Rainbow Lady's Challenge 141 - Shabby Chic

Good morning fellow bloggers and welcome to our latest challenge over at
Rainbow Lady
Our theme this week is SHABBY CHIC and my DT card is shown above

We are sponsored this week by the lovely Steph of Crafting UK who is giving a fabulous prize to one lucky participant.

RECIPE:

Backing papers and lovely image are from 'BRYONY BEE' CD courtesy of Debbee's CD's
This CD is a special and only available if you spend £25 or more in Deb's Online Shop.
Flowers from my stash give my card the Shabby Chic look.
I used a Martha Stewart punch for the delicate corner edging and completed the look by using purple gems.

Thankyou for all your entries in last weeks challenge, we enjoyed visiting your blogs and leaving comments.
Pop over to Rainbow Lady's Blog to see if you are the lucky winner of last weeks challenge.

We hope you will join us again this week and look forward to seeing what you create.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to all my followers, I hope you had a lovely Christmas Day with family and friends.



Our challenge this week over at CD SUNDAY is called

STITCH IT, my DT card is shown below

RECIPE

Pearlescent Card
Backing Paper from my Stash
Patchwork Paper and Topper from 'IN OTHER WORDS' CD - Joanna Sheen
Silver Mirri embossed using Cuttlebug Folder - Swirls
Flower, Pearl and Gems from my stash.

We hope you will join us again this week and look forward to seeing and commenting on your designs.
Remember to use something from a CD and say which you have used.

I would like to say a personal thankyou to everyone that has joined in with us this year and hope you continue to support us in 2011.

A Happy New Year to you all

RAINBOW LADY CHALLENGE 110 - ART DECO

Almost out of time for this weeks challenge over at Cynthia's challenge blog.

Cynthia's challenge for this week which closes tonight is
ART DECO

Recipe for my card:

Backing Paper & Topper from Debbi Moore CD - Glamour & Glitz
Lilac Pearlised Card which has been punched using Garden Trellis Punch by Martha Stewart and bought from Joanna Sheen
Hydrangea Flowers from my stash which I attached to a contrasting card which I had cut out using Nestabilities Labels.
Added a few gems and glitter to my topper for a little sparkle.

I hope this fits the challenge that Cynthia set this week.

Apologies for the image quality as I used my scanner

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE No 10 - IN FULL BLOOM

Good morning on a beautiful sunny day which is very apt for the challenge today over on
CD SUNDAY

The DT's theme this week is
IN FULL BLOOM

Recipe for my DT Card

Backing paper from Crafty Ann
to which I have added Patchwork Paper from Joanna Sheen's IN OTHER WORDS CD
Topper and Sentiment from the same CD printed onto Glossy Photo Paper
Finishing touches of Pink Gems and Bow complete my card.

This is the first time I have used this particular CD and I love the different way Joanna has put this together.

Please pop over to CD Sunday and view the gorgeous cards the rest of the Design Team have created this week.

We hope you will support us again this week,so dig out your CD's, the only rule is to use an image or a small piece of paper from your CD

Alcohol Inks

Two more cards made today both using Alcohol Inks, Pesto, Currant & Caramel.
The card on the right was put through my Cuttlebug using Perfect Paisley Embossing Folder, backing paper is from K & CO - Classic K McKenna range.
I added flowers from my stash in tones to match the card with a small pink brad for the centre of the flower.
The card on the left has the Floral Fantasy Embossing Folder and Happy Birthday Folder attached to backing paper from K & CO Hydrangea Stripe pad.
To add a little sparkle Red Gems have been added, again from my stash.
I have quite a few K & Co paper pads which I intend to use this year.

I have entered these into Craftyanns challenge blog.
I hope Ann thinks they are acceptable as this is my first try with Alcohol Inks.

I am also entering Cynthia's challenge 85 which is to recycle. My recyled piece is the biscuit wrapping paper plus glossy card left over from other cards to which I added Alcohol Inks for depth.
Hoping Cynthia likes my entry

Digi Stamp Retreat for CR Members

Here is the card I made for Creating Rainbows Digi Retreat. The digi image is from Ann

Ann very kindly offered all forum members a choice of 'General' or 'Christmas' for their choice of a Digi Image & Backing Papers.
I got to use Ann's lovely Jean's image, I first printed the backing paper onto Glossy Card then put it back into my printer to print the Jean's image.

The only rule was that the image had to be used and we could add whatever we liked to take part. It is such fun and so nice to see what other members have made.