'Hostess with the Most-est'... well I try.

Hello my friends.

Our Creative Corner  (My Challenge)

Indeed I would love to be the Hostess with the Most-est, but the competition is arduous in this  virtual environment of card making, and the talent that is on my OCC team alone is nonpareil.

I have been waiting in the wings since February for my turn to contribute and set a Challenge.

I am so excited, not least in the fact that I can choose the genre! And no surprise to many of you I chose:

 

"A Little Shabby Chic"

Most of you will have seen my Shabby side, and some will have seen my CAS side, I can tell you with unmitigated confidence that I entertain the former with absolute delight, as opposed to feeling handicapped with the latter.

For your delight then and inspiration here is my Shabby card.

First:

The beautiful elements; I love these glass drop beads hanging from my delicate dyed ribbon, where I have also added a pearl button.

Next:

The flower, I make my Roses from my own paper that I paint up in water-colours, using the TH Tattered Florals die-cut.

Now add and add--- organza, lace, pearls, burlap and leaves, anything to create texture and dimension. 

Create a tactile environment on your project.

Look at all my different fibres I have going on, the spray is busy and engaging, the soft fragile palette of the delicate pastels; a mix of both warm and cool colours, are the easiest of all the palettes to combine, and always blend beautifully.

And again another look at the finished card, where you can pick up the embossed Bg which has been painted in metallic gold and sanded down a little, then popped up for dimension.

Some of my stitching on another layer, which has some stamping haphazardly placed.

Then choose your card, I went with a soft Pink shaped card.

And to complete, finish off the inside as well.

'Have some fun with this'.

Now it is your turn, I hope this card is inspiring for you to enter this week at OCC and provide me with utter JOY of seeing your projects, I am so eager to see what you create.

My fellow teamies have some wonderful examples as well so pop over HERE, and you will see them all.

Have a most enjoyable week.

Smiles:)

Sue

A Magic Set of little girls.

Hello my Friends

Last week I made 4 little cards from the Nicecrane Collage Sheet  named 'Little Magic Girls'.

I have a little bit of Magic in my life; Precious (grand-daughter) Scarlett, who informs me that she is now 'half of three' in age!!!!

She has been a little poorly with Chicken Pox and I thought I would cheer her up by making her these gorgeous cards to give to her friends for their birthdays.

I made 4 scalloped cards on my cricut.

 I die-cut 2 'blossom' shapes from Spell-Binders;

One using painted card stock and the other for the images.

The Bg Patterned Paper is Prima; 'meadow lark collection.' 

Now sit back and scroll down and enjoy the close-ups.

My butterflys are from the Martha Stewart border punch, painted up and Kindy glitz applied, all little girls like a bit of glitter, and Precious is no exception.

I used Parchment and fussy-cut the wings,  and popped them up for some dimension, it creates movement that will be totally lost on this age group, but I had to do it to satisfy my own artistic expression.

This looks sickly Green  but it is actually Yellow!

And horror of horrors I have just noticed the writing is upside down!

Oh well.....

 You can find the Collage sheets and many more here.

Thank you for your visit, I really enjoy your feed back.

Smiles:)

Sue