Friends in Favourite Colours

Just a little card for a very good friend. I choose my favourite colours: white-red (preferably darker red) -black

Supplies:
papers - textured white card, dotted Bazzill red and black card, Doodlebug Design
image - Digital Two for Tuesday
stamp - Elzybells
ink - VersaColor
colouring - Koh-i-noors with OMS
ribbon - from my stash
pearls - Kanban
Nestabilities, Sizzix flower dies

I love this little image from Digital Two for Tuesday, it is really sweet. To match the colour scheme I did some fuzzy cutting in red patterned paper for the hats and dresses. Looking at the card I am not 100% happy with it. I am not sure what it is ... I think I will have another go soon (LOL).
This card fits two challenges: Gingersnap Creations '3 Colours You Love' and Cupcake Crafts challenges 'Friends'.
Have a good start into the new week ahead, Petra.

Whimsical Altered Spoons

The Artistclass projects are wonderful, absolutely inspiring and I have already learned a lot - although I am hopelessly behind with my projects ... :-( but I enjoy every minute of it. Mary Green from Green Paper and all participating artist have done a great job in organising this class and putting all bits and pieces together.

Nancy Maxwell James from Sugar Lump Studios offered the tutorial for the whimsical spoons. I must admit that at first it didn't go very well. I am not quite sure what happened ... I was covered in glue and paper and glitter (far more than usual) but the spoon didn't look at all as expected ... so I dismantled it and started again ... and once I got the hang of it I couldn't stop myself (LOL). I used some old spoons from Peter's Mum. They are quite curved but luckily it still worked.Every spoon is slightly different as I wanted to try some variations.

Isn't she a darling? The image is from Carol Anne's Boutique. I love the way all the little details come to life because of the varnish. The darling sentiment I cut from one of the Graphic Fairy 's many many images. The spoon is decorated with pearls, some flower lace and a bow woven aound the handle.

This spoon is quite easy and flowery, image from the Graphics Fairy. It has a German sentiment (it is for my Auntie, she loves those items) from Carol Anne's Boutique. I kept the decoration easy with just a few pearls, a button, fabric flowers and bow.

This is the least elaborate of the spoons, it has only one button and a little bit of ribbon as embellishment. The technique I used was also slightly different as I adhered the glitter first and then added the image. The lady and sentiment are part of images from the Graphics Fairy.

This project was good fun, and the next one is already on my desk, Petra.

Smiley Cake

This was a last minute commission for a smiley face cake :-) : marble sponge with morello cherries topped with light vanilla cream and covered with a rich chocolate topping. Enjoy, Petra.

Get Well Soon

My colleague and friend Jane is poorly at the moment. To try and cheer her up a little bit we sent her a little card and some flowers, sending flowers was the easiest task! Jane is a vivid and very talented cardmaker so it is a real challenge with regards to the card - it would have been just not right to buy one :-) I used the Sketchy Colors sketch and girlie cheerful colours

Supplies:
plain white square card
papers - Dovecraft, plain green paper
stamp - Stretch N' Bubbles digi stamp, Papermania
ink - Versa Color
colouring - Copics
flowers - Artemio
brads - BasicGrey
blings - Kanban

We all hope that Jane will be well again soon because we miss her! Petra.

Coffee in Venice

The perfect occasion to use the colours from the Play Date Cafe challenge: red - brown - linen
I can firmly smell the freshly brewed coffee ... coffee and Italy ... what a combination

Supplies:
paper - Elzybells, plain red and linen card from my stash, paper doily
stamp/ink - Elzybells
image - Graphics Fairy
Quickutz circles, Nestabilities square
Stickles 'Cinnamon'

The basic shape of the card is cut with the largest Quickutz circle. I layered the base with various sized circles. The image of Venice is slightly altered with a sepia tint .... embellished with a steaming cup of coffee. I will now get a cup myself (lol) ... enjoy, Petra.

Flower Lady

A wonderfully dressed Flower Lady going to the Springball
The card is cut with a Sizzix flower die. The image is from Digital Two For Tuesday, I did some 'fuzzy' cutting for the lady. The lady is coloured with Koh-i-noors and OMS and I couldn't help myself to use quite a bit of bling and glitter because afterall the Lady goes dancing ........ Petra.

Garden Goddess

This was another challenge for Art 'n' Soul: Garden Goddess. The challenge was again set by the wonderful creative Viv inspired by a template by The Enchanted Gallery. Please have a look at all the wonderful goddesses in the gallery, they are just so amazing.

I had problems to agree with myself on a design never mind putting it together. In the end I settled on a quite simple design and fresh colours (after all spring is coming soon (lol)).

As the available card was a bit bendy I layered three different cards/papers for the basic shape: Kraftcard from Elzybells, plain light yellow paper and K&Company paper. The roses were part of the K&Company paper cut into individual pieces for decorating the lower and head part of the goddess. The little roses come from Antique Images, I did a bit of fuzzy cutting. The face is part of an image fromthe amazing collection of Karen, the Graphics Fairy, I slightly coloured the hair to match it with the roses. For the final touches of the front I added some belly botton bling :-) from Kanban and ribbons and netting.
To match the front I also added some decorations in the back, Petra.