CYDA #33 Embellishment Bingo

Awww I'm in for a busy day today.  Gotta get Ethan to his best friends birthday party, he's off paint balling - he's sure gonna love that, and will be absolutely BUZZING by this afternoon lol.  Whilst he's partying, I gotta get Emily to a football game.  She joined a girls soccer team and totally LOVES it.  She's very competitive and sporty and today is a cup match so if her team don't win - oooooh it don't bear thinking about!

Today we have a new challenge for you over at Craft Your Days Away.  This fortnights challenge is hosted by my lovely teamie and SIL Crafting Joanne.

She has come up with the awesome theme of....

EMBELLISHMENT BINGO

Wow, what a selection, fabulous range of embellies to choose from!  Our DT girlies have come up with some awesome designs for this one and you can check them out HERE.  This is what I came up with.........

Called "Hello Little Friend", this is one of several new stamps available from Sugar Nellie and you can see her HERE.  This card is outta me comfort zone a little as its so rare for me to use so many flowers and I NEVER use pins!!  I love the colour combi using some stray papers I didn't want to waste.  In the end I went for the top layer of the bingo card - LACE, PEARLS AND PINS.  I'm quite chuffed with how it turned out.  I hope you like it.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I'm off to wrap up warm now ready for Emily's game.  Enjoy your weekend.

Mel X

More Shabby than Chic!

Good evening everyone and hope you all had a lovely weekend.  Are you braced for more of the white stuff thats due to hit us 'bout Wednesday?  Me neither, I'm soo looking forward to spring!  I've done this card tonight for the following challenges;

Simon Says - Shabby Chic plus DT Call

Creative Inspirations - Distressing

A Spoonful of Sugar - Lots of Layering

ABC Challenge - L is for Layering

I do enjoy shabby chic layouts though not done one for a while, but I do tend to lean a bit more towards the shabby lol!  I just couldn't resist a Sugar Nellie image for this one, a real favourite!

I did hand stitching around the card itself and the main backing paper. I had loadsa fun distressing them all with ink pads and erasers, before scrumpling them up and tearing most of them.  The stitching around the image is just my doodling, as is the flourish.  The tags are hand written.  The image and check dp are raised on foam mounts, the edges cut with trimmer.

I decided to try and be a bit more creative as she has a pen in her hand and used some script papers from K&Co to create a little embellie in the bottom corner.  I rolled one end and whipped some stitching over that too.  I'm really chuffed with the end result!

RECIPE

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Colouring Mediums - chalks, copics and water colour pencils

Papers - K&Company

Flowers - Prima

Tag Punch - XCut

Flower Brad - Dovecraft

Polka Dot Brad - Basic Grey

RicRac - stash

Antique Pearls - stash

Paper Trimmer - CARL "Victorian" blade

Thankyou so much for stopping by my little haven in cyber space. Enjoy whats left of your evening and take care.  Happy crafting everyone.

Mel X