Saturday, July 21, 2012

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




9 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Sandra, love love love that seam binding! Oooh and the papers, oh and that frame!!!! And of course Tilda is so cute. Awww heck I love everything about it! Lol
    Have a great weekend
    Hugs
    Kat xxx

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  2. Beautiful hun, the seam binding is gorgeous, love your layout too hugs Liz xx

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  3. Just seen this on facebook! how gorgeous it is!!
    So pretty, the colours are dreamy and that design is stunning!
    The papers are a delight, my list is getting longer!!
    have a great weekend lovely.
    Mel. xxx

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  4. SoooooooooOOOOOooo gorgeous Sandy xxx
    Hugs
    Debbie xxx

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  5. Hi Sandy, what a lovely card! So wonderful and so many new ideas. I love looking at your work.
    Beside: It doesn't matter you write on my blog in english, I understand every word, but also my written english is not perfect but I think you know what I mean. Have a great weekend.
    Hugs
    Elfi

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  6. oooooooooo this is so pretty, im in love with the colorcombo...and ofcourse the image

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  7. Sweet sweet card Sandra, tons of details and such lovley colours <3

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  8. Absolutely gorgeous card Sandy :)
    I love it! :)

    Hugs,
    Karita

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  9. So soft and beautiful! love the seam binding and all the pretty details! Hugs, Elizaeth

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