Je suis calme comme on l'est quand on a conscience reproche un rien

There’s a fun new sketch over at Outlawz and I’ve made a vintage inspired card featuring the beautiful Marie Antoinette image from this month’s fabulous sponsor, Aurora Wings.

I just had to go vintage with this gorgeous image, I love Marie Antoinette and Mitzi’s version is just stunning.  I’m entering my card in the current vintage challenge over at Just Inspirational.  Of course being vintage and featuring Marie Antoinette I just had to put some flowers on this.  Lots of them, including some paper ones and some metal ones so I’m also entering it in the current challenge at Craft Horders Anonymous. 

The metal ones have been in my stash for quite some time and were perfect for this especially when I added the pretty pink brads to the centre.  With my brads I am also entering this at Use Your Stuff.  I certainly don’t use my brads enough, these ones came off an unopened packet that has been in my drawer for so long I had forgotten I even had them!  As I also have three metal flowers, three paper flowers and three brands I’m also linking this up at The Crazy Challenge.

Now you can’t have a vintage and shabby card without a lot of layers and I do love layers.  For this one I have three layers of paper, all a bit grungey and shabby.  With those three layers I am entering this over at Stamps & Fun =Creativity.  As I also have an image coloured with markers, my trusty Copics of course, I’m also entering the current MarkerPop! challenge.

I love how this card turned out.  Hope I’ve inspired you to come play along with this week’s sketch, which will be my last for a little while as I take a lovely and long holiday overseas.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes BG000, BG02, 0

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit RV00, RV11, RV32, RV34, RV17, V000, V01, V09, V12, V15, V17

Cupcakes E30, E31, E33, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Chunky White

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Magic Moon Pearls

Embellishments

Flourish with a Bling ~ Grace Swirl Pearl

Kaisercraft Pearl Brads ~ Pink Ice

Live and Love Crafts ~ Decoration Berries Lilac

Metal Flowers from stash

Petaloo Darjeeling ~ Mini Mix Teastained Pink

Prima Flowers ~ Pankita Rose Winter Mix

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Blossom, Gold, Lavender, Lilac & Pink

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tattered Rose, Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Brandy Wine

FabScraps Industrial Chic ~ Concrete Chic 2

Marion Smith Garment District ~ Manhattan

Stamps

Aurora Wings ~ Marie Antoinette

Challenges

Craft Horders Anonymous #15 ~ All the Pretty Flowers

The Crazy Challenge #179 ~ Three of a kind

Just Inspirational ~ Vintage

MarkerPop! #51 ~ Anything Goes with a Marker

Stamps & Fun = Creativity #214 ~ 3 layers of paper

Use Your Stuff #151 ~ Brads

Thanks for stopping by!

Seven, eight, lay them straight

I’ve got another double layout from my baby book to share today, this one features

the sweet Baby Doll Betty from the Baby Teen Scene collection at Simply B Stamps.

Brings back memories of your own little dolly when you were a girl, doesn’t she?  This layout is for recording all of baby’s favourite things so I’ve gone with embellies that are all about toys.  Baby Doll Betty was also therefore the perfect image to fit the page theme.  I made the baby blocks title myself with shrink film.

To make up the layout I followed the sketch over at Sketchy Colours, which I flipped on its side, and where the challenge was also to use white and one other colour.  My other colour is pink although I know there is some purple on the page too, there wasn’t a pink rattle button in the set I used or any other toy button I could use to even up my embellies.  There’s also some brown on the rocking horse button, again there was only one white one in the pack and of course my picture features skin tone and I added in some purple to match up with the embellies.  So I guess I haven’t really nailed the challenge, it was, well, a real challenge finding enough embellies to suit!

I did get the theme right for ABC Challenges as I have a whole string of lovely pink pearls on this page so I am entering this over there.  I am also entering my layout in the current challenge at Just Inspirational as I have the requisite three or more layers.

This is the penultimate layout I have to share, I’ll have the last one done up tomorrow.  If you’re interested you can see the cover of the book at this post, the first page here, the last page here, a double layout at this post, another layout here and another at this post.

Ingredients:

Copics 
Skin E21, E30, E33 (R20 cheeks)

Hair T4, T6, T8, 100

Outfit RV10, RV11, RV32, V000, V01, V12

Dolly E21, E30, RV10, RV11, RV32, V000, V01, V12, 0

Embellishments

Jesse James Dress It Up Buttons ~ Baby Girl, Horse and Buggy Girl & New Arrival Girl

Scrap Fx ~ Toy Christmas Trinkets

Shrink Film Blocks Title

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tattered Rose & Tea Dye

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock ~ White

BoBunny Primrose ~ Dot

Christina Re Cardstock ~ Shimmer Pink

Lacey Paper from stash

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Baby Doll Betty

Challenges

ABC Challenges ~ P is for Pearls

Just Inspirational ~ 3 Layers or more

Sketchy Colors #218 ~ White + one color of your choice and sketch

 

Thanks for stopping by!