A girly Christmas .............

 

There is a new challenge over at Lili's Little Fairies 'A Girly Christmas' and I hope you will all find time to take a look at the fabulous inspiration by the design team and enter your own project. 

 

I've made this  little easel card with a drawer.  The image is a Mini Masterpiece and the papers are all from the LOTV Classic Christmas pad.  The edges of all the pieces of paper and the box were distressed with tea dye ink before assembling it

 

 

This is what I added
WOC small gardenia, two white sweetheart blossoms, a white hip rosebud and a white lily
Kort & Godt white chrysanthemum and berries from a cream/ivory beaded berry bunch
Medium red berries
Berisford Red No 15 double sided satin ribbon. 
I glued a piece of white flat lace around the box to finish off and used plenty of Stardust Stickles and some 5mm clear crystals.  The feet on the box are made with 11mm ivory pearl flat backs stuck on with glossy accents.
Lastly I made a little hole in the drawer front with sharp scissors and put in a pearl brad from my stash to use as a handle 

 

See you soon, Mary G x

 

 

 

Fireworks ....................

 

The new challenge at Papertake Weekly is 'Fireworks' and this is my DT card.  I love this cute little ballet dancer image from LOTV - I used a ready printed die cut image and changed the shape with a nestie.  Can you see the sparkle behind the white circle?  It's actually a Christmas tree decoration sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer Mist to match my colour scheme.  I fastened a diamante star ribbon slide to my ribbon bow using button twine

 

 

The paper is from a LOTV Nitwits pad, the ribbon is 32mm aqua glitter organza and I used half of a Zva clear crystal swirl for the 'fireworks' coming from the ballet dancers star wand! The silver corners are from my stash.

I have to say I was quite daunted at the thought of making a card on the theme of fireworks, but once I got my idea sorted out I really enjoyed making it.  I'm entering this card intothe Totally Gorguss challenge 'bling it on'

 

Please pop over to the Papertake Weekly challenge and have a look at the fabulous cards by the rest of the design team - I'm sure you willbe inspired and you have a whole week to get your project in - Ribbon Girl is providing a £10 voucher for their online store as the prize

 

Tilda in autumn colours .......

 

 

I coloured Tilda with Copics and added Stardust Stickles then used velvet ribbon, fine cluny lace, natural button twine, a pumpkin colour plain small button, small white gardenia, pale peach cosmos daisy, orange and coffee sweetheart blossoms, lemony cream hip rose buds, a white lily (all Wild Orchid Crafts) and a Kort & Godt cream chrysanthemum. In the corners I added Peaches & Cream pearls. The paper is Pion and I used three different nesties for the centre and added two Magnolia swirls. WOC and Kort & Godt flowers, ribbons, lace, buttons, stickles, button twine, pearls are all from The Ribbon Girl.   The October Colour Challenge begins today over at the Ribbon Girl Blog - the challenge this month is 'Autumnal Colours' and there is a £10 voucher kindly given by the generous ladies over at Lili of the Valley

 

 

plus an orange mini ribbon kit from The Ribbon Girl.  Please visit the Ribbon Girl blog to see the fabulous cards and makes by the multi-talented girls on the Ribbon Girl Design Team.

 

 

 

 

 

I am entering my card into the Lovley Hanglar Only challenge - 'ribbon and trim'; Midweek Magnolia 'Autumn Colours'

 

 

Happy Birthday Nicole .......

 

There is a new challenge at Lils Little Fairies 'Anything Goes'  I was so pleased to be invited to join their design team as I am a great fan of LOTV!  This is my first card as a proper DT member - a pink and girly birthday easle card for my youngest great-niece.  I used a die-cut image from the Fairies collection with some gorgeous Nitwit paper by Mary Fran.    The pretty trellis corners and the central background are from the new dies by Jolanda at Noor Designs - they cut really well.  I used Papertrey dies to spell the name of Nicole.

