Vintage/Shabby chic for Digital Tuesday

It's time for a new challenge over at Digital Tuesday and this week we have a fab inspiration picture from Maya to be inspired by.

Isn't it gorgeous! I really enjoyed this challenge :)

Our sponsor this week is Mayzy Art who also gave the design team images to play with.

She has some great images and I suggest you go check out her store if you haven't already, but don't blame me for you blowing all your pay on her digis!! lol

Unfortunately my image doesn't go so well with the style of card I made as I was the last to choose an image (we had to all choose a different one and I thought I would be nice and let everyone else choose first lol) and I chose one that didn't go so well with the shabby chic kind of style, but I still love the image and will defo use it again :)

So here's what I did.....please remember I made this with one hand more or less lol.

Be prepared for quite a few pics as there's a quite a lot of detail on this one that you can't really see properly in the main pic, so I took close ups :)

 

I used some Raspberry Road papers in the colours of the inspiration pic and glittered (with stickles) all the edges of the cream card I used to mat the layers with.

Also the flowers and die cuts are glittered to really make the card sparkle.

The larger flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the small ones are from my stash, as is the pink pearl hearts, lace and sequined/beaded ribbon.

I used a fiskars (I think) punch to do the decorative corners. It's one of those which punches on one side and punch/embosses with the other, so I punched the pattered paper and embossed the cream card, but you don't really see the embossing as I covered most of it up lol.

The image is called Jean and I have coloured her with Copics, and cut her out with a Nellie Snellen die, then inked and glittered the edges.

The flourish was cut with a Marianne die.

 

The pretty metal corner was a gift from my bloggy friend Ger.

This die cut (the one under the image) was also cut with a Marianne die.

And finally, I added a beautiful butterfly which was also a gift from my friend Ger. Thank you hun xx

I must admit I didn't really want to use this on my card as I only have 1 left now and I love them. I wanted to keep them just to look at lol, but I was brave and used one lol.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you will pop over and check out what the rest of the dt have done and maybe join in with this weeks challenge.

Lora x

A very girly ballet dancer :)

It's time for a new challenge over at By The Cute and Girly. I can't believe it's July already!!

It was Brigitte's turn to choose the challenge theme this month and she chose "A Day At....."

I think this is a really fun challenge because it could be a day anywhere.

For my first card this month, I decided I would do a day at the ballet:)

Mayzy Art is our digi sponsor this month and she offered the design team an image each to play with for the challenge so I picked a really girly one (nothing new there then lol).

We are also sponsored by our two regular sponsors, Simon Says Stamp and Joanna Sheen who are giving away a $20 and £10 gift certificate as well as Mayzy Art giving away 5 digital images of the winners choice from her store!! So why not pop over and join in with the challenge? 

As I said I made a girly card with a Mayzy Art image. The image is called Digi Dancers Ballet.

Sorry about the rubbish pic! I took it in a hurry when there was hardly any light!

I've coloured the pretty image with Copics and added some Stardust Stickles to make her sparkly.

The papers are from the Dreamcatcher pad by First Edition, love the sparkly papers in this pad:)

I've covered up most of the purple paper which is lovely and sparkly but it is there lol.

I also used some pink fiber stuff (can't remember what's it called) which I found in my stash.

Flowers are Wild Orchid crafts, which added some stickles too, ribbon, pin and doily from my stash, the cute charm was a gift from Geraldine and the gorgeous butterfly which I also added some stickles to, is from Little Snippets Etsy store, which is open again and selling all the lovely embroidered embellies again:) as well as crotchet bits, pins and ribbons.

 I popped over to have a look so I could add a direct link to the butterfly, but this one isn't posted in the store just now, although I'm sure Ger will add it soon.

I have a habit of posting cards made with bits that aren't even in the store! lol, but Ger is great, just let her know what you are looking for and I'm sure she will sort you out with whatever you are after (embellishment wise of course!! lol)

 I forgot to take a note of the Copic colours I used for this one as I coloured it a few weeks ago, but I have been keeping lists when I remember lol.

Thanks for stopping by today and I promise I will be back soon with my paper review that I said I would do!!