September Challenge

Create a card or paper-craft project using any Beccy's Place image, upload a photo of it to your blog and submit a direct link below. The challenge runs from now until midnight on the 30th September 2016 (AEST).

PLEASE READ THE CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE ENTERING THE CHALLENGE 

Your project must be created during the month of September 2016. You can enter as many times as you like and you can submit your card to any other challenge you wish. At the end of the month three random winners will be chosen to receive their choice of a full set of digital stamps from my online store.

Each month I will include a re-mastered digital image from my library of freebies, as well as a new, coordinating 12" x 12" digital paper. You DO NOT have to use these particular items on your project, but you MUST use a Beccy's Place image, either free or purchased, to be eligible for entry.

Beccy's Place designers may enter the monthly challenge but are not eligible to win prizes.

Tutorial - Rocker Cards

Today I'm going to show you the most basic type of rocker card... just a single cut and you are done! The idea of the rocker card is to make a card that rocks from side to side when you stand it up by shaping the bottom edge. Once you understand this basic principle you can go on to make a much more involved card with shaped cardstock, embellishments, weighted ends or even moveable parts!

1. Start with a standard card blank, mine measures a little over 6" x 8" but you could use just about any size you like.

2. Fold the card piece in half as if you were making a regular card. Turn it to a landscape orientation (long ways) with the open edges facing you. With the card folded, use your favourite tool to cut a section from the opening edge of the card leaving an even curve.

3. When you stand your cut card blank on it's opening edges it should rock when touched.

4. Decorate as desired and you are done. How easy is that?!

Rocking Horse

Free Printable #173

Originally Designed: August 2011
Remastered: September 2016
Original artwork by Beccy Muir, all rights reserved. Images are for personal use and must not be copied, swapped, shared, resold or mass produced without the express written permission of the artist.

Baby Cards

I made these two cards using a new digital image I drew over the weekend. The first card is for a challenge over at Stampland, and the second will form part of my instructions on how to make a rocker card - which is exceedingly easy by the way!

I am planning to donate both of these cards, along with a few others I've made, to Charlie Bear's Gift, a wonderful online charity auction that is raising money for the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital Foundation.