Swirls and Lace

 Good morning again! I think this weeks challenge at Stamptacular Sunday will be really easy and fun. It's all about swirls and lace!
Our sponsor this week is Meljens Designs and are offering the winner four digis.


For my card I have used 'Jules' from Saturated Canary. 

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The paper is My Mind's Eye Bramble Rose and I used the sketch for this months Live and Love Crafts Challenge. It is a gorgeous sketch and makes for an easy card! I used Vintage Photo to distress the paper edges and Fired Brick to dye my seam binding a light salmon pink which I weaved through the crochet lace from my stash! I also used some paint in a mini mister diluted with water to spray my flower from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

The cream paper flowers I made myself using the paper from the MME pad and the Tattered Florals die from Tim Holtz. I used the smallest flower and put a pearl in the centers to tie in the pearl swirl I have running down the right side. I love the swirl! It is from Close to My Heart. And for an added extra something I have some pearl stamens also from Wild Orchid Crafts sticking out of my flower bunch. 

This sweetie was colored with Copics. I had her hair and skin colored for months and just got around to coloring the rest of her!

Here's a close up of my little flowers!

And here are the Copics I used.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Live and Love Crafts (Sketch)
Bunny Zoe's Crafts (Pearls and Flowers)
Allsorts (Animals)
A Gem of a Challenge (Bow)
CMC (Girly Image)
Paper Creators (Flowers)
Crafty Catz (dies and punches)
Forever Friends (Animals)
Penny's Paper (anything goes)

Thinking of You

It's Sunday again and the challenge over at Stamptacular Sunday is "not just an ordinary card". No flat cards allowed! The sponsor of this challenge is Birdie Brown with the winner getting their choice of three digis! For this challenge I made an easel card, a style which I absolutely love but haven't done lately. I made it for my 89 years young Grandma who just had back surgery (not usually done on someone her age!). It was strange seeing her so helpless and immobile, since she is usually going, going, going! (I swear she can run circles around me), but she is doing really good considering. I made this for her to let her know that even though I don't visit as much as I'd like that I was still thinking of her and wishing her a quick recovery! 

I finally got my "big" Wild Orchid Crafts order last week and had to use some of my new flowers! I also won a challenge over at the Cupcake Craft Challenge a while back and received my beautiful Prima flowers from Crafts U Love and had to use some of those, too!

I used Prima Madeline papers and the image is of course "Whispy" from Saturated Canary colored with Copics. I added some glitter glue to her wings for some added glitz! The way I did the inside allows for my Grandmother to put the card at three different angles depending on what she wants: where I have pictured it, using the pearls as a stop, or using the sentiment frame as a stop.

 I really love this card style and can't wait to see what you all come up with for this "No Flat Card" challenge!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss (things with wings)

Paper Play (Butterflies & Bees or things with wings)

Papertake Weekly (Fireworks-glitter)

Creative Card Crew (fancy folds)

Whimsy Stamps (All things Sparkly)

Fussy and Fancy (Anything goes)

Belle

This card was a problem child! It has beautiful My Mind's Eye Sunshine paper, beautiful Wild Orchid Craft roses and a cute image. I just had a really hard time making it work. I still don't know if it dies. I've just stared at it and fiddled with it for so long today that I think I am used to it. Ya know, a mother's love kinda thing? 

I think my problem is that I wanted it to fit too many challenges! Saturated Canary wanted "B's" (Belle, blooms, butterflies), Cupcake Craft Challenge wanted gold and script (the dp, but I covered most of it, and gold: Eiffel tower stamp), and others wanted Autumn hues which I am not fond of working with (that's why I have the pop of aqua), etc!

I definitely need to get some more WOC flowers, too, and in colors other than white!

Oh, well! Like I said, it's grown on me! I hope it grows on you all, too! And if it hasn't, you need to keep staring at it :)

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

The Paper Shelter (Autumn colors)

Crafty Creations (Around the World- Eiffel tower)

Divas by Design (Lovely Layers)

Simon Says Stamp (Emboss it- on the right "carte postale")

Saturated Canary (B's- Belle, blooms, butterflies)

Papertake Weekly (Shaded of Autumn)

Cupcake Craft Challenges (Gold and Script)

Color Me Creative (Fall Colors)

Just Keep on Creating (anything goes)

Bunny Zoe (Distressing- Vintage photo on the paper edges)

The Crafty Pad (Autumn Hues)