Happy Easter

... to everyone! Wishing you lots of sunshine, chocolatey bunnies and eggs, Petra.

paper: The Girls Paperie, image: Vintage Fangirl, syamp: Kartenkunst

Mulberry flowers, pearls

ATCs - Shadow Box & Frame

This month over at Unruly PaperArts the theme is: ATC Extravaganza. I has lucky enough to be one of their Guest Contributors, I loved it and if you have not had a look yet, please do pop over and enjoy all the wonderful ATC inspirations.
My contribution were an ATC Shadow Box and ATC Frame - such good fun to make

 

PrimaMarketing Botanical paper, white card, leftover corrugated card from packaging

various stamps (Different Colors, Lily of the Valley, Tim Holtz and Eline Pellinkhof)

some lace and pearls, Glossy Accents, foam pads, some little twigs

 

atc box template ... which I adjusted for my project, stamps (Kaisercraft)

digital image (Magic Moonlight Free Images), Melissa Frances paper

stencil, distress ink 'Faded Jeans', fabric flowers

pearls and a little glitter, velvety ric-rac ribbon, washi tape.

You can read all about the two projects here, and don't forget to check-out all other amazing works of ATC art on the Unruly PaperArts blog. They are amazing. Petra.

Linked to: Love to Create Challenge

Cheerful Monday #7 - Ballett Shoes

These are wonderful ballett shoes and take me right back to the time when my daughter did ballett in her free time ... ballett with all its glamour but also the pain especially for dancing on points ... oh dear, I am getting all nostalgic now (sigh) ... let's go quickly back to this adorable image from A Day for Daisies

 a little 10x10cm card base layered with Craftwork Cards patterend paper

the image is coloured with Copics, the background created using digital papers,
and layered on black card

the ballett dancer is die-cut from EchoPark paper using a Marianne Design Die

lace from Imagine DIY, little pearls and a pearl heart

the shoes, leaves and rose were cut out and added to the main image as second layer 

given the image a little bit more depth

To see many more wonderful dance inspiration please do pop over to the Cheerful Stamp Pad blog, hope you can join us for the challenge, Petra.

Linked to: The Corrosive Challenge

                 No Matter Which Challenges

Photo Session #4 - Spring Snow

 Officially it is Spring but reality looks slightly different with wet and cold weather. The wind is howling aorund the house and all Spring flowers have been enveloped in a very wet and cold snowy blanket. Keep warm and safe and have a lovely Sunday, Petra.

 Winter aconite

TagTuesday #2 - K for Knitting and C for Crochet

Two more tags for Tag Tuesday, in the same area of craftmanship but they turned out quite differently

K for knitting

 

Aren't these two darling, sitting and chatting away over their knitting?

I found the image on Silke's blog, I wish I would own such wonderful knitting magazines (sigh).

The image is framed with cast-on using a big knitting needle,

the sentiment is printed and added with a little pearl

 It is all layered on an old German knitting pattern

and embellished with a little letter bead.

 C for Crochet

One of my crochet flowers became the focal point for this tag,

added with washi tape, ricrac ribbon and pearls,

the sentiment is stamped (Elzybells).

 

For the background I sprayed white card with Dylusion spray ink ... 

isn't the negative brilliant ... it will be one of my next projects (lol)

the stamping was done with Kaisercraft stamps and bottle tops.

have a lovely weekend, Petra.

Cheerful Monday #6 - Let's Dance

Vicki's new challenge for the coming two weeks is: Let's Dance - what a cheerful and enjoyable theme during these very wet and dull days ....

  

The focal point is an image from A Day for Daisies which I coloured with Copics and distress inks (Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen, Bundled Sage, Old Paper). Aren't these little girls just darling?

The image is layered on card which I inked with distress inks around the edges.

For the background I used Kaisercraft paper which I stamped on with Hero Arts stamps.

The flowers are coloured with Copics and distress inks (Victoian V elvet, Fired Brick).

The finishing touches are some ribbons, a wooden heart with a little bit of Stickles and some pearls.

Hope you can join us for this wonderful challenge. 

For more inspiration just pop over to the Cheerful Stamp Pad, Petra.

Linked to: The Order of the Opus Gluei

                Love to Create Challenge Blog

TagTuesday #1 - J for Joyful Jumping

I am well behind the alphabet challenge over at Tag Tuesday but I am determind to catch up! This week's letter is 'J': J for Joyful Jumping

the tag is cut from scraps of October Afternoon paper

layered with a stamped background (Hero Arts, Memento Ink) and 

a little gras panel cut with Memory Box die and scraps of free magazine paper

the sentiment is stamped (Lily of the Valley)

 

the image is from A Day for Daisies coloured with Copics and Sharpies

cut out and  added to the tag with foam pads

white twine and a little letter bead finish the tag

Have a lovely - and not so wet - Sunday, Petra.