Jennifer Schaerer
Raise your hand if you’ve been having fun this week with card-making inspiration from the pages of our newest special issue 75 Creative Card Challenges! Have you been playing along and posting your cards in the challenges over on the Moxie Fab World blog? Don’t miss out on the fun – hop over and see which one strikes your fancy because there’s still plenty of time!
There really are so many ways to use these challenges to inspire your creativity. Susan used a combination of a checklist and a random number generator to work her way through them. Each of the Paper Crafts Go-to Gals mentioned a challenge that was personally meaningful, and Teri Anderson pointed out that the entire challenge list is extra special because the challenges are “real life” with no artificial sweetener (ha! Love that Teri!). A bit later today, Stacy Croninger will bring you yet another clever way to use this list of challenges, so stay tuned.
Are you wondering what could possibly be on this list of 75 clever triggers for card-making creativity? Maybe just a teensy little bit? Do you perhaps want to see the entire list?
Welllll…..okay. You twisted my arm. Behold the 75 Creative Card Challenges:
- Use a Page from the Phonebook
- Make a Creative Handmade Flower
- Stamp on Felt
- Stamp with Paint
- Make a Quilt-Inspired Card
- Use Nothing But Stickers
- Use 10 Embellishments
- Use a Yard of Ribbon
- Use Bleach
- Make Your Own Buttons
- Doll Up a Die Cut
- Make Your Own Ruffle
- Stamp on a Transparency
- Use a Paper Bag
- Use Crepe Paper
- Make a Border from Circle Punches
- Use Leftover Alphas/Numbers
- Stamp with a Homemade Stamp
- DIY Embellishment with Decorative Tape
- Background with Decorative Tape
- Write a Haiku
- Make a Triangle or Circle Card
- Make an Itty Bitty Card
- Use Stitching
- Make a White Card
- Use Duct Tape
- Use Items from the Garage
- Use/Create a Butterfly
- Use 6 Different Fibers
- Use 10 Different Patterned Papers
- Stamp Circles with a Glass
- Mask with Die Cuts & Mist/Paint
- Mask with a Stamp
- Use a Package of Embellishments
- Alter a Picture
- Finish Sentiment, “I love you more than…”
- Say Thank You in a Different Language
- Make an Embellishment with Twine
- Spell a Word with Twine
- Use Yarn
- Use Craft Foam
- Use Wiggle Eyes
- Animate an Inanimate Object
- Use Glitter as a Main Element
- Add Glitter to Die Cuts
- Make a Card within a Card
- Make a Sentiment-Free Card
- Make a Digital Card
- Make Your Background Paper
- Make a Punny Card
- Create a Minimalist Card
- Give Your Card a Decorative Edge
- Use Woodgrain
- Use a Twist Tie or Bread Tab
- Use Fabric
- Use the Negative of a Die Cut
- Design with Confetti
- Cut Stickers in Half
- Make Patterned Paper with Pens
- Make a Window
- Die-Cut a Die Cut
- Use Vellum
- Use a Clip in a Unique Way
- Make Your Own Rainbow
- Paper-piece
- Make a Banner
- Use Pleats
- Find Inspiration in Pop Culture
- Let Something Hang off the Edge
- Make a Comic-inspired Card
- Use the Splatter Technique
- Use Metal
- Fussy-cut from Patterned Paper
- Change the Color of Trim
- Make a Game-inspired Card
See? You’re thinking of a card already, aren’t you? C’mon, I know you are. Leave a comment by Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 5pm MST and let me know which challenge sounds the most interesting to you. I’ll pick three random winners for a copy of 75 Creative Card Challenges and then you’ll have no excuse but to give it a try!
Throwing down the gauntlet,
This is a GREAT list! I should try making a card with wiggle eyes. I use them all the time on other projects, but I’ve never put them on a card.
Stamping with a homemade stamp would be the most interesting to me, it really has my mind working now, to see what I could come up with! Thanks for the inspiration!
I have top 4 to try….Metal, Phone book, Make a white card, and use 10 embellishments. Im going to try all 4 this weekend.
39.Spell a Word with Twine I have no idea how to do that. Guess I need that issue to ffind out.
Great typing on my post! I is a collage graduate! (Tee Hee!)
I just love this list. I can see me making cards for at least half of these challenges ~ I guess #8-use a yard of ribbon would be a tough one for me, although I have more rolls of ribbon than Michael’s
I would like to a make an all white card. Thanks for the super list of challenges!
How about Use Woodgrain. I have an idea for this one floating in my head right now.
Creating my own ruffle would be fun: would use some of my (huge) fabric stash!!
What a great list of challenges! Can’t wait to get a copy of this issue! I am going to try a lot of these! Thanks for the chance to win!
A challenge would be anything you have to come up with writing–poems, sayings, etc. Would love to see this issue and all the challenges!
I would say 17. using left over letters and numbers. I think it is a fun challenge to use up all those extra letters you never seem ot be able to use lol thanks for the chance to win.
What a great list!! I can’t wait to see all of them, but I’m going to say:
#14: Use a paper bag (I love paper bags!!)
#29: Use 6 different fibers (six?! Wow!!!)
and #25: Make a white card (did it have to be all white?! Can’t wait to see!!)
#73 fussy-cut from patterned paper ~ I’d like to try this.
Oh wow, what a list of challenges. I think “Use a Twist Tie or Bread Tab” would be interesting and a REAL challenge. Now I need to save a Bread Tab. LOL.
I’d love to do another bleach card, the one I did was great, and I’ve been wanting to do a quilt card but just haven’t yet.
I love to paper piece–so Challenge 65 is probably one I will try:) As for something new or challenging… 34 Using an ENTIRE package of embellishments!
THANKS for the chance to win:) sbmmhoover at yahoo dot com
#17 to use left over letters and numbers
A lot of these sound appealing, but I would like to try using all of my negative images that I have saved of die cuts. Thanks for the chance to win; this looks like a great issue.
I would love to have/find time to do all 75—I’m going to go with “create a card within a card”—sounds very interesting…you got me thinking!
Oh boy!!! Word with a twine, a bleach card, a card within a card—all sound pretty creative to me. Hard to choose though!
3.Stamp on Felt is something I’ve never tried before and definitively will very soon ; ) but thanks for the list, I feel like taking the challenge to do a card for all 75!!
#1 seems to be the most challenging, because i have no idea where i could get an oldfashioned printed phone book.
#57 and 71 sound like lots of fun!
Use items from the garage would be a great challenge especially since my husband likes to borrow tools from my craft room (actually, I’m always borrowing his tool, too
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I like #54 – use a twist tie or bread tag. Love this list!
Make a patterned paper with pens!
Can I just say that I can’t wait to get my hands on this special issue! It sounds not only fun but like it will become my low mojo go to issue! LOL I’ve always been partial to miniatures so for me the one that sounds like the most fun is The Itty Bitty Card.
Nbr #26 Use Duct Tape! Now that will be a challenge, but a fun card to make for my hubby who believes Duct Tape fixes everything!