Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Vintage Fairies


It's time again for the Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge and this week it's Fairies. I love fairies and have been wanting to do a project with this vintage image for some time. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to use it for this week's design team card. I also made the card with the Shabby Tea Room and City Crafter (pink) challenges in mind. The challege this week at the Shabby Tea Room is to make something with chipboard. I like making my own chipboard, which I do by cutting two or three layers of thin cardboard with dies and then stacking and gluing them to achieve chipboard thickness. Since I wanted this chipboard to be white, these were cut with the white backing that comes in the SU designer paper packs. I also dry embossed the butterfly for more texture. Once glued, I sponged them with Creamy Caramel ink and coated them with chunky glitter. The card base is Pink Pirouette and then a layer of Very Vanilla that I stamped a pattern on with Vintage Photo distress ink. Both layers were sponged with Creamy Caramel. The vintage image was printed on my home printer and torn out. The edges were sponged with Creamy Caramel and Vintage Photo. I cut a piece out of a doily and added a bow of crinkly seam binding and a Prima rose plus a vintage style LaMode button on the butterfly.

Thanks so much for stopping by today to see what I have to offer for the Creative Imaginations Wednesday Challenge. I missed last week's challenge (due to my vacation) and the introduction of a new designer on the team, April Rose. I hope you will stop by the challenge blog to see what our talented designers have to offer!

Blessings & hugs,

Challenges entered:

The Shabby Tea Room - Use Chipboard
City Crafter - Photo Inspiration/Color Challenge
Die Cut Dreams - Shabby Chic
PaperPlay Challenge - Stamp or Digi and some bling
Wildflower Patch - Ribbon, sparkle, dimension

31 comments:

  1. Beautiful card! Love all the different elements used on it.

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  2. Oh Linda! This is just gorgeous! I love the lace and the frosted accents. Amazing.

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  3. Amazing work! Everything is so pretty. Thanks for playing at CCCB this week. :)

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  4. Another GORGEOUS design for us all here in the Tea Room this week, Linda!!! Absolutely wonderful :) Looking forward to your GDT spot with us next week - yippiee!!!!

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  5. Oh LInda, your creation is absolutely stunning! A work of art!

    Hugs, Marsha

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  6. Oh wow, look at all those detail and texture! Lovely card here!
    Thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  7. Gorgeous, Linda!! I especially love the butterfly!!

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  8. gorgeous card, love all the elements.

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  9. Ahhhh, it's so beautiful! And it looks so gorgeously textured I'd love to touch it!
    TFS
    Hugs
    Annika

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  10. oh this is just beautful ~a perfect girly card!! love it!!
    vanessa xx

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  11. Pretty card! Nice use of chipboard. Thanks for playing along with us at The Shabby Tea Room! :)

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  12. WOW...this is stunning....love the image and your embellishments are simply gorgeous! Thank you for sharing with us at Crafty Creations! bx

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  13. Oh WoW Lynda your card is stunningly beautiful TFS:)x

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  14. Linda, this is Beautiful. I love how you explain how you made your own chipboard! Very Cool.

    Thanks for playing along over at the CCCB.

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  15. Another absolutely stunning creation from you, Linda! This is gorgeous! Love all the details here, and how cool you create your own chipboard pieces. Thanks for playing along with us again in the Tea Room.

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  16. Hi sweetie I am glad that you are now home a safe!! I hope you had a great ime and I do hope you relaxed a bit!!

    LOVING this card!!! The colors are stunning with the stunning details!!!
    hugs Janiel

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  17. WOW! What a fantastic card! Thanks so much for joining us on The Wild Flower Patch!

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  18. Beautiful card.
    Thanks for joining us at Paper Play
    hugs Mandy xx

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  19. I love this one, too! You're brain is amazing. LOL

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  20. Oooh that is beautiful, Linda - I love the lace and vintage detail, and the glittered frame and butterfly are lovely finishing touches.

    Thanks for joining us on PaperPlay this week.

    Julie :o)

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  21. This is so beautiful--I love the vintage fairy image, gorgeous bit of doily (I can't believe you cut it up), and beautiful papers! I love your vintage style!
    Hugs,
    April

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  22. Beautiful card, and I love that you make your own chipboard! What a creative idea!

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  23. Linda, this is so Beautiful!! Love the vintage look!! Thanks for joining our Wild Flower Patch Challenge.
    Hugs:)
    Angela

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  24. I love your card the design is fab! love everything about it!!!!

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  25. Fantastic card! Thank you so much for joining the DCD challenge this time, good luck.

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  26. Wow this is beautiful Linda, I love all your elements, quite mind blowing.
    Thank you for joining us at Die Cut Dreams.
    Hugs,
    Nicola -x-

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  27. Stunning card perfect for our Shabby Chic challenge this week. Thank you for joining in at Die Cut Dreams this week.
    Love n hugs
    Vikki xx

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