Autumn Leaves

Hello friends,

I hope you are all doing well. Today’s post is about the new challenge at The Shabby Tea Room with the theme “Colors and Patterns”. You can create a card or project inspired by the photo on The Shabby Tea Room blog. Our sponsor is My Artistic Adventures and you may be the winner of  a $18 voucher at Heather’s Etsy shop!

One of the many things I love are autumn colors – the browns, oranges, reds and yellows are so warm and earthy. I chose a beautiful vintage Thanksgiving autumn collage sheet from My Artistic Adventures to create my card. The lovely papers were embellished with a vintage birdcage, leaves, lace and a few sequins. The leaves are die cut with and Impression Obsession  die and colored with distress inks to match the colors of the background papers.The birdcage is from Cottage Cutz “Fancy Ornate Birdcage” and one of my favorite dies. Although it is summer in my part of the world I hope you’re all enjoying a beautiful fall in the Northern Hemisphere.

Challenges I entered:

• Crafty Catz Challenge #297 (ends 10/23) – Anything Goes
• Crafting With A Attitude Challenge #8 (ends 10/31) – Anything Goes
• Frilly and Funky Challenges (ends 10/21) – Autumn Splendor
• The Crafty Addicts Challenge #3 (ends 10/31) – Autumn color pallet and as always Anything Goes
• My Time To Craft Challenge #306 (ends 10/24) – Autumnal Colors
• Suzy Bee’s Bloomin’ Challenge #102 (ends 10/24) – Anything Goes with a Twist … Autumn Colors
• Use Your Stuff Challenges #196 (10/26) – Thankful
• 613 Avenue Create Challenge #144 (ends 10/25) – Anything Goes

A close-up of the fancy birdcage

The leaves and sentiment

A peep at the inside

Project details:

• Cream and brown card stock
• My Artistic Adventures Vintage Thanksgiving Autumn Thankful Tags and Card Collage Sheet
• Cottage Cutz “Fancy Ornate Birdcage” die (CCE-027)
• Impression Obsession “Leaves: die (DIE095-D)
• Lace
• Sequins
• Wax cord
• Tim Holtz distress inks in various autumn colors

Thank you for your visits and sweet comments! Hope you’re ready to play along with our challenge at The Shabby Tea Room. Have a wonderful day.

Regards,

Amelia

Blue Birds and Red Berries

Hello friends,

I have the honor to be a guest designer for the My Artistic Adventures Challenge blog today. Heather asked me to play along with her Christmas/Thanksgiving challenge and also sponsored the lovely image used on my card. I enjoyed it so much to work with her beautiful collage sheets which is available in her Etsy store. Some more good news: Heather is also having a give away – a chance to win a $50 gift certificate for collage sheets she has for sale in her Etsy store. You can find all the details of the give away here.

When I browsed through the Christmas images in the My Artistic Adventures store these two lovely birds caught my eye immediately. I fell in love with the beautiful colors and old vintage look of the image.  To embellish the card I used a  Catalina wreath die cut and some pearl strings between the two layers of the tag, silk flowers, red berries, vintage ribbon and wax cord with two gold bells.  The inside of the card is also embellished with a smaller tag from the collage sheet.

Challenges:

• Cards Galore Encore November Challenge (ends 11/30) – Anything Goes
• Live and Love Crafts Challenge #29 (ends 11/30) – Favorite Christmas Color Combo
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra November Challenge (ends 11/30) – Anything Goes (as long as it is Christmas)
• Sisters of Craft November Challenge (11/30) – Anything Goes
• Crafty Calender November Challenge (11/30) – It’s All About Christmas
• Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #106 (ends 11/18) – Winter Holiday and Ribbon Theme
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #285 (ends 11/20) – Christmas
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #106 (ends 11/20) – Christmas Creation with Ribbon
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge #61 (11/18)  -Anything Goes wit a Twist … Add Some Ribbon

The lovely tag

The flowers and bells

A close-up of the flowers and berries

A close up of the bells and sentiment

The Catalina wreath and pearl strings

A peep at the inside with a smaller tag

Project details:

