It's A Wonderful World

This week at Live and Love Crafts the theme for the ladies was from the song "It's a Wonderful World".  I chose to focus on those actual words as my theme and how wonderful a world it can be during Christmas.  Every one is in such a great mood!! 

I used a gorgeous image from the Christmas Time vintage images, covered the image using Champagne Versamark and 4 coats of UTEE then cracked it.  In real life it has a bit of a shimmer behind it because of the Champagne Versamark.

A piece of me wanted to cover this with embellishments buuuuut I just love those laces so much that I tried to keep them visible.  Not easy to refrain I might add.  LOL!!  I also added the "Joyful Noel" sentiment from the Maja "It's Christmas Time" papers in the Melissa Frances frame from LLC.

I used the Magnolia Poinsettia doohickey and distressed all edges with cocoa Momento ink and then glittered them up with platinum Stickles.  I also added the platinum Stickles to a lot of the layers as well.  I covered much of the card using shabby white frantage, including the Magnolia Doohickey Swirl.

Lastly this lamp post is a Tim Holtz die that I covered with TH Picket Fence distress crackle paint.  Love the way that crackle makes it look so old and vintage-like. 

Don't forget about our challenge this month at Live & Love Crafts "Warm or Cool Colors".  You do NOT have to use anything from LLC to enter, although it would be great!  Any card you make this month with this theme just add it!!  :)

Have a great weekend my creative friends!! 
Eulanda
 

Wonderful friends...

Hello everyone, it's Elin here with you today. 

It's good to be back from a good vacation and I am still enjoying a week off from work. That means time to get back in the creative mode <3

This week we are to let us get inspired from a gorgeous song: What a wonderful world!

And let me tell you, this was not a hard task for me as this song reminds me of all the wonderful friends I got in my life! Therefore I have made this cute birthday card for one of them:

 A brown paperbag was changed into a soft and bright card with motive from Inkido's Vintage Angel sheet. I have used papers from Maja Design's Vintage Spring Basics collection.

I had these beautiful open poppies laying around, and combined with KOG's cute hortensias and a splat of gesso, it looks great, doesn't it?! ;) 

 The stamped sentiment is also from KOG and reads:"Once a year, the day is unique. Because that day is yours, and no other day is alike."  The butterflies are out of cardboard, and were treated with the lovely frantage in shabby white. 

In the background I have used a few stamps from KOG and of course some cheesecloth behind the picture. I have used white shabby seam binding on my tag and a few pink pearls on the top of the card for some details. 

Well girls (and boys), that's my inspiration contribution for today. And from next week I will bring you some inspiration on Saturdays instead of Thursdays. I have swopped days with my team member Alyce, so she will bring you great inspiration and creations on Thursdays from now on ;)

Take care everyone.

Hugs & Kisses

Elin

I see skies of blue......clouds of white

Happy Wednesday everyone, Becky here today.

As you know we are using 'What A Wonderful World' as our inspiration this week, I have taken a few lines to inspire me.

'I see skies of blue......clouds of white,

Bright Blessed day' and of course 'Red roses too'.

I've recently coloured an image with the 'no lines' technique and forgot how much fun it was, so I decided to colour Gucci Tilda this way with my distress markers. I've coloured the background blue, and used some little memory box cloud dies too.

The papers are from Maja Designs Vintage Summer Basics collection, the edges have been distressed with a Tim Holtz tool.

I've not used my Tim Holtz butterfly on the edge die for a while, so I dug it out for this card.

Doing no lines made doing the contents of her bag was a little tricky, but so worth the extra faff.

My arty shot, there are links to all of the products at the end of the post.

Hugs,

Becky xx

I see trees of green...

A very Good Morning Everyone,

It's Sandy here, to post Tina's take on "What a wonderful world".

As you probably know by now, every week we have a special theme here at LLC. We run a loooooong list with different theme suggestions. One of them, which we hadn't done already was to use a song as inspiration and though I'm sure it'd have been fun as well to see which song everyone would pick if they got to choose, I love seeing  the DT Member's different takes on the same theme, so that's why I picked a song for them. :-)

I decided to go with "What a wonderful world" because 1) I think it's such a beautiful song and 2) it's open to a whole lot of interpretations.

Just like Tracy yesterday, Tina was inspired by the words about the green trees and the roses.

If you would like to check out the complete lyrics of the song, you can do so HERE.

And here you watch Louis Armstrong singing it:

 Here's Tina's card:

Tina has used her favourite papers at the moment; Maja Design's limited collection Sofiero.

And they are not just Tina's favorites... as a matter of fact the whole LLC DT is in looooooove with these papers.

Here's another view of the card, hanging on the oh so shabby but gorgeous Melissa Frances hanger:

 

 Thanks for stopping by today, and please pop by tomorrow again to see what wonderfulness Becky is bringing us.

Hugs from
Tina & Sandy

Shabby Lace Book

Morning,

I'm back from my little trip away and am kicking off the week with a new theme which is the lyrics from "It's a Wonderful World".  I have chosen inspiration from "Trees are GREEN" and "red ROSES too", so I have used green and roses in my lace book as well as the papers.

I'm sure you are all familiar with the new collection by MayaDesign called Sofiero, aren't they beautiful and how can they make this collection a limited one, are they mad!  Anyway it will come as  no surprise to you today that I have used 3 papers from this collection to make my lace book.  I have been dying to make one of these books ever since Elin posted hers, soooo gorgeous and inspirational, thank you Elin.  Hope you like my version....

I found the vintage backing pages on Pinterest, aren't they fab and if you want to print them too, head on over to my Pinterest where you will find the link.  I printed several and cut the front and back of the book out of mount board, traced around the vintage pages to get the correct shape.  The pages for the lace are cut out of cardboard so that I could pin the lace in if necessary, you know those ones that don't quite make it all round.

The dress is made out of 3 of the MayaDesign Sofiero papers, links at the bottom of the page.

I used 2 inch book rings so that I could put all those scraps of lace somewhere handy too.

Here's a picture of the book before I added all the little scraps of lace that come in handy to tie on tags.  You will also notice the Melissa Frances resin corner on the right hand side, love these.

 Here's a picture of the back of the book and I added the Maya Road mini chipboard sewing kit.  I coloured the scissors and the needle with a silver leaf pen.  I coated the dressmakers doll in white gesso and then added some of the paper and decorated with lace and lace with pearls.

The little spool is also in the same set as the pages, see my pinterest.  I added lace, a kort and godt rolled flower and Decorative Scissors.

And here's a peek at some of my lace collection, all available from LLC.

Hugs Tracy x