Frills and Flowers and Buttons and Bows!!

 You might get a clue from the "old" song lyric at what the challenge is but I'll explain it just the same  Shopping Our Stash is creating with  "old school" favourites like... Buttons, ribbons, brads,  eyelets something you haven't done in a long while.  I looked through some of my cards and realized I haven't used ribbon in "gasp" over a year and I have no clue why not I have two buckets of ribbon, it all needs re-oranizing. So I picked a 11 inch scrap to use for my card. 

I love this Gina Marie wreath die and use it a lot, in fact made one not long ago in Blue and Silver and I knew I wanted to make a few more in other colours to boost my holiday stash. So other than the ribbon the rhinestone brad is ancient and I found the tutorial on how to make the bow HERE.  The patternd paper is also years old, not sure where I got it or the make it was a package deal. 

Close up look at the bow and brad. 

Finished the inside of the 5 1/2 inch square card with a favourite Hero Arts sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today and get out your "old school" stuff and make us a card. Don't forget to check out the Main Blog to see some fabulous old school  "embellies."

It's Rudolph Days for February....

Here I am sliding in the last day with a card for Rudolph Days for February. Not that I haven't been trying to get one done. and it's a short month too. So my post won't be very long.  

Something very simple, I had cut the wreath  for another project (you will see it on Tuesday) I had a bow cut, didn't like it, but the sentiment was picked out,  I'm not sure how it came about but I get those "we found these for you" from Pinterest and one of them I liked and thought that will work better. So the wreath and new bow and sentiment evolved for Rudolph Days. I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder for the background.

Finished the inside with a stamp from the Artful Stamper. 

I'm entering this in:

Rudolph Days ~~ February.

Thanks for visiting today and have an awesome week.

 

Baby it's Gold Outside at the Jingle Belles Rock

 Finally managed one card for the Jingle Belles Challenge Baby it's Gold Outside,  You can use Silver or Copper as well too, I stretched it a bit further and with my Gold I ued Green metalic posterboard.  Now it was not the one that was planned but as always having crafting items at two places I left the Blue at home, I also left my guilliotine cutter home too, might be time to buy myself a gift so I have one at each place since I have now left it home more times than I brought it with me.  Here is what I made for the challenge.

There was no easy way to photograph this card, I tried last night but the ott lamp wasn't enough to capture the Gold properly although it's not easy to take pictures of anything shiny. I used a Gina Marie wreath die, cut with gold and with green, The green is flat attached and the gold is elevated. I tried many pieces of patterned papers under the wreath and decided te woodgrain looked the best. 

Closer look at the gold and green wreath.

Finished the inside with an Impression Obsession sentiment and a tree sticker.

I'm adding tis to:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Baby it's Gold Outside 

Thanks for stopping by today