"Feathers in fashion" Card

Hi all, I am participating once again in "The Shabby Tea Room" Challenge" because I found the inspirational photo irresistible...Isn't that so precious......And they ask that we make a monochromatic creation.

So, my first reaction was that I wanted something soft to the touch on my card; then the nest made me think of feathers. So I took these out, ripped a piece of striped fabric, made a stickpin, added glitter to paper using a mask, bit of bling, and this cool crackled button...

 and feathers made me think of fashion. So I took out my Webster's ladies and gave them some jewels. Frayed some cotton, and deposited them on it.

Then I thought I wanted to duplicate the layers of protection surrounding the eggs, so I made a frame  using various layers of different materials, and some buttons...

And this is the finished card...and the inside ( feathers, fabric, bling and frame elements repeated).

Salut, et à la prochaine....xoxoxo

"My gardens today"

Gardens here in Québec are starting to come alive after being buried under snow for 4 months.

 Here are some of my darlings.... xoxoxo

 

 

 

"Carte de Sympathies"

A woman I used to work with lost her mother to cancer this week-end, so I made this card to send to her....

When my husband gets home, I will get him to write the sentiment in the circle and I will heat emboss it (my handwriting is atrocious).

As you can see, my glossy accents is still wet...

The inside...

"Folded cards templates"

Me again, They are offering free templates for a dozen or so different folded cards for anyone interested....

Folded cards Paper Wishes....

"My flower creations"

Hi everyone, Rain, Rain, and more rain over here....the gardens are happy; looking so green and fresh...

When I was 42, I left my corporate job and took a full time nine month course to become a florist. I did work as a florist for a while; I was excellent at some aspects of it, but I was too slow in designing; in the end I quit due to my carpal tunnel .But, oh my, did I love that year at school; one of my very best years.  I wanted to share a few of the arrangements I designed  while at school. If ever my dream of making a book out of my blog comes true, I would love to have a few of these in there. Hope you enjoy....Bye for now...xoxoxooxo

"Ruffled Up Romance"

Hi Peeps, Are you all doing great ? First off, I would like to give a big shout out to my blogger friend
Jen, from Only love is real for being among the top 3 on CR84FN with her beautiful creation; we all do what we do because we love to create and express ourselves, but it is always nice to receive validation that our work is appreciated by others.

I am entering my card into The Shabby Tea Room challenge, because THIS was the gorgeous inspirational photo...

I will also add this to Pink Saturday..

I mean, come on, how can I resist? Understated elegance, soft, feminine and romantic is how I would describe this cake (and of course, Yummy !), and this is my interpretation of those adjectives:

I cut my bodice out of my all time favorite paper Pink Paislee Butterfly garden, laced her up, egdged her with Inka-Gold, make a flower, misted it with glimmer mist, and added two gold buttons with a chain.

I made the fan out of this beautiful paper my brother gave me, added lace to the edge, made a few rosettes out of the same paper, added a Pink Paislee ephemera, Graphic 45 for the butterfly and Romantique, gold leaves, lace, rossettes and nested it on some ruffled up lace.

The inside

You know how designers often decorate the back of their garments now, well, I did the same to my little creation; more ruffles, inka-gold colored rosette, material as the background, and a bit of glimmer mist using a screen...

Et Voila!! Hope you enjoyed, see you next week !!!

"First tulips of the year" !!!!

one of my all time favorite flowers...

Offering them up to all you lovely moms and grandmothers!!!