Chloe Stems and More …

Hello friends,

Today I am sharing my first CAS card for 2015 – yeah, hold on to your chairs as this is not usually my style! Sometimes it is good for me to just try something different from time to time. I decided to dig out my watercolor set and to create a clean and simple card. The chloe stems reminds me of fireworks going up in the air , so I layered them on the watercolor background of orange and yellow. For a bit of sparkle I added orange gemstones. Maybe I need much more practice with the watercolor effect – I tried a few more cards with different die cut and colors which I am also sharing. I always admire all the lovely CAS  cards and hopefully I can gain more confidence in creating them in future.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Make My Monday Challenge (ends 01/12) – New Beginnings
• Top Tip Tuesday Challenge (ends 01/20) – Keep It Simple
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge #67 (ends 01/13) – Anything Goes with a Twist Add Orange
• Crazy 4 Challenges #C4C267 (ends 01/10) – Clean and Simple
• Scrapy Land Challenge #9 (ends 01/18) – Anything Goes using any brand of die Scrapy Land sells (Memory Box die “Chloe Stem”  No 98321)
• Cuttlebug Mania Challenge (ends 01/20) – It Takes Two … (Memory Box die “Chloe Stem”  No 98321)

Project details:

• White cardstock and Amedeo watercolor paper
• Reeves watercolor paint
• Memory Box die “Chloe Stem”  No 98321
• JustRite sentiment stamp set “All Occasion Nested Sentiments”
• Orange gemstones
• VersaMagic Archival ink pad “Midnight Black”

Here are a couple more cards I tried with my watercolors. I love the shades of blue on this one. The butterfly die cut is from Cheery Lynn.

The muted autumn colors are great for a “sunset” feel for the silhouette birds. The “Birds on a Wire” die is from Spellbinders In’Spire.

For this card I used splashes of pink and a Marianne Design Creatables flower die cut.

Thank you for visiting and looking at my cards. I hope next time I show more improvement on the clean and simple style of card making! Have a wonderful day.

Regards,

Amelia

 

Welcome Baby

Hello friends,

Happy New Year to all my followers and visitors. Your visits and comments during 2014 are greatly appreciated and never once taken for granted. Thank you so much for sharing my passion and I wish you all good health, peace and fulfillment in the coming year.

Today I am sharing a baby card I made for a friend’s neighbour who was blessed with a baby girl. I used one of my favourite color combo’s – green and pink – and did some paper piecing for the Marianne Design Creatables vintage pram die cut. Some fancy buttons, a cheerful bunting, bows and Prima roses were added as embellishments. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

Challenges:

• Crafty Calender January Challenge (ends 02/06) – What’s New?
• My Time to Craft Challenge #273 (ends 01/10) – All Things New!
• Cut It Up Challenge  #61 (ends 01/09) – New Beginnings : Babies
• Bunny Zoe’s Crafts December Challenge (01/11) – Buttons
• Love To Create Challenge #148 (01/12) – Anything Goes
• Crafter’s Cafe Challenge #98 (ends 01/14) – Something New
• Crafting by Designs Challenge (ends 01/25) – Anything Goes
• Creative Moments Challenge #59 (ends 01/21) – Anything Goes / New Beginnings
• Crafting from the Heart Challenge #41 (01/12) – Anything Goes

 A close-up of the vintage pram

The sentiment

Pink roses and buttons for a little girl

A peep at the inside

Project details:

• White and green cardstock
• Designer paper : Prima “Annalee” ; “Romantique”  and Authentique “Delightful”
• Joanna Sheen Signature die “Bunting” SD064
• Marianne Design Creatables LR0218
• Spellbinders Nestabilities “Fancy Ovals”
• Olba punch for leaves
• Lili of the Valley sentiment stamp
• Prima flowers “Encore” Item #561345
• Buttons
• Hug Snug seam binding “Iced Lime”
• Skwiglues “Crystal”
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Victorian Velvet” and “Bundled Sage”

Thanks for visiting today. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

Kind regards,

Amelia

It’s Pink … For Christmas

Hello friends,

Hope you are all well and enjoying your day. Time for another challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow . The theme for the new challenge is vintage or shabby chic Christmas cards in non-traditional colors. Hope you will hop over and share your creation with us at the Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge this fortnight.

