Saturday 26 February 2011

Melinda

Challenges

Magical Monday (16) - Lace
Pollycraft (81) - Diamonds & Pearls

Creative Card Crew - Fantasy
Papertake - Sketch

Whiff Of Joy (98) - Paper Piecing
Truly Scrumptious (51) - Swirls & Pearls
ABC - O is for Ovals
Simon Says - Coffee & Cream
Totally Papercrafts (55) - Paper piecing

What a great sketch to follow and I shall definately be using it again. I started by covering my base card with this gorgeous swirly paper and placing some pearls in the corners. Next I punched a strip of card for a lace effect and attached with d/s tape. Having stamped and coloured the image I layered it with Nesties. I then paper pieced her clothes and glittered her wings. I replaced the strip at the side of the sketch with a die cut scroll and added gem (diamonds) flowers. If you look closely you will see that I have pooped a little pearl seed bead into the centres of the gem flowers. A few more pearls added to the image finishes the card. I now think I should have left these last few pearls off, what do you think? Thanks for looking.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Whiff Of Joy
Papers - Pink Petticoat
Large Pearls - Paper cellar
Gems/Seed Pearls - Stash

16 comments:

Claire said...

What a beautiful card - love the colours and the swirly paper. Hugs, Claire x

MagsB said...

How elegant and chic your card is! I love that image! The paper-pieced dress looks so beautiful on her!

luv, Mags x

cheryl said...

oh this is just gorgoues,hun love that image,and super detail hugs cheryl xxxx

Chrissy said...

I love your paper piecing on her dress,sooo lovely.
Luv CHRISSYxx

Michele Roos said...

Such a gorgeous card - love the image you've used and the wonderful details also. Thanks for joining us this week at TS. Hugs Michele x

Heather said...

Gorgeous card Christine, your papers are just beautiful and I love the gorgeous Melinda paper pieced dress.

So glad you could join us at both the Truly Scrumptious and Simon Says Stamp challenges.
hugs
Heather xx

Unknown said...

Such a sweet & lovely card! Thanks for joining us at The ABC Challenge this week!
/Sari

Louise said...

This is so pretty! Love your paper piercing, it´s so beautiful :)
Stunning dp´s as well :)
Thank´s for joining us at the WOJ challenges :)
Hugs ♥

Kylie said...

Great card. Thanks for joining us at Pollycraft this week!

Hugs, Kylie xo

tiggertastic said...

adore your stamping onto the same paper, it works so well

Good luck in the challenges, hugs Sarah-Louise My Blog

Designing for:
Crafty Purple Frog , Creative Card Crew ,Bearly Mine Designs and Kenny K

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

Oh how soft and beautiful!! I just love the colors and the design!! Such a sweet image! Thank you for joining us at Whiff of Joy challenges.

Jane said...

This is so pretty! thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp and Whiff of Joy! hugs, Jane x

Marion said...

Beautiful card and so elegant. Thanks for playing along at Magical Mondays.

Cathy said...

Beautiful card and love the paper piecing. Thank you for joining in the Oval challenge at the ABC challenge.
Cathy xx

Heidi said...

Gorgeous! Thanks for joinging Magical Mondays Lace Challenge!

Lorraine A said...

Gorgeous card :-) the image is beautiful and the papers and colours are perfect :-)

thanks for joining us on the TPC, PTW and Simon Says Stamp Challenges :-)
luv
Lols x x x