City Crafter Challenge Blog Week#269 "You Are My Sunshine"

Hello everyone,

It is time for a brand new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog and Kirsty is our host this week.
She would like to see alot of YELLOW in our projects and she chose this inspiration photo:

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And here is what I made:

I went with a bee theme as you can see...

I created the background using a piece of cardboard covered with scrunched up tissue paper and layer of texture paste applied through a honeycomb stencil...I used wild honey and spiced marmalade distress ink to get to this rich yellow color...

The bee is an Art Nouveau Cricut cutout decorated with some glitter and rhinestones. The seam binding ribbon was hand died with distress inks and the sentiment was computer generated...

One more peek at the card...

Our guest designer this week is Margaretha, please stop by her fabulous blog and check out her work and check out what my team mates created for this week's challenge...I hope you'll join in the fun.

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

Victorian Tea Party Card

Hello everyone,

Just a real quick post of the card I just made:

I used 7 Dots Studio Soulmates cardstock for my background, what a fantastic set this is and papers are such high quality.

I used Cricut Damask Decor cartridge to cut out my focal embellishment with Tea Pot and the Tea Cup, I inked this assembly with faded jeans distress ink to give it that antique look.

Shabby bow is the seam binding ribbon and I used Prima Say it in Crystals flourishes as my final touches to this card. I hope my coworker will be delighted when she gets it for her birthday :)

I am entering this card into following challenges:

Try it on Tuesday "Tea Cups"

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Coffee or Tea"

Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge #45 Anything Goes

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

07/14/2015 UPDATE

I am thrilled and honored to announce that my card was selected as one of the Top 5 at Try It On Tuesday challenge "Tea Cups" Thank you!!!

Anything But Cute Challenge #3 "Summer Romance"

Hello everyone,

 It is already time for challenge #3 over at Anything But Cute and I am hosting it this month. Here is the mood board to inspire you along with all the creations from our team, including mine :)

I would like to see a project with a love theme, sea/beach theme or both, and it must be strongly inspired by the colors of this mood board.

Here is my project:

I'll show you some steps on how I made this decorative box:

I started off with this chocolate box...

Covered it with several layers of gesso...

Painted it with different shades of turquoise paint...and then I got carried away and did not take the rest of the step by step...

Gypsum starfish painted with white paint to match my mood board and cheesecloth...

Heart cutouts, sentiment and lots of real seashells...

Seahorse is a Cricut cutout hiding in a seashell and starfish arrangement...

I hope you enjoyed this way too long post...and that you will join our challenge at Anything But Cute. Please stop by to check out all the fabulous makes from my team mates as well :)

I would like to enter this project into following challenges:

Beyond Grey Challenges #70 Dimensional Project

Craft for the Craic July challenge Summer Time

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #14 Summer Days

Rhedd's Creative Spirit July Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Summer

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

08/07/2015 UPDATE

I am thrilled to announce that my project won 3rd place at Craft for Craic! Thank you!

01/18/2016 UPDATE

I am thrilled that my creation made top 3 at Beyond Grey Challenge

Rustic Wedding Card

Hello,

just a quick post of my latest creation:

I used cardstock that I have been hoarding for quite some time...I used some lace and handmade rolled flowers embellished with pearls to decorate this card.

The seambinding ribbon was hand died with Seedless Preserve Distress Ink...also the edges of the cardstock and diecut were inked with that same ink...

Spellbinders die was used to create a window for my sentiment...

I am entering this card into following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers and More #141 "Sentiment"

Frilly and Funkie Challenge "Something to Say"

Scrap & Craft Inspiration Challenge#11 "Celebrations"

The Sisterhood of Crafters "Wedding"

613 Avenue Create Challenge #130 Anything Goes with optional twist, use a pearl and or rose (used pearls in the centers of rolled flowers)

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

07/07/2015 UPDATE

I am thrilled to announce that this card won at The Sisterhood of Crafters!!! Thank you!!!

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #268 "Let's Go Nautical"

Hello everyone,

It is time for a brand new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog and I am the host for this week's challenge. I picked this photo inspiration to give you some idea and hopefully the card that I made and makes of my team mates will inspire you to create a nautical themed project and join the fun. :)

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And here is my nautical card:

As you can see, many textures and nautical objects form inspiration photo came to life in my card :)

To antique my cutouts I used clear crackle paint and then inked everything slightly with antique linen ink...

This card has quite a bit of dimension with all the layers of nautical paper and embellishments...

One more peek at the card...

Guest designer this week is Judith, please stop by her blog to check out her fabulous work and say hi :) and also by my team mates blogs to check out their makes for this week's challenge :)

I would like to enter my card into following challenges:

That Craft Place "Layers"

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Summer"

Creative Craft Cottage "Spots or Stripes"

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

Anything But Cute-Spotlight Post "Texture Galore"

Hello everyone,

Here is a sneak-peak of a step by step posted on Anything But Cute explaining the process of creating certain textures...

I hope you'll head on over and check it out...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

12 Tags of 2015 June

Hello everyone,

Just a quick post of my version of Tim's Tag for June. The instructions can be found HERE

I followed instructions using supplies on hand...I substituted stripes stencil with burlap stencil and did not have the loop pin..Also I did not have the cutout for the top of the cup, this diecut came with my order from The Funkie Junkie Boutiquie and Linda always sends a little bag of miscellaneous goodies as a token of appreciation, that is how I got this die. :) I lost the top somehow...

I did not have # stamp so I used another TH stamp...Also I used seam binding ribbon instead of linen ribbon...
I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #267

Hello everyone,

It is time for a new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog and our host is Stella who would like to see a project in blue and green with a splash of red.
Here is the gorgeous inspiration photo:

And here is my card:

I went with mixed media style...

Alot of gesso and distress paints...

...and layer upon layer of embellishments...

Everything was layered on the home made canvas using a piece of a cardboard...

Our guest this week is Liz Carvill. Please check out her fabulous work and also the fabulous makes of my team mates. I hope you'll join the fun at CCCB this week :)

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