FOLLOW YOUR BLISS

Hi lovely scrappers, here is a layout I have made using the Blue Fern Studios May sketch for my inspiration.

http://bluefernstudios.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/may-sketch-challenge.html

This is a fabulous sketch and so are these Blue Fern papers.

Scroll down for how I put this page together and for the scrappy stash.
I have also used a colour scheme from The Color Rooms.
http://www.thecolorrooms.com/tcr-blog/palette-168-may-2014
For the thread element I have used fuzzy fibres in white.

 

HERES HOW

Double matt photo and ink the edges.

Lightly adhere to page.

Cut a 3cm strip from a 12x12 sheet and ink the edges.

Attach as per the sketch.

Start adding layers as per the sketch.

Decorate with assorted flowers, butterflies etc

Using a small lid and some white paint, dab in the corners.

Add some inked stitching around the layout.

Cut out title, ink the edges and adhere.

SCRAPPY STASH

Pretty papers by Blue Fern Studios - Blue Fern Garden

Chipboard by Blue Fern Studios - Widgetworks

Plain cardstock

White doily

Brown and blue chalk inks

Assorted flowers

White paint and a small lid for stamping the paint

In stitches stamp by Prima

Titles cut from Blue Fern garden papers

Fuzzy fibres

Butterfly cut from Blue Fern papers

Mini flat back pearls

White butterfly - Prima

Mini leaves - punch

Small piece of white gathered lace from my stash

Mini clock face http://www.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/clocks/

 

MANY THANKS FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND FOR YOUR LOVELY COMMENTS - I WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU WOULD BECOME A FOLLOWER AS I AM GOING FOR 100!!



STUCK ON U SKETCHES DESIGN TEAM REVEAL - FRIDAY 23rd May - WINTER BALL

HI lovely scrappers, happy Friday  and Welcome to the
STUCK ON U SKETCHES DESIGN TEAM REVEAL.
We have a fabulous sketch here, so I hope you give it a go, there are great prizes to win. 

  

SOUS sketch here 

Don't forget to visit all the brilliant designers for lots more inspiration.
For details on how to put this layout together and for a list of scrappy stash just scroll down. There are also links for the clocks and how to make flowers, as I do use a lot of flowers and you can save so much by making them yourself. Have fun.
HERES HOW
Take photo, triple matt and ink the edges.
Cut down black cardstock as per the sketch and double matt, ink the edges.
Adhere to pretty background cardstock.
Cut out a half circle detail from pretty paper. Matt onto black cardstock and add a doily underneath. Adhere.
Add border to left side as per the sketch. Ink edges.
Die cut two swirls and attach.
Die cut a tag, ink the edges and adhere.
Cut out a journaling block, matt onto black cardstock, adhere.
Start to embellish. I used some clock faces, lots of flowers, fuzzy fibres, mini key, arrow and some punched out leaves.
Finally I stamped around the page with some stamps and black ink and added the title. I hope you like it.
I have also entered this into the Shabby Tearoom Challenge as I love this inspiration of pink and cream and flowers. http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.com.au/

SCRAPPY STASH
Black cardstock
Pretty papers by Blue Fern Studios - Blue fern garden http://bluefernstudios.blogspot.co.uk/ 
White doily
Tim Holtz swirl die
Tim Holtz tiny tabs die
Blue Fern Chipboard - Vintage keys and widgets
Fuzzy Fibres
Brown and black chalk ink
Title alphas
In Stitches stamp - Prima
Script stamp - Prima
Clock faces here http://gb.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/clocks/
Hand made flowers here http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/hand-made-flowers-tutorial.html
Blue Fern Studios here http://bluefernstudios.blogspot.co.uk/

CARD CHALLENGE AND FREEBIE - 16th May

 

Hi everyone, I thought I would make some cards to show you.

Whilst looking for some inspiration, I saw this brilliant mood board over at The Shabby Tea Room and loved it so much I used it for my inspiration for this card.

