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

    

A Pink Book... with a BLUE flower

This week on the Shabby Tea Room challenge it is all about BOOKS... and so I thought that since I really don't have a stamp that is a book... and I wasnt' really into books that way, I would MAKE a book... a small little book...  a cute small little book... that can be mailed easily to a special friend...  (I have a lot of special friends ... they are the ones that love pretty things and are special to ME) 

There is a picture on the challenge also... it is light blue, soft pinks and white... so I made this project with that in mind... 

This is a tiny little book... but it has a lot in it.. .lots of pages to put special little things, like pictures, words, thoughts and fun little things...  perfect for a gift... 

 

I so love making flowers... and so I made this one BLUE for the blue in this project... 

 

This picture really doesn't show the lightness of the pink properly. .but it does show the size... only 3 inches tall... and only 2 inches wide... a small little book... 

 

And it opens into a lot of little pages... just perfect to share with... what fun is this...  all in pinks... her favorite color...  she is have shoulder surgery in a week... and her birthday is also coming up... so I need to pamper her a little bit... and she is always sending me such pretty tags, and banners of love etc... so I have to create a special box to put all these things in, that she can open with one hand... and play with these things...  a special gift for a special friend... I can write about this... as she doesn't have a  computer... so she will still be surprised... the best part of it all.. 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit ... and thanks also to all the Design Team for Shabby Tea Room, for their inspirational devotion every week to produce a wonderful site and these fun challenges... thanks a million to you all.. 

 

Hope you will stop in and take a peek and leave some love there too.. 

 

thanks for all that you leave here too.. I really love all your comments and cherish each and every one of them... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Sweet and Frilly

I LOVE to make these fussy and Frilly cards... all white with a flash of color on the flowers...  anyway... it is a pleasure to make one of these fun cards... the first one I made was about 9 years ago now... and I guess I have made over 50 of these cards... I honestly lost count...  but I make them for weddings, for special occasions... and just because someone needs love...   a special card... as this takes quite a while to make one...  the size of the card is 8.5 inches tall and the width when closed is only 6 inches wide... and about an inch thick...  I generally send it in a box... as it is special enough to be put into a box...  at least I think it is... 

 

The front of the card is all white... 

and there is 4 layers of paper on this section.  

 

At the base there is paper lace and also cotton lace...  with a little white bow... 

 

The back layer is made with Martha Stewart Punches... and then a layer of Cuttlebug embossing folders...  and then the paper lace is made with a Spellbinder... 

 

When you start to open the card... this is what you see... 

 

The paper is scored for texture... and also the heart goes from the front of the card to the center of the card... 

 

These flowers are made with Tim Holtz's Tattered floral die... the mini one... and I used distress inks on the white paper...  the leaves are hand cut out by me... 

You can click on any picture to see a larger one...  

 

Peeking thru is the center of the card... 

 

When you continue to open the card...

you will see the first left side of the card... 

 

I have taken a few extra pictures... so that you can see the actual dies etc... but the paper I used is all WHITE cardstock...  nothing special... just ordinary WHITE CARDSTOCK... 

 

 

When the card is entirely open

this is what it looks like... 

 

 

 

5 layers of paper are underneath the Vellum  (which is embossed with another cuttlebug embossing folder... 

I love these folders.. and when I was on the Design team I use to use them all the time... they were some of my favorites... 

I have not seen many people use them... and they are really so very elegant to me...  you can also stencil with them... 

 

the saying...

 

DREAM

 

a garden of good wishes

 

Some more flowers...  just enough for color and variety to this card... 

 

 

 

I so hope that you have enjoyed this card... it is a really fun card to make and a little difficult... but to me, so very well worth it... I have made them in all colors... and had gals make some in colors I would never dream of using... and they are also very elegant in all ways... 

 

I am entering this in two Challenges today...

 

Frilly and Funkie... 

A Summer Garden... 

 

My summer garden is the food that we raise... it gives us love in nourishing our bodies and thus this cards symbolizes that...  Pink is a heart charka color for LOVE... 

and so is GREEN. 

 

The Shabby Tea Room 

 

Using this Photo as inspiration, and the feeling of CELEBATE

and  

   Debbie asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo  with a 'celebration theme' using pink, flowers and a lace element

Thank You very much for stopping by for a visit today... and also for any comments you should leave behind... I love them all..  and cherish each one that you write...  I appreciate them all... 

 

hope you have a great day and can find time to create something that makes your heart happy, for you and others... 

 

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 

 

 

Pretty in Pink

I had about 3 hours prior to having to stop playing in the studio... and decided to take a break and write some long over due letters and responses to lovely comments...  one of the comments was from this new gal Called Nicola... from Paper Profusion... what a delightful and charming person...  I went to her blog and my eyes were filled with delight over all the beautiful creations that she has created...  she also was doing some really nice challenges that I had never heard of... after checking into them.. .they are the kind of challenges that are my YUMMY kind of thing to create...  so I sat down and created this card to enter... 

Most likely I will do a separate one for each next month... but for now, I combined them all... along with another challenge... that is so lovely too.. 

So here is the CARD I made for these challenges... 

 

Since most of you don't know me... I show a lot of pictures, talk a lot and totally enjoy playing with paper...  and all the associated toys that go along with the paper arts... 

 

So this card is just sheer fun for me... I love pinks and greens... and love embossing and using my stencils... totally in love with it all.. 

 

The main embossing folder is at least 5-6 years old... made by Cuttlebug... and it cuts and embosses at the same time... it also has a stencil attached to it... multi dimensional... I love it.. underneath it, I used my Newest Tim Holtz stencil, with embossing paste and then colored it... I know that Nicola also use this one... that is why I colored mine to show how beautiful this stencil is... so very pretty in the white and also colored...   

 

I used Tim Holtz's Pine cone die to create these roses... and then used the same die and BABY WIPES to create the smaller flowers...  the real tiny flowers are created with a tiny die and then a stamen inserted into each one...  very time consuming, but I must use at least 100 of these little tiny flowers in a months time... love them...  try making some and use around your flowers... really softens the bouquet...  you will love them...

 

You can get a better view of the little tiny flower here... on the top...  The bows are made from seam binding ribbon and dyed with re-inkers... I happened to use Distress ink called Victorian Velvet... an all time favorite...When making the roses, I start the center out by using a scattered Straw ink and then my color.. which was .... you guessed it... Victorian Velvet... what else.. 

 

 

 

I love butterflies... and this one is flying...  three makes it totally flying...  I used a Spellbinder butterfly die for this... 

A tiny tiny little tag... only about an inch long... and 1/2 inch tall... to write a huge message onto it...

HEARTS THAT GIVE ARE ALWAYS IN BLOOM... 

 

How very true...

 

I hope you can see this little tiny flower here... but you can use any small die... and two layers... with a stamen in the center... you should glue the stamen into the flowers... just holds better on the card or project... 

 

 

I so hope YOU enjoyed this card... and hope that you will come back to my blog to visit often... 

 

These are the challenges that I created this card for... please visit them and see what other artists have created... comments are always welcomed... 

 

The Shabby Tea Room

 

We Love Vintage Challenge

 

Inspiration Journal       

 

It's All About the Vintage and Beauty

 

 

Thank You Nicola, for coming to my blog and sharing all that you did...  I love your work/play ART... and admire what you are creating...  all so very beautiful, stunning and magical. 

 

Thank YOU all  for stopping by for a visit ... and have a wonderful day...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie