The Ribbon Reel #31 - Sweet Sparkles

Morning all, it's Monday, and that means it's another new challenge over at The Ribbon Reel Challenge!

This week, the inspiration has been chosen by the lovely Fran, and would like us to use the colours in the picture, and to use sparkle and add a Heart.

I used a stamp from Woodware, and made a sweet Baby card for a girl.

I stamped in a variety of pink inks four different patterns from Waltzingmouse Stamps. I then stamped the image four times, and selected which pieces from each pattern to use - that took me a while lol, I can never make up my mind!

When i had chosen, i stamped the image onto some plain white card, and stuck the pieces done before cutting with a Spellbinders Labels 18 die.

I stamped the hearts from the same stamp set in the patterns, cut our and arranged along the bottom of my card base.

I added two strips of 10mm Pink Striped Grosgrain, and ruffled over the top of this some Faux Silk in Ivory. Then I layered some pink Loop Trim on top. Finally I added some 6mm Ivory Silk Pearl hearts to the little loop bow and small stamped hearts. To add some sparkle, i added some glamour dust to the hearts and the little flowers on the elephant's back and trunk, and just above the ribbon strip.

Do stop by the rest of the design team for some more beautiful inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

CR84FN #58

 Morning all, well we are almost in the middle of July, unbelievable for us here in the U.K as we have had such grim weather! My welly boots and rain macs (yes I have two!) have never had so much use.
Now I know as a nation us Brits are consumed with thoughts of the weather, but compared to the rest of my family, it has never really bothered me..until this past 6 weeks!! I'm so glad we booked two weeks in the south of France at the start of the school holidays, we all need some warmth and sunshine.

Well what better to boost our rain sodden mood than with a bright and cheery colour challenge from this week's CR84FN. Nothing says summer to me more than a bright bunch of flowers, and Gerbera daisies are one of my favourites.

This week's colour challenge is to use Yellow, Red and a neutral, and as soon as I saw the fab graphic, with pictures from Style Me Pretty.com, I knew exactly which stamp set to use. My Flourishes Gerbera Daisies set, with the beautiful bunch of flowering gerberas was the perfect image for these warm colours.

I used some red gingham papers from stash, and some lovely patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket's Baby Jane stack to create the backing panel. I cut these to size, and used a Fiskars edger punch along one side, then layered these papers onto some bazzill kraft card.

I coloured the beautiful bunch of gerberas with Promarkers, cut out and layered onto a piece of cream card cut with a Spellbinders Rectangle.

I then cut a smaller rectangle, and stamped a greeting from Waltzingmouse Stamps Rescue Remedies Additions, in Tuxedo Black.

I added two flourish accents to the back of this using some kraft card and the little label motif in Spellbinders Persian Accents. I then topped off each flourish with a yellow or neutral rose.

I ran a length of satin pale gold ribbon and some red ric rac over the join of the two DPs, added a little layered butterfly and finished off with a little gold gem in the middle of each gerbera.

Do stop by the rest of the Design Team for some more beautiful inspiration.

Mona

Sue

Andrea

Heather

                  Pauline - that's me!
Shannon

Deborah

And joining us this month as our Guest Designer, Monika Davies!                                                          

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Summer
Tuesday Throwdown - Summer

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMSC, PDCC, & Moxie Fab

 Hi all, today I have a card for a commission for a friend. She has been invited to a renewal of vows ceremony, so it's a wedding but not a wedding! I immediately thought of the fab phrase from Waltzingmouse Stamps Fancy Phrases set, 'Happy Foreverness', and I worked my card around that.

For inspiration I followed this week's Waltzingmouse sketch Challenge, and took the colours from this week's Play Date Cafe. It also fits quite nicely with the Moxie Fab challenge of Congratulations.

My card base is a heavy matt gold card stock, and the patterned paper was created using Waltzingmouse Stamps Text It set, stamped in Old paper Distress Ink, my take on nude!
Then overstamped in Versamark and embossed in gold the flourishes also from WMS Flourishes Scallops and Dots set.

The large label is also from WMS Very Vintage Labels 18, also stamped in Versamark and gold embossed. I stamped the sentiment from Fancy Phrases onto some text stamped card in tuxedo black and cut using a Spellbinders Fancy Frame, and sponged some Antique Linen before removing from the frame. I added a couple of little flourishes from Afternoon Tea Sentiments to the sentiment.

I wrapped some beautiful 'nude' colour lace which was sent to me from my lovely friend Helen for my birthday, it's so pretty, thanks so much! I then wrapped a thin piece of silver ribbon over this and added a little silver bow.

I stamped the fern leaves from Stampin' Up! Growing Green set, and embossed them in silver and hand cut around the tips to create the leaves behind the neutral cherry blossoms, and added a couple of pearly pins.
Finally I added some bling using some Prima Say it in Crystals, they are so sparkly, I love them.

