Fancy and Fun....

This is one of those projects that started to be made a long time ago... and I would add things as they came to me...  the inside of the card started about 5 months ago... and the front of the card was done on Monday... to match a few challenges... 

Which are:

The Shabby Tea Room   Color challenge with birds added

The Kraft Journal  Anything goes... 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous   Flowers that are hoarded...  

I have to tell you something also that is very special to me... I WON another challenge at the KRAFT JOURNAL... and also won a $15.oo gift shopping spree in their store... wonder feelings from this in all ways...  WHAT A GREAT HONOR... thank you all for the vote of love you have given to my work and play...  I cherish the feelings .  

okay... 

Now I know you are waiting to see this all.. and so here it is... 

BIRDS and LACE  

 

Front of the card

I was playing with my Tapestry stamps and made a wreath...  love these little peg stamps... as you can create so very much with them...  I added the wreath onto a background of stenciled goodness and fun using TH gothic stencil and textured paste... fun galore... and then colored some of it with a baby wipe!!! 

Of course I love MS lace makers... my paper punches... and since my studio has all been organized again... I have all my dies and punches in one location... so it is so convenient to pull out what I need to play with to create fun and a mess in my studio... all over the place.   

 

Do you see the little bird tucked into the next among the flowers... she is resting... and having a litter of babies.. 

 

The flowers were made from colored coffee filters... and the leaves a drew, cut out and added liquid pearl (gold) as accents on the leaves... 

 

You can see the tapestry stamping a little clearer on this picture...  each leaf and cluster is a separate stamp... so this is a lot of stamping...  and a lot of fun to me... 

 

Moving back a little... 

 

Getting ready to open the card up....... 

 

The inside of the card... 

 

Each section I will talk about below... 

 

Starting at the back.. a paper with MS lace all around the edges, then a layer of Anna Griffin paper... and then a section that creates the folds in this card...  and I made it into a pocket...

 

Swiss dotted (embossed paper) on the front of the pocket... 

Snails, and little fairy on a mushroom... 

 

The tag... with a vintage rose clip art fussy cutted... 

 

Tea Bag folding.. I love tea bag folding... and this is called the Celtic Knot... a little wreath with some tissue paper flowers... 

 

Ahhhh the big old fluffy bird with a fairy riding on her back...  I love this vintage clip art... so very fun and wish I was a fairy at times and could jump on a birds back for a nice breezy ride around the country side... wouldn't you like to do that too???

WHAT FUN would that be??

 

The last section is a fairy named Luna moth... she is so beautiful... I had to use her here... 

 

Another very special fold...  and so very small ... I really had to work at this folded flower... 

 

There she is in all her glory... 

 

Well there you have it... my card of love

 

Love of PINK

Love of BIRDS.

Love of FAIRIES

Love of LACE

LOVE!

 

Hope you have something to create that you LOVE ...  I certainly have LOVED making this card and also sharing it with ya'll... 

 

Hope you have a fun day... and enjoy creating something special... Thanks for stopping by for a visit...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

    

Pink FLOWERS in My Garden

Today has been a funny day... I really had a lot to get done.. and got very little done... other than to cook meals and play a little bit... A very humid day... and it sort of wipes me out... so hopefully it will be a little cooler on Wednesday... 

Okay... this is for two pretty challenges...  Shabby Tea Room... where the colors are pink, green and white, and the theme is Garden and flowers...  or house... 

and

Sugar Creek Hollow... oh my goodness... I went there today... to see what the challenge was.. and I am a winner again... and this piece happens to be one of my very favorite pieces I have done... I love the colors and it is with flowers...  wow...  thank YOU all for choosing my piece... THANKS and I am very honored... 

here is the piece that won... 

 

Sometimes things just happen the way they are suppose to happen...  I had extra texture paste on my knife... so I picked up this orange piece of paper that I had painted and added these designs...  LOL.. of course I ran out of texture paste and got more... but finally was finished... the paper sat there to dry for a few days...

and then I colored the textured paste with a water brush and ink...  and then used Inka gold on it...  love the background of this paper... and then when Sugar Creek asked for a summer Theme... using orange, pink and yellow... all in bright colors... well I used this piece of paper... and it turned out to be a favorite...  love it when that happens... 

 

So thank you very much for Honoring me and this piece of art...  I am totally HONORED... 

 

 

Okay... so back to my frilly card...  I made this for these two challenges... and really had fun.. took a few things to another level...

 

 

I wanted to do a window...  as in the spring my yard is all AZALEAS...  our entire yard is lined with over 50 azaleas of all colors...  there is no picket fence.. but I wanted to create a small 'flower box' for this card...  and our yard is filled with BUTTERFLIES all during the warmer months...  as we are organic and they have plenty to feast on...we make sure of that. 

 

 

 

I made the frame using a spellbinders die and then a Martha Stewart set to make the paper lace...  and the center was made with some texture paste and a new tim holtz stencil called graphic... love it...  I had colored my paper prior to putting the texture paste on... but it looks like the paste absorbed the color... LOL.. oh well I love it...  so I added more myself...   so the pink is really VICTORIAN VELVET ink... I use so very much of that... a favorite color for sure... 

