A Jar of Eyeballs

I thought I'd start the week off with something a little different from me.

A notebook.

This was commissioned by a lovely lady from America. She wanted a notebook for her daughter. Something including eyeballs, the colour purple and her initials ND. I love being pushed outside of my 'comfort zone' so grabbed this challenge with both hands!

I started with an image from Meljen's Designs, and built the design up around that.

I chose some dark purple textured cardstock from American Crafts and added a doily design using my Indigo Blu Flitter in the colour.. Gin and Tonic. I layered some teal scallops with some checkerboard paper and finally a bow made with ribbon from The Ribbon Girl. 

I didn't want to go too overboard with the embellishments, so added a button to the knot in the now, and a few liquid pearls here and there.

Easy peasy, and I loved it!!

Happy Monday. xo

Pear Tree Designs - Father's Day

Afternoon everyone! Thank you to everyone who joined in with our Summer Delights challenge over at PTD last week - it was great to see all of those summer entries with bright colours and the like!! Congratulations to the winner AUDREY. Please contact Donna to claim your prize of x4 digis from Sweet 'n Sassy and x4 digis from Crafty Sentiments!! You're going to have a blast!!

This week over at Pear Tree Designs we want to see those Father's Day creations. As the occasion starts creeping up on us we need to get those cards and projects finished in time.

We have two sponsors this week:

~Meljen's Designs

~One Stop Card Crafts

 

The winner of this weeks challenge will recieve a fab goody bag from One Stop Card Crafts:


Plus, Meljen's Designs are offering x4 digis of the winners choice!! How cool! Like you need any more reason to enter!

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The DT were lucky enough to be given some images from Meljen's to play with!! I was super excited to get FIREMAN BEAR printed off and coloured up!! How cute is he?!

I have a kraft base for my topper, I have printed my image on Neenah cardstock and coloured him using PM's and Copics. I have trimmed him down and rounded the corners. To reflect the yellow on his suit I decided to add a little hand stitching using my Sew Easy tool. Now that my sewing machine is broke.. I guess it's the perfect excuse to get this handy little tool out a little more. It seems to have become neglected a little - but not any more! :) My sentiment has been created using a mixture of Jenni Bowlin alpha stickers and American Crafts Thickers. That is about all!! :)

I would like to enter this topper into these challenges:

× Card Cupids - Animals
× Creative Inspirations - Father's Day or Card for Dad
× Dream Valley - Father's Day

Thanks for stopping by today, I can't wait to see your Father's Day creations over on the PTD blog. Hop on over now to see what the other ladies on the DT have come up with using these gorgeous images!

xo Lou Mac.

Pear Tree Designs #51 - SPARKLE

Hey there!! Thank you to everyone who joined in with our sketch challenge last week - it was great to see everyones interpretations! So fun. Congrats to the winner JEMIMA'S JEMS. Get in touch with Donna to claim your prize.

This week over at Pear Tree Designs we have a super fun challenge for you.. 'SPARKLE'.. we want to see those shimmery/ shiny/ glittery/ sparkly projects. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Our sponsor this week is Meljen Designs and the DT were lucky enough to play with some of their images, I chose Birthday Cupcake - it's sooo fancy!!

 Here is my take on the challenge..

I wanted to have a go at a CAS card, haven't done one of those for a while.. if ever?! Not too sure how well it went, I couldn't help but to add a few lengths of bakers twine from The Ribbon Girl, the colours were just too perfect. I have used PTI Hibiscus Burst cardstock to make my card base and added a layer of SU! Certainly Celery cardstock which I have stamped with a PTI stamp in SU! Sage Shadow ink.

I have fussy cut the digi and added dimensional adhesive to the back to make it pop off the card. I added a strip of cupcake paper from a MME Lime Twist pack and tied some bakers twine behind the image. I have added some Cotton Candy Stickles around the outside of the green cardstock and some Diamond Stickles to the stars of the cupcake.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:

× Ellephantastic - Birthday/Party
× The Secret Crafter - #136 CAS
× Totally Gorjuss - Strings The Thing

Thanks for stopping by today, I'm off to get some more of this LAST EVER ASSIGNMENT researched!! I cannot WAIT to get it finished and printed off!!

xo Lou Mac.