Stamps Ahead

I have designed the following cards for local community group this week - I need to do early in the week so as to allow paper to sit for 72 hours before use.  The inspiration for the card fold came from love Cardmaking Australia magazine Issue 20, pages 70 and 72.  The card features a handmade flower made with a scallop punch and two small white flowers that I colored with Distress Oxide Spray.  Patterned papers are a very old Stampin' Up! range from my stash.  The card was large than a regular 15cm (6") square envelope so I made each of them an envelope to fit using my envelope punch board. For this card I was inspired by a card by Michelle Zindorf that I found on Pinterest , thank you Michelle for the inspiration.  What is not entirely evident is that I applied glitter glue to the dragonfly: Overnight, I had a change of plans!  I decided to ditch the painting, it would take time to dry as well participants would have to share paint and heat guns requiring...

I came across this blog whilst out blog surfing one day and I was immediately drawn to the criteria at ARTistic Challenge - the use of recycled material to feature prominently on your work for their June Challenge. So I had a go! My sisters decorating style is shabby chic/French Provincial and so I have tried to capture these on the layout.  Many years ago whilst in US I purchased a bag of Bits of Inspiration - the bag contained bits of paper, antique labels, funky scraps, old postage, bit of metal and more! And I have used many of the bits on this layout. I laid the paper onto the backing from an old packet paper of Stampin' Up! - I would normally throw this out.  The Shabby Chic tag and pink ribbons are from some goodies she purchased on holidays this past month, the pin was from a clothes tag from a top I purchased this month, and a single diamante earring I had has been added as well.  The reference to Paris on a number of ...