 

 

 

I added: Stardust Stickles, WOC deep pink cosmos, pink carnation, hip rose buds, a pink leaf crystal stem and a Kort & Godt pink rolled paper rose with a clear crystal gem in the centre.  I stuck lavender 5mm crystals around the image.  The ribbon is a mixture of hot pink microdot and plain satin ribbon plus pale rose pink tiny pom pom trim

 

Pom pom, flowers, ribbons, Stickles, gems are all from The Ribbon Girl

 

I hope you will pop over to LLF to look at the beautiful creations by the Design Team and be inspired to make a project to enter into the challenge!

See you soon, Mary G x.

 

 

All creatures great and small ....

 

'creatures, great and small' is the theme for this week's Papertake Weekly Challenge where you can find out who won the fabulous prizes hidden among the design teams blogs  to celebrate the 5th birthday of PTW - I've used this lovely printed image from LOTV featuring the Daddy Bear and the Baby Bear walking through the crisp, crunchy snow bbbbrrrrrr - my papers are 'Frosty Christmas' from the LOTV.  Early yesterday morning we had a nice coating of sparkly white frost followed by wall to wall sunshine - lovely!

 

I added a bow of 25mm Cornflower Blue ribbon, a 15mm clear sparkly button tied with ivory button twine and I used 5mm clear self adesive gems on the double scalloped mat behind the bears.

 

 

Flowers  Kort & Godt beaded roses, beaded ivory/cream berries, cream chrysanth, beaded swirl branch, Wild Orchid white sweetheart blossoms and hip rosebuds - and the white leaves are mader with my Martha Stewart punches - all flowers from Ribbon Girl

I've entered this into the 'one for the boys' challenge at Lils Little Fairies

 

Boy card challenge ....

 

There is a new card challenge over at The Ribbon Girl blog - create a boy card - not my favourite type of card, but it is supposed to be a 'challenge'.  I used a Lili of the Valley die cut and that football paper was in a pack I got from The Range ages ago - perfect for this image!  I stamped the sentiment directly on to the die cut square then added ivory jute mesh (reminded me of the goal post) black/white saddlestitch ribbon, a small red and white polka dot button, a pair of football boot charms and some licorice black divine bakers twine - all in stock at The Ribbon Girl.     I hope you will rise to the challenge and create a boy card - there is some fabulous inspiration by the very talented Design Team and there are two prizes for the winner

 

 

 

a stamp of your choice from the lovely girls at LOTV - thank you ladies!

 

and

 

 

a £10 voucher to spend in the Ribbon Girl online store

 

 

see you soon, Mary G x

Papertake Weekly is 5 Years Old!

It is our 5th birthday over at the Papertake Weekly challenge blog and we are having a fabulous party which you're all invited to - and there are prizes! Fabulous prizes I have to say from our very special sponsors:

 Lili Of The Valley

Nitwit Collections

Simon Says Stamp

Ribbon Girl

Sir Stampalot

Saturated Canary

Which Craft UK

J & C

Whiff of Joy

 

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning these fabulous prizes is to join in with the challenge which is an Anything Goes challenge with the option to make a card for a celebration then visit all of the DT and Guest DT blogs leaving a comment as the prizes are all hidden around our little community of crafters. You don't know where we have hidden the prizes so the more comments you leave the more chances you'll have to win the prizes!

 

This is my card - I made a 5th birthday card to celebrate our 5th birthday

 

I used:

Lili of the Valley pre-printed birthday girl image then made a number 5 badge using a brooch back from here.  I added plenty of Stardust Stickles,  5mm red gems, Kort & Godt beaded swirl branch, Wild Orchid carnation, cosmos, sweetheart blossoms and a large white rosebud

Here is the list of everyone taking part in the party, the time difference between the countries will affect what time people post to their blogs so if their post isn't up straight away then check back in a few hours as they may still be fast asleep in bed!!

