CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

The CD Sunday Challenge this week is...Bling It On

This is my entry

The card is from Hunkydory. The backing paper is from Peerless Designs..Floral Elegance. The Jewelled Dragonfly is from CaroLines (DE02C392L).

The dragonfly was stamped with Brilliance Pearlescent Orchid ink and embossed with pearl powder. The 'jewels' weredecorated with Glossy Accents, spread into shape with a cocktail stick and then sprinkled with glitter. The 'beads' were tiny pink crystals. larger gemstones were applied to the body.

Strips of the backing paper were layered on to black card and hlued to the main card. Four smaller rectangles of card were glued into the spaces and a pink dragonfly brad attached to each.

The corners of the central square were stippled with Tattered Rose Distress and Brilliance Galaxy Gold

inks. The four flower were punched from the backing paper and decorated with a pink gemstone.

CD SUNDAY AND OOH LA LA

This is my entry for two Challenges

CD Sunday...Mixed Bouquet

Ooh La La...Summer Flowers

The background paper is from Ooh La La CD...Femme Fatale, the flowers and paper on the vase are from MCS.. Paper Flower Expert. The vase and fern are stamps from CaroLines.

The papers and flowers were printed on Conqueror Champagne paper, which give a golden glow.

The vase was stamped and embossed with gold tinsel powder. The ferns were stamped with Pearlescent Ivy Brilliance ink.

Apologies for the lighting but it shows the gold tinge quite well!

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is to use a digistamp as well as images from a CD.

This is my entry

The papers are from Joanna Sheen's CD Eastern Treasures.

The digistamp (flower) is one of my Petal Power digis...DIG001, coloured altered to purples.

I cut the doily die (Martha Stewart) using the Cuttlebug and glued it to white card. Trimmed so points were at the edge. I rounded the corners of the white card and also the other bamboo paper. The latter was glued to lilac card.

The flower digi was printed on to vellum, the pieces cut out and made up according to intsructions. A gemstone made the flower centre. Triangular purple gemstones were glued in some of the doily spaces (what else can you do with triangle gemstones?) and a thin line of glitter applied to the outside of the doily using a Quickie glue pen.

Butterflies punched from the same paper as doily and glued to corners.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is...Say It With Scallops

Here is my entry

The papers are from Peerless Designs..Floral Elegance.

I cut the scalloped square with my Accucut machine. I used Photoshop to create a scalloped circle from one of the papers, imported it to Serif CraftArtist and resized it. It was then cut into four...each quarter was glued to black card which was then glued to the scalloped square (glued on to black card).

The flower is one of my Digistamps, Petal Power 6, printed on to vellum, made according to instructions.

Small pink pearls were then glued around the inner square and four butterflies punched from the same paper.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is...Die Cutting

As I missed last weeks challenge (Oriental) I've made a card using both topics!

The main image and paper are from Joanna Sheen's Oriental Dreams.

The die cut is one of my new Cut-Outs...Corner Diamond 1. I cut it from black card, scanned the diamond part into computer and created a template from it. I then imported the CD image and placed the template ( making it a bit smaller) over it, adjusting the size until it 'looked right'.

The corners were put through a cuttlebug Eastern embossing folder. I then sponged the four corners with Glacier Blue Opalite ink and embossed with several layers of clear powder to create the lacquered effect. The pieces were layered over the paper and mounted on to the card.

Embellished with gems and pearls.

NEW DRAGONFLY STAMPS

I decidied to try Sheena Douglass's Paint Fusion technique with my new Heartistic Dragonfly stamps.

I crackled the large Scalloped Circle Mountboard Cut-Out and stamped 3 of the dragonflies with grey ink.

Then painted the wings and bodies. The whole circle was sprayed with a glitter spray from Crafter's Companion.

NEW MOUNTBOARD SHAPE

We have a new mountboard shape in the Garden Pack of Cut-Outs...a large Watering Can.

Here's what it looks like decorated with a poppy from Sheen Douglass's set of Paint Fusion stamps.

The watering can was painted with 2 coats of black acrylic paint, stamped with Sheena's poppy stamp and leaves, and then painted using her Paint Fusion technique. A layer of Distress Crackle finished it off.