CD Sunday Challenge ' Feathered Friends'

This is my entry in the CD Sunday Blog Challenge this week - Feathered Friends.
I have used Joanna Sheen's Jayne Netley Mayhew CD for the image and the BP. I punched the BP with my Martha Stewart 'Punch Around the page' punch. (The only one I have). I mounted the image on very pale green linen look mirri card and then sewed beads to the tail and crown feathers. The toning ribbon is from my stash. I knew it would come in useful one day.

(note: no parchment)

A Judith Maslen pattern

This is a pattern I have had for a little while. No printing and painting on this one. It has all been done the traditional way. Pen work, tracing, embossing and colouring with polychromos pencils and blending with dorso oil.
I have used the same card as on my previous posting as the colours seemed to go so well with this one.

Another Sarah Kay figure from Mettemusen's site

This little lady I think will make a lovely birthday card. She has been printed on parchment and embossed and coloured from behind as before. The border I found amongst my various downloads but I have added the sun tool, and again sewn the whole piece onto the card with beads. The card is a pale rainbow effect printed on some gorgeous linen look off white card I found in a local GC at a Payperbox stand - all you can fill for £5.99. It takes ink beautifully as you can see.

Parchment ATC's using images from Mettemusen

These little drawings are from Mettemusen's site, reduced to ATC size and printed on parchment. Painted on the back using Bruynzeel pens - and some light embossing.
The titles are:
'Come Fly my Kite', 'I am Sorry', 'Sending a message', 'Just a touch more', 'I love you Mr. Pig' and 'Wait for me'.

Wedding Card

This is an image from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Romance CD. Printed on parchment with corner motifs embossed using a 'fancy grid'. I used a PCA large sun tool in the oval around the bride and then just embossed other details. Added a tiny half pearl to the button on her dress and sprinkled the border and headress with fine glitter or 'oofle dust' - as I call it. The ribbon comes from my local store and the linen look mirri card from QVC.

One Peacock - two cards

This time I traced and embossed and coloured the image adding a few patterns and more Glossy Accents. A different style border this time affixed with a bow to rainbow parchment.

One Peacock - two cards

I bought this wonderfully coloured iron-on motif at my local Craft Store. I scanned it, printed on parchment, and added Glossy Accents for the gems in the tail and then worked a ribboned border.

CD Sunday Challenge - Elegant Ladies

Over at CD Sunday the theme is 'Elegant Ladies'. I have used MCS 'Deco Follies' for the background balcony scene and for the lady. The lady was printed from an NSR (Alice)on to a parchment wrap then embossed and coloured from the back. Two brads hold the wrap strategically in place - one as an earring and the other in the bow on her hip.

Dayze of Innocence - CD by Debbees

Parchment ATC's made using 4 of the 7 folders on this new Cd of artwork by Pamela West.

Ooh La La 'Shoes in Bloom'

This is the Aster folder from 'Shoes in Bloom' by Ooh La La Creations. I never get tired of using the images from this CD.
I have printed on parchment, embossed the image and used a fancy circle grid for a delicate border and then used a 10 needle scallop tool 'to take it out'. I have then used sewn beads to attach the parchment circle to a pale lilac glitter circle. The card uses the crackle bp from the CD.

The exciting news is that Ooh La La Creations will be on Create and Craft TV on Saturday 19th June at 10.00am. Shoes in Bloom will be one of the featured CD's.
Sample cards by members of the Design Team, of which I am proud to be one, will be on display.

Using artwork from Pamela West - New CD from Debbees CD's

My copy of this great new CD by Debbees arrived on my doormat this morning with the ink still wet. This great Cd has been made using the artwork of Pamela West. There are 7 folders with toppers, decoupage, shaker cards and Acetate decoupage plus bonus bp's. An awful lot for just a few £'s. Debs has done some wonderful work with these lovely little paintings.
I have, of course, printed on parchment, and used the Alison Yeates designed oval frame for embossing and pricking out the image. The card uses a bp from the same folder and apart from doing a little embossing and adding a chiffon bow that is all I have done.
I am going to enjoy using all of the other many images on this great new CD.
There is a link to 'Debbees' in the title.