 

I built a little window box, using a fence punch by Martha also...  and then made a lot of flowers using Tim's tattered floral strip...  lots of little flowers.. but I only used one style and cut a lot of them.. .I did ink my own paper... and that way a nice flow of colors... again.. VICTORIAN VELVET ink... 

 

The bows are also made with seam binding ribbon with VICTORAIN VELVET ink...  I do love the stuff...

 

 

 

The Butterfly... dyed with Victorian Velvet ink...  what else... and the center is a paper bead... with a stamen folded in half for the antennae... 

 

The leaves also are on the tattered floral strip of dies... and I inked words onto them for a contrasting look... 

 

The end of the window box...  and some of the smaller flowers.. 

The other end... 

When you open the card... you will see this in the center ... I again used the same stencil... and left is whiter this time... and made the ornate frame with a TH template... and piled up 5 papers cut the same... for added strength...  a little bow.. 

 

When you open it up...

 

I tangled a Happy Birthday with a zentangle called Girlande...  love that particular one...  plain and simple... Happy Birthday... 

 

So that is my card this week...

Hope you enjoyed seeing all the pretties on this one... as a last minute thought I added the swirls... love them... just three... and all done...

 

Have a great day... and thanks so very much for taking a trip over here... I really appreciate it greatly.. .and love all the comments and love you share with me... I love it all..

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

 

The Card is a CIRCLE!!!

Shabby Tea Room challenge this week is to make a circle card..."Ring around the Rosie".    I have a hard time getting the look I love with just a circle.... so I incorporated it into a step card... how much fun did I have....  I can't begin to tell you how much fun I had...

I also am entering this into Simon Says Wednesday challenge... as the theme is Anything Goes for this challenge... 

I started with a piece of paper that I adore... and haven't used... didn't have anything that was really calling to me... but this did... so I started to cut apart this precious piece of paper...

Why did I choose it for this challenge... well this challenge also says that the colors should be pink and green... and also a flower and also some BLING... well this paper has all that built right into it... the bling is on the hydrangea and the pink and green... oh I love pink and green together ... one of my favorite combos...  so this was just the perfect piece of paper... 

After cutting it all apart, All I had to do was glue everything onto a step card... love it...  how much fun!!!!

 

Here is the finished card... 

A close up of the flower... I used a burlap flower, then layered some book page flowers and some muslin flowers and they were all cut with Tim Holtz's Tattered floral die cut... my most used die cut in the pile...

 

You can also see that I used a Martha Stewart corner and border punch for the back panel... and I used a Provo embossing folder for the insert on that panel... 

 

In this picture you can see the bling on the hydrangea  ....

Loving it... 

 

Each little flowers is cut out of the 12 x 12 paper and put aside... until ready for gluing... also the little birds...  which I had to tuck into little places...  I used everything on that 12 x 12 paper... EVERYTHING was cut out... 

 

The little butterflies I doubled up on, to give flight to them...  and little pink bows were also tucked around in different places.. 

Can you tell I had fun??? 

I did...  and I just love the way it came out too..

I have a dear friend that is having a shoulder transplant in the fall.. .and she loves frilly things like this ... so she is going to receive this card... this ROUND card... it is ROUND!!!

 

Here is the round cards... it lifts out of the step card.. and it is round... 

 

I had to have a few things flowing off the circle... just for balance... and if you notice, not everything is glued down flat...  I love things that move on a card...

 

 

 

Inside the card is a message...  Celebrate Each DAY!!

How true is that... we need to do that each and every day to be thankful for whom we are in all ways... 

 

Okay... so I got a little carried away... this is the back of the card... I made the pink paper with some distress inks by Tim Holtz and white cardstock... love making my own papers... so very much fun.. .but the bests reason being that I get to create what I want in papers for my projects... 

 

When the card is removed, I wanted the base unit to still be pretty.. .so I added some birds and flowers there too...

 

A close up will show you how pretty even that area is... I just had to put a little bow there too... 

 

 

Okay... so that is my ROUND card...  it is Round... and I love it... hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did making it...

 

Thank You so very much for stopping by today and I love all the comments that you leave... I appreciate each and every one of them... and read them all... and generally will answer you back... 

 

Thanks again... and see you soon...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Winter Calls

Today being still SUNDAY here in the US... it is Sunday Stamper time... and I have been really busy all day with company, playing off and on... and also trying to get into the winter/ Christmas mood... so I finally got this tag made... and there is NO STAMPING on it... other than the words on the poinsettia pages of a book... I just couldn't bring myself to stamp on here... as I would have had to have dug out the old Christmas stamps... so sorry... I don't have any stamping on here...  I dint' think that sea horses would work with this theme.. .LOL.. 

Oh well... a little humor...

So here is my WINTER TAG...  with a poinsettia... 

