A Friend Is …

Hello friends,

Time for a new challenge at Double D Challenges. I am joining Team Darlene for this challenge with the theme of “Friendship”. Looking at the mood board I decided to use the tile with the sentiment as inspiration for my vintage card. Please visit the Double D challenge blog and see more wonderful samples from Double “D”s talented designers and join in the fun!

I used a vintage scrap and designer paper from the Graphic 45 series”Secret Garden” for my background. I then stamped my sentiment on a beautiful oval die cut and layered it with mirror tape on the base card for a bit of dimension. I finished off with wax cord bows, paper roses, pearls, a heart and glitter. This was a  quick and easy vintage card to make and I hope the recipient will love it.

The sentiment

The flowers and birds

A peep at the inside

Project details

Cream card-stock — Graphic45 designer paper — Spellbinders Nestabilities Majestic Elements “Radiant Rectangles” (S5-161) — JustRite stamp set ‘Song in my Heart” (JB-09865) — Pale peach roses — Wax cord — Pearls — Tim Holtz distress inks “Antique Linen”

That’s it from me today! I hope you like my card. If you do, please leave a comment – I love reading them. Have a great day and happy crafting.

Regards,

Amelia

Christmas Joy

Hello blog friends,

It’s time for another vintage/shabby chic challenge over at Sugar Creek Hollow.  For this challenge we are looking for your beautiful tags and/or boxes (could be for Christmas) in the vintage or shabby style. Bonnie Garby is our guest designer this time and you can see her lovely work on her blog Make Time 2 Craft

With the festive season around the corner I took the opportunity to make a Christmas tag for this new challenge. For the tag I choose a stamp from Clearly Impressed which I bought from a local scrapbook company Scrapbook-Direct. I love to use gold on my Christmas creations, so I embossed the deer in gold  as well as the flourish on the back of the tag. To give dimension to the image I stamp a second deer, cut it out and pop it up with mirror tape. The tag shape was cut with a Spellbinders Nestablities Majestic Elements die “Radiant Rectangles”. The flowers are from the Petaloo Canterbury collection “Magnolia blossoms”. The sentiment letters on the small label are peel off stickers.Tim Holtz distress ink “Vintage photo” around the edges and on the seam binding help to achieve a vintage look.

Challenges:

• Crafty Girls Challenge #6 (ends 11/28) – Anything Goes
• Vintage Stamping Challenge #14 (ends 12/01) – Traditional Christmas Time
• Card and Scrap Utfordring #65 (ends 11/28) – Juletags/pakkelapper
• Penny Black and More November Challenge (ends 11/27) – Anything Goes (Stamp from Clearly Impressed)
• Crafts-Too Challenge #5 Week 3 (ends 12/05) – A Vintage Christmas Week 3 Twist Polychromatic (I used the colors Cream, Red, Gold, Vintage Photo distress ink and a hint of Green)
• Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenges #193 (ends 11/19) – Anything Goes
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #70 (ends 11/20) – Anything Goes  with Ribbon
• Crafting by Designs (ends 11/19) – Anything Goes with a Twist of Christmas
• The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge (11/24) – Embossing (Wet embossing for deer and flourish)
• Ribbon Carousel Challenge RCC#87 (ends 11/30) – Holidays and Celebrations (Spooled items: ribbon and gold thread)
• Artistic Inspirations Challenge #67 (ends 11/18) – Use A Sentiment / Anything Goes
• Sparkle N Sprinkle Challenge SNSSC25 (ends 11/30) – Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing powder and/or Flocking (I used glitter and gold embossing powder)
• Scribble and Scrap Challenge #5 (ends 11/24) – Always Anything Goes
• Crafty Calender November Challenge (ends 12/06) – All Things Christmas
• Sparkles Monthly Challenge CH#50 (ends 12/14) – Animals
• A Little Bit Crafty November Challenge (ends 11/28) – Sparkle and Shine!

The flowers, bow, pearls and bells

The Clearly Impressed image “Xmas Deer” embossed with gold embossing powder

The tag with the sentiment

The back of the tag

Project details:

• Cream and red cardstock
• Clearly Impressed clear stamp sets “Xmas Deer” ( CI-2054) and “Vintage” (CI-2045)
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Majestic Elements “Radiant Rectangles”
• Crafter’s Companion Die’sire die “Scalloped tags”
• Gold detail embossing powder
• Petaloo Cabterbury collection “Magnolia blossoms” (Burgundy)
• Lace
• Pearls
• Hug Snug seam binding “Lipstick red”
• Gold thread
• Tim Holtz distress ink “Vintage photo”
• Peel Off stickers for sentiment.
• Stickles “Gold”

Thanks for stopping by today, I appreciate your visits and comments so much. I hope you’ll visit Sugar Creek Hollow and play along with our Tags and/or Boxes challenge this fortnight.  The Design Team made beautiful creations to give you inspiration. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

Regards from South Africa,

Amelia