Beautiful Mermaid

It's team B's turn to host the challenge over at The Paper Shelter for the next two weeks and the theme is...

Use your Ribbons

 We would love to see your fabulous creations and you could win a great prize.

I have two cards for you today using the same image, the reason I have two is that I was having terrible trouble with the easel card, I printed the image too big, cut papers too small, it was just one disaster after another, I ended up chucking the half made version across my desk and giving up. I had a bit of a re-think and came up with the over the edge card idea, so next morning while looking after my grandson I put my card together in Photoshop and printed everything out, while I was waiting for him to drop off to sleep I resized the original image and printed the paper again and as soon as he was asleep I went into the craft room and made the new card, when it was finished and he was still sleeping I managed to get the easel card finished too, without any problems this time.

Image - Beautiful Mermaid - The Paper Shelter

Digital Papers - Coconut Grove - Melissa Bennett at Sweet Shoppe Designs

Shells - Marianne Creatables - LR0230

Bunting - Pennant - Penny Black Creative dies

Scalloped circle - Tonic layering dies

Ribbons and gems - Meiflower

Image as above

Digital Papers - Beach Girls - lliella at Sweet Shoppe Designs

Shells - as above

X cut corner rounder large

Ribbon and gems as above

Pop over to the Paper Shelter challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by,
hugs,
Colette xx

Fashion Diva

Here's a card I made last week, it's a bow fronted card with acetate. I wouldn't normally make this style of card because you can't get it in an envelope and I prefer cards that you can pop into a post box, but a friend wanted to know how to make them so we did it together so that she could see how it's done.

I used the Debbi Moore Fashion Diva CD to print out the topper and decoupage, papers, flowers and sentiment then added ribbon and pearls from Meiflower to finish it off.

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding invitation sample #9

Here's number 9 of my wedding invitation samples, this time I went with a peachy orange colour.

I alternated peach and white squares, finishing off with a piece of ribbon and a heart diamante topper, the whole thing was layered onto peach and white card, tied up with the same colour ribbon as I used on the topper.

Ribbon and Diamante slider - Meiflower

Thanks for dropping by and taking a look,

hugs,

Colette xx

Daisies and Diamonds!

It's time for another Paper Creator challenge and this time the theme chosen by me is

Daisies and Diamonds

now the daisies could be actual daisies, a picture of daisies, or a daisy paper pattern and the diamonds could be a diamond shape or actual diamonds! (crystal gems will do LOL!).

You don't have to use Paper Creator products to play along, but if you do you get a second entry into the draw for a £10 voucher to spend in the store.

Now I bet you're wondering why on earth I put those two things together aren't you , well the reason is that Diamond is the birthstone for April and Daisies and Sweet peas are the flowers, and I thought that daisies would be easier to do than sweet peas LOL!

I have two cards for you today made using a couple of the new kits in store, both the card kits come with matching envelopes and boxes.

I must apologise for the fact that squares looks pale blue, and the daisy oval background is very washed out,  I printed it just before my printer ran out of yellow ink and hadn't realised that it had printed the wrong colours until I was linking up the product, it should look like this.

Just Daisies card kit - Paper Creator

La La Land die 8008 filigree corner

Ribbon and "diamonds" - Meiflower

Simple Daisies card kit - Paper Creator

X-cut palm punch - large daisy

Ribbon, charm and "diamonds" - Meiflower

Don't forget to pop over to the Paper Creator challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look,

have a lovely weekend,

hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding Invitation sample #8

I've gone with a more fun invite today, I just loved the quirky image.

When I showed the card to my daughter Stacy, she said this would be the perfect invitation for her and her partner Neill as the only way she would get him down the aisle would be by dragging him there LOL! (they have been together for 13 years and have two children, got engaged about four years ago, but no plans for a wedding as yet)

Image - Sergio Hayashi  at 123rf

Paper- Some Birdy loves you - Crazy 4 monograms

X-cut Scalloped border punch

Ribbon, gems and diamante ribbon slider - Meiflower

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Boy and Girl Holy Communion

Last year I coloured up a couple of images to make First Holy Communion cards for some of my friends children, only to find out that there wouldn't be any taking place in Liverpool because things were changing around the way it was being done, not being Catholic myself I don't know all the ins and outs, but I do know they are definitely taking place this year, so I have finally made my images up into cards.

The layout for both cards is exactly the same, but I have used satin ribbon, gems, glitter and a fancier border punch on the girl card and grosgrain ribbon, pearls and a plain scallop border punch on the boys.

Digital stamps - Communion Prayer boy and girl - Di's digistamps

Digital Papers - Boys and Girls First communion - Gabz Design shop Etsy

Lifestyle nesting Scalloped circle dies

Lifestyle nesting circle dies

X cut scallop border punch

EK Success slim edger  punch - Arch Scallop

Ribbons, gems, pearls - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding Invitation sample #7

Quite a few of the wedding invitations I have seen recently have been made using Kraft card and paper, so I decided I would give it a go.

I have once again used the Tonic Intrica deep edge butterfly punch and punched on both sides of a strip of Kraft card, I've also die cut names from the card. The flower is made with Kraft paper - I die cut lots of scalloped circles in three different sizes, put a brad through the middle then scrunched all the layers up, before opening out.

I added a large AB crystal to the centre of the flower and smaller ones down the ribbon and on the first letter of each name along with a heart shaped dazzle between the names.

Kraft card - Anna Marie Designs

Tonic Intrica Butterfly deep edge border punch

Die-versions - Little Lizzie font

Ribbon, gems and heart shaped dazzle - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by

hugs,

Colette xx