Forgotten Friday 33 - With Love

While we are away in October it is our 31st Wedding Anniversary, so for this weeks Forgotten Friday project I have decided to make a card for Hubby. I have used this lovely image from Chocolate Baroque called Romantica. It was stamp with Black Memento ink and then distressed with Peeled Paint ink pad. The backing paper I think was from the Adorables Christmas CD, I say think as it was in my off cuts box and matched the colours I'd picked, again I went around the edges of the paper with the Peeled Paint ink pad. Next I added a bit of ribbon from my stash, and some Prima flowers, the swirl is a Marianne die. Finally the sentiment is from another Chocolate Baroque stamp sheet.

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Sue

CD Sunday - Black And Blue

What a nice surprise, I came back from holiday to find that I was second in the top three from the Peacock challenge over on the CD Sunday Challenge Blog the other week, Thank you. I must admit to being thrown when I saw what this weeks challenge was, but after thinking about it for a couple of hours this is what I've come up with. I used MCS, Lavender and Paper Lace, and the silhouette folders from both of the Cd's, using 4 different images to make my topper. I then found a backing paper in shades of green, which I changed in the effects section to shades of blue. I then colour picked one of the blues to make a plain background, and with 2 more of the silhouettes made another backing paper to mount the topper onto. I printed the same blue onto a sheet of plain white card and folded this in half to make my card base. I mounted the topper and backing paper onto black card, added some black organza ribbon and some black gems from my stash.

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Sue

Forgotten Friday 32 - Pear Mandela

I'm a couple of days late posting this card for the Forgotten Friday challenge, as I have been away for the past week in Devon with my Mother. We had a lovely time and although the weather forecasts did not promise good weather, we managed not to get wet at all, any rain falling at night. Now it's back to normal for two weeks, then I am away again, with Hubby this time to Florida.

Here is this weeks card, made with the Pear Mandela stamp from Chocolate Baroque, I hate to admit this but it's the first time I've used this stamp. I stamped it out five times and then coloured each layer with water colour pencils. I then cut them out and layered them, putting just a little glitter to the bottom layer. The backing paper is from the Seasons Greetings CD, also from Chocolate Baroque, I cut this to size then just ran the Pine Needles Distress ink pad around the edge. There was also a larger pear and larger partridge which I stamped and added to the corners. The greeting is from another stamp sheet (sorry can't remember which one).

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Sue

Peacock Lady

One card 2 challenges. This week I was running a bit behind, I normally make something for the Forgotten Friday challenge that Judith holds on her blog, and then something for the CD Sunday challenge. This week I have combined them and just made the one card. I have used this lovely image of a Peacock Lady that comes from Chocolate Baroque called Peacock Ladies. As it's has not been used for 2 years or more, it more than qualifies for the Forgotten Friday challenge, which asks you to make something from your forgotten or neglected stash. The theme this week at the CD Sunday blog is Peacocks, and I think that this lady in her Peacock finery covers that. I have also made it for my Daughters Birthday, which is in October (She does not live at home or visit my blog), when I will be sunning myself on a beach somewhere in Florida.

To make this card I used, a sheet of centura pearl card in a turquoise  shade to make large size square card. The backing paper was printed from the Peacock Summer Party CD also from Chocolate Baroque, I mounted this onto some matt silver mirri card. The stamp was coloured with promarkers and distress ink pads. I used a Martha Stewart punch to make the band across the middle, and added some ribbon. The feather I bought sometime ago but never got around to using.  The gems used are a lovely colour of peacock green but don't really show in the photo, and finally the sentiment was computer generated.

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Sue

Forgotten Friday 30 - Adorable Christmas

Two and a half weeks without the Internet, and what have I been up to, Making Christmas cards among other things. Last year I bought the Crafter Companion Adorables Christmas collection, and this is the first time its had an outing, so qualifies for the Forgotten Friday challenge. For this card I have used a large square card base. The backing papers were cut to size, then I went around the edges with a faded jeans distress ink pad. I also did this on the card used for the decoupage, I then added some glitter to the fur on the clothes and the top of the sign post. I found some Christmas peel offs in the cupboard so added on of these to a spellbinders banner.

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Sue

CD Sunday - Just Because...

.... I love the flower fairies. For the last two and a half weeks I've had no Internet, as we have just changed our provider. I'm glad to say that we are at long last back online. I thought "it will only be for a couple of weeks, I can manage that", but it felt more like a couple of months. I missed the fact that I had come in the top three with my entry to the Buttons challenge, Thank You Ladies. For this weeks challenge I have used one of the beautiful Flower Fairies, I will admit to having this already cut out ready to go with the backing papers, I just hadn't got around to putting it together. I used a large square card base, mounted the backing papers and decoupage topper onto some pink mirri card, added some pink organza ribbon and some corners made with a Marianne die.

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Sue

CD Sunday - Buttons

This week the Challenge over on the CD Sunday challenge blog is Buttons. Like the ladies I have chosen to use the Grandmas Buttons CD, having bought this when it was on Create and Craft, it has sat on my shelf and not been used. I don't know why because it has some really beautiful images, backing papers, and sentiments on. There were so many great colours in the backing papers to choose from, but for this card I wanted to keep it quite muted, so that the topper and decoupaged imaged stood out well. I mounted the backing paper and sentiment onto gold mirri card, before mounting it onto an A5 card base. The decoupage was mounted onto a Marianne Die that I coloured with Dried Marigold Distress Ink. I added the buttons to the corners, threading them first with embroidery threads in different colours. After adding the sentiment, I found some flowers that I felt went well with the colours and just added some buttons to the centres.

I have to say a big thank you to Judith who recently sent me a wonderful box of crafting goodies, inside was a little jar with some brightly coloured buttons, these are what I have used on this card.

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Sue

Friday - Not Quite Forgotten

This has got to be a first for me, two posts in one day. Judith at Poppy Cottage is on Holiday at the moment so there's no Forgotten Friday this week, but I could not let Friday pass without making something  from my neglected and forgotten stash. This week I found this stamp which comes from the Flora and Fauna stamp sheet, available from Chocolate Baroque . I love this gorgeous Geranium, and have several large pots in my garden with these planted in them amongst the other plants. This was stamped with Memento black ink and then coloured with promarkers. I then distressed the edges with a Tattered Rose distress ink pad. The backing paper is from the Essence of Nature CD, also available from Chocolate Baroque. I mounted the image and backing paper onto some green card stock, and added some red ribbon. I decided not to add a sentiment to this card as it will go into my store cupboard.

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Sue

Recency Seasons - Bonnets

Today has seen the launch of Nancy Watt's Regency Seasons. This is a MCS Click, Print, Go twin CD, and a Pick Of The Week on Create and Craft . I'm one lucky person, as I got to make some samples for this wonderful new CD. Below are the samples that I've made, as well as the beautiful images used to make these, I've also used mirri card, a couple of peel offs, ribbons, flowers, pearls, gems and Marianne dies.

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Sue

CD Sunday - Bling It Up

The challenge this week over at the CD Sunday blog is Bling it up. For this I have used Debbi Moore's Diamonds and Lace CD. After printing out the backing paper and mounting it onto some gold mirri card, I added a couple of corners cut with a Marianne die, I also added a strip of gold mirri card that was left over. I've added Bling to the border in the form of gems and also went around the edge of the topper and sentiment with gold glitter, adding a gem at either end of the sentiment. I then just added a little iridescent glitter to the dress and a gem in the front of the fur wrap.

Thank you for looking, your kind comments are appreciated.

Sue