LIM - Congratulations again

I've been having a play with some new stuff tonight.  There was a little papercraft fair in Sheffield on Sunday and I managed to catch the last hour of it.  I got some essentials (like more cardstock) but a few interesting bits too.  One of which was one of the new marianne d "rolled rose" dies.  I managed the rolling really easily, but the ones I'd seen done all had pearl centers so I assumed they were "bradded" together and I couldn't do it.  I noticed however that one of my blogging mates Lynne had done a card with the same roses today so I asked her for some tips and she obliged with this fabby tutorial - thanks Lynne :-)

So I managed to get my roses to stick together and I decided not to add centres.  The papers are some old handmade papers I had in my stash so IRL the roses are really mottled.  I cute the leaves from the same die set in black, and used a blue metalic rub on to bring the out the veins.  I decided to make it into a final entry for this weeks LIM challenge and found this black congratulations ribbon in my stash and thought that would set off the roses OK.  I think it would have been better on a plain white rather than the pearl cream card though, but hindsight is a lovely thing lol!  Roll on Saturday for the new challenge.....

Night, night, Craftilicious x

LIM Week 13 - Thankyou and Congratulations

Lady LIM and Diva LIM have come up with another non-scary challenge this week - just what I needed to get me back in the crafting vibe after my rubbish week off.  We never managed to get to visit our friends as my gastroenteritus went on for 5 days :-(   The lovely people at Travelodge did give us a credit-voucher for most of the cost of our hotel though so we can try again in a couple of months.

Anyhow, todays challenge over at Less is More is to make a Thank you or Conratulations card.  I've started with a congratulations, but I think I will be back with a thank you later too.

 

A really simple card today.  The congrats is a sticker from a baby scrapbooking kit I've been working on for my niece who is visiting later with her new baby, and I've paired it with a lovely soft pink shimmer card stock.  Rather than it being for a new baby though, I thought I'd make a congrats on your engagement/wedding card so I've just added 3 embossed pink heart sequins.  It is much nicer IRL -  I couldn't get the light right for the photo to show the soft and delicate hues.

See you later - happy crafting.

                                                 Craftilicious x