The theme is called Tea Party, and I get to use some of my favourite things - lace, pearls, flowers and pink.

Click on the link below for more details.

The Shabby Tea Room


Whilst I was making cards, I thought I would make a couple more. Here they are. I have links below to take you through to the butterflies, beaded pins, clocks and the flowers I made.

 

http://gb.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/butterflies/

http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/hand-made-flowers-tutorial.html

http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/hand-made-stick-pins.html

http://gb.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/clocks/

 

I have also entered these into a challenge over at the Flying Unicorn here May anything goes challenge (Just click on the link).

 

CARD STASH for all cards.
Plain cardstock
White card blanks
Pretty papers
Music book paper
Sizzix heart die
Sizzix flourish dies
Sizzix cogs die
White cotton lace doily
Hessian/Burlap
Fuzzy fibres
Clock stamp
Chalk inks - black and brown
Butterflies
Beaded pins
Assorted flowers
Handmade flowers
Twine
Pretty clock faces.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO WIN THE SHABBY TEA ROOM CARD, JUST BECOME A FOLLOWER, LEAVE ME A MESSAGE TO LET ME KNOW, AND I WILL PICK A RANDOM WINNER ON FRIDAY 23rd MAY, WHEN I WILL BE BACK FOR ANOTHER SOUS DESIGN TEAM REVEAL.
GOOD LUCK.
Have a great week end. Bye for now.

STUCK ON YOU SKETCHES DESIGN TEAM REVEAL - THE BEACH - MAY 9th

Hi everyone  Happy Friday and welcome to the 
STUCK ON U SKETCHES DESIGN TEAM REVEAL.
 I have used this fab sketch from our lovely Leah, I hope you give it a go, there are great prizes to be won.
Scroll down for instructions, items I used and links to tutorials.
I also put this into the Inkido challenge and Berry71Bleu challenge for May, see below for
details.

http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.co.uk/

 

http://inkido.blogspot.ca/2014/05/may-challenge-by-agnieszka-bellaidea.html

SIMPLE PLEASURES CHALLENGE 

And the Berry 71 Bleu challenge is here http://berry71bleu.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenge-rules.html

I love the beach it is first and foremost my happy place.

Also it the place for simple pleasures. Sun, sand, sea, shells, swimming - all simple but wonderful things. 

HERES HOW

Take a sheet of  pretty paper and distress all around the edges with some white paint and some golden yellow paint.

Add some stamping.

Double matt your photo and lightly adhere to the pretty paper.

Take a punch and punch top and bottom edges of a piece of cardstock cut to 9 x 7 inches.

Adhere to page.

Cut two more layers and adhere as per the sketch.

Add some hessian/burlap to top left and bottom right of the layout.

Add muslin beneath the photo.

Start to attach assorted flowers and embellishments, I used a hot glue gun.

Die cut the title and add some journaling, mine is in a journaling box I have hidden under the photo.

SCRAPPY STASH

Pretty paper from my stash

Plain cardstock and Kraft card

White paint

Golden yellow paint

Martha Stewart edge punch

Black ink

Assorted Prima stamps

Shells from the beach

Assorted flowers

Hessian/Burlap in two colours

Shell punch

Butterflies

Beaded pins

Blue fern studios chipboard arrow - Widgetworks

Remnants of chipboard - BFS

Memory Box label die

Muslin

Zipper flower I made

Tulle and chiffon for flower I made

Beaded centre I made from pearls.

LINKS

http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/hand-made-flowers-tutorial.html

http://gb.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/butterflies/

http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/hand-made-stick-pins.html

 

That's all for now, thank you so much for visiting my blog I would love it if you would become a follower as I am trying to reach 100. And thank you for all your lovely comments.

