Week #2 of Marie Antoinette at the Cheerful Stamp Pad

Happy Friday!!! I'm here again to say it's the second week of the Marie Antoinette challenge at The Cheerful Stamp Pad and it's still a joint challenge with Lunagirl Moonbeams now you can enter the same project in two places, it's what I call a "twofer", The sponsor for the challenge is Lunagirl designs  For this week I made another ATC (artist trading card) the collage sheet I chose had great images to use for them.

I used a purple base to accent the purple in the image, I enhanced the flourishes with spica glitter pens and fussy cut the image so it fit in the Fancy labels 8 die cut. 4 rhinestones and I was finished,

Close up of the image.

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy your weekend.

A New Joint Challenge from The Cheerful Stamp Pad and Lunagirl Moonbeams Challenge Blogs.

We at The Cheerful Stamp Pad are joining with Lunagirl Moonbeams for a challenge of Marie Antionette, The sponsor is Lunagirl Digital Images take a look at what they have to offer.  I picked a collage sheet that had fancy portraits, they were the perfect size for ATCs (artist trading cards)

First I trimmed the image and added some spica glitter pen to the flowers, layered it on a scrap of gold that was on my desk. The base of the ATC is a Fleur dis lis die-cut from spellbinders then finished it with a couple of pearls (also on the desk) sure glad I had so much stuff on my desk or this wouldn't have gone as quick as it did. (struggling still with the Friday deadline)

Close up of the lovely collage image

Thanks for visiting today and don't forget if you have a project to add to The Cheerful Stamp Pad you can also add it to Lunagirl Moonbeams so you have a two chances to win.

Challenge #208 Baubles, Buttons and Bows

Looking for my Clear it Out Tuesday post scroll down or click HERE.

Shopping Our Stash has an awesome challenge I hope you are ready to take the challenge as it is Baubles, Buttons and Bows. No single rhinestones, no enamel dots, to define a Bauble is something you found and thought that might look good on a card one day such as part of a broken earring  does this make sense? I hope so.....the Bauble on my card is a rhinestone heart that at one time was on a key chain or a necklace, my hubby found it on the beach with his metal detector. I have a jar of such items that can be used. I also combined it with a bow. So don't forget to check our all the rules for entering the challenge and take a look at what the other design team has created.

Talk about using my stash, the image was left over from another card and it is from Lunagirls  check out their collage sheets. the Happy Birthday I cut for another card but didn't use it and of course the bauble from the beach find jar. I embossed the background with a butterfly folder.

Here is my Bauble and Bow

I used the tulip border embossing folder and one of my oldest Hero Arts sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today and dig out those Baubles, Buttons and Bows and join in the fun at Shopping Our Stash.

The Shoes challenge continues at The Cheerful Stamp Pad.

Here I am with a post for Week 2 of "Shoes" at the Cheerful Stamp Pad,  I missed making a project for the first week, I am not even sure what happened except with changing to Fridays I'm a little more challenged at getting things done,  I'm sure I will get a handle on it soon, The sponsor for the challenge is Lunagirl, I used a section of the shoes collage sheet and made an ATC (artist trading card) I found a cute saying so printed it small enough to snip it into little rectangles to add along the side....so now lets see what you think.

I layered the image on gold glitter paper then on a black scalloped layer, added the sentiment down the left side and a rhinestone on the right.

The sentiment is rather funny for me as I only have 6 pair of shoes....one for the gym, one for walking, two sandals, and two pair on dress shoes one for winter and one for summer. I'm sure the sentiment does work for a lot of people out there. 

Thanks for joining me today and lets see those projects with "shoes".

Week 2 at The Cheerful Stamp Pad continues with Far Away Places

The Cheerful Stamp Pad is still heading for far away places for week 2 of the challenge. The sponsor for the challenge is Lunagirl designs, if you love vintage you need to check them out, the collage pages are gorgeous. I used the Memories of Paris for my first week but there was one more picture on the collage page just begged me to use it and I made it into an ATC (artist trading card),

The base is dark brown the next layer is gold paper from the dollar store, Memories is from the title of the collage page. I'm pleased with how it turned out. 