I had some lovely news at the start of this week, I Made Top 3 at The Shabby Tearoom with this card, which also made Top 3 at Creative Inspirations too, thank you so much.

And I was thrilled to find I made CAS-ual Fridays VIP on Friday with this card, again thanks so much ladies.

Well amazingly the sun has made an appearance this afternoon, so the washing is on the line and the windows are open to let the fresh air in - it won't last though, we are forecast more rain tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU #79 - Red

Hi all, today I have a card for the new challenge at DYSU!

This week we would like to see your creations with the predominant colour of...

 This week, I have made a card using some lovely products from The Ribbon Reel, one of our generous sponsors this week.

I needed a quick get well card, so I thought of using some new papers by Cosmo Cricket and a matching sweet tag, both available from the Ribbon Reel.

I cut some red patterned paper from Baby Jane paper stack to size, and matted onto some Bazzill Kraft card. I then cut a central panel in kraft, edged with a Martha Stewart punch.

 Onto this I layered a tag label from Cosmo Cricket Baby Jane Element Deck, and stamped the Get Well greeting from Waltzingmouse Stamps Compact Sentiments-Part Two. I topped off the tag with a Christmas Rose Red Hellebore and Celery Green Loop Trim, all from The Ribbon Reel.

Finally I added a Waltzingmouse Sentiment and some red flat back pearls.

Here are our generous sponsors for this week:

Paper Pretties

* Winner’s Choice of 6 Images

Inspired Stamps

 

*
 $15 Store Credit*

 *£10 Gift Certificate* 

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

WMSC #103

Hi all just getting in under the wire with an entry for this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch challenge.

I have made a card using a variety of WMS stamp sets.

The sentiment is from compact Sentiments Part 2.
The stamped background is from French Country and Nordic Spring.
I stamped and coloured with promarkers a couple of the little flowers from French country, and popped them up on a couple of foam pads.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

DYSU - Clouds & Skies

 Morning all, today I have a card for the new challenge at DYSU, and this week we would like to see you use...

Blue Skies and Clouds in your creations! So you can interpret this as you will, I took my colour inspiration from the picture.

i was given the delightful image from one of our generous sponsors this week, Crafty Sentiments. This image is called Scilla, and I have coloured in using Pro and flexmarkers.

I created the label sentiment using a label punch from Stampin' Up! and the sentiment from Uniko Studios Fontiments Birthday set.

I then created the little flowers using the small punches from Stampin' Up Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, and topped with some Opal pearl drops.

The papers are a combination of Melissa Frances, Pink Paislee and the blue sky paper is unknown from my stash. It has the look of a rather stormy sky, so appropriate for us here in the U.K, being so sodden and windswept right now! To create the clouds I cut two different sized cloud shapes in some scrap card, and used them as a stencil to sponge Stormy Sky Distress Ink around the edges. Then i filled the cloud space with some Glossy Accents, and sprinkled some Glamour dust over them. They are lovely and sparkly in real life.

I cut the image using a Go Create die, and used a Martha Stewart punch on the patterned papers layered onto some peachy seam binding. Finally I added some Glamour dust to her skirt, and the little flowers in her hair for some extra sparkle.

Here are our generous sponsors for this week:

Crafty Sentiments - http://craftysentimentsdesigns.co.uk/

* Winner's Choice of 4 Images

The Paper Shelter - http://www.thepapershelter.com/

* $20 Gift Certificate

Gecko Galz - http://www.geckogalz.com/

* Entire July Collection (The Digital Paper Pack "Great Adventures", 6 different collage sets including Vintage Travels & Wild West dominos, and a digital stamp set "Mermaids Garden" a prize pack worth $30)

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Moving Along with The times - Happy Birthday

Party Time Tuesday - Anything goes

Cardmad Fairy's Digi Days - Girly

I Love Promarkers challenge - Anything goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passions - Things With wings

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

  

The Shabby Tea Room, and a Few Challenges!

 Hi all, I'm here today with a card made inspired by the Shabby tea Room pastelly sweet colours. I saw the graphic, and just had to play along, I just hope my card is 'Shabby' enough!

Here are the super sweet colours to use:

And here's my take:

 I have stamped a lattice background using my new stamps from Uniko Studios, Background Builders - Lattice. Oh they are a dream to stamp with, and I couldn't resist using three of the pattern strips to create my background!

I have used a selection of chalk inks in Versamagic Thatched Straw, Pink Petunia, Pixie Dust and Versacolor Celadon.

I left enough room at the bottom of the card to stamp the wonderful sentiment from Papertrey Inks Harvest Berries set.

I die cut and stamped in Celadon ink the medium leaves from Harvest Berries, and created a little spray with an oversized paper rose and some pale green satin ribbon.

Finally I added some pale green pearls to the bottom of the punched edge card, which is from Craftwork Cards Petalpoint edge range.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room

Crafty Catz - Pastels

Paperplay Challenge - Use a Die

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline