Dream Valley Challenge #6 - Flowers

Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a great weekend. Another Sunday sees us with the next challenge at Dream Valley, and this fortnight the theme is everyone's favourite: FLOWERS. Well, as crafters, we all know that if it doesn't move we stick a flower on it, so I know there will be loads of entries for this.  Our sponsor this time is One Stop Craft Shop, and one lucky winner will receive a £10 voucher for their store.

Here's my DT card for the challenge:  this is one of my favourite images for paper-piecing, I like to layer up her dress and make each layer stand out a little over the one below.  The paper-piecing of her dress and shoes was done with the same pale aqua papers that I used for the background and a bit of shading was added with pencils.  For the background, I aged and distressed the papers, then paper-pierced all round the edges and handstitched into the holes.  I printed out a sentiment, and added lace, flowers, pearls, a bow and a heart-shaped button as decoration, along with some glitter on her hair ribbon and dress. I don't usually make cards to a layout, but Cute Card Thursday are asking us to use an old layout or make up our own, so I drew a simple one and arranged my card around it. Hope you like it.

Bow & button, swirls on the designer paper

Glitter & bling (pearls)

The sketch I made up to follow

Recipe:

Image: Magnolia, Tilda With Sunflower

DPs: K&Co, Brenda Walton

Colouring: Copic markers and Faber & Castell Polychromo pencils

Flowers: Prima Sugar Plum Roses (blue) and Fairytale Rose (yellow). Papermania (darker blue)

Pearl spray: Wild Orchid Crafts

Lace, bow, button, thread from my craft stash

Computer-generated sentiment, font is Roman Antique

I'm entering this in these challenges:

ABC DT Challenge - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Crafts & Me - Vintage/distressed
Crafty Pad - Pearls & Swirls (the swirls are in one of the DPs)

Cute Card Thursday - Use any sketch
DDH Challenges - Paper Piecing
Delightful Challenges - Distressing

Fresh Brewed Month long challenge - Flowers

Going Grey/Scrap Creations - Flowers

Incy Wincy Designs - Buttons & Bows (heart-shaped button on the white bow)

Just Magnolia & hAnglar - Buttons, Bows & Bling (heart-shaped button on the white bow, and my bling is the pearls on the pearl sprays)

Let's Ink It Up - Embellish It

Moving Along With The Times - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge - In Stitches

Ooh La La Creations - Aqua, bling and sentiment

Paper Pretties - Paper Piercing
PartyTime Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Show some buttons (heart-shaped button on the white bow)

Stampavie & More - Pearls

Top Tip Tuesday - Square challenge

Totally Gorjuss - 1, 2, 3 (1 image, 2 DPs, 3 roses)

Totally Papercrafts - Glitter (dotted on her dress and on her hair ribbon)

Totally Tilda - Paper Piecing

I won't be blogging much over the next couple of weeks, so if you don't see me dropping into your blogs you'll know why. I'll be back soon though, and will catch up with all the makes I missed.  Have fun!

Carole x