Pretty Palette challenge #5

This past week having the little monsters kids at home has just flown by. I can’t believe that it is sunday already, to be honest i still can’t believe that it’s already april or should i say half way through! It only seem 2 minutes since Christmas. It’s only 7 weeks till we go on holiday….oh my that has come round quick! Soooo today is the day for a new Pretty Palette Challenge #5 Here is this weeks pretty palette.

…and here is what i did with those colours…

I decided to create a little gift set. It has been ages since i decorate a candle! The images that i used on the candle were from the ‘So fortunate’ digital set . The frame and sentiment are from the ‘Sentimental occasions labels digital set’ I really love the font in this set….and the frames…lol (I have a *thing* for frames right now) The paper is from ‘That hit the spot’

For the candle i printed the images onto some tissue paper. I then coloured the images with prisma pencils. Then using grease proof paper wrapped around the candle to keep the image held in place where i wanted it i used the heat gun to melt the image into the candle, easy peezy lemon squezzy eh!…lol . The candles are super easy using stamps too, just simply stamp onto the tissue paper.


Creating candles like this are a super easy way of creating personalised gifts, as you can include names and dates etc , or even (what i like to do) photo’s! Super easy,just print your chosen photo’s onto the tissue paper.
Please have a looksie at all the other dt girlies creations to get you motivated to join in with us
Lauren
Laurel
Lisa
Lori
Lynn
Romaine
TFL
Shaz xxx

MTME Pretty palette no#4

It’s that time again. Time for another colour challengg over at My time made easy .Iam really enjoying these colour challenges as it’s taking me out of my comfort zone and getting me to use colours that i wouldn’t normally use.

Here are your colours for this week

So i got to work…and here are 2 cards that i made

I loved using these colours together . The main paper that i used on both cards is MTME preserve it – Cherries and peaches. This set of papers are just lovely. The ‘Sending you Sunshine’ sentiment is MTME from the sensational digi kit I really love this sentiment.LOVE that font. The butterflies were also cut from MTME papers, Fresh cut expressions 2 and Gaga for gingham

All the same papers were used on this card too. The Friend sentiment is from Sentimental occasions digi set 

Do ya see me flower??? I made that :) Go me…lol I’ve been trying to create flowers myself from different things, so get ready to see more homemade flowers over the coming weeks :) 

Why don’t you Pop over to the MTME blog and join in with this weeks pretty palette challenge :) You Don’t have to use MTME products to join in with our challenges :)

TFL

Shaz xxx

Why don’t you take a Waltz with me and CR84FN :)

This past week over at Waltzing Mouse they had a SOAP event …(Stamp of approval parade :) They were showcasing last months release as well as older sets. I only just discovered WM a few weeks ago and i simply ‘adore’ the stamps that i have purchased so far.At the moment i only have 4 sets :(  Which are bitty banners, vintage banners, one of the label sets and offbeat backgrounds.(Ya just GOTTA try that plaid stamp from the offbeat background set, it is soooo fab. Being able to create your own colour combo plaid backgrounds..Love it! *Need the fat plaid now…lol* Sadly i don’t have any of the image or sentiment sets …yet so that’s why i haven’t been able to use any on this project. Anyhows….to cut a long story short…lol After the ‘soap’ event WM they are doing a ‘Case Competition’ You have to pick out a card/project from the event and basically ‘Case it’ Gotta say that for me right now it just had to be Banners…soooo love these stamps. So i chose to case Claire Brennan’s banner  creation from day 1, which was this

I LOVED the idea of using several pennants to create one larger pennant *I never even thought of that before…thanks Claire :) * So that’s what i was gonna do and then i saw the current challenge over at CR84FN which is this colour combo

I loved the look of this combo, however it isn’t one that i would ever use. I tend to put green with pink and blue with brown. Anyhow’s i got ‘to work’ and here is what i came up with.