I decided to make a pink shabby Christmas card with Christmas baubles, a few roses and lace. The Spellbinders Mix-n-Match Ornaments dies are one of my favorites to create with. I added lots of glitter to make it sparkle and a chipboard sentiment to complete the card.

Challenges:

• Little Red Wagon Challenge #264 (ends 11/26) – Layer It Up!
• As You Like It Challenge #41 (ends 12/04) – Favorite Xmas Style and Why (My favorite Christmas style is shabby chic in non-traditional colors. I love shades of pink and to use die cuts and lots of glitter)
• Aud Sentiments Challenge #120 (ends 12/02) – Use A Sentiment for Any December Holiday
• Make My Monday Challenge (11/24) – Glitter
• 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #221 (ends 11/27) – Make It Sparkle
• Creative Craft Cottage Challenge #29 (ends 12/01) – Colour / Anything Goes
• Creative Moments Challenge #56 (ends 121/03) – Anything Goes / Make It Sparkle
• City Crafter Challenge Week 238 (ends 11/25) – Just a Word

 A close-up of the flowers

The Christmas baubles

The chipboard sentiment

A peep at the inside

Project details:

• White and pink cardstock
• Upikit designer paper
• Spellbinders Shapeabilities die “Mix-n-Match Ornaments”
• Marianne Design Creatables “Flourish” LR0271
• Chipboard sentiment
• Paper roses
• Lace
• Wax cord
• Gemstones
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Victorian Velvet” and “Peeled Paint”
• Skwiglues “Crystal”

Thank you for visiting today, your visits and comments really makes my day. Have a wonderful week and happy crafting.

Regards from a warm and sunny South Africa,

Amelia

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

 

Ring of Roses

Hello friends,

Today I share my final project as the July month-long guest designer at The Shabby Tea Room. The theme for this week is “Ring around the Rosie” and Debbie and the design team asked that you create a round card or project inspired by the picture and include green/pink, a flourish/bling and flowers.  I altered an old round tin to keep all my pencils neat and at hand on my craft table. I covered the tin with green polka dot paper and use die cuts for the leaves, flourishes and trellis. I glued  the paper roses and die cut leaves on a cardboard circle and bend it to fit the round tin. I added a resin angel in the middle of the flower wreath. The edges of the tin were embellished with strings of rhinestones.

The Shabby Tea Room design team will love to see your project this week and I am sure with such a beautiful inspiration photo it won’t be difficult to come up with lovely shabby creations.

Challenges:

• Crafting At The Weekend Challenge #4 (ends 08/30) – Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz Challenge #241 (ends 08/01) – Anything Goes
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #99 (ends 08/21) – Anything Goes with Ribbon
• The Crafter’s Cafe Challenge #73 (ends 07/30) – Anything Goes
• That Craft Place Challenge (ends 08/02) – Anything Goes
• All Crafts Challenge June/July (ends 07/31) – Anything Goes but NO cards
• Crafting from the Heart Challenge #29 (ends 08/05) – Anything Goes
• Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #99 (ends 07/29) – Things With Wings and Ribbon

A close-up of the flower wreath

The angel, trellis and flourish

At the back of the tin I added another flourish and a leaf border at the top

Project details:

• White , green and polka dot cardstock
• Poppystamps die “Garden Trellis” no. 958
• Poppystamps die “Leafy Sprig Border” no. 1002
• Marianne Design Creatables “Leaves” LR0117
• Marianne Design Creatables “Flourish” LR0271
• Paper roses and flowers
• Resin angel
• Hug Snug seam binding “Iced Lime”
• Stick-on rhinestone strings
• Tim Holtz distress inks “Peeled Paint”
• Skwiglues glitter “Crystal”

Thanks for visiting today and I appreciate a comment so much. Hope you will join in with the challenge at The Shabby Tea Room this week. Have a wonderful week and happy crafting.

Regards from South Africa,

Amelia

It’s The Tiny Blessings …

Hello friends,

Today is the start of a new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow. The theme is “How charming” and we would like to see some kind of metal embellishment on your creations. This can be metal charms or any other metal elements such as corners, frames etc. Your project can be a card or any other paper crafting item, such as a scrapbook layout, box, tag, etc. but must be made in a vintage or shabby chic style.