Andrea B 

Andrea

Claudia

Dawny P
Debi

Jacqui

Jane

Jill

Katharina

Lisa

Lols

Mandy 

Mary

Sharon

Pink and Girly birthday card .....

 

I  was asked to make a very pink and girly card for a friend's grandaughter.  Instead of an image, I die cut the numbers and added them to a simple oval plaque.  I used Rose Pink silky crush ribbon, pretty pink loopy trim, 22mm guipure lace on the top of the easel card 15mm daisy guipure lace on the bottom of the card.  I tied a sparkly button onto the middle of the ribbon bow with candy pink Divine Twine.  I made the sentiment in Photoshop to match the colour of the background paper

 

 

 

I used pink carnations, white and pink pretty blossoms, a white satin daisy with diamante centre, Kort & Godt cream chrysanthemum flowers, all from here.  To make the card extra sparkly I added a Zva clear crystal flourish and some 5mm clear gems

 

I made a box and decorated it with more flowers, ribbon and paper to co-ordinate with the card

See you soon, Mary G x

 

 

 

Joy at Christmas ..................

 

This is my DT card for the new Papertake Weekly Challenge which is a sketch.  I used the gorgeous new paper pad from Lili of the Valley and one of the printed mini mastepieces coloured by Bev Rochester - what a combination - can't go wrong!! 

 

I added a white swirl cut with a magnolia die and some christmas mix self adhesive pearls also white diamond guipure lace and red and white snowflake grosgrain ribbon

Flowers are Kort & Godt beaded rose, cream and white chrysanthemum flowers, white carnations all from The Ribbon Girl plus WOC white gypsophalia from my stash.  leaves cut with my Martha Stewart punch

 

I hope you will have time to visit the Papertake Weekly challenge blog to see all of the inspirational projects by the very talented Design Team and you have a whole week to enter your card! Good luck

See you soon, Mary G x

 

A nice sketch ....... and a wedding themed give away

 

There is a new sketch over at Sketch Saturday and I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest designer - I followed the sketch and used a Lili of the Valley mini masterpiece ready coloured image matted onto kraft card.  The corners of the background paper were shaped with a corner rounder.

 

 

 

I added black and white 15mm gingham ribbon, red loopy trim and snowflake charm tied on with some natural button twine which are all available from The Ribbon Girl. 

 

I hope you will have time to join in with the challenge at Sketch Saturday
ps  There is a nice giveaway of ribbon, bridal lace and pearl string over at the Ribbon Girl blog - click here for more information

see you soon Mary G x

Humphrey with a daisy ...........

Little Humphrey never loses his appeal, I think he's just so cute.  I coloured him with Copics and cut him out before adhering to this very pretty oval nestie.  I used natural grosgrain ribbon, cream zig zag lace, a ppearl button and some brown sugar bakers twine from here.  I was  delighted with my new corner die by Jolanda of Noor Design  it's so pretty I can see it getting lots of use and I'm looking forward to trying the other Joy Craft dies I bought last week!

I used a white daisy, Kort & Godt cream chrysanthemum and a white carnation, plus 5mm adhesive pearls to finish the card and the inside is decorated to co-ordinate with the front.  The litttle tag was cut with a punch and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. 

This is my DT card for this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge which is 'shades of autumn' and I've used shades of brown to represent the autumn foliage - I hope you will pop over and have a look at the rest of the fabulous inspiration - you've got a whole week to join in the challenge

 

Lace, ribbon, pearls, button, twine and all flowers are from The Ribbon Girl

 

 

See you soon, Mary G x

Lottie and friend ................

The September Colour Challenge over at the Ribbon Girl blog starts today and the prize is a £10 voucher generously provided by the lovely ladies at Lili of the Valley (where they have some fabulous new Christmas stamps and paper pads) and a Rose Cottage Kits Green Mini Makes Kit from The Ribbon Girl - just think what you could make with this!

