Batty for You

This stamp is from Stamp N Plus iris fold collection.  The stamp can be found HERE.  The guidelines are already on the stamp so that placing the strips is very easy to do. Instead of folded paper, I used a sparkly black organdy ribbon for my iris fold wings.  The bat was stamped with Black Stazon on silver metallic paper.  The background is a glittery card from DCWV and the trim is holeless sequins on a plastic mesh.

There's a challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu this week to create something inspired by a song.  This is a bit of a stretch by my song is the Theme from Batman.

Thanks for stopping by..............................Paulette

Italian Holiday

I made this tag for a Prima Doll swap. The background is a piece of scrapbook paper depicting scenes of Italy. I paper pieced the dress and added lace to the neckline, sleeves and hemline. I used the paper's title off of the salvage as a title. The flourish was cut with a Spellbinders Venitian die. Had was also cut with a die.


Have a nice day....................Paulette
Entered in the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday------------           Anything Goes
Loves Rubber Stamps------------          Have a Sentiment on the Front
Paper Minutes-------------------------             #286 Cities
Shopping Our Stash------------------            #118 Favorite Stampy Technique
Through the Craft Room Door----             Anything Goes

Young Love ATC

There's an Artist Trading Card Challenge this week over on the Sweet Stamps Blog:  Challenge #134 .

One of the rules is that the submission must be new art created for the challenge.  I had just completed some calendar ATCs for a swap on Splitcoaststampers and had an extra set of images, some punched flowers and leaves as well as the yellow flowers cut from some silk ribbon and the bakers twine all sitting on my desk.  The red and yellow paper scraps were also left over from some previous project.

As a result I did some redesigning from my original calendar ATC, which was a Valentine for the month of February, and made this more generic ATC.  I'm thinking it could be added to an anniversary or congratulations or thinking of you card.  Or maybe I'll just keep it in case I need a spare for one of my ATC swaps.

Thanks for stopping by...................................................................Paulette

Created for Sweet Stamps Blog ATC Challenge #134

Framed Christmas Kitty

There's a challenge over on Splitcoaststampers to use a frame.  I found this glittery gold die cut frame in my stash.  The patterned paper is Basic Grey.  The flowers were cut from a faux leather trim I got on clearance at JoAnns.  I added gold Stickles to the flower centers.  The pine branches made with a Martha Stewart punch.  The background cardstock is from a glittered DCWV pack.  The stamp is one of Patti"s Kids  X2808 and can be found in the Patti's Kids section of Stamp N Plus Scrap N.  Here's the website:  http://www.stampaffair.com/main.htm.   The stamp can be found HERE.

Happy Monday.............................................Paulette

Hawaiian Seaside

This weeks Inspiration Challenge is to use one of the pins in the hostess' Pinterest board as the inspiration.  Glittery DCWV cardstock  was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. Image is from index page of an Hawaiian calendar. Shells were cut from scrapbook borders by K&Co. Some glittery silver flourishes and pearls were added as embellishments. My inspiration pin: http://pinterest.com/pin/387591111651115275/

Have a great weekend------------------Paulette

Meet Iris the Queen Bee

Iris, Queen Bee, is an iris fold stamp from Stamp N Plus. The stamp has numbered guidelines for placing the folded papers. I used ribbon instead of paper for the folds---sparkly black and white organdy and some golden yellow grosgrain with stitching. I colored Iris' crown with a gold Krylon pen.



Have a Bee-you-tiful day-----------------Paulette


Entered in the following challenges:

Runway Inspired---ric#43 Lela Rose

Phoebe and Kitty At the Fence

Stamp N Plus Scrap N has over 50 pages of Patti's Kids stamps.  The stamps with the cute kitties are my favorite.  I chose this image called "Phoebe and Kitty At the Fence."  I used some DCWV paper that was already decorated with gems.  The colors in the paper dictated my color palette.  I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils.  I added a bit of Crystal Effects to the tiny lady bug on Phoebe's hand and Kitty's neck charm and nose.  I added some Fruit Punch Stickles to give her tulips a "POP."  I fussy cut my image and glued it to a piece of blue paper.  The leaves were cut with a die by C. C. Designs.  The flowers were punched with a 2-step set of Nellie Snellen punches that punch out and emboss.  Some orange Stickles were used a flower centers.   A die-cut sparkly frame from my stash was used to frame the image.

Paulette