CR84FN69

 Good morning all, today brings us a new colour challenge over at CR84FN. This fortnight, we have the rich combination of Raspberry, Lavender and neutral.

For my card, I have used a lovely image from Flourishes Feminine Charm set.

I have used a white card base, and some lavender swiss dot embossed Bazzill card.

I coloured the hat image using Staedtler colour pencils, and cut using Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Rectangles, and mounted onto some raspberry bazzill.

I added some pretty lace and Raspberry ric-rac from The Ribbon Reel, topped with a sentiment from the same Flourishes stamp set cut using a Stampin' Up! punch and mounted onto a raspberry die cut shape using Nestabilities Floral Ovals. Finally I added some clear gems to the sentiment and around the image.

Do stop by the rest of the design team at CR84FN for some gorgeous inspiration with these beautiful colours.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU 104 - Turquoise

Hi all, this is the last challenge over at  DYSU, and this week the challenge is to use turquoise on your creations.

I have used the sweet cups image from Rhodas Design Studio, and coloured with Promarkers.

 

I stamped some grey Houndstooth onto a card blank, and added a strip of turquoise washi tape, my second little go at using this stuff!

I then wrapped some turquoise tulle around the top, and added some turquoise gems and a Waltzingmouse Stamps Sentiment. 

 Here are our generous sponsors for this week:

Rhoda Design Studio

* $15 gift certificate to spend on Cutting Files or Digis

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

* $10 Gift Certificate

The Stamping Boutique

* Winner's Choice of 3 Digis

Elizabeta Kushner 

* Winner's Choice of 3 Digis

Thanking everyone who stops by my blog and leaves an encouraging comment, I do love to hear from you lovely ladies! Wishing everyone a fantastic New Year!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU #103 - Anything Goes

Hi all, I'm back today with a card for DYSU. This week it';s everybody's favourite - anything goes!

I have used a butterfly image from one of our sponsors, Gecko Galz, and added some fancy papers and some felt flowers attached with pearly brads.

I added some black peald to the fancy corners, and left it sentiment free, for an any occasion card!

Here are our sponsors for this week:

Robyn's Fetish

* Winner’s Choice of  5 digital stamps

My Heart Pieces

* Winner's Choice of 3 Digis

Gecko Galz

* Winner's choice of 1 of Digital Stamp Sets

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, I hope you all get lots of crafting goodies!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Serendipity Stamps Challenge - winter Birthday

Hi all, welcome back to the second challenge over at at Serendipity Stamps challenge blog.

This fortnight we have the challenge to create a winter birthday card.

I have stamped the lovely floral basket in Memento Espresso ink, and added some tiny red pearls to the little berries in the image.

 

Here's a close up of the pretty basket.

I then stamped the little snowflakes, (currently included in the Special Deal at Serendipity Stamps Winter Cling Set Version 2 for $1!) in Pine and Espresso inks to make the background, stamped the sentiment in Espresso and layered a piece of rich red ribbon onto the card.

The offer in the store this week is 40% off the highest priced item in
your cart from December 19 - 26. 

Do stop by the challenge blog, and I hope you can join in the fun over the next two weeks!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

 

DYSU #102 - Christmas

Hi all, today is a new challenge at DYSU, only another two to go boo-hoo! Well, this week it's an easy one - Christmas!

Here are our sponsors for this week:

Digi Darla

* Winner’s Choice of 5 Digis

The Paper Shelter

* $20 Gift Certificate

Stamp & Create

I've made a flat card for posting, no ribbons or fancy brads on this one! Using this fun snowman image from one of our sponsors this week, Digi Darla, I coloured him with Promarkers, and cut out.

 I layered him onto some aqua card embossed with a Cuttlebug folder, and added a Waltzingmouse Stamps sentiment.

Finally I added a couple of aqua gems, and backed the card onto some glittery paper befor attaching to a kraft card base.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU 101 - Silver & Gold

 Hi all, it's time for another new challenge at DYSU and this week we would like to see Silver & Gold somewhere on your creations!

I have made a card using Snow Globe Winter Bird by Bugaboo, one of our very generous Sponsors this week.


I have coloured with Promarkers, and cut out, layered onto some red card, and mounted onto some plaid patterned paper.

I added some silver metal brads  to the corners..

.. and to the little Waltzingmouse Stamps tag, which was attached to some button twine placed over some gold satin ribbon.

Here are our sponsors this week:

Rhoda Design Studio

* $15 gift certificate to spend on Cutting Files or Digis

Bugaboo Stamps

* Winner's Choice of 7 Images

Stampendous!

* Frantage Aged Gold Embossing Enamel and Frantage Aged Silver Embossing Enamel

Do stop by the rest of the design team,

Pauline

Serendipity Stamps New Challenge Blog!

Welcome friends to some exciting new! There's a new Blog challenge in town! I have been on the Design Team at Serendipity Stamps for a few months now, where we had a fortnightly blog hop with just the D.T members showcasing the beautiful stamps from Serendipity.

