…thou hast brought me many flowers…

Wednesday means only one thing, a new sketch over at the Outlawz and my card today features the lovely Iris image from this month’s fabby sponsor, Oak Pond Creations.

 

And here’s this week’s sketch.

I’ve fallen out of the habit of playing along at Through the Purple Haze so before I sat down to make my card I headed over there to check out their current challenge.  It is to use an inspirational image, quite a different image it is too!  Between the feathers and the colours I kept thinking shabby chic, a style that really suited this sketch too.  I picked up the purples, pinks and blues from the inspiration image in my papers and embellies and the slight green tinges in my scrap of ribbon.

The sketch was a great one for layering up my papers and I do love to use various patterned papers on my cards, love the extra weight and thickness they give to the card.  I’ve got three on this one so I’m also entering my card in the current challenge over at Craft Your Passion.

Corrosive Challenges are running a theme of “B” Unique looking for three things starting with the letter ‘b’; I’ve got some lovely blooms (both embellies and the image), some sparkly bling and a beautiful butterfly.  So I’m entering my card in the challenge.

This really is an awesome sketch to let your creativity shine through and I loved playing with it.  So hope you will come join us over at the Outlawz with your take on the sketch.

Ingredients:

Copics

B28, B63, B66, BV29, G07, G28, G43, G46, Y15

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby Blue

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ 5x7 Matting Basics

Embellishments

Bling Swirl from stash

Delish Designs ~ Ribbon Threader

Green Tara ~ Velvet Leaves Burgundy

Mulberry & Paper Flowers from stash

Petaloo Penny Lane Garden Collection ~ Forget Me Nots Soft Lavender

Petaloo Textured Elements ~ Burlap Blossoms Teal (Butterfly)

Prima Flowers ~ Prelude Summer Mix

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye

Papers

Cardstock from stash

Maja Design Vintage Autumn Basics ~ No 5

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics ~ 6th of May & 10th of March

Ribbons & Trims etc

Hug Snug ~ Seam Binding Ribbon Cream (dyed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Iced Spruce)

Stamps

Oak Pond Creations ~ Iris

Challenges

Corrosive Challenge #206 ~ “B” Unique (three b items)

Craft Your Passion #226 ~ Use at Least 3 Patterned Papers

Through the Purple Haze #55 ~ Photo inspiration

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...who enchant all who come near them

There’s a brand new Simply B Stamps’ Fan Page challenge with a new set of gorgeous mermaid images, my first card features the beautiful Sheri Mermaid.

The theme for this image is to use twine so I’ve used some baker’s twine to make my own fishing net.  Not sure how good I’d be at fishing with it but once you get in the rhythm it is actually quite quick and fun to make.

I thought I’d stick with making my own embellies as I wanted some shabby, sea foamy type flowers and I didn’t have any in my stash so I got some cheese cloth and my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals dies and set to work.  The cheese cloth didn’t stand up all that well to being spritzed after I die cut, maybe I should have done that step first but as I wanted shabby flowers the fact you can’t really see the Tattered Floral shape properly doesn’t matter so much.  I used some berries for the stamens and tied the whole lot together with some more twine.  I like how they turned out, I think they suit my shabby chic seaside theme well.  Rather than add leaves I’ve made up some crinkle ribbon in a seaweedy green, I love colouring my own seam binding ribbon as you can get the exact colour you need and it seems to work with both Distress Inks and my Various Inks.  As I have both handmade flowers and hand dyed ribbon on this I am entering it in the current challenge at Our Creative Corner.

I tried to get the background to also have a fishing net look with my new Kite stencil but I suck with stencils, worse even than stamping!  I think I need some way to hold the stencil down flat, it probably didn’t help that I distressed my edges first.  I used modeling paste and spritzed with a Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabio and although you can’t see the fish net pattern it does look water like and suits my theme.

I managed to print the sentiment that comes with the image perfectly on a journaling card from the Prima Seashore collection and then distressed it and rolled up the corner to make it look like an old parchment.  I also fussy cut the anchor printed on it to tie in with the anchor charm in the opposite corner.  It’s hard to see (OK, pretty much impossible to see) in the photo but I’ve used Twinkling H2O’s on Mermaid Sheri’s tale, I think I have to get more of them, it looks lovely in real life.

