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:

Carol's Ink Spot said...

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

Beautiful Greetings said...

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

Heather Rogers said...

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

Debbie said...

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!!!!

marsha said...

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

Hugs, Marsha

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

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

Nancy said...

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

Willy's creations said...

Your cards are lovely!

Hugs,Willy

june lanum said...

gorgeous card, love all the elements.

Annika said...

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

nessy said...

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

Nicole said...

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

craftyb said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Justine said...

That is WOW, so beautiful

Unknown said...

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.

Audrey Pettit said...

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.

Janiel/ janny said...

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

Jenn K said...

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

Mandy said...

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

Unknown said...

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

Julie M said...

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)

Anonymous said...

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

papertrails leaver said...

such a stunning card!

Jean Franks Beck said...

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

Angela said...

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

XxJULESxX said...

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

Mummylade said...

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

Nicola said...

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-

vikkithescrapjunkie said...

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

june lanum said...

Love the card

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