Flowers for mama

Welcome!

I've printed out a few of the lovely images from Nicecrane Designs that we received to play with at Crafting by Designs. The image I'm using is Adorable Bessie 5 from Adorable Bessie DSL. The vintage images are so sweet and keeping it simple let them really stand out!

The image was coloured with my pencils. The edges were torn & inked with a purple stamp pad. I decided on a purple card which complimented the flowers in the image. I added ribbon in three shades of purple with hot glue.

Such a cute image, don't you think? Just a note: I decided that the bush looks like hydrangeas so I coloured them light purple...a little artistic license.

I'm adding my card to the following challenges:

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog - #32 Ribbons

Love to Create Challenge Blog - #65 Flowers, many pretty Flowers

Crafts 4 Eternity #123 - Tic Tac Toe - Ribbon, Inking, Child Theme

Do visit again!

Rene
 

Remembering our childhood...

Welcome!

 

What a fun challenge we have this week at Crafting by Designs : Remembering our Childhood!

Our generous sponsor is Ignacio from Nicecrane Designs.

The wonderful images that we had to work with made it child's play to create fabulous cards! I've used the Princess of Hearts from the Alice in Wonderland DSL Save Pack I. 

 

The cute vintage image was coloured with my pencils & fussy cut. I also embossed it to give it more shape & definition. Then, before I added it to my card, I added some Gelly Roll and Stickles glitter.

 

While the glitter was drying, I made my card. The base card is a lavender mottled & lightly textured card. I cut panels from green mottled cardstock as well as white shiny textured paper. A little purple ink was sponged onto the green panels, really just the edges. The green panels were added to the white and then to the card.

This layout was inspired by Sketch #257 from Sketch Saturday.
Finally, I added a narrow green organza ribbon with bow.

 

At last, the card was ready for the image which I added with foam tape. The idea was to create a dreamy feel to the card and I hope you see it too!

 

Without further ado, here is my card:

 

 

Here it is a bit closer:

 

And here is the sketch:

I hope it is a good interpretation. And I hope that I have inspired you to join the challenge!

 

Rene

 

A Beautiful Lady

Welcome!

Another creation made for the Crafting by Designs Anything Goes with a Twist : Vintage Easter and/or Spring challenge. Just a reminder, our generous sponsor is Nicecrane.

I was super excited when I saw these Ladies on Old Postcards so generously supplied by Nicecrane. A year or 2 ago, I saw lovely ATC's on Flickr, made by Riet van Piet. She added beads and embroidery to her photographs and I have always wanted to do something like that. My creation is not nearly what she created, and I need a lot of practice, but I like what I did. I printed the ladies on photo paper in "more or less" ATC size, and embellished the 'photo' with beads and embroidery thread.

Here is my first one:

I will add some more as time goes by...

Do join us in the challenge!

Rene

Good Friday Vintage ATC

Welcome!

Rather late than never!

At Crafting by Designs we have an Anything Goes with a Twist : Vintage Easter and/or Spring challenge. My creation is a little bit late...

Our generous sponsor is Nicecrane. Since the first day I laid my eyes on his creations, I have been a fan! Working with the gorgeous products is only a pleasure! Can I confess, I so enjoyed looking at the pretty pictures, I couldn't get going...ok, that is half the story, work got in the way of my craft time, but I had them printed out for at least a week...LOL.

My choice fell on the Fantasy Birds. It is always great to start an ATC with a lovely background, but it can be difficult too. I decided to add something Easter (the black stamped cross) and some music that can be Easter or spring. The music is in gold and didn't photograph too well. The stamp is 'Music Collage' from Stampabilities.

Well, very simple, my Good Friday ATC:

Here is a close-up where I tried to capture the music notes:

I hope that you will come & join the challenge!

Rene

Vintage Easter

Welcome!

It is time for another creation with the monthly template from the Duo Challenge Blog!

The template is for a fabulous easel card, in the shape of eggs! I played around with a few ideas and then decided to make a Vintage card, using the fabulous Fascinating Birds from Nicecrane as focus. The base of the card is brown and the contrast is teal, but it came out a bit blue. I added some ribbon, gold wax and flowers to finish my card.

Here is my easel card:

I'm also adding my card to Crafting by Designs.

Do join us!

Rene

Another CDAC Challenge

The challenge : Make a card you would have made for a friend 100 years ago

I found a card from 1910 and used that as my inspiration and layout.

The beautiful image from Nicecrane was the freebie for the challenge. I chalked the image, layered it on a piece that I stamped, chalked & curled. The ribbon & flower is in vintage colours. I made the ribbon flower to look made, not manufactured. The writing is my own.