Jeanne Jachna, a member of  the D.T has put together this new challenge blog, to see what creations fans of Serendipity Stamps make! So please welcome the new Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog!

For this first challenge, we have a theme of Accordian Folding - where you take a die cut and layer together several pieces of the same shape to create a dimensional effect.

Here's my creation:

I have used the beautiful Ornament Die, and cut four baubles out of some Gold Glittered card from my stash.

Then, using my glue gun, I very carefully layered them together to create this lovely topper for my card.

I had some red and green beads in my button box, so I threaded them together with some twine, then glued them in place along the centre of the bauble.

I then layered the bauble onto a red die cut using a Sizzix framelits die, and wrapped some striped ribbon around the patterned paper. Then attatched the topper to the card panel, and added a stripy bow, and hot glued some Christmas flowers and beads to the corner.

The sentiment is also from Serendipity Stamps, stamped in Tuxedo Black onto some Christmas themed paper from my stash.

I do hope you can join us over at the new Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog, and check out what the rest of the design team have created! One lucky participant will win a $20 gift certificate to spend at the Serendipity Stamps store!!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

The Pretty Little Ribbon shop
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge
Papertake Weekly
Top Tip Tuesday


Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

CR84FN 68 Wk 2

Hi all, welcome back to week 2 over at CR84FN - this will be our last challenge for December, as we are taking a break from CR84FN until December 30th.

I have made a Christmas card today, I'm so behind still, and mild panic is setting in!

 I have stamped twice and embossed the beautiful Poinsettia from Waltzingmouse Stamps, Big Blooms - Poinsettias in white pearls powder, onto some burgundy card - it has a pearly sheen in real life and is so pretty.

I cut the middle portion out and layered it onto the second stamped image, and added some cream pearls to the centre.

I stamped in Versamark the sentiment from WMS Compliments of the Season 2 and embossed with Sliver Glitter Wow embossing powder onto some white vellum.

I then wrapped this around the card panel and added some cream lace and some silver ribbon.

Inside I added a smaller poinsettia from the same Blooms set, and the sentiment from the same sentiment set.

Do stop by the rest of the design team, for some more inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU 100 - Thanks

Good morning All, it's a new challenge over at DYSU today, and this week we would like to see you incorporate the message of Thanks or Gratitude on your creations!

I have used a lovely image from one of our generous sponsors, Little Claire's, from their set 'Butterfly Tree'.

I have coloured the butterfly image using Promarkers, and using the colours in the checked patterned paper I used as the background.  I created a panel of some green Bazzill, and layered together with some of the checked paper after edging with the Tonic punch system.




I covered the image with some Little Claire's Glitter Film, and cut with a nestie. It gives a lovely glittery sheen, and has a slight holographic tint to it, so pretty!

The sentiment and little label are by Waltzingmouse Stamps, Opera Tags. I added a little green gem to the end of the tag for a little more sparkle!

I then layered this onto the card base after wrapping some cream lace and green waffle style ribbon around the side, and added a little bow and pale paper rose.

Here are our sponsors for this week:

Little Claire Designs

Broken Box Stock

*Free Digital-Stamp Club membership for a year
Read here for more information: http://www.brokenboxstock.com/item/Digi_Stamp_Club/725/c46

Stamp Fairy 

*$10 gift certificate

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown

I Love Promarkers

Paperplay Challenge

Party Time Tuesdays

Do stop by the rest of the design team,

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline  

Casadia!

Hi all, I have a second post for today! A little while ago, I came across Wida Miller's blog through my blog buddy Meredith MacRitchie's blog. Wida has started a little Case challenge - starting off with one card of inspiration, then taking it from there. The idea is to see how far we can go with this fun idea! 

The interesting thing is that the card I have produced today bears little or no resemblance to the original card! So following through the other participant's creations, you can see how this design has evolved from one thing to another!

You can read all about it here at Beachorado, and if you feel inspired, maybe you'd like to join the fun too?

This is the card that started the ball rolling, this stunner from Laura Bassen:

..which led to this striking beauty by Dana Nelson:

..which led to my festive themed card using the colours from this week's CR84FN colour challenge of Burgundy, Grey and Cream:

I used the same focal point and sentiment position along with the lace and velvet ric rac trim as on Dana's card, but the image worked better on a landscape card for me.

I silver embossed the pine branch from Waltzingmouse Stamps Festive Foliage set onto some Sahara Sand card, and cut out. I then distressed the edges with some Pumice Stone distress Ink.

I then stamped the knitted pattern from WMS Nordic Winter in London Fog and Cherry Cobbler inks, and the sentiment is also WMS from the Compliments of The Season 2 set.

I added some cream lace and Red velvet Ric Rac from The Ribbon Reel, and added 3 metal brads.

I do hope you feel inspired to hop over to Beachorado and have a look at the progression of this design, and maybe you will fancy joining in too!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline