Showing posts with label Rue Des Fleurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rue Des Fleurs. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Simply Stampin' Challenge Theme Week - Regally Royal

The extreme storm front is in full swing here in Perth, Western Australia.  The winds are howling, and they are so strong they keep blowing the front door open.  A thunder storm has just passed through with huge wind gusts and heavy rain.  There has been a heap of clattering noises outside, but so far the roof is still on the house.  We still have about four hours to go before the storm front moves through, and as I will probably not get much sleep tonight I decided to make cards instead.  In case you a wondering I am using my laptop with the battery, not connected to the electricity.  We still have power but about 80,000 poor soles in the south west region of Western Australia are still without power, most of them have been without power since Sunday when the first extreme weather event passed through the region and the tornado hit the suburbs of Dianella and Morley in Perth.

This card is for the challenge at Simply Stampin' Challenge which is Regally Royal. I have made a swing card.  This is the first time that I have made a swing card and found it quite difficult to photograph it to get the full effect of the card.

All products are from Stampin' Up, I added a touch or "Royal" by adding a crown to the swing portion of the card.

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Stampin' Collage

Believe it or not, the inspiration for this card came from my scrap mat.  I was starting to clean up this morning after my cardmaking last night, and the pattern created on my scrap mat with the Music Wheel, En Francais and Elements of Style stamps caught my eye.  I recreated it adding a few other stamps from Artistic Etchings and Creative Elements.  I had a dress left over from yesterday, made with the Rue Des Fleurs so just added this to the card base with a scalloped circle and embossed circle and some other embelishments and a ribbon bow.  Voila finished card.


Friday, 25 May 2012

Mojo Monday Challenge #242

The Mojo Monday Challenge this week is based on the following sketch:


I just could not help myself, I have used the Elements of Style stamp set again.  I had already coloured the dress, made using the Rue Des Fleurs stamp set (cased from Ruthy Clarke), with Real Red and I needed a background paper to match.  So I stamped the Elements of Style image on the First Edition Specialty DSP and coloured it with Real Red and Old Olive Stampin' Write Markers. 

The Basic Black and Very Vanilla pieces have been embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, but the embossing on the Basic Black piece does not show up very well in the photo.

Angela Sargent had a great idea of making the rhinestone buckle using Window Sheets, the 3/4" and 1/2" ircle punches and basic jewel rhinestones.  The finishing touch, a piece of Very Vanilla Velvet Designer ribbon threaded though the rhinestone buckle.