The Ribbon Reel #30

 Hi all, I.m back today with another new challenge from The Ribbon Reel, and this week we have some yummy colours and inspiration for you!

Keilly has set the challenge this week, and is asking that we use the colours from the photo, and some ribbon or lace.

I've made a card using some beautiful papers from Cosmo Cricket, Tea for Two from The Ribbon Reel shop. I covered a square card base with the vintage rose patterned paper, then cut a panel in the stripy pattern, edged with some Sheer Box Pleat ribbon in Red, and added some Prima Alencon 15mm lace, both from The Ribbon Reel Shop.

I then stamped the label, Very Vintage Labels 5 and sentiment, Afternoon Tea Sentiments from Waltzingmouse Stamps, and cut with nesties. The little chipboard tea cup is from the co-ordinating chipboard range Tea for Two by Cosmo Cricket, also from The Ribbon Reel.

I love this coffee coloured lace! I have sprinkled a little glamour dust behind the lace, where the glue strip is, and is very hard to photograph - but it's so sparkly in real life.

Finally I added a cream and pink Tea Rose and a Peppermint Bakers Twine bow, both from The Ribbon Reel, and a couple of red pearls from stash.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Bingo - I have used Pearls, Lace and Glitter

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop -  Lots of layers

Craft Your Passions - anything goes

The Ribbon Girls - Use Ribbon or Lace


We are also very excited to find that our Teamie Debbie Marcinkiewicz has made it to the final 15 in Gallery Idol!! Go Debbie!! Do stop by the Gallery Idol page, and give Debbie some love! All the entrants have a very deserved place, and to get this far out of 2000 entrants I believe is quite an achievement.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

CR84FN 56

 Morning all, today brings us another fresh colour challenge from CR84FN!
This week, we have the wonderful colour combo of Yellow, Grey and Neutral. The photos are courtesy of Style Me Pretty, it's full of pretty pics and inspiration.

I have made a Get Well card for a friend, just to let her know that I'm thinking of her.

I used very Vanilla card stock for the small square, and layered the beautiful Filigree Heart from Serendipity Stamps sent to me by my lovely blog friend Jeanne Jachna. Thank you Jeanne, it really is a beautiful die cut.

I layered the Vanilla card onto some matt textured silver card from Papermania Christmas stack, and
the backing papers are from My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline range Howdy Doody stack. I love these papers!

I added some glamour dust to the cut out bits in the heart, and on the flowers, although it's difficult to see in the pics, it's very sparkly in real life.

The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse stamps Fancy Phrases set.

I stitched around the edges in grey thread, and layered some Pewter silky crush and chevron twill in Champagne, both from The Ribbon Reel.

I layered a white doily from Cheery Lynn designs under the ribbons.

The little spray of flowers are a mix of some small roses from my stash, and a yellow rose and two cream cherry blossoms from The Ribbon Reel. The little leaves are punched using a Woodware punch.

Please stop by the rest of the wonderful D.T for some beautiful inspiration!

Mona

Lisa

Sue

Andrea

Heather

Suzanne
                  Pauline - that's me!
Shannon

Deborah

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Charisma Cardz - Travel

* For my DYSU Post, please Scroll down*

 Morning all, this is my second post for today, my DYSU post is further down.
I'm back with my card for this week's Charisma Cardz Challenge, and this week, the theme has been set by Catherine, of Travel.

So this could be a vehicle or a place you have been to, a scrap page of your travels, or a journey tou would like to make. The possibilities are endless!

I have chosen to make a Father's Day card for my husband - he is an event cyclist, and I have had this bike image for about a year and never used it before (oh the shame!).

It's from Wild Rose Studios, a company I just love, their papers are amazing, and I have rather a lot of their stamps!

I coloured the bike with Promarkers, and cut using a Nestabilities Labels Sml die, and hand cut a mat in Pool Party card, and cut away the corners with a small hole punch, and I was quite pleased with the result.

The sentiment is from Kars, stamped in Tuxedo Black.

The papers are also from Wild Rose Studios, the For Men stack. Finally I added some metallic gems to the sentiment label.

Here are our sponsors for this week:

Simon Says Stamp

$20 voucher 

Pink Cat Studio

5 digis of the winners choice

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU #75 - Paper Piecing

Hi all, I'm back today with a new challenge over at DYSU. This week, we would like to see some Paper Piecing on your creations.

As a memeber of the D.T, we are lucky to have some sponsor images to play with, and I chose this sweet image called Attitude Jessie from Rhoda Design Studio.

 

I paper pieced her using some papers from a Dovecraft paper stack called Tea Party.

I cut her out with Nestabilities Labels 14, and highlighted the embossed edge with a Promarker.

 I used a Martha Stewart edge punch on some stripy paper, and created a backing panel, layering onto some Certainly Celery card, and wrapping some green ribbon and a bow around the middle. 

I added the sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps in Rich Cocoa - this card is for a friend that I have lost touch with, so I thought a sweet 'hello' would be good for this card, especially in that fun font.

Finally, I added some gems for some sparkle.

 I would like to enter the following challenges:


Tuesday Throwdown - Friendship

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes


Top Tip Tuesday - Sparkles Galore


Party Time Tuesdays - Shiny & Sparkly




Here Our sponsors this week: 

Digis Showcased by the D.T 

 $15 Gift Certificate

Winner's Choice of 3 Digis

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMSC 100!

