Parisian Whimsy

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I recently made this rather whimsical card.

It all started with the green base and the piece of yellow card that were sitting on my desk after other projects.

I stamped and embossed the Eiffel Tower in bronze. 

To add to the Parisian feel I stamped the Paris stamp in brown ink, which on the yellow gave an interesting effect.

Next was a layer of paper tape which I found by a serendipitous chance I could emboss on, so the sentiment was embossed in bronze to match the tower.

A flourish of rhinestones added some whimsy.

 The wee flower and Fleur de lis were stamped in Versamark ink and then had pearlised powder rubbed over them.

Some pleated ribbon, and then some picot ribbon finished the card.

I am linking this to:

The Stamping Boutique Challenge #13 - Birthday

Quick Quotes Friday Challenge #38 - Stamp it up.

Docerela Stamps Challenge #59 - Anything Goes

Crafty Hands Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge #25 - Frame it

We Do Doobadoo Week #4 - Embellish it

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Serendipitous Birthday

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These are some more of the serendipity squares that I made, and this time I used them as part of a larger block, and again I used a purple backing.

I wanted a focal point, and went for the small scripture stamp, and gold embossed the wording, cut it with a Spellbinders die, and layered it onto gold paper.  I shaped the gold paper by running a pencil around the outside of the die and fussy cut it.

It still looked very plain, so added the layered, punched flowers and the bling.

The sentiment was gold embossed on the bottom of the purple layer, and two more flowers added.

I then matted the purple panel onto green, and then cream card, sponging the cream card with Bundled Sage ink.

The differing colours are because some of the photos were taken in natural light ( the second photo) and the others under an artificial light, which gave the true colour.

I am linking this to:

Mema's Craft April Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #127 - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #37 - Anything Goes

Love to Scrap Challenge #27 - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmaker's Challenge #114 - A Floral Profusion

Crafty Bloggers April Challenge - Die Cut or Embossing

Artistic Inspirations Challenge #87 - Anything Goes/Monochromatic

Aurora Wings Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

2 Cute Ink Challenge #104 - Celebration

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Serendipitous Sympathy

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I had a good day in the studio yesterday afternoon, and this is one of the results.

I started with some squares that I had made using a technique called Serendipity Squares and mounted them on the violet base card.

The base card was embossed with a music embossing folder, and then sponged it lightly with some violet ink.

The sentiment was stamped and embossed onto green card, and added under the side of the decorative panel.

The final detail was a wee tad of gold ribbon and a bow.

This is a close up of the detail of a panel and the bow.

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Sewing - once more

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I have another sewing project to share - some pyjamas for one of the grandsons.  Being the doting grandma that I am it was no problem to take on the task, and thankfully they went together really well!!

This particular grandson has a very long torso and arms, so the pattern had to be adapted to fit,

I learnt when my children were young, that the easiest way to ensure they got this type of garment on the right way round was to put a wee tab in the centre back neck band,

or the elastic casing seam

So now this project is done and dusted, it is back to the studio this afternoon.

and then I will have some cards to share.

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Sparkle and Scraps

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I made this card starting with some scraps on my desk - the base had been previously embossed and then discarded, and the holey panel was a trial on using a new die.

The yellow panel was part of a crayon resist experiment,

and the ribbon was another 'reject' from a previous project.

The red paper I cut the flower from was also sitting on my desk, and I added oyster H2O paint before I removed the die, and a red jewel brad to the centre.

You can see in the above photo that the holey panel is cut from a glitter card - such a difficult task to try and get a good photograph of it.

I used another piece of the the yellow card to make a tag for the sentiment which is embossed using glitter embossing powder.  A tiny butterfly and some silver doodling around the edge finished the project.

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

The Artistic Stamper - Embossing and Texture

Sassy Studio Designs - Make you own Embellishiments

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Flower Power

Krafty Girlz Challenge - Anything Goes

4 Crafty chicks - Polka Dots (The negative of the die cut)

One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes

Natalie and Amy's Challenge - embossing

Mema's Crafts - Anything Goes

Emergency Crafter's Challenge - Polka dots (the negative of the die cut)

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Pinpricked Butterfly

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I wanted to try the no-line pricking technique, and chose this Kiwiwstamping butterfly image to use (one of my original stamps)  - the actual stamp had other markings on the wings, but I decided to sketch in some lines and followed those, easily done as the pricking is done from the back of the card.

  I used watercolour pencils to colour  the wings, and the change of markings gave me more scope, which I enjoyed.  I added the background with blue chalk, then image was cut out using a Lacy Square die.

 The sentiment (also from Kiwistamping, and another 'old' stamp) was stamped, cut and sponged and placed with brads onto the background.

The background paper was embossed in the D'vine Swirls folder after swiping a moonlight white ink pad over the folder before the embossing, to soften the colour.

The final touch was the lace across the bottom of the card - to hide where the page did not emboss - we in the antipodes use paper sized to British measurements that is a tad longer than the American sized folders.

I am linking this to:
Love To Scrap Challenge #27 - Anything Goes
Craft hoarders Anonymous Challenge#5- Pick Any Stamp

Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #67 - All Creatures Great and Small

Ink on my Fingers Sunday Stamper Challenge #302 - Spring

Scribble and Scrap Challenge #15 - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody #40 - Anything Goes

Avenue 613 Challenge #66 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #126 - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #208 - No Designer Paper

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Twinkling Hoot

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Thank you for popping in.

I have not been here for what feels like weeks - a slight exaggeration I know, but I have been caught up with LIFE at the moment - that busy time between cardmaking and blogging! 

I had fun with this card - using up scraps from my box and challenging myself to work with a black sparkle paper I bought last year.

 The branch is one from 'Foot Long Stamps' and being transparent, I was able to bend it to 'fit' the card before I stamped it, then cut around it, trimming a leaf to leave space for the owl to sit on.

 The Owl is an Itty Bitty Jilli Bean Stamp from Unity Stamps. I stamped it on various scraps to paper piece it.  I coloured the eyes and dots on the hat with various sparkling pens I have.

The images were mounted onto the black background, and silver stars added in the background.

   

The sentiment was stamped on the blue base card and embossed in silver.

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #126 - Anything goes

Sister Act Card Challenge #51 - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Challenge Week #14 - Animal

Jo's Scrap Shalck Friday Fun Challenge #44 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #30- Anything Goes

Craftitude Challenge #62 - Anything Goes

One Crazy Stamper April Challenge - Anything Goes

Mema's Crafts April Challenge - Anything Goes

Flat Friends Challenge #19 - Include a Sentiment

Feeling Crafty Challenge #27 - Anything for a Child

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