I gotta say that after creating this i know LOVE this colour combo . I guess you don’t just have to create with pink for it to look pretty…lol I really love how this turned out. I used the large vintage banners stamp so this is quite a large pennant. Roughly A4 in size. I cut the pennants out using some wavy scissors that i have had for years and don’t think i’ve ever used them…lol *I knew they would come in handy one day :) * hehe! I have quite a few banner projects ‘on the go’ right now including 2 more of these, one the same size and the other way larger, it is roughly A3 in size and has a row of 5 pennants across the top row.

Iam soooooo tempted to create lots more like this size all in different colours/themes etc and then join them all together as one ‘huge’ banner to display around the walls in me craft room, how pretty would that look :) Hmmmm maybe i’ll lay off the cards for a while and do these instead…hehe I really did love creating this too :) SO thanks Waltzing mouse and CR84FN

TFL

Shaz xxx

MY TIME MADE EASY PRETTY PALETTE #3

I have joined the fabulous MTME pretty palette DT :)

Here are the colours for this weeks PRETTY PALETTE CHALLENGE

I love Lauren’s templates as they really are soooo easy to make. Here is what i made for this weeks challenge.

I kind of mixed and matched here…lol , as the fab frame is from SECRET SUPRISE and the sentiment is from KEEP STRONG . I love these sentiments. It’s the digital versions that i used. Being digital it was so simple to just change the colour of the ‘Failure’ word to what i wanted. So love the shape of that frame :)

I ‘forgot’ to put something inside for the pic :( lol  You could fit allsorts of different things in this as it is a good size!

I created a SLIP COVER which i cut out on the cricut using sure cuts. if you don’t have a cricut etc you can still get the templates in pdf version. 

I also had to make myself one of these :)

I love this CARD CATCH ALL , this is actually 6inches wide and 5 inches tall. Love it :) OOhhhh how pretty would both of these look decorated in the Pretty papers that i used in my previous post?…hmmm, must do that as those papers are sooo pretty and i do so like pretty :)

Please POP OVER and have a looksie at the other fab creations that have been created to inspire you for this challenge.

TFL

Shaz xxx

Creating with my favourite colours!

The creation i have to show you today was inspired by this inspiration pic from THE SHABBY TEA ROOM

These colours happen to be my most favouritist *Is that even a word?…lol* colours to work with together! Absolutely love them. :) Gotta just say that i WON the Shabby tea room challenge last week with the bird cage that i did :) …Iam so soooo pleased :) Go me!...haha! Thankyou TSTR girlies:) So these were the colours that i was gonna be working with, teamed with the sketch from CRAZY 4 CHALLENGES, I did ‘start’ with the sketch but then just kept adding to it…lol  Spring and sunshine inspired creations were the order of the day over at RAISE THE BAR and last but certainly not least…ribbon, bling and handmade paper flowers were needed over at OUR CREATIVE CORNER *My ribbon roses were also handmade by me, if they count as well :)* I WAS also creating a banner to go with this set ….but it isn’t quite finished :( So here is what i made.

For ages i’ve been wanting to create some sort of flower thingy…lol Like one of those topiary thingies.  So after i had started creating the flower thingy i realised that i didn’t have a pot for it to go in…so now it’s more like a wand…lol Originally i was gonna make 3, the other 2 were gonna be smaller.

My first ever attempt at ‘Proper’ ribbon roses!! I actually burnt me finger with the heat gun doing these…lol

I just sooo love these colours together.

That lace really sparkles. it’s soooo pretty.

A single foam rose and a little pink bear grass added for ‘extra prettiness’ lol (More left over wedding stuff)

I punched out so many circles and flowers to do this. I punched out way way more than i needed.So will definitely be doing more of these sort of things.

All the papers, sentiment and frame are from My time made easy The card blank was cut on the cricut ages and ages ago from a sheet of Anna griffin cardstock. All the ribbon, bling etc are from me stash.

TFL

Shaz xxx