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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Heart Journalling with the Greeting Farm!

As you can see over on the right of my page-I am taking part in the TGF heart Journalling class-my brother Donal was kind enough to give me a watercolor moleskine for the classes...
Last Friday we got our first assignment:

Assignment: Create a free-spirit spread (two-pages) using the concept of wings. This could be butterflies, airplanes, angels, birds...etc. Use any stamps you want, colors, etc. Not necessary to use any TGF stamps, this is YOUR journal, do what you want cuz you rule that journal!

And here are my pages! 
 I went with a butterfly theme-first painting my two pages blue and then stamping butterfly images using stamps and paint-which I never tried before....
 Page 1...
 Page 2....
The image is TGF coloured with promarkers.....
The two butterfly stamps I used are both from my friend Judy! Thanks Judy :) x

The little punch out butterflies are from a kit and the gems and letters are papermania....


This was my first time trying anything like this so I was very nervous....

TPBP Dressform challenge/little snippets Design Team project #2!!

Over on the piece by piece blog there is a SUPER July challenge to alter a dressform HERE I decided to give it a go and use both some gorgeous lace from TPBP etsy store and also some of my little snippets!
Here is goes....

The dressform I bought in An Siopa Bui-its a tall paper mache dressform with wire legs-I bought 2 of them (shhhhhhh....) for the challenge I dressed this one up in a vintage dress....
 First I just painted the bodice in cream paint...
 Then I added lace from TPBP, my little snippets butterflies AVAILABLE HERE, tulle and pearls.....
 The skirt is lots of layers of cream tulle, dusty pink pin stripe lace from TPBP Etsy, little snippet butterflies and pearls....
 Coming up across the bodice and acting as a strap for my dress is this GORGEOUS ivory leaf vine venice lace also from TPBP etsy store....
 Side view....
 This is the back which I LOVE!!!!.....
 Check out that butterfly-the detail of these are just amazing....
 The other colour butterfly...
Now....I want this dress!!!!

Aideen X

Another card created for Pink (INK) and TGF challenges :)

Here is another card I made again for the TGF paper piecing challenge HERE  and this time using the sketch from the new Pink (INK) challenge blog HERE GO CHECK THEM BOTH OUT!!!!

Here is the sketch-
And here is my entry :)
 I used bo bunny gabrielle papers & faux stitching with a white gel pen....
 here is my paper pieced hats off Miss Anya-Love her!!!....
I used this papermania happy birthday sentiment stamp,

Thanks,
Aideen xx

A card for TGF & Basic Grey challenges!

Hey, I have a few things to share today so lets go....

Here is my first card I made for the basic grey challenge HERE the challenge was a sketch-
And the Farm Fresh Challenge is HERE and the challenge is to paper piece! This was my first time to try it & I LOVE it!!!!!!!
 I used my Cuddle Anya stamp from TGF-she's a lil cutie!...
 All the papers used are Basic Grey Kioshi....
 I am going to be addicted to paper piecing-if you haven't tried it-DO!!...
My FAB flower and leaves are by little snippets AVAILABLE HERE aren't they just perfect! Thanks,

Aideen x

Thursday, July 21, 2011

12x12 Graphic 45 le Romantique wedding album (LOADS OF PHOTOS!!!)

Back in May, I made a 12x12 wedding album for my brothers friends that were getting married at the time! I used Graphic 45 le Romantique papers and made a nice vintage book, there's a lot of pages so LOADS of photos here-I hope you enjoy...

The album was a 12x12 fabric covered album with 10 clear pockets inside-I bought it from cardznscrapz.com....
 This is the first page on the inside-I used the most detailed paper from the collection and just added the couples names-which are painted grunge letters, a die cut birdcage, some butterflies and bling and pearls....

 I added some pearls and floral pearl detail to the ladys hair....
 I tried to keep a nice amount of space on some of the pages so they can add lots of pics...here I just added a chipboard title, some butterflies and feathers....
 on this page a core'dinations section in the centre which I lightly sanded-chipboard title, flower and a little snippet butterfly AVAILABLE HERE
 for this page a rhinestone flourish and flowers with pearl centres....
 I made a layered mid-section on this page....
 Pearls...bling....lace....
 I love this page-some nice rose trim and little snippet butterflies were just the perfect touch HERE....
 The butterflies have prima pearls trails....
 This is a page for a bridal photo-I added a photo mat made from papers from the matching 8x8 pad and prima flowers with pearl and bling centres and a little bride chipboard title...
 Another lovely soft page....
 Crochet lace...chipboards...
 Again a 8x8 mat-some pleated paper and embellies....
 And here is a page for the groom...
 I made a black photo mat and added a Tim Holtz adage ticket, cut outs from the collection and stickers from graphic 45 staples....
 I kept this page pretty plain too adding my embellishments to the top corner....
 The happy couple got married on June 4th so I used this Jenni Bowlin June bingo card, again chipboard embellies and stickers from graphic 45...
 This page I just layered it up!!!.....
 I used my sew-easy tool to pop these holes which I stitched with black floss-I layered up core'dinations, 8x8 le romantique paper, lace, pearl trim....
 The graphic 45 staples stickers added a lovely touch-I love them....
 An 8x8 mat, flowers and pearl flourishes and below flowers with bling centres and feathers....
 A page for the bridesmaids perhaps....
 I used the dressform from the Tim Holtz sewing room die, lace, swarovski crystals....
 Another layered page....
 I made these box flowers to match....
 This page would be good for a photo of the guests or the night time celebrations....
 I added lots of tags into and envelope pocket-adding seam binding....
 8x8 mat, box flowers and adage tickets....

 I made this mat from black core'dinations, black pearls, a box flower and graphic 45 stickers....
 These stickers are perfect for journalling...
 I LOVE these black pearl flourishes....
 And this is the final page...
 Another little pocket with tags and more of the black pearls and g45 stickers....
And thats all folks......
It was a long one-I hope you enjoyed all these pics,
Aideen x