Pretty In Pink

This is a recent card I made for a Grandma to give to her granddaughter. The request was for the card to be pink and feature a little girl.

I started with an 8x8 scalloped edge card blank. I did my matting and layering using Dovecraft Back to Basics papers and silver mirri card. Image is 'Busy Doing Nothing' by Sheena Douglass, coloured with Promarkers. Dress/sash have been paper pieced using My Mind's Eye and Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose papers and matted onto Spellbinders Labels 8 shape. Sentiment is from magazine freebie paper pad. The larger flowers were made with a Nellie Snellen medium flower punch and the small ones with a Papermania Midi punch. The flourish is Marianne Creatables Swirl Leaf die. Ribbons and gems from stash.

Apologies for the blurry photo - photos 2, 3 and 4 are clear shots!

                                             Close-ups of flower & swirl detail

Box made from Centura Pearl with Memory Box Butterfly Vine border detailing

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies - Pretty in Pink

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Use a Rubber or Clear Stamp

Live & Love Crafts - Use Pink

A Creative Romance: Pink

Thanks for looking!

LOTV Birthday

I decided to make this card using the Papertake Weekly sketch but think I'm out of time now to enter this challenge (just checked and yes, I am). It was a great sketch to follow and one that will definitely be used again. Not sure if the photo shows that the wings, skirt and seeds are all glittered. I also added wee pink gems to her floral headdress and the flowers.

Image - LOTV - Dandelion Clock -S216 - stamped with Memento and coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Papermania

DPs - Flowery - My Mind's Eye (magazine freebie)

        - Striped  - Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose (magazine freebie)

Pink Card & Gems - Stash

Flowers - Papermania Elements

Thanks for looking.

Have a Tweet Day !

Today's card has been made for the latest challenge over on the MSE board. So back to my favourite lilac again and this time with a hint of pink. I wanted to try out something I've seen on one or two blogs in the past, most notably Mandy's - A Sprinkling of Glitter - so used my Martha Stewart PATP set to make a pretty shaped card front and then decorated away! I also got to use one of my new Spellbinders dies from the recent C&C Multibuy Six Set offer. Can you believe I've had them about 10 days and only just cracked the first set open.

and a sideways view:

Coredinations Textured Cardstock
Image & Sentiment  - Pink Petticoat - magazine freebie
DPs - Pink Spotted - Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose
        - Lilac Glittered - Papermania Henbury Lane Collection
Ribbon & Pearls from Stash
Flower - K&Company (I think)

Tools Used:
Martha Stewart PATP - Scroll Lace
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Floral Flourishes S4-327
Card Candy - CraftworkCards

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

MSE Challenge - this time hosted by OA
One Stitch at a Time challenge 67 - Things with Wings
Top Tip Tuesday challenge 38 - Open Challenge

Thanks for looking.

A Little Experiment

This card came about because I wanted to try colouring ordinary white card with promarkers to match my design papers.  This was an idea from Coops   (http://coopsclutteredcorner.blogspot.com/)    that I read in the comments section on Alison's (http://xxxtglxxx.blogspot.com/)  blog.   I started with the lovely floral Pink Petticoat paper and went from there. You can just about see my pink Promarker-ed card behind the DP and the Sentiment. I was also looking for a suitable card to give the Marianne bird die-cut its first airing.

DP - Pink Petticoat - magazine freebie

White card, gems and ribbon from stash  - Pink card (bird) Bazzill Bling

Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment - Boxed Wishes by Inkadinkadoo

Tools used:  Marianne Creatables Die - LR0138

Thanks for looking.