Patchwork and flowers

Welcome - I am so glad you have called in.

I was inspired by a challenge and some Blog Candy I won recently when designing this card.

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The background oblongs were cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities rectangles, as were the two feature panels.

The background panels were stitched onto a white base using a sewing machine, but the main panels were actually hand stitched on using some variegated mettalic thread.

The edges of the feature rectangles, the white layer and the pink base card were sponged with the same Rouge chalk ink as the sentiment was stamped with.

The feature image is one that I 'won'  as Blog Candy - thank you so much Rebekka. I initially stamped it with Memento Summer Sky and Cottage Ivy, them coloured the image with chalks. The centers of the flowers I dotted using a sparkle lemon pen.

After colouring the image with chalks I gave it a quick flick of hairspray - a cheap and readily available fixative.

The image was mounted on foam dots to give it some dimension, and  some buttons were added to the bottom right of that panel and the top left corner of the card, stitching them so the ends were on top and tied off.

The final detail was a tiny bow in the corner.

I am linking this to:

Birthday Sundaes - Birthday card

Card Cupids - buttons and/or ribbons

Kennys Kraft Girls - Anything goes -summery

Sentimental Sundays - flowers plus a sentiment

Sparkles Forum - One for the Girls

Our Daily Bread Designs Shine The Light challenge -The seamstress/ Sewing

Craft Your Days Away Challenge #26 - Birthday

Paper Creators - Challenge #4 - Say it with Flowers

Thanks for calling by my blog.  May your day be blessed.

Fun Card

Greetings to all my cyber visitors again.

I made this card as an order - but as I know the recipient, it was specifically designed  - and I enjoyed the making of it.

I started knowing that the person it was intended for is an embroiderer, and she has a delightful sense of humour, so I went to this Bug-a-boo stamp Stella Sew, coloured her with chalks and added glitter, and dimensional glue for her glasses lenses.

The sentiment (unknown) was stamped on a scrap of apricot card and embossed in gold, and stitched under the edge of the image.

As you can see I sponged the edges of this panel and stitched it to the background paper, which was part of a pack from the Warehouse.  To give the dp some life I spayed it with silver Radiant Rain (part of the twinkling H2O range), and also sponged the edges with Tim Holtz tea stain ink. 

This was mounted by sewing it onto the base of dark cream card stock. and pearls were added for a little panache.

 This was a fun card to make, once I got the colours to 'work'.

I am linking this to:

Ginger Loft challenge #9 - Celebration

Pile it on - Anything Goes

Catch the Bug - Birthday Celebration

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Anything goes

Fairy Fun Friday #44 - Happy birthday

Sew Many Challenges - Birthday

Totally Papercraft Challenge #49 -  Birthday

Thank you for calling by and I pray your day will be/has been blessed

Another Digital Two for Tuesday GD spot and MMSC# 69

Thank you for calling by - I love to see that you have visited. Today I am able to share some cards that I made for a Guest Designer spot over at Digital Two for Tuesday.  Cora shares the most amazing digital images sourced from old books, dress catalogues and the like.


She sent me the two images that she is sharing today, and this is what I did with them.  This cottage just cried out to be a masculine card, so that is what it became.  

I coloured the image with chalks, sponged the edge lightly with brown ink, and mounted it on a very dark green card. The base card was scored with the Scor-it tool.  I wanted a wee bit more detail, and as I had no brads, I punched some dark brown card with a 3/8" punch, glued them on and then put a drop of dimensional magic glue over them to give some shape and gloss.  What took the longest with this card was actually finalising the colour card to mount it on!


This is being linked to 
Stamping Sisters In Christ - Depicting Water 
Based on this scripture John 4:10, 13-14 (NIV) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

The next card had a lot more detail in the image and the card itself - The image was coloured with a combination of mediums, but primarily watercolour pencils - I decided to cut into the image with an oval nestibility.  To mount it on the purple scalloped part oval was an simple decision, but when put against the lace that edge was lost, so I eventually added the green layer, trimmed very closely, before the purple.


The detail on the purple was a gold dimensional glue.


The base that the lace, and then the oval was mounted on was a olive/gold paper which I had run through the Cuttlebug fleur-de-lis folder, distressed the edge of and then stitched onto the paler base that had been sponged with a similar coloured Whisper dye ink, Mossy Stone.

The butterflies were part of gift given as a thank you for "cat sitting".   They lacked an elusive 'something', so I sat and scrabbled through all sorts of odds and ends until I came across the green bugle beads  which were glued in place   - they seemed to just pull the whole thing together into a pleasing result.


I am linking this to 
Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #69


Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge #3 - Vintage, distressing etc

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #75 - distress it


Thank you for calling by - I treasure your comments.


May you day be blessed.

Teddy Bear and Lace

Greetings to all of you who call by - I do enjoy your visits.


I started this card one afternoon, and left it part way through as I was at a loss as to how to continue. The following day I saw the Card Pattern Sketch #51 , and although I did not immediately think of this card, the idea took root....

                                                                  .... and germinated!!


The Teddy Bear is by Kiwi Stamping I stamped him in Adirondack Espresso ink, and sponged with Adirondack caramel with a wee bit of an unknown red and blue dabbed on with a brush - I cut the coloured image out with a nestiabilities rectangle, and mounted it on a reflective gold paper I had cut with scalloped rectangle, and that was when the blah hit.


The next afternoon I pulled out the gold stars, (a RAK from Linda, aka Lovely Linda, in Australia),  turned the card to the elongated position and then thought that as the card is for a wee girl it needed some lace.... after a fossick through my lace bits and pieces I found this piece - it had been there so long it needed a quick wash - ooops!!


I then assembled the card, adding the sentiment in gold embossing, but was not really satisfied so put it aside again while I did some other work.


Inspiration then hit (again) and I opened up the sewing machine sitting beside me on the bench and ran two rows of stitching around it, and I was really happy with the result!!  It actually looks much better IRL, the photo really does not do it justice :-(.


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