12 Tags of 2015 May

Hello everyone,

just a quick post of my version of Tim's tag:

You can find Tim Holtz version and instructions HERE

I followed instructions and used as many products from it as I had and came up with that...hope you like it.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

06-01-2015 UPDATE

I WON I WON I WON!!!

This is so exciting!!!

Guest Designer at Scrapping 4 Fun Challenges #43 "Wedding"

Hello everyone,

It is my pleasure to announce my Guest Designer appearance at Scrapping 4 Fun Challenges. I was very happy when Rachelle invited me to be their guest for this challenge, with the theme of Wedding. You can see the inspiration photo for this challenge at the end of my post. I was inspired by denim.

Here is what I created for the challenge:

I have to give credit to one and only Dorota for the dress inspiration.

I used a piece of foam padding and diamond-like brads to create that denim cushion for my background. I added some embroidered ribbon all around...

As you can see there are so many different layers to this dress and the top was created from cardstock covered with cotton ribbon and tiny bling...

One more look from the side...

Here is the inspiration photo:

I would like to enter this card into following challenges:

Scrapmagic Contrasts #8

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

We Love To Create Challenge #11 Anything Goes

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by...

Happy Birthday Kirsty!

Hello everyone,

I made a Birthday Card for Kirsty Vittetoe, founder of City Crafter Challenge Blog who graciously invited me earlier this year to be part of that fantastic DT.

I loved so much the theme from another challenge blog that I was a Guest Designer at, that I decided to make another card with a crown :) And it actually fits the theme perfectly since today Kirsty is a Birthday Queen!

I hope that Kirsty already got this card in the mail and that she likes it :)

Happy Birthday Kirsty!!!

I would like to enter this card into following challenges:

Through The Craftroom Door Challenge Anything Goes

Seize The Birthday Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes

I hope you enjoyed this post...

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Guest Designer at Try it on Tuesday "Crowning Glory" Challenge

Hello everyone,

I am thrilled to announce my guest designer appearance at Try It On Tuesday Challenge blog for their "Crowning Glory" challenge!!! The theme is absolutely fantastic:Add a crown to your project. I truly hope you'll join the fun and this is what I made for this occasion:

I created canvas-like base for my card out of cardboard, scrunched up tissue paper, gesso and texture paste applied through the Finnabair stencil. The crown is my focal point and is made with several layers of heavy cardstock glued together to give it extra sturdiness. The crown is a Cricut Sophisticated Cartridge cutout covered with Clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter.

I added bunch of handmade flowers to my arrangement. Flowers were made out of tissue paper, lately my go to material when it comes to making flowers, it just gives them such soft and airy look, love it, hope you do to :)

...and a shabby bow hand-died with Dusty Concord Distress Ink...

I would like to thank Avril for inviting me to join this beautiful challenge as a Guest Designer, it is my great honor to be part of it with such talented Design Team!!! Please stop by and check out the DT inspiration.

I would like to enter this card into following challenges:
Tea With Cinnamon Scrapbooking Challenge "MonoChrome"

Beyond Grey Challenge Make Your Own Embellishments

Creative Craft Cottage #40 Add a Bow

That Craft Place "Shabby Chic" (my favorite style of crafting!!! YAY)

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

06/07/2015 UPDATE

I am happy to announce that this card was one of Top 3 at Creative Craft Cottage :)

07/17/15 UPDATE

YAY!! I made Top 3 at BGC Make Your Own Embellishments! Thank You!!!

City Crafter Challenge Blog #263 "Sequins"

Hello,

It is time for a brand new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog and our host is Stella who chose sequins as our theme.

Here is my card with sequins:

I liked so much theme from our challenge couple of weeks ago, focus on flowers, that I carried it over into this card too :) I added sequins to the centers of the flowers :)

I created my background using texture paste and brick stencil and then inked it with Faded Jeans DI.

I wanted this card to look vibrant so I used bright yellow cardstock for my base..

One more look...

Our guest designer this week is Fuchsia Crafts, please stop by to say hi as well as to check out my teammies creations.

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Flower Pot Card

Hello everyone,

I'd like to share with you my latest creation:

The flower post is a Cricut Art Nouveau Cartridge cutout...

The flowers are Spellbinders Flower Diecuts inked with Milled Lavender DI.

Back of the card...

