Happy Easter!

I wish you and your families a wonderful Easter.

Take care, Petra. x

Lunagirl - Blue Christmas

Christmas seems to be approaching with big steps ... and I cannot wait to celebrate this wonderful time with family and friends. Jane decorated our office today with a little Christmas tree, I put up some sparkly stars and a delightful banner made by Jane. The office looks so much more homely and welcoming. The little banner I created for Lunagirl Moonbeams new challenge: Blue Christmas will also find its way into our office tomorrow.  It was inspired by one of Nancy's projects, thank you so much for the inspiration.

The delightful images are from Lunagirl's Blue Christmas collage sheet

layered on musical note paper from Kaisercraft

The banner pages are die-cut from K&Company paper 

and adorned with vintage buttons, little bows and glittery die-cut holly leaves.

You will find great inspiration for the challenge on the Lunagirl Moonbeams blog, hope you can join us.

Petra.

Linked to: Inspiration Avenue - Christmas

KingsDay

Well, this has been a bit of an unusual project and it all came about because one of my dear colleagues and friends is Dutch. The Cards & Scrap' challenge for this month is: Queensday! Actually, the crowning of our new King. The challenge is: make a triptych for the Oranges in the limelight.
I decided to look into the future and crown the new King with a little banner (lol)

 

 For the banner I prepared three card panels cut with Nestabilities dies. 

The basic colour is orange in various shades.

The panels were inked, stencilled and stamped (PaperArtsy, Eline Pellinkhof, Personal Impressions) 

with distress and pigment inks and heat embossed with clear gloss embossing powder.

As the colour looked a bit flat I sprayed each panel with Perfect Pearls 

which gave them a nice shimmery surface - fit for a King and ready to be decorated

Tulip panel: 

stamped tulip from Hero Arts coloured with distress inks and Copics

ribbon from Marianne Design

 

King panel:

image from the web cut with Nestabilities die and covered with Glossy Accents

crown cut from white card with Sizzix Alterations die, coloured with Copics and covered with Stickles

crystals added around the image and to the crown

Mulberry flower

Windmill panel:

windmill image from kids colouring page coloured with Sharpies

windmill wings made of ribbon (Marianne Design), button

handcut gras, paper: October Afternoon

felt flower with a little bling

I really enjoyed myself when creating the banner and hope my friend likes it. Have a lovely weekend, Petra.