Pink Roses …

Hello friends,

Time today for a new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow and the theme for this fortnight is “Recycling/Re-purposing” (re-use something or use something for a different purpose than intended). Your project can be a card or other paper crafting item, such as a scrapbook layout, box, tag, etc. but must be made in a vintage or shabby chic style. I always had lots of things in my craft room that I want to re-use and this challenge is the perfect opportunity.

My recycled item is a piece of card stock from a Prima flower package (picture on the left). The script on the card-stock creates a really pretty background for the KaiserCraft paper roses, a metal butterfly and some die-cuts. The lovely ribbon is from Ebony and Ivory and gives such an old world elegance to the card. Hope you like my take on the challenge. To accentuate the black script on the paper I added some black pearls, wax cord, flourishes and a Spellbinders die cut sentiment.

Challenges:

• Artistic Inspirations Challenge #116 (ends 11/10) – Anything Goes/ happy Birthday
• Craft-Dee BowZ November Challenge (ends 11/30) – Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
• Make My Monday Challenge  (11/10) – Vintage
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge #60 (ends 11/11) – Anything Goes With a Twist … Add One Butterfly
• Scrapy Land Challenge #5 (ends 11/16) – Anything Goes Using any Brand Die Scrapy Land Sells (Memory Box die “Tiffany Frame” (No. 98401) ; Spellbinders Die D-Lites “Sentiments One” (S2-082) ; Spellbinders Shapeabilities “Foliage” ; Spellbinders Nestabilties Decorative Elements “Timeless Rectangle” on inside of card)
• Creative Fingers Challenge #55 (ends 11/21) – Anything Goes
• A Crafty Mess Challenge #1 (ends 11/30) – Anything Goes
• Inspiration Destination Challenge #6 (ends 11/12) – Anything Goes

The roses and vintage ribbon

The butterfly and frame

 The sentiment, leaves and flourishes

A peep at the inside

Project details:

• Cream, black and green card stock
• FabScraps designer paper “Organic Tree” (C47 004)
• Prima recycled packaging card stock
• Memory Box die “Tiffany Frame” (No. 98401)
• Marianne Design Creatables “Flourish” (LR0271)
• Spellbinders Shapeabilities “Foliage”
• Spellbinders Die D-Lites “Sentiments One” (S2-082)
• Spellbinders Nestabilties Decorative Elements “Timeless Rectangle”
• Ebony and Ivory ribbon “Pistachio”
• Black wax cord
• Pearls
• Metal butterfly charm
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Vintage Photo”
• Memento ink “Grey Flannel”
• Skwiglues “Crystal”

Thank you for stopping by today and looking at my card, a comment will be so much appreciated. Have a wonderful day and I hope to see your creation at the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this fortnight.

Kind regards,

Amelia