Shabby Saturday

Good Morning,
It's Sandy here. Hope you all got some great plans for this weekend. If you live in the UK; the sun is supposed to stay out, so make sure you make the most out of it (and I hope you'll have some time to get crafty as well!)

Did you enjoy the members' projects with Riddersholm's stunning papers so far this week? Let me do a quick recap; on Tuesday we started off with Tina's beautiful altered can, on Wednesday we had Becky's elegant card, on Thursday Elin's romantic gift bag, and yesterday we saw Karita's dreamy card.

I also have got a card to share with you today, but before I do, just a quick reminder that our 1st challenge, "Nautic" is now in it's 3rd week. Thanks to everyone who has already entered and if you haven't had a chance to participate yet, you still have about 10 more days to enter the challenge.

Now those who know me, they know that I'm a pastel girl, so it shall come as no surprise that I chose to work with papers from Riddersholm's Bello Pastello 2 collection.

The papers used are  No. 70 & No. 68. I used the back side of No 70. as it has the texture of an old ship wreck (not that you can see much of it on my card :-)) and I thought it'd go great with my image, the sweet Pearl Tilda  from the Magnolia Summer Memories Collection. Also the die is from Magnolia; Leaf & Swirl.

The frame around the image and the "handle" for the Melissa Frances Resin Wreath are pleated with shabby seam binding, a new product that I hope to have had added to the store by the beginning of next week.

 Love this stuff; it looks like candy when you put a few colours together, doesn't it? :-D

Speaking of new products, did you notice the beautiful image inside the resin wreath? This is one of the new adorable mini tags for the Bello Pastello Collection; they'll also be available for the other Riddersholm collections (Fleamarket, Huntington Garden & Chantilly Dawn).

Across the middle of the card I placed the stunning Maya Road Tea Garden Trim; I must admit it's one of those trims/laces that it breaks my heart cutting into. I cut two pieces off; one for each side of the image; it would have been a shame hiding it behind the image, and quite frankly it's too expensive to cover up, but like this one yard goes a long way!

The cheese cloth is a natural ingredient on a shabby card and so is of course lace; here I used "Chantilly", also from Riddersholm. The large Hortensia flower is from Papercraft Scandinavia and I inked it a bit with Victorian Velvet. Other ink pad colours used are "Tea Dye", "Walnut Stain" and "Peeled Paint". Yeah I know; I'd be lost without them! :-) To continue with the Ranger products, I decided to tone down the colour of my berries a bit and painted them with the white "Picket Fence" Crackle Paint. Since they are made out of plastic, the paint would undoubtely have peeled off, had I not coated them with the Inkssential transparent Crackle Accents. For the Mermaid tail I used another transparent accent medium, the "Rock Candy" Distress Stickles and lastly the pearls were made with the "White Opal" Liquid Pearls.

Have a great weekend and please stop by tomorrow for the last Riddersholm project this week, when it's Elizabeth's turn to share something "not too shabby"!

Hugz, Sandy