My favourite flowers

Hello lovely people,

I'm still chasing my tail but did take some time out to go to the Great British Craft Festival with Debs and Sue on Sunday and oh boy, did we have a fantastic time!
Many pennies were spent and we all have lots of lovely new stash to play with :-)

Now it's time for a new challenge at As You Like It and we have the theme of...

YOUR FAVOURITE...DIE CUT OR BOUGHT FLOWERS
...and don't forget to tell us why it's your favourite!

Our sponsor this time is All Dressed Up with a prize of 2 digis of the winner's choice

I am a huge fan of any kind of flowers on my projects and although die cut flowers have lots of advantages, especially in the posting department, I think my 3D paper flowers will always be my favourites.
They are so pretty and I love to make little arrangements of them around my image to add dimension to my designs.

I used a new shaped base for this card, which was one of my brilliant bargains from the GBCF and it's perfectly shaped for a circular image...with flowers around it of course!

I coloured the uber cute Penelope with my Inktense pencils in slightly brighter shades than I have used before.

I hope you will pop over to As You Like It and check out the fabulously creative projects from the rest of the team :-)

I will be back tomorrow to show you something VERY exciting...some of you may already know what it is if you subscribe to a certain magazine ;-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Card recipe;

Image: Tiny Townie Penelope has a pencil - Stamping Bella

DP: (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Ribbon: 15mm Sky blue No.3 Berisford satin - The Ribbon Girl

Tags: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Dies: Deco trellis base die set - Tonic Studios, Circle STAX - MFT Die-namics, Fancy flourish - MFT Die-namics

Inktense colours;
Skin: Baked Earth, Madder Brown, Saddle Brown
Hair: Tan, Willow, Oak
Dress / ribbon: Carmine Pink
Pencil body: Deep blue, Navy blue
Pencil tip: Tan, Willow
Pencil rubber: Baked Earth, Willow
Pencil metal band / desk: Charcoal Grey

Shabby chic with The Ribbon Girl

Hello lovely people,

This is a great weekend!

Reason #1 - I had a fab time with friends at a small beer festival yesterday; I do love to sample some real ales :-)

Reason #2 - I am soooooo very excited to announce that I am guesting on the DT this month at The Ribbon Girl!!

I get a guest badge and everything :-)

 I'll have a few projects to show you over the next couple of weeks and first up is my card for the new 'Any Image' challenge.

The Ribbon Girl now stock some utterly gorgeous DPs alongside the amazing selection of ribbon, lace and embellishments.  I have used some Lemoncraft papers, which are really pretty and they inspired the shabby chic style of my card.

I thought a spot of Inktense colouring was called for with to tie in with the lovely soft, vintage feel of the papers.

Thank you to a very special crafting buddy who gave me this stamp; it's one I had my eye on for a while and I totally adore it :-)

I've used a few goodies from The Ribbon Girl on here (listed below), all chosen to work with the shabby chic style.

The little stars were plain wooden ones before I coated them with white acrylic paint, crackle glaze and inked the edges.  It's not often I alter bits and bobs like this but I was rather chuffed with how these turned out :-)

The Ribbon Girl products;

House of roses 6x6 paper pad - Lemoncraft
Cosmos daisy flower, white
Aster, ivory

18mm cream zig zag cotton lace
Ivory button twine
Wooden star buttons

Other products;

Image: Tiny Townie Penelope has a pencil - Stamping Bella

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV
Other flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Embossing enamel: Stampendous Fran-tage, shabby white - from Live & Love Crafts

Inktense colours;
Skin: 1800 Baked Earth, 520 Carmine Pink, 1740 Saddle Brown
Hair: 1900 Willow, 1730 Oak, 2010 Sepia Ink
Dress / bow: 1600 Leaf green
Pencil: 530 Crimson, 600 Shiraz & 1900 Willow & 2100 Charcoal grey & 310 Mid Vermillion

That's 4 days of blogging in a row so thanks to you all for leaving me such lovely comments :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,