Ribbon and Roses Challenge

Hello, and welcome!

This week's challenge at Card Crafter's Circle  is a really lovely one.......

RIBBON AND ROSES

You don't necessarily have to use roses.....any flowers  will do......but you need to add ribbon to your creation......and I know you have reams of ribbon, tucked away......er......or is that just me?  Nope.....I know you have some that needs to see the light of day, so come and join us!

We are excited to welcome back our sponsor Happileigh Scrappin'!  Leigh creates both coloured and uncoloured images, and they are delightful!  Do visit her store, as she always has a wonderful special available to all her customers.... if you buy three images, you get another one free!

One randomly drawn challenge winner will receive the fabulous selection of Happileigh Scrappin' digital images that our design team created with this week... what a great prize!

I used a really pretty little image called Stitched Bouquet..........

My DIL's sister is to be married, late December, and her themed  colours are red and white, hence the wedding card.  It's an age since I needed to make one, so this was a nice change........

Isn't this a pretty digi image?  I bought a sample pack of Spectrum Noir pens and used some of them to colour up......the jury is still out on whether or not I like them.......I don't think they have the same blending abilities as Promarkers,  but that may just be me, not being reasonably au fait with them, as yet.......

I cut holly leaves, using a Marianne's die, and added tiny roses.........I liked the effect of the gingham ribbon and the leaves and flowers......

I used to make embossed and pricked cards all the time, and don't really know why I stopped.....I think you can get the prettiest of backgrounds using this technique, and I thought it would be perfect for this winter wedding card.  I used an embossing mask for the bottom layer, then a brass stencil for the upper layer.....good job I kept my light box....heehee!

I think I just might be diggin' out more stencils....I'm sure I've got some Christmas ones, somewhere!

hugs,

Anne-Marie x

Challenges:

http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/  Floral

http://myheartpiecesdigitalstampchallenge.blogspot.in/  Anything goes

http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/  Use a sentiment