The Ribbon Reel Challenge #15

Hi all, today brings us another challenge from The Ribbon Reel Challenge Blog. This fortnight, the picture inspiration has been chosen by Zuzana Obert, a wonderful vintage botanical print of butterflies, my favourite!



I decided to make a piece of home decor, rather than a card - I just felt like something a little bit different!




I have used a white washed wicker heart from Wilkinson's store, I've had this for ages and was inspired to use it for today's challenge.



I've gone a bit mad with the decoration on this heart, but I really wanted something sparkly, and very girly!

I have cut some Spellbinders butterflies in some Core'dinations card, and sanded back the embossed patterns.



I tied some bows using seam binding, and added various gemstones for that all important sparkle...


The central focal point is a Marianne doily topped with some white tea roses and ribbon loops, topped with stickles for some more shimmer :-)

Do stop by my fellow team-mates for some fabulous inspiration too!

TRR DESIGN TEAM

• Keilly Mulvihill - Keilly's Little Blog
• Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
• Pauline Pollington - Craft Obsession - That's me!!
  
• Zuzana Obert - Jelly Welly
• Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
• Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not To Scrap
• Helen Berry - Helen Berry Designs

Supplies Used:

Ribbon: 16mm Yellow Grosgrain, Tile Blue Seam Binding, Orange Two Tone Mesh - The Ribbon Reel

Card: Core'dinations

Spellbinders: Butterflies 2

Marianne Creatables: Designer Doily, Chinese Rose.

Other: Papermania gems in Gold, Turquoise, Clear; Say it in Crystals - Prima Marketing; Dewdrop gems from stash; Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch;


I am also entering this into the following challenges:

Papercrafting Journey

Stamptacular Sunday

CES Challenge



Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

A Card for a few Challenges

Hi all, today i have a card for a few challenges.

I've made a Christmas card in non-traditional colours, and I have chosen this week's new colour story from The Play Date Cafe, which is a colour splash of Black, White and Orange.

Now, I won't lie to you, but... I HATE the colour orange! If you're a regular visitor to my blog, there won't be many cards made with this as my colour choice - I made a few at the beginning of autumn, I do love the colours this season brings, but orange is the one colour I don't have in my house, my wardrobe, or my life!

So, I did groan when I saw the colour palette, but after a bit of blog hopping and Pinteresting, I felt inspired!

So, here are my inspirations:

CAS-ual Fridays - Include a tag



Cupcake Inspirations



The Play Date Cafe - Colour Splash


And my take:


I have had this sweet little Hero Arts reindeer stamped for a couple of weeks, just waiting for me to colour him in. Whaen I stamped him I envisaged him with a warm brown furry coat, and cosy red jumper. But today I fancied him in orange lol!



I coloured him with my Staedtler Ergo Soft Colour Pencils in Black and orange, and cut him out and mounted onto a tag stamped with some text from Waltzingmouse Stamps.



I added some orange dewdrops, some orange sheer ruffle ribbon and an orange twine bow from The Ribbon Reel.



Topped off with a black button and the sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps Very Vintage Christmas. Given that I really don't like the colour orange, I LOVE this taggy card in this non -traditional colour scheme!


I am entering this fun little guy into the following challenges:

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Buttons and Bows

CAS-ual Fridays - Tag It

The Play Date Cafe - Colour splash

Hero Arts November Challenge - Christmas

Cupcake Inspirations

Papertake Weekly - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMSC 72

Hi all, I have finally finished my entry for this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge, and this is going to be a very quick post as I'm also entering this into the Do You Stack Up Challenge, which closes at 2pm.

Here's the sketch:


And here's my take:



This tag shaped accordian card base I bought at the NEC on Sunday from the Little Claire's stall. I got quite a few, but in different colours, sadly they had run out of white, so I will have to get some online Hah!



I have used the resist embossed technique using Fancy Flourishes Scallops and Dots from Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Stamped a flourish background in Versamark and clear embossed onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock, cut to fit two panels, and sponged with distress inks in Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans.



Then I embossed two snowflakes onto navy card, using Platinum Glitter powder by WOW!. Cut out with my circular nesties and layered onto some card sponged with the distress inks.



It's lovely and glittery, and the embossed swirls have a real glow to them. Then mounted these onto a white doily cut with an MFT die.


The middle panel has been embossed with the WOW! powder, using the flourishes, and the sentiment has been stamped twice in Brilliance Metallic Silver and Metallic Blue onto both blue and white card, then just hand cut the sentiments and popped up on foam dots. Finally added some ribbon from the Ribbon Reel, and pearly brads.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge

DYSU Challenge

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge

Top Tip Tuesday

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

PDCC, and Some New Stash!!

Morning all, today I have a card to share for The Play Date Cafe, which has a beautiful colour story of Grey, Lemon, Pink.





For my card I have used a kraft card base, and Pink Paislee Nantucket paper stack, and Nantucket clear Stamps. I stamped the Dogwood floral image onto some ivory card twice, in Memento London Fog, and cut using the out of the box technique with my nesties, then hand cut the second image to decoupage on top.


I then layered this onto a frame cut using a pretty Marianne Creatables frame in some of the pink chevron patterned paper. I layered this onto a panel cut using some yellow gingham paper, stamped with a running stitch stamp by hero Arts.

I then cut some tags using Papertrey Ink's Tiny Tags and co-ordinating dies, and attache a couple to the card using some pink and yellow twine, wrapped around the card with some pink velvet ribbon all from The Ribbon Reel.



I then added a little grey flourish using Papertrey Ink's Mat Stack 1 collection, and added some grey pearls.



Finally added a yellow Prima resin flower.

