A plaque for the new bedroom

Time for a new challenge at Crafty Ribbons. and this time our challenge is Let's get sentimental. We want to see the sentiment as the main focus of your creation and we would love to see you use ribbon too.  Just for a change I made something to keep. Hubby recently decorated the bedroom and I wanted to make a large plaque. The bedroom previously had 3 cream walls and the one behind the bed was plum. Now the walls are all the same colour, this gorgeous duck egg blue, so quite a change. He painted the pine furniture cream and varnished the tops, I am loving the shabby chic look and wanted to make the plaque fit in with that look. I also wanted to use some of my favourite things and a couple of new dies.

So I asked hubby to paint the wooden heart with the same cream paint as the furniture.

Ribbons and lace - Crafty ribbons

Sentiment - Kaisercraft rubon

Dies - Joy chandelier from Noor! Design UK, 

Tim Holtz clock, Doohickey feathers, La La land heart border

Butterflies - Prima

Bark hearts - Live and Love Crafts

Other - flowers, pearls, gauze

Challenges

(new items are wooden heart, bark hearts, chandelier and heart border dies)

Scribble and Scrap anything goes 

Sweet Stampin' New

Simon Says Monday Make new friends, keep the old (First time I have made such a big plaque) 

Natalie and Amy All things new 

Country View Use something new

Dies R Us Use something new 

Noor! Design UK With Love
Simon Says Something new

Really CAS

I admire people who do CAS well without it looking like the card needs more adding to it. I had the idea of using this image from Scrapberry's from Funky Kits with a new stamp I bought last week. The card was made for a friend whose Birthday was on Tuesday. She recently bought a new camera and has just been to San Francisco and as she is made about pink the card just had to be pink. She will also appreciate the significance of the quote.

The image has been coloured with Copics and I simply doodled around the edge and double matted. I think I may try this style again as I have to say I am really pleased with how it turned out.

Challenges 

Fan-tastic Tuesday Anything goes 

TTCD Anything goes 

Crafty Sentiments Hand coloured image

The Paper Shelter Anything goes

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Vintage Guest Designer

This is my second card today, please scroll down for my Crafty Little Fairies DT card.

I was thrilled to receive a lovely email from Sande inviting me to be a guest designer for November at It's all about the vintage and beauty. The theme this week is fancy edged scissors/punches.  I only recently discovered this challenge and as I love making vintage cards I will be playing along regularly. My sewing cards sell so well that I thought it ime to make another. I don't usuually leave mt buttons naked unless they are tiny ones but somehow these looked right this way.

I stamped the Kaisercraft with Memento Rich Cocoa and teamed ith my fave papers of the moment, Prima Lyric. I distressed the edges with my TH tool and DI Vintage Photo. The embellishments are all from stash.

By the time this publishes I will have made several purchases at Hobbycrafts at the NEC.

Vintage but new

Regular visitors will know that I have been out at craft fairs the last two days. Today's activities will depend upon the weather so I've scheduled a post in case I am out today.

A simple but effective card I thought. I recently bought this Kaisercraft stamp and stamped it onto kraft card. Lots of distressed edges and DI Vintage Photo, my most used DI. The papers are Bo Bunny Timepiece and I just added a ticket sentiment and some K&Co metal embellishments.

Vintage Home

It's Saturday and time for a Something New challenge at Totally Gorjuss. I decided to make a new home card as I bought a Tim Holtz on the edge house die a while ago and hadn't got round to using it. I die cut it from kraft and then used DI Vintage Photo in varying degrees to make some of the houses darker than others. The paper is Bo Bunny Weekend Market, definitely my paper of the moment. I just love the vintage look of the papers. Another new purchase was the Kaisercraft keys stamp, which has also been distressed with the same ink. I stamped it again and cut out the largest key and heat embossed it and then stuck it on top of the stamped image. I added some vintage baker's twine, a key charm from Crafty Emma's and a LOTV sentiment, inked and details coloured with a Sakura clearstar pen.

This post has been scheduled as I am selling at a craft fair again today so will catch up with you all later.

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