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

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And the sweet white brow is all of her

This is my second card featuring one of the new Jude at the Circus images from Simply B Stamps; this one is the adorable Cutie Clown Lily.

This image has to be my favourite from this collection, head on over to the SBS blog and check out all the other images the awesome DT have done up.  The sweet sentiment comes with the image, I just used Photoshop to add the shadow to it and change the font colour to pink.

My card layout is from Fussy and Fancy’s current challenge, loving the layers on this one.  Polkadoodles has a sugar and spice challenge going, with all the fairy flossy colours and the sweet girlie image this card does remind me of the rhyme and all the things little girls are made of.

I remember going to the circus as a child and thinking how magical it all seemed with the women in their sparkly costumes on the trapeze and the animals that did tricks.  It was definitely always an experience full of wonder, not to mention the sweet treat of fairy floss!  So I’m also entering this in the current 7Dots Studio challenge, all of the gorgeous designer papers I’ve used on the card  are from their collections.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin C00, C1, E50, E51, E53, 0 (cheeks R000, R00)

Mouth E02

Hair RV00, RV02, RV04,  RV06, RV09

Outfit RV52, RV63, RV66, RV69, V000, V09, V12, V15, V17, V22, V91, V93, V95

Shoes T4, T6, T8, W3, W5, W7, 100

Fairy Floss E40, E42, RV000, RV00, RV02

Pop Corn E35, N0, N1, R24, R29, R46, Y00, Y21, 0

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Artist Trading Cards & Lacey Circles

Embellishments

Close to my Heart ~ Bitty Pearl

DCWV Charm ~ Sweets

Inks & Paints etc

Smooch ~ Snickerdoodle & Taffy

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tattered Rose

Wink of Stella ~ Clear

Papers

7 Dots Studio Love is in the Air ~ I Must Believe

7 Dots Studio The Queen’s Heart ~ For a Reason, I Wanna Be & Way of Life

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Tattered Rose

Ribbons & Trims

Lace from stash

MarkerPOP! Baker’s Twine ~ Princess Pink

Want2Scrap Pom Pom Ribbon ~ Pink

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Cutie Clown Lily

Challenges

7 Dots Studio ~ Magic & Wonder

Fussy and Fancy #108 ~ A sketch challenge

Polkadoodles #8 ~ Sugar and Spice

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Loved I not his letters full of beauty?

This is my last card featuring the sweet images from Simply B Stamps’ Teen Scene Gods in Love collection and this one showcases Jude Hermes.

The layout follows the current sketch over at Outlawz and, with my simple colour scheme, really let Jude Hermes take centre stage.  I’ve had the wooden heart embellie in my stash for ages and it was the perfect embellie for this card.

This image didn’t come with a sentiment so I took the very appropriate one from the recently released Batty for Rio and transferred it to a piece of black card then used my Picket Fence Distress Marker and some Smooch to colour it.  With my sentiment I am entering this in the current Card Mania challenge.

As always my image was coloured with my trusty Copics so I am also entering this in current challenge at MarkerPOP!

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks E02)

Eyes E23, E27, 0

Mouth R00, R02

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29, E49

Outfit B21, B24, B28, B29, N0, N1, N2, N4

Hearts R24, R29, R46

Mail E40, E42

Satchel E23, E25, E27

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ 5x7 Matting Basics & Classic Squares

Embellishments

Wooden Heart from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Smooch ~ Siren

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Broken China & Picket Fence

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Broken China

Graphic 45Steampunk Spells ~ Patterns & Solids

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Jude Hermes

Simply B Stamps ~ Batty for Rio (sentiment)

Challenges

Outlawz Sketch Challenge

Card Mania #41 ~ Use a Sentiment

MarkerPOP! #37 ~ Anything goes

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Now the holly bears a berry as blood it is red

I am so far behind on my Christmas cards but here is one that I have managed to make featuring the adorable Berry, from Wee Stamps.

This card will be winging its way overseas, if I can ever get to the post office!  What happened to this year I just don’t know but Christmas has snuck up on me worse than last year and there are more things left undone than done.  But at least I can tick one card off my list, one that I think turned out really sweetly.

In making up my card I’ve followed the sketch over at Bearly Mine Challenge and used a couple of their Christmas Traditions digi papers.    The current challenge at Through the Purple Haze is to use your favourite Christmas colours.  When it comes to Christmas I am a real traditionalist so I’ve gone with a red and green colour scheme.

Seeing as I am trying desperately to catch up on my Christmas card making I guess this card fits the current Cute Card Thursday challenge so I’m entering it over there.  It’s certainly the season for Christmas cards and that’s the current theme at Creative Knockouts where I’m also linking this card.  I’ve got lots of sparkly bling so I’m entering it at the current Craftitude challenge and, as I’ve coloured my image up with Copics and it is holiday themed I’m also linking it at MarkerPOP.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks & lips R02)

Hair E29, E35, E37, E49

Outfit, Holly & Berry G21, G24, G28, G46, R24, R29, R46, R59, R89, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Boots E40, E42, E43, 0

Kitten N0, N2, N4, 0

Embellishments

BoBunny Dimensional Stickers – Silver & Gold

BoBunny Petals – Silver & Gold

Gems from stash

Papers

Bearly Mine Designs –Christmas Traditions printed on Christina Re Shimmering Pearl Paper

BoBunny Silver & Gold – Red & Winter

Core’dinations Essentials Cardstock – Classy Reds

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock – Forest Moss

Stamps

Wee Stamps Berry

Challenges

Bearly Mine Challenge #116 – Monthly Sketch

Craftitude #55 – Anything Goes or Christmas Sparkle

Creative Knockouts #15 – ’Tis The Season

Cute Card Thursday #299 – Christmas Catch Up!

MarkerPOP #36 – Happy Holidays
Edit: My card was chosen in the top 3 at MarkerPOP!

Through the Purple Haze #22 – Use your favourite Christmas colours

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