DYSU #62 - Going Green!

Morning all, today brings us a new challenge from DYSU. This week, we would like to see any Going Green projects - so either based around the colour green or using recycled materials.




I have based my card on the colour green, using a very cute stamp from Wild Rose Studios, called Party Fergus.




I have coloured him with Promarkers, and cut using oval nesties, then mounted onto a lacy oval Marianne Designs frame in blue textured card by Papermania.



The green spotty and argyle patterned paper is from Craftwork Cards, and the blue seam binding and green loop trim wrap is from The Ribbon Reel.


Supplies used:

Stamps: Party Fergus - Wild Rose Studio

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Versamagic Paris Dusk

Papers: Ice Cream Parlour - Craftwork Cards; Papermania Textured Coloured Card

Ribbon: Celery Loop Trim, Natural Button Twine, Union Blue Seam Binding - The Ribbon Reel;

Other: Spellbinders S4-112 Classic Ovals Small; Marianne Design Craftables Oval Die; Woodware Tag Punch; Sewing Machine; Button from Stash; Gems from stash


Here are our generous sponsors this week:


Meljens Designs



Jellypark

The Stamping Boutique




I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Top Tip Tuesday:

One Stop craft Challenge

I Love Promarkers Challenge

Allsorts Challenge

Card Crafter's Circle

Card Makin' Mamas

Inky Impressions

Papertake Weekly


Do stop by the rest of the DYSU team for some fabulous inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Liebster Awards..

Good morning all, I have a Leibster Award to share with some lovely Ladies!
I have a few ladies to thank for my Liebster Award, as I am a bit late doing this!
A little while ago, Maria, at Maria's Merry Makings gave me this award, and I never got round to sending it on. Then last week Cathy, at Empty Nest Crafter gave me the same award. And I was delighted this morning to find that Clair, at Craftyclairybell has also given me this award. So Thank You ladies so much for thinking of me, I'm really touched!

So, to accept this award there are a few rules:

Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.
Reveal your five blogger picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
Copy and paste the award on your blog.
Hope that those you honour forward it to their favorite bloggers.

Here are some ladies who I visit on a regular basis, and provide a lot of inspiration when the old mojo is lacking!

Anne - Stamps and paper

Lisa - My Paper Tales

Michelle - Amusing Michelle

Tammy - Creating Somewhere Under The Sun

Sasha - Sasha's Inspirations

Keilly - Keilly's Little Blog

Helen - Helen Berry Designs

I have chosen more than 5 bloggers, but I figured as I had 3 awards I could squeeze a couple more in :-)

Whilst I would in reality like to have picked 15 ladies, I just don't have the time!

Have a great day all!

Pauline

The Ribbon Reel Challenge # 23 - Newsprint

Good morning Blogland, today I have a card for the new challenge at The Ribbon Reel, this week hosted by Keilly Mulvihill. Keilly has asked that we use newsprint on our creations for this fortnight's challenge, and here's the inspiration pic:



And here's my card:



I have the Hero Arts Newspaper background stamp, and used it with Rich Cocoa ink on some white card, then distressed with Old Paper and Antique Linen inks.




I then created a button tag using Papertrey Ink's Button Boutique set, and some kraft card which I had stamped with the newsprint stamp in Tea Dye Ink.




The two little doilies were cut using MFT dies, and papers from Webster's Pages and MME Miss Caroline stack. Before adhering to the card, I stitched around the base panel in fawn thread, and wrapped some beautiful crochet lace and velvet ribbon around the base.

The buttons have been threaded with some burlap twine from The Ribbon Reel.
Finally I added the sentiment from PTI's Mat Stack 1, and some yellow pearls from stash.

I have used the colour palette from CR84FN this week, which has a colour theme of Yellow, Kraft and Grey.



Supplies Used:

Stamps: Button Boutique, Mat Stack 1 - Papertrey Ink

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest White - Crafter's Companion; Webster's Pages; My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Fiddlesticks stack- The Ribbon Reel
Ink: Rich cocoa - Memento; Tea Dye, Antique Linen, Old Paper, Walnut Stain - Ranger Distress Ink
Ribbons: May Arts Antique Gold Velvet Ribbon, Cream Floral Cotton Lace, Button Twine Natural - all from The Ribbon Reel
Other: Buttons and Pearls from stash; Sewing Machine, Fawn Thread



I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

CR84FN

Card Crafter's Circle

Top Tip Tuesday

Do stop by the rest of The Ribbon Reel design team for some fabulous inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday, colourQ, JUGs Sketch

I've had my eye on the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge for a little while now, but haven't been able to join in as I didn't have any Flourishes stamps. Last week, I finally got my hands on a set, from Make The Day Special, and today I inked up the main image from this set. For colour inspiration I've used this weeks colour palette from colourQ, and for sketchy inspiration I have used the sketch from Just Us Girls.






And here's my take:




The set I have used is Gerbera Daisies, and I coloured this image using Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I cut the image using the out of the box technique and large circle nesties.


I stiched some beautiful damask patterned yellow paper from Webster's Pages onto some brown Bazill, then cut a green swiss dot embossed card for the centre panel.

I then cut two borders in brown bazill using a PTI die, and layered the image onto a larger brown patterned piece of Webster's Pages paper.



I assembled all together, and added some yellow gingham and button twine for some rustic charm - nothing say Country comfort to me more than a bit of gingham!

Finally added some Tiny Tags and some orange and yellow gems.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

colourQ

Flourishes Timeless Tuesdays

Just Us Girls Challenge

CES Challenge


Supplies Used:

Stamps: Gerbera Daisies - Flourishes; Tiny Tags - Papertrey Ink

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa; Brilliance Sunflower Yellow; Memento Bamboo Leaves;Distress Inks in Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, Tea Dye

Paper: Webster's Pages; Bazzill Brown and Green

Other: Gems from stash; Button Twine and Yellow Gingham Ribbon - The Ribbon Reel; Victorian Lace Border Die , Tiny Tags Die - Papertrey Ink; S4-114 Spellbinders Classic Circles large; Sewing machine, brown thread;

Promarkers: Buttercup, Mustard, Gold, Ginger, Apricot, Pear Green, Moss, Marsh Green, Tea Green, Grey Green, Caramel, Cocoa, Cappuccino Flexmarker, Blender Pen.



Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMSC and a few more!

Hi all, today I have a last minute entry for this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch challenge. I'm very late with this as my mojo has been sadly lacking! Yesterday I received some new papers and ribbons I had ordered from The Ribbon Reel, and I just had to have a tinker! The papers are just gorgeous!

Here's the sketch:




And here's my take:



I have used a white card base, and stitched three panels together with some fawn coloured thread. The top and bottom panels are stamped using the new Hero Arts Newsprint stamp with Old Paper Distress Ink. I then cut them to the size I wanted, and distressed around the edges using Antique Linen and Walnut Stain.

I then cut a panel of the pretty floral paper from my new stack from My Mind Eye Miss Caroline Fiddlesticks range. Again, distressed around the edges, and stitched the panels together. Then I stitched them to a fawn coloured piece of Bazzill.



For the focal point, I gold embossed two WMS frames onto a piece of the newsprint card, and finished with a sentiment also from WMS and a couple of pearls.

I then wrapped some beautiful crochet lace around the panels, and added some Chalk White Seam Binding to the base panel before adhering to the card. I then topped the labels with some cherry blossoms and some little leaves, all from The Ribbon Reel.


Supplies Used:

Stamps: Ovals classic Frames, Victorian Frippery - Waltzingmouse Stamps; Newspaper Background - Hero Arts

Inks: Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, Old Paper - Ranger Distress Inks; Versamark

Ribbons: Chalk White Seam Binding, Cream Floral Crochet Lace - The Ribbon Reel

Other: Dark Blue Cherry Blossoms; MME Miss Caroline Fiddlesticks Paper Stack; 25mm Oval Leaves Green - All from The Ribbon reel


I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge

The Shabby Tearoom

Papercrafting Journey

Top Tip Tuesday



Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Charisma Cardz 8 - Masking and 3 Stamps

Hi all, today's new challenge from Charisma Cardz is one to get us all thinking - Use 3 stamps and use some masking somewhere on your creation!



Pink Cat Studios are one of our sponsors this week, and the D.T were lucky to be given some images to paly with. I chose these two sweet party style digi stamps, and coloured them with Promarkers.

The sentiment stamp is from Wild Rose Studio, and the masked trees are by Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Our sponsors this week are :

Simon Says Stamp


Pink Cat Studio


I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Party Time Tuesdays

Simon Says Stamp Challenge

Card Crafters Circle



Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU #61 - Things With Wings

Hi all, this morning brings us another challenge from DYSU, and this week would like to see...


Things with Wings on your projects!

The D.T. were lucky to have been given some images to play with from our generous sponsors, and I have used Butterfly and Blossoms Digi from Paper Pretties.



I printed the digi onto some Neenah Classic Crest White card, coloured with Promarkers, and cut with a Nestabilities label 10. I then took the same die, and traced around the outer edge with pencil onto some Admiral Blue Core'dinations card, and hand cut the mat.



I then cut a larger mat to fit a white petal point card base, and layered some patterned paper from Kaisercraft, wrapped some pale blue satin ribbon around the middle, and topped with a die cut border using a PTI die.


After adhering the label to the mat base, I attached some paper roses topped with stickles.
The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps, finished off with some yellow flat back pearls.



Here are the sponsors for this week:


Paper Pretties


Copic Marker Scrapbooking

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Butterfly and Blossoms Digi Stamp - Paper pretties; Bountiful Baskets Additions - Waltzingmouse Stamps

Ink: Memento Paris Dusk

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest - Crafter's companion; Core'dinations Admiral Blue; Kaisercraft Esperance Ocean Tide

Other: Nestabilities Labels 10 S5-O22; Nestabilities Classic Ovals Small S4-112; Paper Roses from stash; Pale blue satin ribbon - The Ribbon Reel; Yellow Flat Back Pearls; Leafy Border Die - Papertrey Ink; Bird and Leaf Punch - Stampin' Up!; Petalpoint Card Base - Craftwork Cards


I am entering this into the following challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations

Flutterby Wednesdays

Party Time Tuesdays

Card Crafter's Circle

Simon Says Stamp Challenge

Creative Inspirations


Do stop by the rest of the D.T for some wonderful inspiration this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline