Pink Polka Dotted Flower

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Every now and again I make a card that I am 'uber' pleased with, and this is one of those.

I was playing with my Layers of Color stamps and this is the result that I am so happy with. 

I started with this flower from the Merci Bouquet  set, stamping it randomly on a cream textured paper in Rich Cocoa ink, and then colouring it with chalks. The edge of the paper was distressed and sponged.

I took three polka dot flower images and the large dotted petals from the Polka Dot Love set and white embossed them onto pink vellum, then fussy cut and layered them together.

The sentiment is from the Happy wishes set and was stamped and cut with a  Labels 14 die from Spellbinders - I ran a gold pen around the  inside edge of the  die before I removed it.

The layered flower was mounted over ribbon, and the whole mounted onto a mid brown base. Pearls were added and the card complete.

I am linking this to:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts challenge #21 - Celebrations

Craft Your Passion Challenge #100 - Anything Goes

Always Crafting Creative Monday's Challenge #3 - Anything Goes

kaboodles Doodles Challenge #109 - Think Spring, Flowers

Paper Creations Ink - challenge #20 - Spring is in the air 

Polly Craft Monday Challenge #130 - Spring is Sprung

Smudgy Antics - Anything Goes

The Pink elephant Challenge #138 - Lets See Those Layers

Totally Stampilious Challenge #3  - Spring is in the air

Thank you for calling by - may your day be blessed.

Bird and Cage

Welcome, and thank you for visiting again.

I was sent some of the bird cage and bird die cuts in a RAK by the lovely Shelly Schmidt and challenged myself to use one the other day.

My base card was a piece I had coloured with the Ink, Spray and Smash technique some time ago.

I sponged both the bird, branch and cage with various Tsukineko inks.

The base of the card was stamped lightly to ground the image - the stamp was inked using the Rock and Roll technique.

The gloriously textured ribbon across the top of the card was bought at a Craft fair last year.  The lemon ribbon was layered over that and a bow attached over the hole of the cage.

The main card was layered over an apricot paper and then onto a deep cream card base. 

I am linking this to:

Cute Card Thrusday Challenge #201 - You're a Gem

Do You Stack Up Challenge #56 - Ribbons

For Your Inspiration Challenge #22 - Inspirational Photo
Crafty Catz Challenge #117 - Things with wings
Stampin' With the Dragon Challenge #2 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting - may your day be blessed

Birdwatching

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This is my second post for the day,  scroll down to see the first one.

I love this image released by McMahon Five Design.com this week of a girl in a tree, entitled Watching Birds - this reminds me so much of myself sitting in a tree (reading, rather than watching birds).

I printed it on some thin card, and painted it with Lyric watercolour crayons.

It was then mounted onto a bright yellow card, which I muted with some Tea Stain distress ink before mounting onto paper from the Prima 6x6 stack, Fairy Flora.  This was then mounted on a bright green base, and some wee bling flowers added - IRL they are  mauve and pink, not blue, and look good on the card.

I am linking this to:

Try it on Tuesday - taking to the skies
Do You Stack Up Challenge #42 - trees
Shelly's Images Terrifically Thrilling Thursday - Anything Goes
Moving Along With The Time challenge #119 - vintage

Thanks for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Oh No!!

Welcome

This is my second post today - please scroll down for the other post.

This release from the McMahon Five Design team is released under the 

Studio 313 label and is named Funny Little Things.

There are three images and six sentiments in the set, which makes it very versatile.

The image was coloured with chalks and the edges sponged with Tea Stain distress inks.  The sentiment was printed separately, the edges sponged, and mounted over the base of the image.

The flowers are pre-cut from glittered card - they were a gift some time ago, and I do not know where they come from. The stalks were stamped and the 'wrapping' cut from a piece of wrapping paper! (Waste not, want not!).

The dp is from the Kaiser Le Chateau 6x6 pad, and run through the herringbone embossing folder, the edges were also sponged. 

After the dp and images were mounted, I gathered a length of stitched dark brown ribbon to form a flower, mounted this in the corner, using a glue dot, and added a gold rhinestone.


do pop over to the other design team members and see what they have created.


I am linking this to:


Southern Girls Challenge #28 - Anything goes
Truly Scrumptious Challenge #66 - clean and simple
Paper Shelter Challenge #32 - Anything goes
Fresh Brewed Designs - Challenge #65 - Keep it Simple
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #28 - Anything Goes
365 Challenge - Day 206 - Love, masculine style
Crafty Ribbon Challenge #2 - anything goes

Thanks for visiting today - may your day be blessed.