Paper Blooms Challenge #6 - Women Of Influence

It is challenge #6 at Paper Blooms this week and the subject is "Women of Influence" and that could be your mother or a woman in your life that means something special to you.  Well I have chosen my best friend Sonya who means the world to me and I don't tell her enough.  If she could she would move the world for me or my daughters.  She has stepped up to the plate on countless occasions when I needed her to and does not expect anything in return.  These people are rare indeed and I know that I have discovered a very rare gem and I do treasure her as do my girls. . . thankyou Sonya for being who you are.  (She does read my blog on occasion so I hope she sees this entry)  

This card was an order for someone for her friend to say thankyou and all the criteria she gave me was that she loves autumnal colours.  I hope I have managed to encapsulate those colours.  I have used the faux metal effect on this card. . .lots of embossing!!!  I have also Cuttlebugged the background and then sanded the cardstock which is co'ordinations cardstock.  I really like how it turned out.  Anyway please enjoy.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Supplies: SU Whisper White, Very Vanilla & Kiwi Kiss cardstock. Basic Black, Real Rust Kiwi Kiss stamp pads and Kiwi Kiss ribbon.  SU Baroque Motifs, Fresh Cuts  and Circle of Friends stamp sets used.  SU Bella Rose Designer paper.  Co'ordinations cardstock for the tan and cream coloured card.  Punches were 1 1/4 and 1/38 inch circle punches, oval punch, 5 petal flower punch, Eyelet border punch.  Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and Birds and Swirls embossing folders.  Copper embossing powder.  Sponge daubers.

Awfully Big Art Adventure Photo Challenge

Well I decided to go in for this challenge this time around as I liked the photo that was supplied for it and I wanted to have a play with beeswax as a coating.  I put some antique music sheet from a marching music book that I got from an antique store onto the background and lucky for me it had the title of "The Little Widow" which I thought suited it so I wanted to get the title into the frame. I printed the pic out onto copy paper and then just used my Stampin' Up! ink pads in Real Rust, More Mustard and a Versacolour in Beige Sand and used a sponge dauber to apply it all.  I stamped a butterfly with black Staz On onto an overhead projector sheet and cut around it.  I then used Kindy Glitz Gold to highlight some sections and my white SU gel pen to add some differing highlights.  I have used Tim Holtz photo corners and an unknown tag embellishment and lastly I coated the whole piece with melted natural unrefined beeswax.  I really like how it turned out.  I might have to make another one very soon lol.

That's it for now.

In the meantime. . . 

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Creative Space Thursday

Well Bloggers it's that time of the week where I take a peek at other peoples creative spaces and they in turn can take a peek at mine if they have a mind to.  I hope you all enjoy my new look blog which my lovely daughter Courtney created for me.  I absolutely adore my new blog it is more me than my old one and I am so happy that Courtney took the time out of her busy schedule to create it for me. . . thanks my love.

This week has been full on with me taking a leap of faith and putting myself out there in cyberspace by putting my work up on challenge blogs.  You know how it goes people. . . you think you do good work but you are afraid to put yourself out there in case other people don't think so.  So I procrastinated and then I procrastinated some more until I decided that I would just jump off the precipice and do it and now I want to go on many challenges lol.  Once you open the door that's it folks there ain't no turnin' back.  I thought it was high time I stopped chatting to myself and saying things like "Geez Shell you did a good one there" and "I think that is better than the one I saw on that blog" hehehe I guess we have all been there and now it's my turn.  So without further ado here is my space for this week. . . . enjoy!!

This pic has some mini canvas's, some new ribbon, some sponge daubers, glue tape and the one colour item in the pic is my new hand-coloured cardstock which I am very proud of and the flowers were also hand coloured etc by me.  Which if you look at the post before this one you will see more hand-coloured cardstock and another hand-coloured flower that I did.  I also purchased an unmounted scrolly type alphabet today whilst down in Armidale and some vintage 3D embellishments.

This pic is a closer look and is in colour.  What can I say it is late at night lol.

This pic has the card I made for my challenge on Monday this week.  Well bloggers that is it for me it is now 11.15pm and I am about to head off to bed but I wanted to get this post in as I missed out the last two weeks.  Don't forget to pop on over to Kootoyoo's blog to check out the other creative spaces.

In the meantime though. . . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy