Parchment Craft Workshop

For my lovely friend Carol who does the most gorgeous Parchment Work.

These are 4 out of 6 butterflies made from a Parchment Craft Workshop I recently went to with my Sister. Our tutor is a special friend and we first met her back in 1998 when we attended the start of her evening classes.

The Pink & Purple ones were completed in class (with a little help from my Sister), the Blue and Lemon ones I have made at home.

I am trying to get back into this wonderful art, however I am waiting to see a specialist as I have been diagnosed as having 'Macular Hole' in my left eye. Once it has been sorted I have made a promise to myself to start again.

Thanks for your comments, I appreciate you taking time to read my blog.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to you all and welcome to our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY

The challenge we have for you this week is

BLING IT UP

We are joined again by CHRIS who has been our Guest Designer for July, sadly this is her last week but we hope to have her back with us at a later date. Do pop over to her blog and leave comments. Thankyou Chris, we have enjoyed your input.

My DT card is shown below

I decided to use one of Debbi Moore's CD's - Glitter & Glitz Magic Moments.

My image has been printed onto Parchment and I used one of my Grids to make a border around the image.

Backing papers are from the same CD and I decided to use a couple of Martha Stewart punches to edge the image. The left hand side is a ribbon punch to which black ribbon has been threaded and gems in black & silver add a little bling.

The right hand side is a vine punch, a favourite of mine, again a couple of silver gems complete the flower centres.

I attached the vellum using white brads and completed the card with a few more black gems.

We hope you will continue to join us, our only rule is to use something from a CD and say which it is you have used.

Pop over to our blog to see what the rest of my teamies have designed, stunning as usual.