Sugar Creek Hollow #13 Vintage Fashion with Digi Doodle Shop

Happy  Saturday!!

Today I would like to share with you my piece I did for this week's 

"Vintage Fashion"  Challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow.

We have a wonderful sponsor this week, the Digi Doodle Shop,

 and they supplied me with the digital stamp:  1800 Vintage Dress 4 below which I chose to color in GIMP.

So get creating something  "Vintage Fashion" in the Vintage, Shabby Chic or Primitive style and link up at Sugar Creek Hollow for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the Digi Doodle Shop.

If you use spots or polka dots on your creation you can link up to the  Digi Doodle shop Challenge this week:  "Lets go Spotty"  My Vintage Fashion girl has polka dots in her dress as well as on the background paper of the portfolio I made.  Here is the front.  

(LOL...I made my own sparkly "pinterest pin it button"...LOL)

All my Yummy Embellishments came from Pro 31 Designs.  I have used the mint green and champagne, and ivory large flower shaped flatback pearls.  Mulberry curly roses, May arts leaf ribbon trim (green is not pictured on the site, but is in the drop down color choices), clear crystal flowers, ivory beaded spray, and crystal wheat sprays!!  Don't you just LOVE my sentiment in the lower right.  I won it last week playing at the Art With No Boundaries!  Isn't it fabby!  I just gave it a background color in Inkscape, to match my creation.  Thank you Chris!!  The rose in the upper right is one I painted in GIMP.

The White Vintage Frame is one of my favorite 

Gecko Galz images!  You can see it peaking out from behind all my embellishments above and below.  All of my pieces are die cuts that I created in Inkscape and used the print and cut feature of my Black Cat Cougar.  I will be joining in this weeks challenge at Art with No Boundaries: Anything goes and "Framed"  I inked all the edges of my portfolio and diecuts with Ranger's Distress ink in old paper.

I used a perfect medium pen by Ranger to outline my frame die cut and applied perfect pearls in perfect copper.  Here you can see how I used one of the flower shaped flatback pearls for the center of my flower.

The background paper is the one I have been using lately that I created in GIMP using a rose image from Karen the Graphic's Fairy.  I created a few note cards with the same image, but I kept them more flat so they would fit in the card portfolio.

One last look at the front!

Please come and join us at Sugar Creek Hollow.  I look forward to seeing your creations!!

I will be sharing this in a couple Inspiration linky parties:

Make it Monday

Graphic Fairy

Inspire Me Fridays by The Joyful Stamper

I will be joining in the following Challenges

The Shabby Tea Room: Photo inspiration & dimensional flowers

Art With No Boundaries:  Anything goes and Framed

Creative Inspirations:  Anything goes

Digi Doodle shop:  Spotty

Crafts and Me Challenge:  Flowers

Southern Girls Challenge:  Diecuts or Punches

Party Time Tuesday:  Vintage Shabby Chic

City Crafter Challenge:  A Rose is a Rose

Digital Delights:  Flowers (at least 5)

Hot Shot Crafts:  Die Cuts

Thank you for visiting!!

Hugs!!

Heather

Sugar Creek Hollow #12 Pearls & Swirls

Happy Pink Saturday!!
I have exciting news!!

Today is my first post as a new Design Team member for one of my favorite challenge blogs.....Sugar Creek Hollow.

The DT there is super sweet, and I love their creations!  So come on over and join us for this week's challenge!

 This week we need to use Pearls and Swirls.  So lets see some pearls & swirls on your Vintage, Shabby Chic or Primitive style paper creations!!

Here is my inspiration piece for this weeks Challenge.

I started out with a tag image that I created in GIMP.  You can find it here.  The sweet blue bird image is from the Graphics Fairy. All the pieces of my tag are die cuts that I created and used the print and cut feature of my Black Cat Cougar (digital cutter)to cut out.  I used my favorite flat back pearls in Champagne, Ranger Pink liquid pearls, ivory pearl sprays and flower pearl trim.  I created some swirls with the liquid pearls, and perfect pearls by Ranger in  perfect copper.  I used a "thank you" stamp with vintage photo distress ink for my sentiment.

 Used my favorite May Art Leaf trim, Pink Mulberry roses and Swirls of gold beading wire to give my tag that shabby chic vintage feel.  I used some Vintage looking Seam binding to make my bow, and added a few paper flourishes that I cut out with my silhouette SD a while back.

I painted the Maya Roads chipboard flourish with Ranger's "Antique linen" distress crackle paint inked with vintage photo. Here you can see the beautiful Clear Crystal Wheat Sprays.  I used a bamboo skewer to curl the ends of the wire part of the wheat sprays.   Here is the back of the card.  You will see I used more of the same embellishments on the back of my tag.

