SIL challenge week 6

It's week six over at Scrap-It-Lah's seven-week challenge. Jessy has prepared a easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make a folded flower. This is my card:

Somehow, I folded the flaps on the circles at a smaller angle, so I ended up with more petals. I made another set of folded circles with 6 petals but decided that I liked this one better.

As with most of my creations, I just have to distress everything in sight. I actually started out with white printed paper which I inked both sides. Vintage photo + antique linen on one side, and tattered rose on the other. More grungy =)

I topped the petals with a flower centre which was an extra from the previous challenge. Fits perfectly, yes?

The flower came out to be such a focal piece, that I had to have a plain background for it. It is with much difficulty and restraint that I held myself back from distressing the embossed piece as well!

The colours on the ribbon wrap add a festive air to the card, and helps to make the focal feature pop even more.

Thanks, Jessy, for this simple yet fabulous tutorial...

Happy Mum's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all mums out there!

It's been a rather painful day today. Inflammation in my knee and ankles make walking a bit difficult, and the worse is the one in my right wrist - my crafting arm! Aargh!

 However, I still managed to complete this card today, so that makes up for all the discomfort!

I've used a prairie fairy digi image, which I won in a card challenge earlier this year. I have not had the opportunity to use it earlier. Prairie fairy is having a challenge over at their blog, so I'm playing along with them. I've coloured the image with markers, and blinged up the tutu top with crystal stickles.

This card is based on a sketch over at Sketch Saturday. I've used two diy papers for this. One is the stamped butterflies for the background and the other is a marbled piece. Made right in my own front yard!

I'm also entering the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 163 I Like Chocolate a lot! (Yes, I do! =))
365 Cards - Day 66 DIY Patterned Paper
Paperplay Challenges - Week 18 Show Us Your Style
Totally PaperCrafts - Challenge #65 A Recipe
Stamp Something - May Digi Day
Secret Crafter - Challenge #133 Dust Off Your Stash (old butterfly stamp)
Pollycraft - Challenge #91 Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - #32 open Challenge
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #12 Bling It Up!
The Paper Variety - Let's Get Messy!
Fab-n-Funky - Put Those Papers Away!
Divas by Design - Anything Goes!
My Mums Craft Shop - Challenge 4 Cute & Girly

of eyes and swirls

My youngest recently discovered Purble Place. So whenever possible, he'll push me off my chair so he could have a go at "eyes". Problem is, he wants someone to sit with him while he plays, or he'll go wandering to other sites and pages. Which has resulted in a loss of concentration for me. I think it rather shows here...

This card is based on the sketch from sketch Saturday. The image is a magazine freebie, which I've coloured with DI. It's hard to see, but there's added glitter to the tail end, stars and the ribbon on the gift.
I'm also playing along with these other challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenges - something beginning with "c" (cat)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - #32 open challenge
The Paper Shelter - challenge #12 Bling it Up!
Crafts and Me - #33 swirls
Totally papercrafts - glitter
Let's Ink It Up - Embellish It

altered canvas

Scrap-It-Lah is having its Second Anniversary Blog Hop, now into week 5. You can get details here. It's an altered canvas challenge, something new to try, and I came up with this:

Seeing it's a new thing, and given the short time frame, I decided to stick to my oft-used monochromatic scheme. That way, it would also serve as a backdrop to make the photos pop. I love the different expressions on these photos, and felt they deserve something special.

The canvas is first prepped with gesso. Then I tried out Tim Holtz's alcohol ink agate technique. I only did the edges and coloured the middle portion sparingly. It turned out differently though, probably due to porosity. 

 

 

Even though it's basically a boy canvas, the hues allow me to use blooms without it appearing feminine. I spent quite a bit of time experimenting with different flower layering. I'm quite happy with the final outcome. So you'd probably see more of these flowers in my next layouts.

 

Using alcohol inks again, I coloured a piece of transparency, upon which I framed the main photo with inked chipboard. The monogram is highlighted with stickles and crackle accent.

I've had quite a bit of fun (a lot, actually) getting messy with this. Would probably make similar layouts for my other kids as well. But that's some other story...