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

Colouring Skies challenge

Good afternoon, bloggers. Has everyone got that Friday feeling?

Staying up late on a Thurday to get my card finished for the Make It Colourful challenge has become something of a habit now, I usually only manage to get it done at the last minute. I nearly didn't make a card for it this week as I wasn't at all happy with my work, but it has grown on me and the cunning placement of Tilda to cover the bits where I really messed up has turned out well.  The theme this week is Colouring Skies, and I decided to try and make stormy clouds with the sun just emerging at the end of all the rain. This meant I could use this adorable Tilda with her umbrella. A simple card today as I was short on time and energy.

I paper-pieced Tilda's brolly, coat and wellies using the same paper that you see in the background, and added some shading to the paper. The sky was coloured on a narrow scrap of paper because I was only practising, and with the fence in front of it made an overall image that wasn't deep enough, so to make the picture longer I hand-cut some paper and coloured it with copics to make the hills. Then I used a Make It Colourful digi image of the garden fence, and placed Tilda in front of this on 3d foam pads. I made up the sentiment as I felt it suited the fact that the sun is emerging from the clouds and would make the card useful as either a Get Well or a Thinking of You card.

Copic Creations this week is asking for projects with your favourite paper for using with Copic markers. My fave is Bristol Board which is what I've used on this card. 

Images: Magnolia Tilda, Make It Crafty Petals & Palings

DP: K&Co

Colouring: Copic markers and Polychromo pencils

Computer-generated sentiment, fonts 'English' and 'Essays1743'

I am entering this in these challenges:

Make It Colourful - Colouring sky

Copic Creations - favourite paper for copics (Bristol Board)

Papertake Weekly - Truly Dimensional (Tilda is raised up on 3d pads, the fence stands a little away from the background scene)

Aud Sentiment Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Paper Piecing

Cute Card Thursday - Weather Inspired

Digital Tuesday - Little Women (digi stamp of fence, and computer-generated sentiment are the digital elements)

Partytime Tuesdays - April Showers

My Partner in Crafting Crime - Layer it up (4 layers here: the sky, the hills, the fence stamp and the Tilda image)
GuyLou's Inimitability - April Showers, include an umbrella

Just quickly to share with you, my balloon chair card was voted one of the top 3 at Make It Colourful, which is the challenge I created that card for so I am ever so pleased about that.

 

And I recently won a challenge prize for my Mothers Day card - a voucher for Joanna Sheen's shop! Never actually won a prize before so this is great. The voucher arrived in the post this morning, complete with a lovely handmade card. When you think that they could simply have emailed me the voucher, this is such a nice added extra, don't you think?

Finally, Anne from Stamps & Paper recently awarded me this: The rules for this award are:

1) Post about it on your blog and link over to the sender (thank them as well) 

2) Pass it on to those who visit your blog and leave comments regularly.

Anne, thank you for thinking of me for this award. There are many lovely bloggers that regularly visit my blog and leave very welcome comments, so I'd like you all to pick up the award with my thanks.

Hope you like the card. Happy crafting!

Carole x

Tilda Challenge / Copic Creations Challenge - Paper-Piecing and shading

Hi all, hope everyone had a good weekend.  Mine was a very crafty one, managed to find my mojo after a bit of a dry spell and started and finished 3 cards!  It meant I was up till 3am 2 nights running, but great to get stuck into something creative again.


This is one of my makes......Fluffles is doing the Tilda challenge on Docrafts this week and she chose paper-piecing as the theme.  Well, this is one of my favourite techniques, not least because it gets me out of colouring what for me is the most difficult part of the image.  The challenge over on Copic Creations is also for paper-piecing, with the addition of shading on the cut paper. 


I adore this Tilda image, but it's not the easiest to paper-piece, as I found out.  The coat and gloves are cut from the pale cream backing paper (there's big hole in the middle under the mat where I stamped the coat for cutting out), and I used W1, W3 and W5 copics to add shading to the clothes.  Shading onto patterned paper was very much a new thing to me, and I fiddled around with it so much that you can't really see the pattern on the paper any more.  Nevermind, it was fun to make and I'm definitely going to try this again. Hope you like it.

Enjoy the rest of your Monday.

Carole x