Weathered Rose Card

Howdy.  I am in the kitchen, getting a few dishes together for our Nurse's Week Luncheon tomorrow. But, that didn't stop me from crafting one more card.  I have had a grand time playing along with the latest sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch, so I decided to make one more card {smile}.

and here is my latest card:

and a different view:

Recipe:  The card base is soft suede card stock, by Stampin' Up!.  I love this golden kraft color.  {smile}  The matt paper is from a local shop, and I don't know who makes it, or the color/pattern name.  Sorry.  I just love the aqua color with gold pattern.  Very pretty.   

The blossom pattern paper is from Authentique, the Grace collection.  I believe that it is the last remaining scrap piece I have on hand.  I used my sewing machine to do a double border, to add to the homespun feeling.

I used another Anna Griffin chalkboard sentiment tag for my sentiment.  I had a scrap piece of this beautiful orange polka dot pattern paper, that matched beautifully with the Grace pattern paper.  I adhered it to a scrap piece of soft suede card stock, with foam tape.  

I did wrap a length of Aqua Mist polka dot satin ribbon around the orange polka dot pattern paper and tied it in a simple bow.

Finally, I added a trio of gold sequins.  Viola!  Super simple for me, and pretty!  

Thank you for stopping by, I need to get back into the kitchen as my hand-crafted Lemon Marshmallows are ready to be cut and packaged.  {smile}  Yeah, I make my own marshmallows.  It's not hard, just time consuming.  The beginning part takes about 25-30 minutes.  Then you turn them out into a pan to 'set up' and this part takes 2hrs.  And finally, it takes about another 30 minutes to cut and toss them. {smile}  

Pink Baby

I was looking at a few of my favorite crafting challenge sites earlier this week.  And well, one challenge site that I always look at, but don't always participate in, is celebrating their 200th post!  I think that is great! and I wish them continued success and I hope the next 200 challenges are more fun, more exciting, and have more and more participants!

Just Us GirlS challenge site, have a sketch this week.  All you have to do, is use the sketch, and enter!  

here is what I created:

Every now and then, I really need to play along in a challenge that doesn't require a specific manufacturer.  So, in this challenge, I used a little bit of products from quite a few different favorite manufacturers.

I started with crumb cake cardstock as my card base.  I just love this heavy weight card stock.  The two pink pattern papers are from Teresa Collins, Sweet Afternoon collection.  I just love this pretty, soft, pink with a variety of collage images.  I wanted to provide a break to the mirage of pink patterns and images.  So, I added a strip of polka dot pattern paper from Authentique, Grace collection.  

I matted the polka dot pattern paper with pink pirouette cardstock and machine stitched a simple border.  I did a zig zag machine stitch to adhere the seam binding to the polka dot pattern paper.  I wrapped some brown bakers twine around this panel.  I adhered a multi-loop bow, with a bakers twine tied button to the center of the bow.  I included a tiny tag, stamped with 'SWEET', in baked brown sugar classic ink.

I matted the variety text pink text pattern paper with crumb cake card stock, and machine stitched a simple border.  I inked a stork image with soft suede classic ink, and stamped it onto the pink text pattern paper.

I added three cream vintage paper trey ink buttons to the bottom lower right corner.  I wanted to repeat the pink, so I cut thin strips of pink pirouette card stock and threaded them through the vintage buttons.

I added a sentiment label to the pink text pattern paper.  I stamped the sentiment in soft suede classic ink and used my modern label punch to create the label.  I matted the label with pink pirouette card stock, and added half pearls to each end.  I adhered the label to the card front with foam tape.  Finally, I gave the whole card with a few spritzs of my home-made frost shimmer spray.  To help give this sweet baby card, a bit of sparkle!

I hope that you get a chance to play along with the wonderfully talented ladies over @ Just Us GirlS challenge.  I know that they would love to see what you create!