Bye for now. x

GREEN MONKEYS - BARBADOS

 

C'EST MAGNIFIQUE KIT CLUB 

May Sketch



Palette 168
THE COLOR ROOMS

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

For todays layout inspiration I have used the sketch from C'est Magnifique and the colours from The Color Rooms with their added theme, use thread, so I machine stitched around the edges. Just click on the links above to be taken to the blogs.

HERES HOW

Choose all your papers, cardstock and embellishments.

Take your backing paper and a mask and add texture paste to the bottom few inches. Allow to dry.

Double matt photos in cardstock and distress the edges.

Adhere lightly to backing paper.

Start adding the layers as per the sketch.

I then added some foam pads to the back of the smaller photo.

Stitch around the outside edges with sewing machine.

Add the chipboard fence, I painted mine with white paint.

Start embellishing with flowers and embellies.

Add the title.

SCRAPPY STASH

Plain cardstock in four colours

Kraft card

Texture paste

Mask

Pretty paper - Blue Fern Studios

Chipboard Garden Gate - Blue Fern Studios

Chipboard Vintage Keys - Blue Fern Studios

Butterflies

Beaded pins

Mini clock stamp

Assorted flowers

Crackle glaze for the key

White paint for the gates and mini key

Jump ring for the small  key

Alphabet stickers - 7 Dots Studio - 9th Wave.

See links below;

 

http://gb.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/butterflies/

 

http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/homemade-texture-past.html

 

http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/hand-made-stick-pins.html

 

http://gb.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/clocks/

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VISITING TODAY ,

DO COME BACK AGAIN ON FRIDAY FOR MORE INSPIRATION, WHEN IT IS STUCK ON U SKETCHES DESIGN TEAM SKETCH REVEAL.

AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR LOVELY COMMENTS, THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME. x

 

 

 

CHERISH THIS - MEMORIES FOR LIFE DESIGN TEAM REVEAL - 1st May - Hastings Farmers Market

 

CHERISH THIS MEMORIES FOR LIFE

CHERISH THIS

 

 

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog and the CHERISH THIS

 MEMORIES FOR LIFE DESIGN TEAM REVEAL

 

I loved this challenge as it incorporates all my favourite things, pink, lace, pearls, flowers, birds to name a few. Great inspiration for a pretty layout. I hope you give it a go. 

I am entering this into a challenge at Berry71Bleu

called Simple Pleasures.

http://berry71bleu.blogspot

 

 

Some of lifes little pleasures for Jess and I are to go to the local flea market wherever we may be and shop, take in the atmosphere, stop for coffee and enjoy the local vibe.

 

HOW TO

Choose all papers and embellishments

Matt photo onto pink cardstock 

Adhere a doily to background pretty paper

Add matted photo

Add a layer of muslin

Add a mini postcard layer

Add lace borders

Start adding flowers and embellishments

Add string pearls, butterflies, beaded pins, buttons, peal buttons, fuzzy fibres, mini branches and cut-out paper roses

Add title.

SCRAPPY STASH 

Pretty papers - Blue Fern Studios

Pink cardstock

Assorted lace pieces

String pearls

Pearl buttons

Fuzzy fibres

Butterflies

Beaded pins

Assorted flowers

Hand cut flowers

Stamp from Prima

Bottle lid for stamping

White paint

Gel crayons in pink and gold

Branch punch

Cut out bird from my stash

Buttons from my button box

Paper doily

Muslin.

Links below

Beaded pins http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/hand-made-stick-pins.html

Hand cut flowers http://theprettypaperpatisserie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/hand-made-flowers-tutorial.html

Butterflies http://gb.pinterest.com/caroleanne345/butterflies/

Blue Fern Studios http://bluefernstudios.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 MANY THANKS FOR VISITING MY BLOG TODAY,

I HOPE YOU LIKE MY LAYOUT AND BECOME A FOLLOWER.

I WILL BE HAVING ANOTHER GIVEAWAY AS SOON AS I HIT 100 FOLLOWERS, SO PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR THAT.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK. BYE FOR NOW.