I would like to enter this card into following challenges:

613 Avenue Created "Anything Goes"

Card and Scrap Challenge #97 Flowers

Crafty Cardmakers #139 Shaped Card

The Shabby Tea Room #252 Fun Blooms

The Sisterhood of Crafters Celebrating Moms

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #262 Inky-nes"S"

Hello everyone,

It is time for a new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog and our host is Ros who would like to see project with one or more of these techniques:
Smooching
Stenciling
Splattering
Sponging

To give some inspiration she chose this photo:

Source

I used stenciling, splattering and sponging in my creation:

I used a piece of cardboard covered with scrunched up tissue paper as my base. I covered everything with gesso and then applied texture paste through bricked stencil. Once that was dry, I sponged multiple colors of distress paint all over the card and splattered some white paint in a bottom corner.

I added bunch of different embellishments and made it look like a modern canvas.

All the flowers were handmade...

One more look from different angle...

Our guest designer this week is Agnieszka Kuszaj. Please stop by her blog to check out her amazing work!!! She is very talented!
Also please stop by my team mates blogs to see what they created for this challenge. I truly hope you will join us for this challenge.
I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Vintage White Wedding Card

Hello everyone,

First of all I would like to welcome my new followers and thank my old ones for continued support! I truly appreciate you all!

Just a very quick post of my latest creation:

I used tulle, several layers of cardstock and lace and bunch of flowers and other embellishments...

All flowers were handmade by me. Recently I got very much hooked on making flowers out of tissue paper. The flowers look so soft and airy and they are perfect fit for my style of cardmaking...You'll see them in several of my future posts, but since they are combined with other embellishments and designs, I hope you won't get bored seeing them over and over...

The sentiment was printed on a piece of vellum and die cut using Spellbinders Fancy Tag die...

I am entering this card into following challenges:

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with optional twist Let's Celebrate

The ABC Challenge J is for Jewels (I added pearls)

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #103 Flowers

Scrap & Craft Inspiration Challenge #8 Lace and Pearls

Vintage Utfordring #102 Wedding/Confirmation (I chose wedding)

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

05/19/2015 UPDATE

I announce with great pride and joy that my card was selected as one of the Top3 at Deep Ocean Challenge 

05/20/2015 UPDATE

I am so happy to announce that my card was one of the Top 3 at  Scrap & Craft Inspiration Challenge #8 Lace and Pearls

06-10-2015 UPDATE

I am ecstatic to announce that my card was one of the Top 3  Vintage Utfordring #102

City Crafter Challeng Blog Week #261 Focus on Flower(s)

Hello everyone,

it is time for a brand new challenge over at City Crafter Challenge Blog
Our host is Kirsty and she wants to see a project that has focus on flowers or a flower. To help you with inspiration, she chose this photo:

And here is what I created:

As you can tell, I was very inspired by this photo :)

Since I did not have any giant yellow buttons or pearls I decided to use hot glue and glitter to create centers of the flowers. I just put some hot glue in the center and immediately sprinkled it with yellow glitter and voila, there was my flower center :)

For the background I used a piece of green cardstock, added damask stencil texture paste, when it was dry I painted it with Peeled Paint and Mowed Lawn Distress Paints. I added some leaf branch diecuts colored with distress inks.

Some of the flowers were mounted on foam adhesive to give some extra dimension...

Guest designer this week is Jenelle, please stop by her beautiful blog to check out her amazing work!
Also please stop by my teammies blogs and check out what they made for this challenge :) I hope you can join our challenge this week!

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Abandoned Coral Butterfly Card

Hello everyone,
Just a quick post of my latest creation:

I created my own canvas using a piece of cardboard...I covered it with scrunched up tissue paper, then applied texture paste through Tim Holtz Bricked Stencil and when all was dry I covered it with gesso. Then I applied Abandoned Coral Distress Ink to raised brick parts and edges of my "canvas" and then applied some more gesso to dull down the bright color since I did not want it to take away the attention from the big butterfly...

I cut out two butterflies and heat embossed them using white embossing powder and Tim Holtz script stamp. Then I dabbed Abandoned Coral Distress Ink over the entire butterfly and added some extra ink to the edges... I created it's body with a clock handle and a metal clock gear.

I used the same ink to die seam binding ribbon to create the shabby bow. Bow was embellished with Tim Holtz Typed Token and the sentiment is a Tim Holtz Word Band.

I am entering this card into following challenges:

A Vintage Journey Spring Colors

Just Us Girls #292 Embossing

The Mixed Media Card Challenge #11 Wings

Shopping Our Stash #200 Big, Bold & Beautiful

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Don't Abandon The Coral

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...


06/01/2015 UPDATE

I am thrilled to announce that my card was selected by DT Julia and Sanna as the highlight!!!

Thank you so very kindly!!!