With all my shabby chic elements this fits right in with the Live & Love Crafts’ style and their current challenge is for ‘by the sea’ projects.  Lots of blues, water and sea bits and pieces on my card so I am linking it up over there.  I am also entering my card in the cool water themed challenge over at Frilly and Funkie.

There are three other beauties in this new release, hop on over to the SBS blog to check them out and all the details of the challenges.  The rest of the SBS DT have done awesome things with these images too so please go check their blogs out, you can find links at the bottom of the post or from the SBS blog.  Oh and be sure to come back soon as I will have another two mermaids swimming onto my blog in a just a few minutes.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E35, 0

Lips R24, R29, R89

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Top and Tail BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09

Hair Decoration G21, G24, G46

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Marine

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Kite Stencil ~ Fish Net

Tim Holtz Alterations ~ Tattered Florals

Embellishments

Live & Love Crafts Decoration Berries ~ White

Live & Love Crafts Charms ~ Anchor with Chain

Inks & Paints etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabio ~ Tweedle Dee Denim

Smooch Spritz ~Electric Blue & Sea Kissed

Spica ~ Olive

Teresa Collins Basically Essential ~ Modeling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Faded Jeans, Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Twinkling H2Os ~ African Jade

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Faded Jeans

Maja Vintage Spring Basics ~ 3rd of April

Prima Seashore ~ Memories, Postage, Seahorse & Shell Shock

Ribbons & Trims etc

Cheese Cloth from stash

Hug Snug Seam Binding Ribbon ~ Chalk White (dyed and crinkled with G94 Various Inks)

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Sheri Mermaid

Challenges

Frilly and Funky ~ Cool water

Live and Love Crafts #25 ~ By the Sea

Our Creative Corner ~ Homemade Flowers and Hand Dyed Ribbon

Blog List

Celina

Corinne

Irene

Kay

Lisa H

Lisa N

Louise

Rebecca

Tanja
Sheri 
Bettina

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…bow or brooch or braid or brace…

This is my final project featuring one of the new Birthday Betty Boos from Simply B Stamps, this one is the Elegant Birthday Portrait but this time the version without a frame.

Another pic of the top of the box. 

I’ve placed here on an altered Graphic 45 Book Box that I have made into a shabby chic jewellery box as a gift for a friend at work.  I wanted to frame my image in a more dramatic way than with a printed border and the lovely oval one Betty drew is way too hard to fussy cut so I wasn’t going to give myself the angst of decoupaging it, particularly as I was rather time poor for this project.  Luckily I had already decorated my chippie frame for an earlier project I ended up not using it on.  And, of course, being shabby chic and a jewellery box I had to add lots and lots of flowers.  With both of these elements I am entering this in the current challenge at I Am Roses.

Now between my very elegant image with her pearls and updo and my distressed shabby chic elements I think this is very much in the vintage style so I am also entering it in the current challenge at Rhedd & Rosie’s.  As I’ve altered something (the book box) I am also linking it up at Altered Eclectics where their theme is always anything goes.

If you’re looking for the next stop on the Simply B Stamps’ 4th birthday blog head on over to the wonderful Rebecca’s blog or if you’ve just come stumbled on here then go to the SBS blog to start from the beginning as the DT girls have some gorgeous projects with these awesome images.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E31, E35

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit T4, T6, T8, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Ochre

Embellishments

Chipboard Frame

I Am Roses ~ Cherry Blossoms White (BP/S3-151), Mini Mulberry Roses Soft Pink Variegated (R2-518), Small White Paper Flowers (S10-15)

Vintage Pearl Pins ~ Capped Teardrops & Crown Teardrops (coloured with RV63 Various Inks)

Inks & Paints etc

Claudine Hellmuth Studio ~ Gesso

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Vintage Photo

Papers

Pion Design Fairytale of Spring ~ Signs of Spring

Pion Design Studio of Memories ~ Pink Ornament

Ribbons & Trims etc

Hug Snug Seam Binding Ribbon ~ Chalk White (dyed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tattered Rose)

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Elegant Birthday Portrait

Challenges

Altered Eclectics ~ June anything goes

I Am Roses ~ Frames (Alter a frame or include a frame in your project)

Rhedd & Rosie’s #34 ~ “Back in Time,Vintage Style”

Blog Hop List 

SBS

Corinne 
Celina 
Irene 
Emily (me) 
Rebecca
Tanja
Kay
Louise
Lisa H

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