• Cream and light green card stock
• FabScraps designer paper “Urban Chic Filigree (C31 001)
• My Artistic Adventures Collage sheet “Victorian Christmas Blue Birds Music tags“
• Memory Box die “Catalina wreath” (no. 98189)
• Gold pearl strings
• Hug Snug seam binding “Turquoise”
• Brown wax cord
• Bells
• Red berries
• Silk flowers
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Vintage photo”
• Skwiglues “Gold”

Thank you for visiting today and I hope you are inspired by my card. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

Regards,

Amelia

Spring Is Here

Hello blog friends,

We are celebrating Spring this week at Sugar Creek Hollow and I hope you can join us this week with your flower creations. The theme for our first fortnightly challenge is to create a shabby or vintage card with lots of flowers. The sponsor for this challenge is Heather Hudson and you can visit her shop on Etsy at My Artistic Adventures. The prize for one random winner is 3 collage sheets from her Etsy shop.

From Heather’s beautiful collection of digital sheets she kindly supplied me with the “Vintage chic Victorian Lilacs Envelope, Flowers Spring, Thank You, Birthday Card Digital Collage sheet”. The pink and turquoise colors did compliment the shabby style of the card well. I created a pocket with the envelope image to hide a tag stamped on a Spellbinders die cut. The flowers are mostly from Prima and the birdie a die cut from QuicKutz. For the decoration on the inside I used  the smaller version of the envelope and also the “Happy Birthday” sentiment that is also part of the digital sheet.

I entered my card in the following challenges:

• Creative Card Crew Challenge #35 (ends 05/14) – Bling
• Allsorts Challenge Week #205 (ends 05/11) – Add Some Sparkle
• Fashionista Challenge #15 (ends 05/25) – Shabby or Vintage
• Love To Create Challenge #63 (ends 05/06) – Punches and/or Dies (Tag and bird die and butterfly punch)
• Crafts and Me Challenge #131 (ends 05/08) – Floral Frenzy
• Cuttlebug Mania Challenge  (ends 05/07) – One For Mum Challenge (I used Spellbinders Shapeablities tag die and QuicKutz Birds die)
• The Cutie Pie Challenge #43 (ends 05/13) – Lots of Layers
• Country View Craft Challenge #3 (ends 05/31) – How Does Your Garden Grow?
• Really Reasonable Ribbon’s Ramblings Challenge #71 (ends 05/12) – Sparkle, Bling and Ribbon
• Crafty Calender May Challenge (ends 05/31) – Blooms and Blossoms
• One Stop Craft Challenge #227 (ends 05/11) – Flower Power
• The Cupboard Trilogy Challenge #11 (ends 05/28) – Spring Flowers

The little birdie

The flowers from Prima and Petaloo

The hidden tag stamped with a Whimsy sentiment

A close up of the Spellbinders die cut tag decorated with a bow, lace, rose and a gemstone.

The butterflies and a glimpse of the Kaisercraft postage stamp in the background

A peep at the inside

Full view of the inside decorated with a lace flower, butterfly, small envelope and a birthday sentiment

Project details:

• White cardstock
• Marianne Design designer paper “Birds and Flowers”
• My Artistic Adventures digital collage sheet
• Spellbinders Shapeabilities die “Fancy Tags Two”
• QuicKutz die “Birds” REV-0144-S
• Martha Stewart punch “Classic butterfly”
• Whimsy sentiment stamp “Vintage Seed Packets”
• Kaisercraft clear stamp “Postmarks”
• Hug Snug seam binding “turquoise”
• Prima Fairytale Roses “Baby Pink” and “Teal”
• Prima Tasha “Ruby”
• Prima Kennedy “Blueberry”
• Petaloo Penny Lane Garden Collection Forget me nots “Slate Blue”
• Pink stamens
• Lace
• Gems
• Heart embellishment
• Fancy heart pins
• Skwiglues glitter glue “Crystal”

Thanks for stopping by today. The Design Team at Sugar Creek Hollow created amazing inspirational cards and we will be so glad if you join us this fortnight in our spring celebration challenge. There is a wonderful prize to be won by one lucky participant. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

Regards from South Africa,

Amelia