a stylus. On others, I used pre-embossed felt as the door. The flowers are my own design, but I built them based on a smaller flower punch I have.
These doors were inspired by ClaybyKim on Etsy. I have had her fairy portals in my favourites for some time. Now that my husband has offered me the larger spare bedroom for my scraproom (instead of the smaller one I am using), I've been redesigning colours in my head and buying decor. I bought these two doors with custom colours for my new room!
The pennant die looks like the domed-top door. This was my prototype door:
I felt the debossed wood grain just wasn't any where near as stunning as Kim's doors. Plus, the clockwork hinge is one of my favourite aspects of her doors. That's when I went to the embossed felt:
Does it look good next to its little buddy? Did I do it any justice? I used the border on the album builder snowflake die from Accucut Craft to make my hinges. I tried some with individual hinges and some with a whole giant hinge:
I think it works on this door because the flower centers are also black. Those are my sprinkles from Annabelle Stamps that I talked about before. I also tried glittering the edge on this. It looked really gaudy when I first did it, but after I finished dressing up the door, it didn't look as bad because it was less in-your-face.
While I was storming up versions of these doors, an iCraft challenge for daffodils was brought to my attention. So, I made a Daffodil door too. The challenge is for cancer awareness. That's an issue near and dear to my heart. (After this one, I made a pink version for breast cancer as well.)
If you vote for my daffodils on iCraft, I win a $100 donation in the name of my choice to the Canadian Cancer Society. For me, it would be my mom. Just click here: "my daffodil entry" and, when the voting begins, there will be stars at the bottom for you to rank my entry.
It was a lot of fun designing these! I am working on my second submission now - it's almost done. I have at least one more to do after that for sure. I have more ideas too, but it will depend on the time I have. The submission deadline is May 31!!
I can make these doors into Christmas and Halloween doors too! They are on the large side though, so I don't think I would make my whole Christmas card list of them, but perhaps a few.
I bought the Pennants #1 die to make banners. I haven't made any banners yet, but I have lots of other ideas for this shape. Here's the first one:
Doors! I used the smaller pennant to make the inner door. I folded the bottom up before I cut, so it would be a longer door. I unfolded it and used it as a template to cut my inner doors. On some, I drew the wood grain on with a stylus. On others, I used pre-embossed felt as the door. The flowers are my own design, but I built them based on a smaller flower punch I have.
These doors were inspired by ClaybyKim on Etsy. I have had her fairy portals in my favourites for some time. Now that my husband has offered me the larger spare bedroom for my scraproom (instead of the smaller one I am using), I've been redesigning colours in my head and buying decor. I bought these two doors with custom colours for my new room!
The pennant die looks like the domed-top door. This was my prototype door:
I felt the debossed wood grain just wasn't any where near as stunning as Kim's doors. Plus, the clockwork hinge is one of my favourite aspects of her doors. That's when I went to the embossed felt:
Does it look good next to its little buddy? Did I do it any justice? I used the border on the album builder snowflake die from Accucut Craft to make my hinges. I tried some with individual hinges and some with a whole giant hinge:
I think it works on this door because the flower centers are also black. Those are my sprinkles from Annabelle Stamps that I talked about before. I also tried glittering the edge on this. It looked really gaudy when I first did it, but after I finished dressing up the door, it didn't look as bad because it was less in-your-face.
While I was storming up versions of these doors, an iCraft challenge for daffodils was brought to my attention. So, I made a Daffodil door too. The challenge is for cancer awareness. That's an issue near and dear to my heart. (After this one, I made a pink version for breast cancer as well.)
If you vote for my daffodils on iCraft, I win a $100 donation in the name of my choice to the Canadian Cancer Society. For me, it would be my mom. Just click here: "my daffodil entry" and, when the voting begins, there will be stars at the bottom for you to rank my entry.
It was a lot of fun designing these! I am working on my second submission now - it's almost done. I have at least one more to do after that for sure. I have more ideas too, but it will depend on the time I have. The submission deadline is May 31!!
I can make these doors into Christmas and Halloween doors too! They are on the large side though, so I don't think I would make my whole Christmas card list of them, but perhaps a few.
There all so gorgeous, love them!!!
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