OSAAT #205 For A Woman In Your Life

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For A Woman In Your Life

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For this card I used the beautiful image Geranium Urn from Ike’s Art.

The card is for My Mother In Law’s Birthday and she loves gardening and flowers. I coloured the image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers  and matted onto red card which has been trimmed with a heart border punch.

The red base card layer has been covered with a lovely patterned paper from the Rose Garden pad by First Edition. It has a lovely glossy embossed effect where the red is. I added a gold lame ribbon and a sentiment from Craftwork Cards which has been trimmed to fit. The flower is a combination of paper flowers and a gold ribbon rose in the centre. Finally I added some peel off gold lettering to spell Mom

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Digi Image – Geranium Urn from Ike’s Art

Paper – Rose Garden First Edition Paper Pad

Sentiment – Craftwork Cards

Embellishments – Paper flowers, Ribbon Rose, gold ribbon

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart Doily Heart border punch

From The Heart Progressive Challenge

I absolutely love Faith Skrdla’s images and try whenever possible to take part in the Progressive Freebie challenge over at From The Heart Stamps. This month we were given the Birthday Candle Birdbrain set which came with oodles of sentiments. This card has been made with a friend in mind who has a quirky sense of humour, is about 10 years older than me and we have known for many years.

I have used the current sketch at I{heart} Sketches for the layout.

The image is coloured using Promarkers and Flexmarkers and mounted onto a scrap of black card which is recycled from embossing folder packaging. I mounted the image and the sentiment on the same way and added 3d foam for dimension.

The card front is covered with a paper from the Birdsong pack from Papermania. The yellow spotty one is from Craftwork Cards. Used some thin green card for punching along the top edge and added some gorgeous spotty ribbon that was part of a prize I had recently from Really Reasonable Ribbon. Finally I added some red buttons with yellow waxed cord knotted through them.

Eventhough February is the shortest month I have been better organised than I was in January so not finishing it off right at the last minute. That’s progress compared to last month!

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Digi Image & Sentiment – Birthday Candle Birdbrain by From The Heart Stamps

Paper – Birdsong by Papermania & Craftwork Cards

Tools – Fiskars Treading Water punch

Embellishments – Buttons & Twine

Techniques – Punching, recycling

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 4 Crafty Chicks - #182 Things With Wings
• A Gem of A Challenge - #113 Spots & Stripes
• Animal Friends – #11 Dots/Spots
• Card Mania - #41 Use a Sentiment
• Catered Crop – Birthdays
• Challenges 4 Everybody  – #38 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper – February Anything Goes
• Crafty Ribbons - #77 Anything Goes
• Cutie Pie Challenge – #63 Spots & Dots
• Digistamps 4Joy - #86 Dies or Punches
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday – #259 Polka Dots
• From The Heart – February Progressive Freebie
• Get Inky - #8 Buttons
• Glitter & Sparkle - #73 Bright Funky Colours
• I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 055
• Incy Wincy Designs - Birthdays
• Inklings & Yarns - #45 Anything Goes
• Kaboodle Doodles - #212 Use Ribbon
• Love to Create - #104 Anything Goes
• Loves Rubber Stamps - #91 Use a Funny sentiment
• Make It Monday –  #180 Anything Goes
• My Craft Creations – Anything Goes
• Oldie But Goodie – Buttons (Striped paper 2 years old, buttons & twine at least 4 years)
• One Crazy Stamper – Anything Goes
• Outlawz Friday Alcohol Markers Challenge – CPC022114 Things With Wings
• Papertake Weekly  – Lovely Layers
• Paper Pretties – #PWC298 Ribbons
• Pattie’s Creations - #86 Spots or dots
• Sister Act Card Challenges - #45 Anything Goes
• The Squirrel & the Fox – #64 Something Spooled
• Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
• Totally Gorjuss  – #224 String or Twine
• Tuesday Throwdown - #183 Things With Wings