CD SUNDAY - ART NOUVEAU

Good morning all and welcome to our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY

Thanks for all your entries last week, we enjoyed visiting your blogs and leaving comments.

Sadly, this is the last week for our lovely Guest Designer - Janet, however she has agreed to come back later on in the year. On behalf of all the DT's, thankyou Janet for your beautiful creations.

Our chosen theme this week is - ART NOUVEAU

Here is my DT Card

RECIPE:

M.C.S. - Art Nouveau CD

The backing paper has been printed onto Cream Pearlescent Card

Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch - Vine Leaves

Nestabilities Lacey Circle Die Cut - edges distressed using Tattered Rose Ink

Stamped image from my stash, coloured using Lyra Aquacolour Crayons

Ribbon, Roses & Gems from my stash complete my card.

As usual, all the DT's have beautiful cards to show you, so pop over to the blog to see their work.

Our only rule is that you must use something from a CD in your design and say which CD you have used.

Next week we have another SPONSORED Challenge for you, which means a prize for one lucky participant. Don't miss out, so make a note to check on Sunday 6th March as we also have a new Guest Designer joining us for the month of March.

We hope you will join in with us and look forward to visiting your blogs.

Ann's Digi Stamp Forum Challenge

We have had a little fun over at Rainbows Forum and Ann not only supplied this Digi Image but gave us a challenge to create a card, atc, tag etc using this image. Not only did she supply the image but the lovely backing papers to complement her design.

This is my card using all the elements, my image has been coloured using Lyra's & Derwent Inktense. I cut the image out before attaching to my card with 3D Foam. Brads were added to attach the apple border and also the wording which I had done on my computer.

Penny Black Challenge - Recipe 3,2,1

Here is my card I made for the Penny Black Challenge this week.

The challenge was to follow a 'Recipe' using 3 Brads, 2 Ribbons, 1 Flower plus a Penny Black Image.

I stamped with Versafine then coloured the image with Lyra Crayons. 3 Brads were added to the large Flowerpot, this was layered onto a card which I had put through my Cuttlebug Machine using Swiss Dots Embossing Folder then attached to another strip of card, again using my Cuttlebug. The whole image I then mounted onto my card base which I had covered using Papermania Creative Tones - Equisite Paper. A large Pink Bow was attched to the top of the card with a smaller bow at the bottom of the image. As the final ingredient, a fabric flower has been attached to the bottom of my card. I decided to add peel-offs at the side of the image as I thought the hedgehogs were playing Hide & Seek.

Get Stamping Year

As this is the year to 'get stamping again' I sorted through all of my stamps and came across this stamp from PSX entitled 'Morning Glory'

I stamped onto a cream background using Versafine Onyx then coloured the image using a mixture of Permapaque & Lrya Crayons. I didn't think the cream background went well, so I distressed the edges first using Adirondack Denim then decided to carefully add more distressing over the entire card. I added a little sparkle using my Quickie Glue Pen and fine glitter. I don't think this will show up as I scanned my card instead of taking a photo.

The image was mounted onto Silver Mirri before attaching to a 5" x 5" card blank which I had covered with free downloaded paper, courtesy of Jak

Infinite Love

Card No 4. Another 5x5 card, I love this size, can you tell, which has been covered with paper downloaded free from Raspberryroaddesigns, and as it was a harlequin pattern I thought it would fit very well with the stamp from Graphicus - Harlequin Rose. I coloured the image with Lyra Crayons, cut a deckle edge and placed it at an angle onto the card. A tiny bow was attached and a strip of holographic card which had been through my Swiss Dots folder added to the edge.

Art Deco/Art Noveau

Card 3 and a complete new challenge for me. I have joined in a Fat Book Page Swap this month and the theme is Art Deco/Art Noveau. I have never tried any of this sort of stamping before but managed to find a suitable stamp from a Grab Bag I had forgotten about. The image has been coloured using my Lyra Crayons then attached to a circle by using my Nestabilities & Cuttlebug. The card was covered with paper from K and Co Blue Awning Range. I think it needs a little extra to bring it to life, so I would appreciate any comments

Meet Emmy's Friend Eva

I have been making a few cards over the last few days which I would like to share with you, the first one is called Eva and is from Cuddly Buddly. The image was one I had received from Lorraine who continues to encourage me in doing 'cute'. Eva has been coloured using Lyra Crayons, them mounted onto an irredescant card with had been put through my Cuttlebug folder 'Script'. The whole thing was mounted onto a 5x5 card blank which had previously been covered with Papermania Creative Tones - Amethyst. Just to add a finishing touch I attached a satin flower and brad from my craft stash.

Emmy Says Hello

My project for today, if I told you how long it took to do this card I am sure you wouldn't believe me. The image and colouring took no time at all, the hardest part was deciding which papers to use from my stash, and then how to layer. I used a Cuddly Buddly image which Lorraine had stamped and sent to me as part of her encouragement for me to use 'Cute'. The colouring was done using both my Lyra & Watercolours which was then mounted onto a lovely shade of pink metallic card from my stash. Then came to hard part, which paper to use, do I use a strip which had been put through my Cuttlebug plus what else, get the picture. Anyway about 1 hour later I am pleased to show the finished card. I am still not sure about the Cuttlebug strip though.

Christine

Harlequin Rose Themeplate

Another card using my Harlequin Rose Themeplate. The image has been stamped with Stazon Stone Grey and coloured with Lyra crayons. I cut the edge with my deckle scissors to match the card blank and ran a Versacolour Ink Pad, shade 12 (Green) around the edge of image and card blank. I feel that something is missing to give it some appeal and would appreciate any comments, good or bad.

Christine

Cuttlebug Meets Harlequin Rose

I have had this Harlequin Rose Themeplate for just over a week, so I decided today to cut out the images and have a play.

The image has been stamped using Stazon Stone Grey, then watercoloured using Lyra crayons. I used my deckle edge scissors to give a fancy edge, before matting onto vellum which had been put through my Script Embossing Folder, I then layered it on to gold mirri card before layering on to gold paper which had been put through Cuttlebug Scroll Folder. The whole thing was mounted on to a 5 x 5 card blank and I added a cream ribbon bow to the side to finish the whole think off.

This is a beautiful themeplate and over on Julie's blog there are some wonderful cards that she has made with this set of stamps. Do check out her blog.

Christine

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

I decided to take part in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge this week using my new stamp. The image was stamped using Stazon Stone Grey and coloured using Lrya Crayons. I used my Cuttlebug and Nestabilities to cut out 2 circles then using my Compass Cutter I cut a larger circle.
The stamped image was matted onto the large scalloped circle before attaching the whole thing to the largest circle. This is my first Penny Black Challenge but I am sure it won't be my last.
Christine