Designed2Delight Challenge

Today starts a new challenge over at Designed2Delight.  We want to see HEARTS!  The wonderful day celebrating love is coming around the corner.

 

I chose to use 2 images, which is just as easy to do with digital images as it is with regular stamps.  I just use MS Word to print my images, easy peasy.  I have 'Big Surprise Bear' and 'Love Ya Cupcake'. 

I kept the embellishments to a minimum in order to be able to send this card to Operation Write Home.  And since this card is destined for a service person, I did something a bit different to the interior.

I attached several sheets of notebook paper to the interior to provide plenty of writing space for the service person.  Its like a miniature notebook!

Might as well join in on some other challenges:

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Glitter (center of heart)

Paper Take Weekly - Die Cute Special

Top Tip Tuesday - #67 Anything Goes 

House of Gilli - Anything Goes

Lexi's Creations - Anything Goes  

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

MyGrafico - Love and Valentines 

I Brake For Challenges - clean and simple 

Pixie Dust Studio - "Put Your Heart into It!" 

Meljens Designs - SIO - Anything Goes 

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - SIO - Embossing

Crafty Ann's - Lets Think Hot (hot pink)

Thanks for dropping by!

PeggySue

I'm back!

Boy, did I drop off the face of blog-land!  I took a couple of months off for my son's wedding and the holidays. Now that things have calmed down I think I can get back to card-making.  If I remember how to do it!!

Designed2Delight has a challenge starting today over at the blog. The challenge is winter flowers.

I'm not sure my flowers are "winter flowers", but I wanted to use this image of an owl called 'Lovely Day' and these ribbon flowers seem to go well. I made the ribbon flowers by twisting ribbon a round and around. Fun!

I used Prismacolor pencils on the owl and chose not to blend with OMS.I was trying for a feather-like look.  (failed) Guess I'm out of practice!

Challenges I'm entering:
Stamp-N-Doodle - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - #67 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #70 birds 

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes 

House of Gilli - Anything Goes 

Stamps R Us - Anything Goes  

The Pink Elephant - Anything Goes

Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Emma's Store - Anything Goes 

Catch the Bug -  Anything Goes

Thanks for dropping by, and I will be posting more regularly in the future.
PeggySue

Homemade Bridesmaids' Bouquets

A couple of days ago I posted about the silk Boutonnieres and Corsages I had made for the upcoming wedding of my dear son.

Now you lucky dogs get to see what I have made for the 5 bridesmaids!

I took the plain round hanging bouquet that you can purchase at Hobby Lobby and ripped it apart.  It just wasn't special enough.  We want to save money, but have some pizazz too!

Here is what the bouquet looked like before I tore it apart:

It has large open roses with a leaf and a little organza ribbon hanging out here and there.  The bride wanted a bit of sparkle. And we wanted hand held bouquets.

So, I made the one you see to the left.

The organza and leaves from the store-bought one were eliminated .

I fashioned a Styrofoam ball into roughly a half round and added the open roses from the store-bought one, as well as small rose buds. 

Pearl berries and crystal accents were also added.

Here is a view from the underneath of the bouquet. 

The colors for the wedding are ivory and red.  We wanted both colors in the bridesmaids bouquets and this is how we went about it.

I took store-bought bouquet holders like the one to the left and did a bit of modification.  

First, the ruffle had to go and then the plastic lace piece was cut off. I basically got it back to just being a cup with a hole in it!

A bit of ribbon wrapping and viola!

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I have been working. Playing might be a better term because I really enjoyed it!

PeggySue.

Homemade Wedding Boutonnieres and Corsages

We have a wedding coming up in the family pretty soon.  In order to save money, I have been tasked with making all the floral decorations.  

Yay!  I love doing stuff with florals!

My next few blog posts will probably be about the different items I have made for the wedding.

I know I enjoy seeing things like this, even before I had a wedding coming up. So, I'm going to share what I have done.  

We wanted rather minimalist Boutonnieres and Corsages and this is what I came up with:

Just a simple rose for the guys and not much more for the ladies.

Thanks for looking!

PeggySue