Christening Gown

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A big welcome to our August Guest Designer, Carla!

She has put together this pretty card using the Christening Gown image.

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Viv has created this gorgeous card using a beautiful frame cut with her Nestabilities.

She's kept the colours simple for an elegant effect.

July Winners

The randomly chosen winner of the July challenge is NanaConnie!  A hearty congratulations to you NanaConnie, you have won your choice of three images from my online store.  Thank you to all who participated in the challenge, I hope you all continue to play along each month.

Our guest designer for the month of August is Carla Aerts!  Congratulations to you too Carla, I'm looking forward to a month of inspiring creations.  You can visit Carla's Blog to see what she has been creating lately, and keep your eye out for her first project due early next week.

August Challenge

Let's keep it easy this month and simply make a card or project using any of the Beccy's Place images, free or purchased.

 

When you have made your card, take a photo and upload it to your blog then put a direct link below. You can enter as many times as you like and you can submit your card to any other challenge you wish. At the end of the month a random winner will be chosen to receive three images of their choice from my online store. I will also personally select a Guest Designer for the month of September.

Good luck!

Christening Angel

Vivien has been asking me to design a Christening image for quite a while now and this is what I've come up with.  I think the design would also work for a new arrival or even "Baby's First Christmas".

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Vivien's Card

You can see that she kept the image beautifully soft when she coloured it and used plenty of crisp, clean white card with lots of texture to define the different areas.

Raspberry House

What bird wouldn't like to live in a cozy little house beneath a fruiting raspberry vine?  Delicious, juicy berries right outside the front door and lovely blossoms to fill the air with perfume.... sounds good to me!

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Sue's beautiful card.  Many thanks for the inspiration over the last month Sue!

Viv's gorgeous creation.

Tutorial - Circle Cards

Circle cards are fairly easy to construct, and the technique can be used for just about any shaped card that you wish to make.  The only thing you must remember is to leave a spine where the card can fold.  If you cut all the way through you will only end up with two pieces of cardboard!

1.  Use your favourite circle cutting tool to prepare the card base.  You will notice that the circle on the left has one flat side, which is the actual fold of the card.  The circle on the right is just a single piece of cardboard cut to the same size.  I will adhere the full circle to the front of the card so that it appears to be whole.

2.  Gather all the pieces you wish to use for your card.  I have the card blank, which forms the base of the card; the full circle you saw in the last photo, which I embossed with little dots; a red layer and a purple layer with a piece of ribbon threaded through it; and my coloured image.

3.  Simply layer your card as you wish, securing each piece of cardboard with double sided tape or glue.

4.  Add some extra embellishments if you wish, and your card is done!

Lamp and Quill

Originally Designed: 2012

Remastered: July 2022

Original artwork by Beccy Muir, all rights reserved. Images are for personal use and must not be copied, swapped, shared, resold or mass produced without the express written permission of the artist.

Birchwood Birdhouse

We're currently redoing our front garden to add lots of bird and insect attracting plants, which of course means that we're going to need some housing for our new guests.  The image I have for you today is inspired by the work we are doing outside and all the little creatures we share our home with.

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Vivien's wonderful card

Sue's beautiful creation

Stamped Cushion

Every now and then I feel the need to handle something other than paper or cardboard, which is when I drag out the textiles or the paints or clay...  I'm sure a lot of you can relate to what I'm saying!  Anyway, I just happen to have a couple of metres of "grubby" calico, hand-dyed by a lovely lady who has a gorgeous little shop at Old Petrie Town - well worth a visit if you are ever in that area of Brisbane.  I used some beautiful Prima stamps, inked up with black StazOn, to add the images to the fabric, which actually stamped a great deal easier and clearer than I thought it would.  I coloured here and there with my copic markers being very careful to colour well within the lines to give the ink room to bleed across the fabric.  A couple of turns in the sewing machine, a length of cotton lace and voila, one pincushion!

Magnolia

Most of us enjoy working with floral images and designs, so today I have a classic, single blossom magnolia for you.  You can work with it individually as Sue and I did, or put a couple together as Viv did with her card and bookmark set.

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Sue's card with beautiful, soft pinks and greens.

 

Viv's gorgeous card and bookmark set using a couple of the magnolia images.

I layered parts of the image for a little more dimension.

Little Chairs

At the most recent Brisbane Paper Craft Show I picked up these gorgeous little wood chairs from the Twiddleybitz stall - I can never resist making a purchase from them, everything always looks so good!  Anyway, I had some lovely hand dyed calico at home that I used to make very tightly stuffed seats for each chair.  A few licks of paint, some pieces of lace and trim, a couple of hand stitched cushions, long scrapbooking pins and a scattering of little flowers completed the project!

The Performer

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