Another Cardmaking Day!

I usually am doing posts these days for DT work and not enough other projects... Today I did a bunch of fun cards as commissions for a few friends and want to share them with you.

These are for one of my friends for all the teachers that help her son!! I used the stamp set again from Paper Wings Productions May Nesting Components kit. Lots of thankfulness here :

I loved how this baby card turned out!

I wanted to try a sponging technique I learned from Inspired by Stamping's Woo Hoo Wednesday 105 tutorial:

My final card is one I did for the Inspired by Stamping Inspiration Challenge #57 

Delightful

So excited to say this was featured at Sketchabilities!!

I used my yummy Scraps of Elegance June kit to make this layout for the Sketchabilities Challenge #93. It is the gorgeous photo I took of my daughter modeling the hair clip I made for the first round of the May Arts Design Team call and I knew I just had to scrap it. I saw Erin Blegen once use a photo in this way, the same photo but in two sizes layered on top of each other...I like the effect!!

Here is the gorgeous sketch I used:

I have also made this for the Prima PPP and would love to enter it into the Stencil and Paste challenge at Scrap Africa.

Sugar Creek Hollow DT Reveal: Mixed Media!!

Oh my goodness I had fun with this one! I used my favorite thing, a vintage image as the focus of the card, used modeling paste a stencil and some mist...random gesso splatters, chipboard lock with microbeads, cheese cloth, metal trinkets, twine, a clothes pin, a beaded stick pin...so much fun stuff!!

I hope you come join us over at Sugar Creek Hollow and have some mixed media fun!

A Glorious Fourth - Couture Creations DT

Cathi here, being a bit confusing!!!  I know, Australia doesn't celebrate the Fourth of July, neither does Ireland, where I live!! But I hope you will humor me for this card, as I am American and grew up in the United States, and sometimes it is nice to be nostalgic!! I just love to use vintage images with my cards, but I wanted to pair them with my Couture Creations embossing folders, dies and pearls to make a red white and blue Fourth of July card!!

I started by using the Couture Creations Fresh and Fun Large Powder Puff embossing folder.  I thought the shapes reminded me of stylized fireworks and was a perfect backdrop for my image. The paper is from the Incandescent range from Paper Temptress and actually has a metallic gold sheen to the red, white, and blue papers, just gorgeous!

I have Scallop Square Nesting Dies, and put two together to make my rectangular shape, hiding the join under the festive ribbon. 

I cut a slit into the card stock with my Couture Creations Craft Knife and threaded the ribbon through so it could lay flat.

To make my rolled flowers I used the Couture Creations Daisy Nesting Die's smallest flower and cut a spiral into each of them, rolling and securing the flower and adding a pearl in the center of my flowers. I used my Couture Creations Premium Non-Stick Scissors to make the cuts.

I used the Endless Dreams Tranquility Decorative Die, which again reminded me of fireworks, to embellish the card.

To put the card together I used 18mm double sided tape to attach the scallop squares to the embossed card base.

I attached the vintage image and sentiment with Couture Creations Foam tape to add dimension. I love this foam tape so much, I don't have much left!! I think I need to put in a request for more soon!! I just love the dimension it gives to cards and layouts!

I tied the bow around the card, added the sentiment and glued the flowers and flourishes into  place.

I would love to enter this in the Inspired by Red White and Blue Challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint!

Couture Creations products used

CO723217 - Daisy Nesting Dies

CO723043 - Scallop Square Nesting Dies

CO723435 Endless Dreams Decorative Die: Tranquility

CO723441 - Fresh and Fun Super Powder Puff Embossing Folder

CO721955 - Premium Non-Stick Scissors

CO721986 - Handheld Essentials: Craft Knife

CO721961 - 12mm Foam Mounting Tape

CO721965 - 18mm Double Sided Tape

CO721997 - Self Adhesive Pearls

Happy...With You - Molossi Chipboard DT

Can I say again how much I love the Molossi chipboard that arrives in my DT package each month. Suzanne and Josh do an amazing job choosing stunning chipboard just perfect for the style of layouts I love to do and I appreciate it so much!

This layout features their Decorative Arch -SMALL chipboard. It is so intricate and worked perfectly with this photo of my husband and I getting married under an arch oh so many years ago (could it be... 18 years this July, wow!!) I piled on the flowers over the arch and added some broken jewelry chain and beads and some gorgeous lace I had in my stash. The paper is from Maja Designs Spring Basics.

The beautiful butterflies are from my scrappy friend Lisa Novogrodski's Etsy shop.

The Couture Creations Jasmine Dream die is a perfect leafy flourish die, I love to cut up the stem into pieces to add leafy accents to a cluster.

I based this layout on a gorgeous sketch at Purple Pumpkin:

My layout took a life of its own, and I ended up using the flowers and lace and distress inks to echo the background of the sketch...I hope you like it!!

I also incorporated this weeks CSI challenge for this layout:

I used all the colors, for the evidence I used lace and flowers and distressed the edge of the 12x12 paper with distress ink...I used jewels aka beads, chain and cameo from a broken necklace, a wood banner and gold. For my testimony I documented our wedding and the fact that we are still laughing together after nearly 20 years knowing each other!

And exciting news I found out today that I made it 

to the second round of the May Arts Design Team!!

http://www.mayarts.com/blog/may-arts-ribbon-2013-14-design-team-call-finalists/

Frosted Design Reveal: Things with Wings and Sketch!

Frosted Designs has a new challenge up and it is called "Things with Wings". There is also a sketch to go along with it. I decided to use it for a card!!



This card uses some Pink Paislee Hope Chest paper also uses vintage images, seam binding, flowers, bling and a stamp from the gorgeous May Paper Wings Production mixed media Nesting Components kit (yes, I got a lot of projects from one kit, lol!! Just one more to come in a few weeks!!)

I am pleased to say that I am on the design team for this week's sponsor, Molossi. I can say that they make the most gorgeous chipboard and it is a pleasure to work with it!

Here is the prize that is up for grabs for playing along with our challenge.... You would have seen Molossi sponsoring the blog hop that we just had, well they're back with another great prize so jump over to their website and have a look at all they have to offer, you can find them HERE

$30.00 chipboard pack

They are 100% Australian owned and operated, with over eight years industry experience and access to the much loved paper craft brands and experts. They have gorgeous chipboard and they have recently branched into producing their own chipboard designs as well as being a scrapbook distributor!Molossi is situated in the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales, and their warehouse is located in Wilberforce and open by appointment only.

To be eligible for the prize, you have to play along! 

Please link up your project to the Frosted Designs sidebar! 

If you don't have a blog or online gallery, show us your project on Facebook!

PaperHaus Blog Hop Winner!!

Thank you so much for your amazing comments, they really made my day, and thanks for all those that followed my blog, I hope to get to know  you better!!

Without further ado, here is my winner:

Margaret, please send me your mailing address and I will get these in the post for you!!!