Sentiment tickets as a focal point ...

Happy Friday everyone and boy oh boy has it been a long week for me! Steve came out of hospital and is obviously feeling a little delicate, so I am playing nurse maid. I have to change his surgical stockings daily (not at all easy) and give him his injections ....! Only another 3 weeks of this to go ....

Well it's Polka Doodle Challenge time and the challenge this week is "pastel shades". I wanted to use something different as my focal point on my DT card this week, so I decided to use the ticket sentiments from the Cherry Blossom Lane CD. I printed out the tickets and then fed them through my printer again with different pastel shaded papers from the same CD. I have cut the tickets out and layered some up on to white card to add depth.

 
Finally I added a central strip of card, ribbon and pom poms and in the centre, I have added a layered topper with a further ticket and additional letter stickers.

As a finishing touch, I have added a few flowers, although, my card probably didn't really need them!

Twisted Tuesday new DT and blog hop

Well I have some news to share with everyone today .... I got on to the Twisted Tuesday DT .... yea me !!!. So really chuffed as there is a wealth of talent on the DT and I am looking forward to working with everyone.

This week challenge is "A girls best friend" and the "Twisted DT" would like you to make a girly project however there is a TWIST .....

• THE TWIST ~ Make your project about friends. It can be a scrap page with friends in the pics, a sentiment about friends on your card, an image with 2 people (or person with an animal/pet), etc. As long as there is a friend theme.

Here is my 1st ever Twisted Tuesday DT card and I made it for my friend Maria. The colours were inspired by the decor in her new conservatory ...

 

 Papers: Teresa Collins fabrication pad - canvas

Vellum quote, flower & butterfly - K& CO

buttons, string and glitter leaves from stash

letters were given to me ages ago

Woodware corner punch

The tag is recycled from a recent clothes purchase and was just the right length for this project. I have just covered it in that scrummy paper, the flower & butterfly. I was going to ink the letters but after a "dry run" decided they looked better kept "eau natural" (as it were).

 

Now to celebrate the new DT arrival, Twisted Tuesday are having a blog hop and there are loads of prizes on offer and also additional chances to win prizes. For every blog you comment on, you are put in to the "hat" as a potential prize winner and if you comment on all the blogs, that will give you over 14 chances to win ..... not bad odds.

Now the order of the blog hop is as follows:

1. Jeanette
2. Tracie
3. Carol
4. Vickie
5. Lori
6. Lynne
7. Lizzie
8. Lou (ME)
9. Andrea
10. Deanne
11. Hillary
12. Jamie
13. Majo
14. Melina 

Now if you get lost at all or unsure of how a blog hop works, pop back to the Twisted Tuesday challenge blog, were everything is also explained etc.

Have a great hop everyone,

Lou
x x x

 to add:  comments situation all sorted ..... finally! Thank you for your patience x 

Blue is the colour ......

DON'T PANIC, I'm not going to burst in to song ... you know the one ..... that well known football chant but it does give you a clue about the colours I have used on my Studio 12 project.

I am getting back in to loving making tags again as I did drift away from them for a long while. They are so rewarding to make and at times, less daunting than a card because you mostly create them for yourself, which does take the pressure off you sometimes. I have used the gorgeous Studio 12 "Art Girl" stamp and papers from Fredericka midi CD layered on to a Rangers large manilla tag.

I have stamped "Art Girl" and coloured her with distress inks, paper pieced her dress and then smoothered her in glossy accents. I have layered the papers on top of each other and stamped around the edges with the Studio 12 Shabby Checkers stamp.

I adore this sentiment  (Studio 12 "Leave a little sparkle" sentiment stamp) and have used it loads on my recent projects as it can fit any occasion and always brings a smile to me, when I read it. A few discovered brads and metal butterflies and my tag was finished.

Tag your it!

I decided to make a tag with my Studio 12 stamps and some papers from the Picknix Vol 1 CD. I have been itching to use "Art Girl" for ages and this challenge was just the kick I needed! I have stamped her, coloured with distress inks and then paper pieced her dress. I couldn't resist covering her then in glossy accents.

My tag is for the latest Polka Doodles challenge.

Lou
x

For Mum .... CCC