For my card I used Lunagirl World Maps collage sheet. I haven't worked much with collage sheets and had to get a lesson from my daughter on how to just use one section of the sheet and it was so easy, see you can teach an old dog new tricks.  I picked the London map and distress the edges, I have a Tim Holtz Visual Artistry Collection clear stamps set and took this opportunity to use several stamps. A couple of weeks ago I found a Fiskers Stamp press at a yard sale and I used it to make the scene to fit perfect and straight. (a feat for me) I will add a sentiment when I decide Birthday or Father's Day.

Closer look at the map and vintage car.

Thanks for stopping by today I hope you will think of some far away place and make a project for The Cheerful Stamp Pad's Challenge.

Travelling to Far Away Places with Lunagirl

Wouldn't we all love to travel to far away places and the first one that comes to mind is Paris, romantic beautiful Paris. The Cheerful Stamp Pad has a new challenge so you can dream about "faraway places" It doesn't just need to be Paris, you could travel to somewhere closer to home or to the far East, so many options. Lunagirl is our sponsor for this  two week challenge you will find some fabulous collage sheets so head over and have a peek.

As you see my first thought was Paris so I chose the Memories of Paris collage sheet, picked two of the famous sights to showcase, As you see I distressed the edges with TH distress inks. The background is French Script from Stampin'up,to finish the trip to Paris I used one of the small images and made it into a postage stamp, I then added the Paris from the name of the collage page.

Here is a closer look at the Eiffel tower stamp.

The inside of the card waiting for me to decide what sentiment to use.

Thanks for stopping by today and Friday is now our new day to post our blogs, so head over to the main challenge blog to check out what  the rest of the design team have made for the challenge.

Week 2 of Challenge #112 Black and White continues

The Cheerful Stamp Pad and Lunagirls Moonbeams have joined forces to bring you a Black and White Challenge. Please check out the projects at both blogs and enter your B&W project at both blogs. For the second week of the challenge I have used the same Flower Line Art page as on it was a tall and narrow poppy, my favourite flower and I had just the design in mind for it.  See what I have done for this week.

I love this center step card as it is an A2 card 4 1/4 X 5 1/’2 You can adjust the size of the center by making the side pieces a bit narrower. The dies I used are Spellbinder fancy labels and Memory Box Latchette border.

Close up of the poppy

Thanks for visiting today and have a fabulous weekend.

Challenge #112 at The Cheerful Stamp Pad is B&W

Surprise!!! No you didn’t miss the weekend it’s FRIDAY!! Just a change of days for the Cheerful Stamp Pad’s Challenge as we are joining with Lunagirls Moonbeams for the Black and White challenge so don’t forget to check their design team projects too.,  I chose a Flower Line Art page for my project this week and since there were a lot of images on the page I wanted to try something new (to me) and make a Screen Fold card, it was a lot of fun to make too.

I did figure out it’s very hard to photograph a screen fold card, the first pane I fussy cut the image out added a punch out from a page that has been sitting on the table for weeks and three rhinestones. The top was punched with Fleur Dis lis border punch from EK,+

Don’t you just LOVE the snowdrops on the second pane, they are beautiful, I added a white butterfly and a white sparkly button tied with a narrow ribbon, The third pane I’m not sure what flower/weed it is but I added a black sparkly button with the same ribbon tie on it.

Final pane of the screen fold card is daffodils, I used a second butterfly and added tiny black dewdrops to the corners.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will join the Cheerful Stamp Pad and Lunagirls for the Black & White Challenge.

The Second Week of challenge #86 at the Cheerful Stamp Pad.

The design team at the Cheerful Stamp Pad has more inspiration for you, check all the great projects made with Lunagirl Images. that's who our sponsor is for challenge #86, a Bouquet of Flowers.

After I printed the precoloured image off I used the Romantic Rectangles die to cut it out then layered it on the blue. I then popped it up on very vanilla cardstock that was embossed with the Textile embossing folder. and then on the blue base.

I have left the inside blank as I like to have some generic cards that can be used for birthday, get well or thinking of you, just add a sentiment and it’s good to go.
I would like to enter this in Hiding in my Craftroom challenge #149 Embossing
thanks for spending some time here today and I would love to see what you can make for the Bouquet of Flowers challenge.