Italian landscape ....

The challenge for this weeks Papertake Weekly is Take Your Pick 

and I based my card on Sketch No. 102 and added pearls.

I used the beautiful Italian Landscape from the the LOTV Artpad No 40 'Landscape Collection' matted onto papers from One Birdie Lane, Bonnets and Bowties Solids and Butterfly Kisses paper pads also from Lili of the Valley

I added some gorgeous new white pleated ruffled white ribbon with 6mm flat back pearls stuck on with 3mm double sided sticky tape.  My flower arrangement includes a 40mm white daisy, a white cosmos daisy and a white sweetheart blossom.  The sentiment is also from LOTV and I added a self adhesive rhinestone and pearl flower in the centre

Self adhesive rhinestone/pearl flower, daisies, blossoms, ribbon, pearls are all from The Ribbon Girl

I hope you will be able to join in the challenge - we love to see your cards and there is always a lovely prize to win!

see you soon, Mary x

Summer birthday card ....

The challenge for this weeks Papertake Weekly is to use 3 of something - on this Summer birthday card I used 3 vintage pink roses, 3 small white lily flowers, 3 green rose leaves and 3 tiny pink rosebuds on this birthday card.

The image is from the new Summer Escapes artpad number 40 from Lili of the Valley as is the sentiment

I added some gorgeous Charlotte Elizabeth white vintage style lace, hot pink satin ribbon, white organza rose ribbon and on each 'rose' I added a rhinestone/pearl self adhesive flower from Marianne.  

I hope you will be able to join in the challenge - we love to see your cards and there is always a lovely prize to win!

Lace, Flowers, leaves, ribbon, lace, rose organza trim, self adhesive flowers are all from

see you soon,

Mary xx

Lilac pansies ............

This is my DT card for The Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge - we would like to see your lilac cards and projects

Pansies are one of my favourite garden flowers and my Winter flowering pansies are just coming to an end now - I've been waiting for the pansies to wilt so I could put the geraniums into my tubs at the front, and it looks like I'll be able to get those planted in a day or so.  

For this card I used a lovely image from the LOTV artpad number 27 then added

'Charlotte Elizabeth' vintage style white lace, 25mm satin ribbon , lilac tiny ric rac and a 20mm lilac open rose.  The sentiment is from LOTV

I hope you will be able to join us over on the Ribbon Girl Blog - we'd love to see what you make, and there are some fabulous cards from the design team which are sure to inspire you ..... and there are some lovely prizes too!

see you soon

Mary x

Seascape ...

My card for the Ribbon Girl 'Everything goes with an image' challenge where they would like to see your masculine cards.  I used this lovely image from the new LOTV Landscapes No 39 artpad which is suitable for all types of man cards, sympathy cards, notes etc - I cut this one down with a die.  The round sentiment is a stamp from LOTV

I added 7mm cornflolwer blue satin, dusky blue button twine, pale blue tiny ric rac, a silver colour yacht charm and pearls from the Blues pack all from

www.ribbongirl.co.uk

I hope you can join in with the challenge and please pop over to the blog to be inpired by the lovely creations by the design team

As usual we have two fabulous prizes, the first is a stamp of the winners choice from our generous friends at Lili of the Valley who have some beautiful images to choose from, and a £10 voucher from The Ribbon Girl for the randomly chosen winner of the challenge

see you soon

Mary x

New baby boy ...

The challenge over at Papertake Weekly is 'something for the boys' so I made a new baby boy card using an embossed card and this gorgeous image from the LOTV  'Babies' art pad and also their round sentiment stamp.  I added a wooden star button and attached it to a memo pin finished with some of our new  'Windsor Blue' and Limoges Blue seam binding and a piece of 1mm ivory cotton lace,  

I distressed the edges and added some Stardust Stickles which I also added to the clouds and around the sentiment.

Ribbon, lace, memo pins, stickles and wooden star button are all from www.ribbongirl.co.uk

I hope you will be able to join us over at Papertake Weekly - we love to see what you make and as usual, there is a super prize to be won!

see you soon, Mary xx

Jenny is such a cute little bear .....

My card for todays Ribbon Girl June Card Challenge which is 'animals, and I've used Jenny Bear from one of the lovely LOTV artpads.  I cut down the image and punched the edge with a corner punch, then distressed and finished with Stardust Stickles.  I love the new papers from LOTV, this one is from the 'Dress Shoppe'  pad and I also used one of their new sentiments from the 'Birthays and Best Wishes set'  -   perfect!

I added pink organza rose ribbon, 'Barbara' ivory embroidered tulle lace, hot pink satin ribbon, a new ivory Magnolia flower, a pink gardenia, pink/pink beaded berries, pink hip rose bud, an ivory lace leaf and a wooden butterfly from a pack of 9 all from

www.ribbongirl.co.uk

close up of the gorgeous new ivory coloured Magnolia blooms on the website this weekend - also you can see the gardenia, hip rosebud and ivory lace leaf

I hope you will be able to pop over to the blog to be inspired by my team mates and we'd love to see your cards - there are some great prizes to be won!

see you soon, Mary xx

A decorated cube box

I find boxes very difficult to photograph - this box is to be posted to someone so all of the embellishments are as flat as possible.  A plain white box distressed with aqua ink and covered in LOTV 'Romance and Roses' papers due to be released on Saturday - the image on the front is from the LOTV 'Beautiful Blooms' artpad  The sentiment inside the lid is from a new set due to be released soon at LOTV

On the top I added 3 sweetheart blossom flowers and 3 ivory lace leaves plus in the corners some gorgeous pearl and diamante self adhesive butterflies all from www.ribbongirl.co.uk

around the box I added pretty pink loopy trim, I cut out some flowers from the plain pink from the Romance and Roses pad and added 5mm pink self adhesive pearls from www.ribbongirl.co.uk

have a nice week and enjoy the sunshine!!

Mary x