I did add some burgundy roses that I cut from a piece of trim.

Please come and join the challenge!  

Please stop and visit our Guest Designer

Amelia Breytenbach

&

 The rest of the Sugar Creek Hollow Design Team

for fabulous Inspiration!

Cec

Danielle

Holly

Linda

Liz

Patti

Yvonne

I will be sharing this with a couple linking parties

Beverly's Pink Saturday

Karen's Brag Monday at the Graphic Fairy
Inspire me Fridays:  Anything goes

Make it Monday

I will be joining the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything goes
By the Cute and Girly: Spring is in the Air
Die Cuttin Divas:  Flowers

Paper Sundaes:  Things with Wings

Artful Times Challenge: Birds

Creative Craft Challenge:  Anything Goes
Shabby Tea Room: Shaped and photo inspiration
(not as fancy shaped as my other shaped entry, but it is not a rectangle or square)

All my Beautiful Embellishments are from 
PRO 31 Designs

Thank you for visiting!!

I really appreciate your comments!

Hugs!

Heather

Black Cat Forum "Dream Trip" ATC Swap

Happy Thursday Friends!!

Today I would like to share with you something "different."

I belong to the Black Cat Forum (I have a black cat digital cutter).  Lisa there put forth a "swap challenge" where we are to create a "Dream Trip" ATC and incorporate a paint chip into it.  The back of the ATC has to have the paint chip numbers.  I have created 

17 ATC's because we had a great turnout for the swap!!

So my dream trip would be to visit England.  While I was there, I would look at the beautiful cottages, gardens and enjoy visiting some tea rooms.

I went to one of my favorite freebie sites, Karen's the Graphics Fairy, and found a map showing the area of England that I would love to visit.  That is the FRONT image background of my ATC.  I LOVE cottages and really big castle like homes (who doesn't right??).  I found a picture of a beautiful place and just took the entryway of it to use on my ATC, because I felt it represented a quaint cottage.  I also used the teacup which I added the flowers as well from the graphics fairy.  I used GIMP to combine my images, and inkscape to create my cutlines.  Then I was able to use my Black Cat Cougar and Signcut to use the print and cut feature to cut out all the pieces  that I used on my ATC (that is a lot of pieces).  I used a "Travel" and "Far Far Away" stamps on it (since I would be traveling far far away...lol).  Her is the BACK...and you know how I like the back of my creations to look as good as the front :0).

I found a sweet looking old suitcase image, I used it for the background and just got rid of the handle.  I also had my black cat cut out 18 tiny suitcases...because I thought they were cute, but had no idea of what to do with them...LOL...Then while I was visiting Chris's challenge blog Art Without Boundaries (anything goes and fit to be tied) it hit me!!  I will make them into little luggage tags, sign one side and stamp with my signature flower stamp..and add the last paint chip number to the other side, and tie it on with some old embroidery floss!!  I just love it when things fall into place.  I thought it would be fun to make my paint chip numbers look like stickers on a suitcase...LOL.  I think it turned out awesome!!   I used Ranger's Vintage Photo and Old Paper to distress my edges and do some stamping. I used Black Soot as well.

I through in the Eiffel Tower too, because I would for sure visit France if I were visiting England :0).

Yes...I punched out 85 (actually more, but used only 85) flowers.  The flowers are from my paint chips, so I used 4 paint chips to create my flowers.  Liquid pearls for the centers.

I hope my friends in the Black Cat Forum like them!!

I will be sharing my ATC's with the following challenges:

The Stamp Man: Favorite technique: because I created all my little shapes and had my digital cutter cut them out..which is my most favorite thing to do!!

Chris's Art Without Boundaries: anything goes and fit to be tied:

because that is where I got the idea of using the embroidery floss, and creating little luggage tags out of my tiny suitcases.

Simon says Stamp and Show:  Anything Goes:  because well..this is anything, and it is more artsy than what I normally link up there.

Fashionable Stamping Challenges: Cities of the World:  I used some stamping and have a map of England, as well as the Eiffel Tower, and it is my dream trip...LOL.

Creative Craft Challenge: Distressing:  I used distress ink on all my pieces to give them a yummy aged look!!

Paper Play Challenge: Destruction:  I used my distress inks to get that nice worn in feel!!

I will be sharing with Make it Monday and the Graphics fairy.

Thank you for visiting!!

I so appreciate all of your comments, they really make my day!!

Hugs!

Heather