A Special Thank You Blog Hop

This blog hop was organised by some of our wonderful friends on the PTI forum. This blog hop is in honour of a very special lady, Nichole Heady. We are all so thankful for all Nichole's hard work and her ability to constantly inspire each and everyone of us with her amazing talent. Nichole, thank you for sharing your wonderful gift with us.

WMS Blog Waltz - August

This month we had to create a Vintage/Shabby chic project. Now, although I absolutely love this style on everyone else's projects, I don't have the knack for it. I really don't like bulky cards so I don't do too much layering on my cards....but I so love embellishing srapbook LO's. Used the Vintage Labels 4 stamp set on the scallop and the label on the accordion flower. Got these ideas from Ingrid Danvers, here and Maggie Holmes, here.

Four Challenges

Betsy Veldman issued a challenge here, to complete four challenges. So here we go.....
#1
The Card Style challenges
I tried my hand at Shabby and Vintage
#2
Signs of Peace
Found a digi download of a peace sign at My Grafico #3

Tuesday Trigger - Dancing Lanterns

#4

The Go-to Sketch Challenge

Embellish Colour Challenge With Ric Rac

Gorgeous colours once again. Did some paper piecing on this card. Cut the ric rac from felt. Used FTL99 sketch for the card layout.

Papertrey Blog Hop - July

For this month's Blog Hop we are focusing on office supplies! We want to see you incorporate all of those fun desk drawer fillers into your paper crafting projects.

I saw this tutorial for a shipping label box ages ago and I merrily went and bought the shipping labels. Needless to say, they have been lying under a pile of "to do" projects. So, thanks to the theme of this blog hop, I have finally got to use my shipping labels. I also used eyelets and plain string on this little box.

Papertrey Pages - July Challenge

The challenge for this month's scrapbook LO was to use kraft, and make at least one of your own embellishments.
The inspiration for this LO came from this gorgeous page by the talented Sarah Martina.

Here is a close up of my little cupcake embellishment. That glittery button is really cute IRL.

Waltzingmouse Blog Waltz - July

I have used Enchanted Evening and Spring Moss for my colours. Used three WM stamp sets on this card ie. Off Beat Backgrounds, Fancy Phrases and Very Vintage Labels 4. The middle section of the card has been embossed using the Argyle CB folder.
ETA: Poor card looked so bland...decided to give it a bit more love!