Friday, October 22, 2010

Just flying by to say hi @ TCC

Well, it's time for our next Feature Friday Challenge over at The Character Cafe! Yeah! It's so easy to win some of their fabulous images. For this month we are using the color orange and this week there's an additional recipe of: 1 - flower, 2 - brads, & 3 - gems. See - that's not too difficult. Now hopefully you're not all burned out with orange. Remember that there are several shades of orange. And nothing says HOW MUCH orange you have to use. (Shhhh, don't tell anyone that I said this.) LOL! Why don't you stop by The Character Cafe and see what the rest of the design team has put together. The prize is a $5 gift certificate to the store.This little guys name is "Flutter", isn't he cute? I used my nestibilities to make the circles, and I made the tag by rounding off all of the corners, puching a hole at the end and adding twine to hang it with. The lace raffia is some I got from the UK. (I've wanted some of this since I first saw it several months ago, and it seems that they don't sell it here in the US.) I like the way the MS punch goes along with the raffia so perfectly. The brads and jewels are some I've had for ages. Now to the flower - I'm really thrilled as to how it came out. This is another flower I learned how to make by following instructions on You Tube. The video can be found by searching for TheJbrideau or "Flower Tutorial - Prima Petite Mums". I used the "button" on pg. 38 of Paisley. Then I misted them with my homemade glimmermist, used my promarkers to bleed the colors together and added the brad and jewel for the center.
I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges - fall

The Paper Players - sketch

Craftalicious Challenges - anything

The Crafty Pad - distressing

The Shabby Tea Room - autumn & brown

2 Sketches 4 You - sketch

Penny's Paper Crafty-Challenge - anything that flies

Thanks for looking. I'd love it if you'd leave me a comment.

dj1952

12 comments:

mrsk06 said...

This is one adorable card! Thanks for Playing along at The Crafty Pad this week! Hugz xx

Carolina Girl (Cely) said...

Yes, I love the little bird..just darling and I SO LOVE the lace from the U.K. ...so very different...wow...would love to have some!

Debbie said...

Super sweet! That flower is so pretty ... thanks for joining us this week in the Tea Room :)

Stacey G.-2 Craf-t-4u said...

Very nice Debbie! There are so many great details! The flower is great! I thought it was store bought! The image is very cute! That raffia is neat! Great job!

Gram's Treasures said...

Great card DJ! Awesome flower, I'll have to check out the tutorial.
Joyce

Dorcas said...

Cute card, Debbie! I could still do orange if its in the bright hue I think. lol I think I'm done on leaves though. Especially brown ones. Especially in my yard.

Ann Schach said...

Wow! I love the lace raffia! Such an adorable card! Thanks for joining The Paper Players this week!

Jessica L said...

This is gorgeous DJ! I'm in awe. I NEVER would have thought that flower wasn't store-bought!

Pattie said...

Super cute image and what a sweet card! Thanks for joining us in the Tea Room this week!

Unknown said...

looks like someone is getting happy mail :) Very sweet card
thanks for joining us at 2S4Y this week
:) Kazan

Jackie said...

this is adorable, love the image and a fabby card. Thank you for playing along at Penny's this week x

Georgia said...

Dj , what a great card. I just loive flutter. He is so darn cute.