 

My little girl is a clip art... not really sure where I found here... but I  do love it... a bell ringer... 

 

 

 

Love poinsettias... but hey...I love flowers... 

 

That is about as close to winter as I can get right now...  LOL.. it is 98 degrees here now... trying to have a severe rain storm... but the humidity is horrible and I could use a nice snow storm for a few hours...  but... my winter/Christmas stamps are still packed... and I just found my fall ones... so time will bring forth the others...

 

Have a fun day... thanks for stopping by for a visit... and have a super good week... I will be very busy with challenges and also doing all my canning this week... all fun stuff... so if you get a chance please stop back... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Still more playing with Tim's Tag for June

I had a free period of time... and decided to play with Tim's June Tag again... I really enjoyed doing that type of background... AND I had a few new stencils... so I needed to use them... I don't like to have unused things in my studio...  LOL..  Paper is okay... but other things need to be used and tried out... 

So I started to play... and some of the backgrounds didn't come out really good.. not enough water... too much water... too much ink etc. etc... so all of a sudden I had a ton of backgrounds...

 

Some good ones...  still to be used...  LOL.. so maybe with any luck I will be able to make a few more... not now... got a full schedule this week-end... and this afternoon...  ugh... I love to play.... 

 

I added more ink to give an even more in depth look...  Love this too...  and the colors were really spurring me to create with these...  you will see... 

 

 

So I guess it is fair to say that I really did have fun... and since I LOVE hearts... it really turned out to be my favorite stencil for this one... 

 

I do have a stash of all the background papers I make... so the extras went into that bin... and WILL BE USED at a  later date... 

 

Okay.. then I started to create some of them...  trimming them all up and getting ready to play was a lot of fun too... getting out all the things that I wanted to play with ...  just good old fun.  I think I made about 25 backgrounds... prolific??? Not a chance...  just having FUN... 

 

 

Even though the background wasn't as good as others... I wanted to use the colors... love them...  Capture Magic Now is on the chit chat ....  I wanted to use some of my new Wallflower pad... so I cute out this little bird... I SEE You...  silly huh??? Just a good mood after playing and creating... 

 

Again a fun background... using Victorian Velvet and edging in Walnut stain....  adding all the pictures is also fun... I do happen to enjoy cutting out things...  so that is fun to me.. 

 

LOVE my DRAGONFLIES... so this one had to be put into the Pickled Raspberry and faded jeans...  love the way the colors blended on these...  really love it... 

 

I also cut out a free cut flower set...  and love that... sorry that these pictures really don't show things up... I think I have to figure out which things on the camera I fiddled with and didn't put back... oh well..  I should really remember the settings...  memory !!!  the name on this tag...

 

UNDERSTANDING CRAZY...

 

 

Can anyone relate???? 

 

Okay... started to get a little bit warmed up... and added a side panel on this one...  Love my CROW... Thanks for the CROW Tim... I love this one...  right size and all... perfect.. 

 

Anyway... added a few roses... as the roses are all blooming here... and the butterflies are all around... as are the dragonflies... love this time of year... even though we are having night time severe thunder and lightening storms...  it is okay... cools us down a little bit, and also waters the raised beds...  our farm requires a lot of water...  and because it is so spread out... it is very difficult to water... 

 

 

 

This is on the inside of this tag... The word is REMEMBER...  LOL.. wish I could remember it all... but I remember enough to get me into trouble... 

 

Made a few paper beads for this one, out of extra side papers that were trimmed off to create the tag... 

 

Really had a blast with this one...  layers and layers of all kinds of papers... from coffee filters, sheet music, book pages, printed papers, etc etc... there are a lot of layers on this tag... and then I added a bow... and a large flower using coffee filters, and the tattered floral die cut... that die cut is one of my all time favorites.. I have done a lot of classes using that die cut...  everyone loves it... 

 

I saved my all time favorite for last... 

 

I took a sheet that I had made and stamped Queen Anne's lace all over it and embossed it with white embossing powder... 

Then I cut it all up and put the squares onto another sheet...  that I used another one of Tim's techniques on... picking up inks from the worksheet...  my all time favorite to do when I am up in the middle of the night... makes no noise and lots of mess... love it..

 

Okay.. .then I used a paper punch for the lace and made three rows of that... adding a little vintage to the bottom one only...  made a few more beads... and added a flower... 

 

It still needed something else... I didn't really want words on this... so I added a favorite .... a rusted dragonfly... and I dressed the dragonfly with some gems... very deserving of them too... she was so very excited... 

 

Add a little heart that says I LOVE YOU...  will give this to my sweet hubby for Father's day... 

 

Hope you have enjoyed this...  and please go to Tim's site...  and view all the tags this month... there are some really beautiful ones... I think everyone really enjoyed this tag of the month... know I did...

 

Thanks for coming to visit me here... and hope you have a GREAT Day...  I know that even though I will be unable to play.. .I will enjoy my day... and will keep in mind that I will be playing tomorrow...  

 

Thanks... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie