Halloween at TTPHC

Hello and welcome. Hope you are enjoying your Monday :)

Today over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges, it is team B's turn to wow you. We are sponsored this week by Simply Betty.

The theme is Halloween. The winner will get three of the digi's that we the DT got to use. Go on and give it a go!! ;-)

This week I did a layout, for a change! This is 8x8" sheet of black board.

I painted the image (Evil Queen Rio) in with watercolour paints and stuck her onto a 6x6 paper. The backing paper has 'Memories' printed out on it, and I thought it was pretty apt, as the photo brings back great memories!

 I got a strip of purple paper and stenciled some dots onto the paper. I then got some purple net and gathered it with some ribbon and stuck some brads through it, to ensure it wouldn't budge.

I used my Garden Trelis frame die to create this frame for my photo. This is a photo of my eldest girl Sarah when she was 3, loads of memories flood back when I see the photo of the cheeky grin at me! Not to mention how obvious it is to see how alike she and her younger sister are! (I can never see the sister resemblances!!!) I then sprayed it with some spray paint. With the square gone from the frame, I used the card to cut out the letters 'Trick".

I cut out the letters in two different fonts to read 'trick' and 'treat'. I combined all letters and embellishments to give a Halloween feel to the layout. 

Why not take part in the challenge?

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great day

Eithne

Purple Butterflies

Hello :)

Hope you are having a lovely summer. Here in Ireland we are officially in a drought! It is so hard to believe considering we haven't really had a summer for 4-5 years!

This week over at Eclectic Ellapu the challenge is Shades of Purple with main focus on butterflies.

This is the card I made for this week.

I used some beautiful printed vellum for the piece on the left, and tore some spotty paper for the bottom. Using washi tape I cut it to look like a banner, and then used a paper flower and button for the embellishment. I stuck a butterfly mirror embellishment on the flower also.

With a white cut out circle I stamped some beautiful butterflies, from the Indigo Blu Live Love laugh stamp range, and stuck it onto a pre cut scalloped circle, I previously cut with my cricut.

I used another paper flower and flower embellishment for the side detail.

Another close up -

Why not give this challenge a go? Hope you are having a great day, thanks for stopping by.
Eithne

All You Need is Love

My good friend got married in August, and I made this card for the happy couple.

For something different, I decided to do a four panel card. The first panel I die cut out a scalloped square, and embossed a section of the front.

The second panel, I covered the background, and added a little sentiment. I got a stamp awhile back with "All You Need is Love!" As I am a HUGE Beatles fan, (and while in school I made everyone else listen to them as well, so all my friends had no option but to like them also!)

This is the embellishment I made with a few die cuts, flowers and a button. I also stamped another sentiment on, "love love love". On to some vellum I stamped silver flowers and put them onto a grey scalloped strip for behind the embellishment.

This second element I made again, from die cuts, printed vellum paper, and leaves. Again, I stamped the words "love love love". (carrying on from the song!) I covered this panel with a similar coloured paper to the first panel. Rather than a scalloped square, I cut out a plain square.

 This is at the back of the card, but when the card is closed you see it. I added some gems to break the plain look!

This is the view looking down on the card when it is standing up.

The "love love love" here is printed in silver ink onto plain vellum. When the card is closed it can be seen through the different size cut outs. I used two brads to hold the vellum in place, and knotted ribbon through also.

 

This is the last side of the card. I used printed vellum, iridescent card, flowers, gems, beads etc.

I am hoping to enter this card in the following challenges
Stamp n Doodle - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Emboss it
365 Cards - Patterned paper and a stamp on the inside


Thanks for looking, hope you have a great day.
Eithne