 Happy Monday All! I hope everyone in the U.K is enjoying their Bank Holiday, we have had a lazy day today - I've made a few cards, and the kids have been playing, cooking, and watching some Allo Allo - we got the first series on DVD last week, and I used to watch this programme on a Saturday evening when I was a child - it was very funny then, and is very funny now! The kids find the Picture of the Fallen Madonna with the big Boobies very funny, as kids do, and I have enjoyed watching a bit of nostalgic T.V! "Listen very carefully - I shall say zis only wernce!"

Anyway, I took some time out today to create for one of my favourite challenges - Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge.

The Mischief Makers are celebrating 100 challenges, and are offering a few goodies for the players this week - so get over there and get some mousey makes going on!

Here's the sketch:

And here's my take, for my purposes, I have rotated the sketch 90 degrees:

 

I have used the very sweet Half Pint heroines set for this card, and paper pieced the balloon. This took me a bit longer than anticipated! However, I got there in the end! I used some lovely Cosmo Cricket papers,  Tea For Two and some Spellbinders and Go Create dies.

 

I used some Promarkers to colour the little girl's hair and basket, and layered onto the Go Create die cut labels.

I used a Martha Stewart punch for the yellow rose panel layered onto the grenn patterned panel,before adhering to the card.

 

 

The crochet lace and pleated ribbon are from The Ribbon Reel, as are the cluster of flowers in the corner. I distressed all the edges, and added some gems to the sentiment circle, which is from Compact Sentiments.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Waltzingmouse Sketch challenge

The Pretty Little Ribbon shop

The Ribbon Carousel

Creative inspirations

Card Makin Mamas

Thanks for stopping by, I'm off to catch up on a bit more Rene, Yvette, Herr Flick and Helga nonsense!

Pauline

 

DYSU #74 - Under The Sea




 Good morning all, today brings us another new challenge from DYSU Challenge.
This week we would like to see anything Sea related, mermaids, fish, sea-side, take your pick!

 I have made a card using the sweet images by Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes set. I was inspired by the gorgeous sea scape inspiration pic, and thought I would use my new stamps!

 I cut two pieces of card stock to size, and trimmed with a Martha Stewart double scallop edge punch.
I used Baja Breeze and Island Indigo card by Stampin' Up! to mimic the beautiful colours of the sea in the inspiration pic.

Who could resist this sweet little guy?

I coloured the submarine and the happy chappy with Flexmarkers and a couple of Promarkers and coloured in the bottom of the sea bed with some grey and blue Flexmarkers, before punching with a dotty punch by EK Success.

I added some little fish from the same stamp set, and popped some stickles onto them for some sparkle and sponged some clouds using a little hand drawn cloud template and some pale blue chalk ink.

Here are our generous sponsors for this week:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
* $10 Gift Certificate 




The Stamping Boutique
* Winner’s Choice of 3 Digis



Melonheadz
*
 $15 Gift Certificate
 


Do stop by the rest of the wonderful D.T for some more sea themed inspiration!


I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Party Time Tuesdays

Tuesday throwdown

Stamptacular sunday

Crafty Catz Weekly challenge

Passion For Promarkers

Card Makin' Mamas

One Stop Craft challenge

Simon says Stamp challenge


Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

The Ribbon Reel #29

 Good morning all, today brings us a new challenge over at The Ribbon Reel. This week it's the lovely Helen's turn to choose the theme, and has asked that we create something with a Die-cut/punch, flowers, ribbon/twine and use the colours in the inspiration pic of Coral, Blue and Green.

For my layout inspiration, I have used this week's sketch from Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge.

I have used an easel card base from Craftwork Cards, and some pretty papers from My Mind's Eye, Miss Caroline Howdy Doody stack. I LOVE these papers, especially the lacy motif paper I have used here for the top part of the easel card, so pretty! I need to get some more!

I took my inspiration for my card direct from the pic, and wanted to create a little pot with a big coral flower! I only really could think of one stamp that would fit the bill, and that was Roses in Bloom from Waltzingmouse Stamps!

I have used a die cut Spellbinders heart shape for my focal point rather than a rectangle, and split the sentiment to go inside the base of the easel card.

I ruffled some Sheer Ruffle Edge green ribbon, and wrapped some ivory button twine around it both from The Ribbon Reel, and attached to the top base of the card.

The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps Compact Sentiments.

I created a rolled crochet lace flower using May Arts Watermelon Crochet lace, and added some Celery Loop trim both from The Ribbon Reel.

The beautiful rose image, leaves and cup are from Waltzingmouse Stamps Roses in Bloom and Afternoon Tea Sentiments sets. I coloured the rose, cup and leaves with Promarkers and some of my new Flexmarkers.

I layered the lace flower onto a small doily, and picked out some detail with a peachy Promarker in Oatmeal.

Finally I added some Prima Say it in Crystals, some Craftwork Cards Candi Dots, and some punched flowers.


I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Waltzingmouse sketch Challenge

Party Time Tuesdays - Shabby Chic

Card Makin' Mamas - Punches

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Easel Cards

The City Crafter Challenge

The Ribbon Carousel - Fancy Flowers made out of ribbon/twine

 The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Butterflies & Flowers

Tuesday Throwdown - 3D - I hope my easel card fits this bill!

Passion For Promarkers - Birthday

I Love Promarkers - Die Cuts

Do stop by the rest of the D.T for some peachy inspiration!

Thanks for looking,

Pauline