Patties Creations | VeryBelle

I’m back with another challenge for Sentimental Sundays! This week, we are sponsored by Calypso’s Crafty Things – and there’s a fabulous prize for the lucky winner! The theme for this challenge is “Inside and Out”, another first for me! I always pay a lot of attention to the front of my cards, but I can’t remember ever continuing the theme inside!

I based my card around sketch 60 at From The Heart Sketches. I love to flick through the old sketches when I’m struggling to pin down a design, it’s just packed full with inspiration! So, the details for my card…. The image I have used is a MilkCoffee freebie from a while back – not sure how I have overlooked her for so long!! I coloured her using Pro-Markers as usual. I’ve tried a new hair combo – Ivory, Satin and Tan – and I’m really pleased with the way it’s turned out. The image on the inside of the card is by Patties Creations. I’ve coloured the ballet slipper with ProMarkers, then mounted on a lilac mat before popping it inside the card.

To create the frame on the front of the card, I designed a “ring doughnut” shape in the Silhouette software by laying a smaller circle over the larger circle and the subtracting the top shape. I then welded the letters of my daughter’s name to the outside edge of the doughnut. The banner pieces were also cut from glitter card on the Silhouette, before being hand stitched to the corrugated card with some matching ribbon.

The papers on the front of the card are from the Papermania Spots and Stripes collection; all the other papers are from my stash.

Make sure you pop over to Sentimental Sundays to see what the rest of the DT have been up to this week!

For our new challenge over at Crafting From The Heart, we’re looking for your cute and cuddly creations! The DT were fortunate to be sponsored by Bugaboo and Patties Creations – I chose to work with this cute little Sock Monkey…

crafting from the heart 31 mar 14

Now, it’s nearing the end of the school term for us, so there are many assemblies, Easter parties and parades, as well as all the usual weekly commitments. With this in mind, I needed to make a quick card! Just recently, I’ve ended up taking several days umm-ing and aah-ing over the right layouts and papers, but I really didn’t have that much time this week, so I chose to faux paper piece the card, using Harper Finch’s Sweater Weather paper stack. I added several more layers than I usually would, as I couldn’t decide on my favourite papers for the background! And I’m proud to say, the card was started when I came home from the school run this morning, finished by 11am and my whole post was completed before I left home to pick my youngest up from pre-school at lunchtime. The only downside is that I haven’t got any excuses to avoid the ironing this afternoon….