OLL DT #54 Bright and Cheerful

This is my current DT card on show for Ooh La La and the image comes from Ooh La La 'Floral Extravaganza'. It can be found in the Bonus Folder - Toppers & Pyramage. I have printed it onto parchment paper, embossed on the back and added a little colour behind the sun to brighten it up. I have used a scallop tool to 'take it out' and then added a little Sakura Metallic pen to each scallop. Mounted on green hollographic with green brads and then yellow crackle background from Shoes in Bloom. I love the cheerful little yellow birds on the branch.

Days Gone By - CD Sunday Challenge

This is my offering for this weeks challenge on the CD Sunday Challenge Blog.
Days Gone By is the remit and I have used Joanna Sheen's Fashion Boutique CD for the 'Paperdoll', MCS for the background, and flower, ribbon and gems from my own stash. I used the Pinflair punch for the tiny pink flowers.

Lacy Flowers

This is a pattern by Sylvia Hunsley in a past edition of the Parchment Magazine. This is the second time I have done this card as I like the clean simple design and I enjoy doing it.

Parchment ATC's

I need to make several new ATC's for the swops I am involved in. I have chosen images from my favourite CD again - Shoes in Bloom - as a start. It is so easy to print these out at the correct size and emboss them. A quick and pretty ATC.

Gridwork Flowers

Here are some gridwork flowers. The pattern is from Amanda's site (link is in the title). They are very unusual but quick and fun to make. Useful to have a little box of them made up to use at any time - esp instead of a 'butterfly' moment.

ATC

I found a lovely parchment site whilst trawling the other day. Her name is Amanda and she is in Taiwan. Amanda is very generous and offers many free patterns as well as selling her own book of wonderful patterns for miniature handbags. I have put a link in the title and hope it works.
I enjoyed making this ATC. It has one of my own flowers in the centre rather than the drawn one in the pattern.

Sarah Kay image from Mettemusen

Sunday CD Challenge - Country Charm

For this weeks challenge I have used an Ooh La La Cd again but this time 'Passion for Fashion'. I have used one of the 'Quick Cards' and printed on parchment and painted and embossed what was the little monochrome image. I have used bronze linen look mirri card as the matt and bp from the CD. The embellishments are two pale peach butterflies from 'Artwork'.

'Some flowers for you'. Mettemusen

This is another image from the Mettemusen site. There are so many lovely ones to choose from. I have done this in a similar way to the first one. Some embossing on the back and then painted with felt tip pens. This time the border was done seperately and then stitched to the image piece adding toning beads. The blue crackle bp is from 'Shoes in Bloom' CD by Ooh La La Creations. My favourite CD makers. This card combines all my favourites, parchment, beadwork and 'colouring in'. I don't think we ever grow out of enjoying colouring in.

Butterfly on pink

The same Gothic butterfly but this time mounted on rainbow parchment and pink glitter card. I wasn't sure if I hadn't 'fiddled' too much with it but friends tell me it is OK. And what are friends for?
x

Mettemusen pattern

I just printed this lovely image on parchment paper and then embossed and coloured from the back. I used Bruynzeel Superpoints with just a damp brush. These pens work beautifully with parchment as the colours are bright enough to show well from the back and they spread nicely without too many streaks. The little bird and the branch were already coloured. Just a very simple 'dot' border and then mounted on the very pale pink linen look mirri card that I have just bought from QVC.

OLL DT - Minimalstic (white space essential) # 53

The parchment butterfly was made using a Pauline Loweth pattern. The card was designed using MCS and my own Photo Manager programme.

CD Sunday - Baby Talk - (Sold)

Over on the Sunday CD Challenge Blog the theme this week is 'Baby Talk'. I have used a CD from Ooh La La Creations called 'Kiddiwinks'. In fact this image is the one they use as a frontspiece. I have mounted it on a parchment matt and the bp is from the bonus pages but matches the folder.

Another Gilly Howe download pattern. There is a choice of two sizes for this Lacy Fan and this is the smaller size. A lovely pattern to do - simple and stylish.

This is a pattern I have had for some time but only just fished out of my 'library'.
This was designed by Gilly Howe and is available from her website. It is a lovely card to do especially if you love gridwork like me.

An image from Joanna Sheen's 'Elegant Fans' printed on to parchment and then embossed. Some lovely linen look mirri card used for the matting and the card. A new discovery for me and very friendly to scoring and cutting.