I  used three metal embellishments on my card to accentuate the bird and the lovely sentiment from JustRite stamps. The background papers are from an old Glitz paper pack and the flowers from various Prima ranges and  Kort and Godt. Hope you like my take on the challenge. I would love to see what you come up with.

Challenges:

• Craft for the Craic July Challenge #6 (ends 07/31) – Your Favourite Colours (Cream and Peach Pink)
• Sister Act Card Challenge #64 (ends 07/11) – Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments Challenge #110 (07/15) – Anything Goes with a Sentiment
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #96  (ends 07/10) – Anything Goes with Ribbon
• Divas by Design Challenge (ends 07/09) – Ribbons and Flowers
• Word Art Wednesday Challenge #139 (ends 07/09) – Anything Goes

The crowned bird

The corner embellishments

The sentiment

The flowers, metal trinket and flourish

A peep at the inside

Project details:

• Cream cardstock
• Glitz designer paper “French Kiss”
•  JustRite sentiment stamp set “Song in my Heart”
• Spellbinders Shapeabilities “Moroccan Accents”
• Poppystamps die “Peaceful Bird” No. 929
• Memory Box die “Forest Bird” No. 98340
• Marianne Design Creatables die “Flourish” LR0271
• Lace
• Pearls
• Metal trinkets
• Prima flowers “Bellas” ; “Coventry Rose Romantique” ; “Princess Whimsical”
• Kort and Godt flowers
• Stamens
• Hug Snug seam binding “Cream”
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Tattered Rose”

Thanks for visiting today, I appreciate it so much. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

Regards from South Africa,

Amelia

Yellow Roses

Hello everyone,

So good to be back to show you my card for the new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow. The theme for this fortnight is “Floral” and Doodle Pantry is sponsoring this challenge. The prize for one random winner is a $10 gift certificate to the Doodle Pantry store (can’t be combined with any other promo code). Grab those crafting stuff and enter, you can be the winner of this gift voucher! Please remember your project must be made in a vintage or shabby chic style to be eligible to win the prize.

I chose the “Mini Roses” digital set from Doodle Pantry for my card. The image is coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and Lyra-Rembrandt Aquarelle pencils and then fussy cut. The background is wood grain designer paper from KaiserCraft and a trellis die from Marianne Design Craftables. The printed sentiment is also from the Mini roses digital set  and die cut on a little sign board from Marianne Design Creatables. I added some lace, pearls, ribbon and roses to finish off.

I entered my card in the following challenges:

• Craft for the Craic June Challenge (ends 06/30) – Something Summery or with Flowers
• Kit and Clowder June Challenge (ends 07/05) – Shabby Chic
• Allsorts Challenge Week #264 (ends 06/27) – How does Your Garden Grow
• Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge #217 (ends 06/27) – Flower Pots
• We Do Doobadoo Challenge #8 (ends 06/28) – Ribbons
• Craftitude Challenge #67 (ends 06/28) – Use Flowers and/or Lace
• Sister Act Card Challenge #62 (ends 06/28) – Anything Goes
• Suzy Bee’s Blooming Challenge #33 (ends 06/28) – Anything Goes
• Kraftyhands Challenge June Challenge (ends 06/30) – Floral Frenzy
• Crafty Calender June Challenge (ends 07/05) – Petals and Pearls
• Crafts Galore Encore June Challenge (ends 06/30) – Use a Stamp or Digi Stamp (Doodle Pantry digital stamp)
• Crafty Creations Challenge#265 (ends 06/25) – Tic Tac Toe (Flowers, Ribbon, Digital Image)

A close-up of the yellow roses

 The bow and flower

The sentiment and some pearls

A peep at the inside embellished with lace, a bow and tiny pearls

Project details:

• White cardstock
• KaiserCraft designer shabby chic paper “Base Coat Collection”
• Doodle Pantry digital stamp “Mini Roses” and sentiment
• Marianne Design Craftables CR1262
• Marianne Design Creatables LR 0191
• Lace
• Pearls
• Hug Snug seam binding “Antique Gold”
• Wax cord
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Vintage photo”
• Spectrum Noir alcohol markers
• Lyra-Rembrandt Aquarelle water-colour pencils
• Roses
• Skwiglues glitter “Crystal”

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my card. I appreciate your visits so much. Hope you can join us at Sugar Creek Hollow for our “Floral” challenge. Enjoy your day and happy crafting.

Regards from South Africa,

Amelia