 

 

 

 

For my card I used the adorable Lottie and her friend and coloured the image with Copics - no, your eyes are not playing tricks, Lottie isn't walking downhill, and I must admit I have cut the image out crookedly  and only realised after the photograph was taken with no time to do another card

Mulberry carnations, pink baby's breath, pink cherry blossom from Ribbon Girl, other flowers from WOC. Leaves from Martha Stewart punch, white rose pearl organza ribbon from here

 

Pink satin ribbon, 22mm white flat lace and diamante spacer from here

 

I hope you can pop over to the Ribbon Girl blog, the projects made by the mega-talented DT are just amazing

 

See you soon Mary G x

Such a cute little bear ...

 

I was intrigued by some projects Andrea was making where she used layer after layer to build up some beautiful and very special cards so I watched her then had a go myself.  I'm not a 'less is more' person and never know when to stop, and as you can see, I just kept adding things :) but was pleased with the effect and my first attempt at this kind of card.  I added a piece of lilac velvet lace and a piece of white pearl lace between the layers

 

 

The image is a mini masterpiece pre-printed image from LOTV with some Stardust Stickles.  The flowers are a white Kort & Godt beaded branch, chrysanthemum, a couple of rosebuds (woc) and some white mulberry carnations and a clear crystal stem.  The sentiment is Papertrey Ink on a little tag made from a new punch

 

 

I added a mock bow of 60mm lilac scrunched/pleated taffeta  which is one piece approx 75mm tied in the middle with purple button twine with a diamante star ribbon slide.  Here you can see the various layers all cut with nesties, each covered with  the new Nitwits paper from LOTV so four sets plus a stand on the reverse so the card stands up,  In the centre of the flower I added a 11mm diamante spacer with a flat back pearl in the centre

 

 

My last adornment (as if I needed more !!) was a silver butterfly which was dabbed with Ranger white paint dabber - when the paint was dry I rubbed some off with my thumb so the silver showed through.  I also added Liking Lilac self adhesive pearls, and some Lilac Liquid Pearls dotted around the edge of the biggest layer.

 

This weeks challenge at Papertake Weekly is 'things that make you go aaw ....' and this little bear certainly does - please pop over and take a look at the gorgeous cards by the design team and you have a whole week to get your project in - good luck.
I will enter this card into Wild Orchid 'layer it up' challenge
 

 

See you soon, Mary G x

 

 

Wedding card from sketch 223 ....

 

Andrea and I were delighted to be asked to be guest dt's for the  Sketch Saturday challenge blog for September and this is my interpretation of sketch 223 - this card  was for my nephews wedding.  I hope you will  pop over and take a look at the fabulous work by the Sketch Saturday team - amazing!

 

I used 60mm scrunched/pleated taffeta, Zva pearl flourish, diamante heart buckle slide, mulberry carnations, Kort & Godt chrysanthemums, white pretty blossoms and Stardust stickles, all from here

 

 

close up of the diamante buckle slide

 

 

The image is from a Lili of the Valley die cut sheet -  so useful when time is short and a close up of the flowers arrangement - the tiny tag was cut with Papertrey Ink die and the leaves made with Martha Stewart punches

 

See you soon Mary G x

 

 

Pretty pearls ........

The September Card Challenge over at The Ribbon Girl blog is to 'add pearls' well, as I just love bling, pearls and embellishments I had no problem smothering my Tilda card with them!!  I chose pearl colour paper, ivory pearl rose organza ribbon, ivory scrunched pleated organza, cream cluny lace, cream 15mm satin ribbon plus a silver heart charm, a 13mm diamante spacer with a pearl flat back in the centre - all ribbons and embellishments are from The Ribbon Girl

My flower arrangement includes a couple of ivory babies breath flowers, white carnation, Kort & Godt cream chrysanthemum flower, white pretty blossom flowers plus ivory pearl pins  all from here - the charm is tied on with natural button twine and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink stamped onto cream card.

See you soon, Mary G x