I am entering this into

The Play Date Cafe

Crafty Catz - anything Goes

I actually had this finished yesterday, but didn't have time to post as I went to the big Hobbycrafts show at the NEC in Birmingham. I came away with these goodies, but, some people had suitcases of stuff!! It was very busy, and completely manic, but we all had a great time, and a few of us had a little snooze on the coach home lol!



I now have to put my lovely new loot away, and I can't wait to use my new stamps and dies!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMSC 71, CR84FN 41

Hi all, another card to share today, twice in one day it's a record lol! This time it's for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge, and CR84FN Challenge. I'm a bit late with these challenges again this week, I am finding the weeks are just flying by.

Here's the sketch:


And the colour inspiration from CR84FN:



And here's my take:



I have coloured the sweet little WMS house again, but used Promarkers this time, rather than the pencils I used last week for this image. They are faster to use than pencils, but I prefer the depth of shading I can achieve using pencils - I guess I need to practise with my Promarkers more :-)

I decoupaged the house UP, just stamped the house twice, coloured the images and cut the door out of the top house, stuck the door to the bottom house, and layered them together with foam dots. I added some Glamour dust to the roof and gables of the house, it's so twinkly!



I layered the house onto a piece of pale yellow pearly card, stamped with some doilies in Memento London Fog.

The little sentiment is also WMS, and layered onto some more pearly yellow card stamped with doilies.



The ribbon at the top is Silky Crush from The Ribbon Reel, to which I have tied a bow in yellow Baker's Twine and a yellow resin rose from Prima.



The background grey houndstooth paper is by Papermania, and the cardbase is a petal point card base from Craftwork Cards. The little blue gems along the bottom are from Kaiser, and very twinkly with all the facets on their surface.

That's all from me, got to feed the kids!

Pauline

Little Sweet Pea..

Morning all, what a grim day here in Berkshire, the light is so bad!

I have a card to share for a few challenges today, I was inspired by the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday Challenge, for some Background Building. I happen to have two little stamps sets on loan from a very lovely friend, so I pulled them out last night and had a tinker.

Neither of these sets are, on the surface, suitable for Background Building, but after many tries on scrap paper, I finally came up with something I was reasonably happy with!



The set I have used is Baby Button Bits, a lovely set perfect for those sweet Newborn cards.

I have used the pea-pod and flying bee image from this set, together with the circle stamp to create this baby themed background.


I also used two sentiments from the set - Little Sweet Pea, and As Sweet As Can Be and stamped them alternately.

I then cut and edged with a Martha Stewart border punch, and layered onto some pretty gingham paper from Nana's Nursery, also edged with the border punch.




Then layered this onto some green bazzill embossed with a woodgrain folder, and mounted onto a large scalloped edge card base from stash.

Finally added some twine bows, some twine strips to the left edge, and some Candi Dots from Craftwork Cards.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday - Background Building

Stamptacular Sunday - Borders and Frames

Charisma Cardz - Cutsey

CES Challenge - New Beginnings


Supplies Used:

Stamps: Baby Button Bits - Papertrey Ink

Inks: Memento Pear Tart and Cantaloupe; Versamagic Key Lime and Sage; Brilliance Sunflower Yellow; Distress Ink Dried Marigold

Paper: Card base from stash; green Bazzill; Gingham card - Nana's Nursery DCWV

Other: Candi Dots - Craftwork Cards; Green and Yellow Twine - The Ribbon Reel
Woodgrain Embossing Folder - Craft Concepts; Martha Stewart Double Scallop punch.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Less is More..And a Big Happy Dance!!

Morning all, I am currently doing a big ole Happy Dance, as one of my cards has been featured on the beautiful Melissa Frances Blog!! To say I'm over the moon is a slight understatement!! You can see the post HERE, I still can't believe it lol!!

Anyway, on with today's business!

I have a couple of cards to share for this week's Less is More Challenge. This week, Chrissie and Mandi would like us to use stars on our creations.

I had a look through my stamp catalogue, and although I do have a couple of starry stamps, nothing really inspired me.

So I turned to my much neglected Spellbinder Star Dies. I was going to do something completely different with these dies, but, whilst rummaging about in my card box, I came across my stack of Core'dinations Rainbow coloured papers. This stack came in a huge variety of bright colours, in 6x6 format, so perfect for throwing through the Cuttlebug!

As I was seeing a rainbow, I thought I would make a Rainbow Star!



Lovely layers..and a sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps Say it Loud set, that says "Thanks, you're a star"



I added some glamour dust to the star tips, and it's everywhere! The card base is black card from Papermania, from their Christmas stack of papers from last year - it has a linen effect on the card, and has a great texture.



The sentiment is stamped in Papermania Seafoam Embossing Powder. Due to the nature of the card, the embossing powder got stuck in the little grooves, so I spent about half an hour, 3 pieces of cardstock and a fine tip paintbrush to finally get the clean effect I wanted.


So onto my next card.

As I was playing about with the rainbow cardstock, I cut some star frames for a lighter look, and thought it looked great against the white petal point card base from Craftwork Cards.

I love how these star frames, layered together remind me of the little kaleidoscopes I used to have as a child.



And a simple sentiment from WMS Sewing Box Hugs, in Versamagic Amethyst.

I love the rainbow colours together, and these are two much needed Thankyou cards for my stash - there's always someone to thank in my life!

I am entering my first card into

Less is More

Charisma Cardz

I am entering my second card into a couple of challenges as well as the Less is More Challenge:

Stamptacular Sunday - Frames and Borders - My card has used star frames, and a petal point border.

Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes!

Totally Gorjuss - I Remember - Kaleidoscopes!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline