Sukhāsana

A friend at work is having a birthday and when I saw the lovely Yoga Pose Juno from Paola’s Papers I instantly thought of her so it seemed fitting to make a card for her featuring this image.

I wanted it to look like Juno was almost floating in the air so I’ve placed her on some clear plastic and framed that with a Nestie.  To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 twice as I’ve made an easel card.  On the top part of my card I omitted the rectangular element, basically to give me the clear background and the floating effect.  On the bottom part of the card I flipped the sketch so the rectangular and oval elements were in a landscape rather than portrait orientation.  On both the top and bottom I added a second embellie to give some balance and mostly to fill the extra space I had on the top from moving the oval element high enough to create the floating effect.

I was umming and ahhing about the colours to do this, I hadn’t coloured up Juno’s outfit before I started the card base (something quite unusual for me) but luckily Deep Ocean is having a colour challenge and it is brown and blue (hopefully obvious from my card).  These seemed the perfect colours for the serene feel I was going for so I raided my paper stash and found some lovely subtly patterned blues and browns.

I did want to make this just that little bit more special so I figured some bling to help fill the space on the top half was called for.  Fortunately I had some Chocolate Jewels in my stash that fit perfectly.  With my bit of bling I am also entering this in the current challenge at Crafting Musketeers.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B23, B24, B37, B39, B41

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Decorative Ovals

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Chocolate

Kaisercraft Rub-ons ~ Enchanted Garden

The Paper Studio Spare Parts ~ Printed Kraft Flowers

Petaloo Darjeeling Printed Collection ~ Wild Blossoms Soft Grey

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Sky Blue

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Vintage Photo & Weathered Wood

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Java & Typhon

Bazzill ~ Clear Plastic Paper

Lili of the Valley ~ Country Gent & Country Lady

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics ~ 5th of April & 6th of April

Ribbons & Trims etc

BoBunny Lace ~ Natural Earth

Live and Love Crafts Lace ~ Pastello Blue

Stamps

Paola’s Papers ~ Yoga Pose Juno

Challenges

Crafting Musketeers #20 ~ “Use Bling”

Deep Ocean #92 ~ “Blue and Brown”

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 ~ Sketch #36

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Waiting in anticipation

I’ve got another single layout from the baby book I am making to share today, this one is the first page.

I’ve kept the papers and the embellies the same as the inside cover as they open up to a double page.  This page is for pictures before baby arrives and I’ve added interest with my Foto Folder, which is where the photos go.

With all the lovely dots (don’t pink dots just say little girl so perfectly?) I am entering this page in the current challenge over at SimonSays Stamp Wednesday challenge.  I’ve got loads of layers on this as well as insde the folder so I am also entering my layout at Deep Ocean’s current challenge.

For the inside I’ve followed the current sketch over at Retrosketches.  Their sketches are more geared toward cards but I thought it suited the space I had and the sort of layout I wanted to do.  I just swapped out the circle for a larger oval as I wanted space for a full length photo of the mother-to-be with her belly.  Not sure an ultrasound photo will fit in a vertical oval, might need to turn the book to see that photo properly but that is what I am envisaging on the right-hand side.

Stayed tuned for more pages in this baby book, four more to be precise.  If you’re interested you can see the cover here (took me ages as this is a Tim Holtz Collection Folio so there’s lots of space to decorate!), the last page at this post, and a double layout here.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Papertrey Ink ~ Notched Star Banner

Wild Rose Studio ~ Oval Frame

Embellishments

Freckled Fawn ~ Resin and Metal Flowers & Sequined Bow

Kaisercraft Pearl Strip ~ Pink Champagne

Kaisercraft Stickers ~ Pitter Patter Girl

Jesse James Dress It Up Button ~ New Arrival Girl

Petaloo Darjeeling ~ Wild Mini Blossoms Pink

Petaloo Penny Lane ~ Forget Me Nots Soft Pink

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dried Marigold, Pumice Stone & Tea Dye

Papers

Carta Bella Baby Mine ~ Baby Floral

Heidi Swapp Foto Folder ~ Pink

Kaisercraft Pitter Patter ~ Bundle of Joy

Maja Design Vintage Autumn Basics ~ No 2

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics ~ 9th of March

Pion Design Fairytale of Spring ~ Pink Dot

Riddersholm Design Huntington Garden ~ Tea Room

Ribbons & Trims etc

Live & Love Crafts Lace ~ Pastello Pink & Scalloped Rose Pennant Edge

Challenges

Deep Ocean #82 ~ “Lot of Layers”

Retrosketches #124

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday ~ Spots and dots

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…the oyster’s autobiography

Have you seen the Tuesday Solos over at Simply B Stamps?  If not this beauty is sure to tempt you to go look, she is Octopearl Betty.

Now I’ve cropped her down to work with the sketch I followed from Sketch n’ Dies, which was just perfect for showing Octopearl Betty off and also allowed for the sentiment, which comes with the images, to be framed just so.  For the frames I’ve used my Nesties, I also used them to cut around both the image and sentiment before distressing the circles.  With all my distressing I’m entering this over at Make My Monday for their current challenge.

There’s loads of distressing and shabby chic goodness on this project so I’m also entering it in the current Inky Chicks’ challenge.  Showcasing this beauty from the deep with her precious pearl I had to embellish with some pearls and I couldn’t go past some lush lace also.  I coloured up the latter with my Copic Various Inks to match the purple and blue colour scheme.  The current challenge over at Fussy and Fancy is for both pearls and lace so I’m linking this up there.

Being a shabby chic project I couldn’t help but get out my sewing machine to stitch my layers together.  Unfortunately I was a bit wonky with my second row of stitching so to help hide the fault I’ve Fran-taged over the stitched lines a bit but you can still see the stitching (real) so I’m also entering this at Deep Ocean.

Now I’m sure you can see this isn’t a card at all but a box.  It actually started life as a biscuit box which I’ve decorated up to fill with crafting goodies for a gift.  I think it turned out looking beautiful and I love the shape of the box and the slightly rough texture to it.  Nothing better than turning a bit of trash into a treasure and I’m entering my altered biscuit box in the current challenge at Altered Eclectics.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes B91, B95, 0

Lips RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99

Hair V91, V93, V95, RV99

Dress BV02, BV04, BV13, BV17

Oyster BV20, BV23, BV25

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Chunky White, Shabby Blue & Shabby White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Circles, Grand Stately Circles, Standard Circles & Stately Circles

Embellishments

Flourish with a Bling Pearls ~ Pearl

Mulberry Flowers from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Picket Fence

Papers

Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love ~ Calla of Paris, Vintage Plum & Vintage Turquoise

Studio 75 Special Moments ~ 03

Ribbons & Trims etc

FabScraps Bead Ribbon ~ Pearl
Lace from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Octopearl Betty

Challenges

Altered Eclectics ~ April Challenge

Deep Ocean # 76 ~ “Stitching True or False”

Fussy and Fancy #112 ~ Pearls and Lace

Inky Chicks #27 ~ Shabby Chic

Make My Monday ~ Distress It!

Sketch n’ Dies #5

 

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Devilishly Good Fun

Today I’ve got a cute tag to share featuring Rio Devil from Simply B Stamps’ Emo Halloween collection.

This is another image that was fun to colour but diabolical to fussy cut! With such an awesome image I didn't want too busy a layout or background to overshadow it so the sketch at Feeling Sketchy was perfect.  I had to use what was in my stash (still travelling and no where a craft shop) so the Prima paper I had with flying bats not only suited my theme but also worked for the circles in the layout.

The whole tag was made from things in my stash and as its also got a lot of orange and black and is for Halloween I'm also entering it in the current Shopping Our Stash challenge.  And with my button for my sentiment I’m also linking it at Deep Ocean’s current challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E11, E21, E50, E51, (R02 cheeks)

Eyes E35, E37, 0

Lip R46

Hair T3, T5, T7, 100

Outfit R24, R29, R46, R59, Y15, Y17, Y19, YR14, YR16, YR68

Boots N4, N6, N8, 100

Pitchfork Y26, Y28

Embellishments

Jesse James Dress It Up Button – Trick or Treat

Papers

Prima Marketing Little Boo – Creatures of the Night

Ranger Tag

We R Memory Keepers Black Widow – Happy Halloween

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Rio Devil

Challenges

Deep Ocean Challenge #63 – Button It Up

Feeling Sketchy #72

Shopping Our Stash #124 – Halloween or Orange & Black

 

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