When having a rest from doing parchment I often do stitching or stitch and beadwork on card. There are some beautiful designs around and they are mostly inexpensive downloads so it is easy and quick to find a suitable pattern. You just need to keep a few beads in your stash and some good cottons. But like all crafters I don't know the meaning of the words 'a few'. Boxes of beads would be more honest. The card above is a downloaded pattern worked with a mixture of plain and metallic threads. The butterfly background is from Joanna Sheen's 'Elegant Fans' CD.

This is my current contribution to the Ooh La La Challenge Blog #52 'Vintage Man'. I am very proud to be a member of such a great DT and as soon as I have learned how I will post a link to the Blog.

I have used an insert from OLL 'Passion for Fashion' as an outsert, Bonus Pages on the same CD for the man in the trilby and the smaller images came from Joanna Sheen's ATC Assistant. Not my comfort zone but a challenge is a challenge. (Sorry about that).

CD Sunday - Artfully Asian

This is my entry to the second week of the new CD Sunday Challenge Blog. This week the theme title is 'Artfully Asian'.
I have used Cupcake Crafting 'Oriental Origins' CD. I printed out two of the 5 x 5 papers on parchment - used one for the wrap and then embossed and snipped out the flower from the second and attached with silicone . I have used some new tiny brads to fix the wrap and added a toning chiffon bow.

CD Sunday - Wings and Things

I am going to enter my first challenge with this card. My own design parchment card using butterflies from Ooh-La-La-Creations 'Shoes in Bloom' CD. I have printed out the butterflies on parchment - added 'stamens' as antennae and shaped using a bone folder. The challenge is 'Wings and Things' on CD Sunday Challenge.

This lovely card was made by Jocelyn who is very very new to parching and is a natural.

This glamorous lady has been created by another special friend - Mandi.

I had a good few parchment Birthday cards this year and here is another - from my special friend Jacqui. The image is from the Mettemusen site and Jacqui has done it brilliantly.

This lovely parchment Birthday card was sent to me by my good friend Debs. Thank you so much.
Hugs
Carol
xx

I have had a few days away with a 'crafting' friend and it was a very pleasant break.
I came back to my last lesson on the Ballerina and she is now finished except for finding a suitable frame. The basic image and 3d effects are from a pattern by Ann Jennings in the Parchment Craft Magazine back in Jan 2006 and was originally designed as a card. My Tutor, though, gave us two borders to do - to make it into an A4 picture.

The completed card.

When I was helping on a 'Parchment' stand at a craft show earlier in the year we were very pleased to meet and talk to a great many would be parchers but some were worried that as they couldn't paint or draw that perhaps the craft wasn't for them. This does not have to be true. Whilst we are learning the craft, and it is true that to learn all the aspects properly it takes quite a while, there are ways of using other craft mediums to help achieve work of which to be very proud. Stamping directly on to parchment instead of tracing or drawing is one way but you can also use many of already available images on craft cd's or photographs.
The above card is made using a photo that I took last year of a Dahlia in a park in France. I printed the image straight onto parchment paper, worked a gridwork border around it and then embossed the flower from the back. I did each petal individually which seemed to bring the flower to life and I think makes a very acceptable card. The photograph above was taken halfway through the embossing process to show the difference between the embossed part and the unembossed part of the flower head.
The photo above the posting here shows the completed card.

Well I have finished my two ATC's and here they are. I don't think the subject needs any introduction.
I have used a mixture of 'mediums'. Joanna Sheen's Egyptian Adventure for the little theatre and for the triple one the backing paper is from Robert Addams CD and the gold highlighted with a Sakura Metallic pen. The 'head' was stamped, coloured using a mix of pencils, watercolour and felt tips and then reduced in size, cut out and attached with a concertina spring made with card. A fastener has been made with thin silk ribbon and gold beads.

Too busy today to do any parchment. I have a couple of ATC's to finish for this month. I am the postbox and 'swopper' for our forum ATC Club and it's a poor do if I haven't done mine. Especially as I chose the subject.
I also belong to the UK Stampers Network, a group of crafters who also swop ATC's, RAK's and other allsorts. I'll post more about them later and perhaps put a contact on here for the benefit of anyone who might be interested in joining.

Elemental Ballet - Quintessence

Elemental Ballet - Water

Elemental Ballet - Air

Elemental Ballet - Fire