Twisted Sketches Cards #105

I love Twisted Sketches! Card Sketch this week is  #105 twist is "Flower"
- Would love you to join in and have a play too!
Feel free to comment below and leave a link to your interpretation of the sketch :-)

I found this sketch the perfect inspiration for Mum's Mother's Day Card :-)

 And the customary close up... shows how beautiful and shiny the Bling is!!

Ingredients:

White shimmer card and Envelope

Patterned Paper - Cross My Heart .com

Twiddleybitz - Alphabet - M, u, m

Flourish With A Bling - Chloe Pearl - Baby blue

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Stormy Sky

Adirondack paint dauber - Snow Cap

My2Angels Roses - Smokey Blue

Stampin' Up - Stamp n Write Marker - Night of Navy

Stampin Up Stamp set Whimsical words

Iron Orchid Designs - Rose Stamp IOD-782A

Bevvy of Butterflies - Love You stamp UK-413A

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

Awesomely good news!!

I am super ecstatically proud to reveal I am now a member of the Flourish With A Bling Design Team!!
To say I am happy is an understatement.  I fell in love with these gorgeous products a few years ago when using them for make n takes at Paperific, was lucky enough to do a term as a "guest" DT member, and the rest (as they say) is history!!

I am often adding bling to my pages/projects and the single jewels and pearls are just gorgeous for that little bit here and there.  The flourishes though are so completely of the planet fantastic!  The Chloe Pearl Flourish range would have to be my favourite (at the moment LOL)!

Congratulations to the other members of the team - 19 fabulous artists from all over the world!  I look forward to working with these ladies and these wonderful products, Thank you so much to Maggie, Lucy, and Kate for this opportunity!!!

Flourish with a Bling’s very first Design Team – in alphabetical order -

Natalie Elphinstone – VIC, Australia

Suzette Edmond – United Kingdom

Jenifer Evans – USA

:-) Jennifer Hodge – QLD, Australia

Cathy Lane – South Africa

Kate McCulloch – NSW, Australia

Rae Moses – USA

Jeni O’Connor – Canada/Australia

Donna O’Leary – New Zealand

Elena Olinevich – Belarus

Angella Peardon – NSW, Australia

Ro Philippsen – South Brazil

Amanda Reddicliffe – WA, Australia

Candy Rosenberg – USA

Sandi Smith – Canada

Ilene Tell – USA

Sonia Thomason – WA, Australia

Sharryn Thomson – NSW, Australia

Chantal Vandenberg – SA, Australia

Emilia van den Heuvel – the Netherlands

I will be adding links to blogs on my sidebar shortly but they're all above for you for now, I have been checking them out - OMG!!  don't miss them, you'll kick yourself!!  Flourish With A Bling's blog is debuting the team we'd love you to stop by to "meet" us - better yet, visit the gallery and feel free to leave a comment or share your work :-)

Thanks for stopping by
Jen

Just 4U

I made a card for Mother's Day, only this card is too pink and girly for my Mum!! It's so pretty and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Also I wanted to point out I only used fabulous adhesives from a relatively new company called Stix 2 Anything.  The PVA worked really well to adhere the paper rose to the Crochet by Kim flower and then that to the card over the fern leaves and bling.

And love this with the hint of green pearls from the FWAB Chloe flourish.

 I decided to use a Z fold card for my base, using the lovely pale green shimmer cardstock from Twiddleybitz.  I then decided to make windows...

I played around with placement for a bit and how to make the layers work...
I leave 'handles' on my little letters now and I get less paint etc on my fingers!!

and if you start to pull it open...

This is the inside - I will write along the top of the "U" page as it's hidden by the leaves when on display :-)

This is just a shot of the 'backside' of the card - I have painted the back of the "4" with the same pearl paint now though :-)

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Green shimmer from Twiddleybitz

Twiddleybitz - Large Letters - 4 U

Twiddleybitz - Alphabet - J, u, s, t

Twiddleybitz - Fern leaves

Flourish With A Bling - Chloe Pearl - Olive Green

Crochet By Kim - 5Petal flower white

My2Angels - Large Pink Rose

My2Angels - Mulberry Paper Leaves - Pink, white, green

My2Angels - Charming Chain "Mum" pink

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Forest 

Adirondack paint dauber - pearl

Stampin' Up - Stamp n Write Marker - Pretty in Pink

Thanks for stopping by!

I have today resigned from Scrap Sanity Design Team. 

My life is busy at the moment professionally and personally, so I feel I cannot put in 100%. 

I have enjoyed my short stint on the DT and feel honoured to have worked with the ladies involved. 

Thank you for the opportunity, I have made many wonderful friends, 

happy crafting and I'll see you when life is not so 'full on'!

Twisted Sketches Cards #99

Twisted Sketches Card again - #99 this time, with the twist of "Spring" - Would love you to join in and have a play too! Feel free to comment below and leave a link to your interpretation of the sketch :-)

I had a little trouble with the "spring" but this is my card :-)

 And the closeup - you can see the great quality of the FWAB pearls...

Ingredients:

Aqua Shimmer Cardstock

Kaisercraft Magic Happens Patterned Paper

Flourish With A Bling - Chloe Pearl Flourish - Purple

Purple Ribbon from ???

Thanks for stopping by!

Bead Pins!!!

The card below was made with the new Alison Ellis Design papers - "You're Invited".

 I didn't like the paper at first but it's beautiful like this as a background.  I also added Flourish With A Bling diamonte's to the centre of the pieces of the pattern - I think it's very effective!  I love how effective it is on the envelope too :-)

This is a white 5Petal flower from Crochet By Kim.  I added the brand new Bead Pin also from Crochet By Kim and the I love you notepad charm from My2Angels.  I love this combination and coiling the bottom of the pin just finishes it off :-)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Jen

You're Invited!!

I have always wanted to explore Faberge' style eggs.  

Recently at the Brisbane Stitches and Craft show The Logan Egg Artistry club had a booth.  I was excited and inspired and the new "You're Invited" papers from Alison Ellis Design were perfect for the basic decoration... 

add some bling, some flowers, and some of the new bead pins from Crochet By Kim and you have a Faberge' Egg, a la Jen!

A close-up of the cluster at the back of the egg with charms, flowers, bead pins, a tassle, and ribbons.

The Purple Chloe Flourish With A Bling Pearls are b e a utiful!!

The stand is actually the bottom part of a Twiddleybitz "Miss Charlotte" 

(I chopped her off at the knees! LOL)

Thanks for stopping by

Jen