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Tuesday 14 July 2009

For a Princess


I'm skating in on the last day of this week's Whiff of Joy challenge who had a great sketch by Katharina.

I'm also entering this card into Stampin' for the Weekend's challenge and the theme this week is "Strawberries dipped in Chocolate".

I used the beautiful Princess Charlotte image and coloured her with pencils. I added gold stickles to the 'buttons' on her gown and in the centre of the crown. I distressed the background with Tea Dye. I also distressed the scalloped edge (which I made with a corner punch) on the red/white paper to make it stand out more against the brown cardstock. I had put the brown card through the cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder to give it more texture. To finish off the card I added some white/brown/red primas, a gold charm, lace and gem brads. Then I made the word "Princess" on my label maker!

I just love this colour combo and will definitely be using it again :)

Ingredients:
Papers: Jenni Bowlin, Prima Marketing, Bazzil & Papermania
Image: Whiff of Joy - Princess Charlotte
Flowers : Prima
Brads: Papermania
Sentiment : label maker
Charm & lace from my stash.

17 comments:

Juls said...

gorgeous princess! I love the flowers and lace you have used as finishing touches!

CraftyC said...

This is totally gorgeous Sandie. Love the papers you have used, a vintage feel and the stamp is so beautifully coloured. Thanks for taking part in this weeks SFTW
Clairex

Rach said...

A fabulous card Sandie, great papers and your image is coloured beautifully. hugs rachxx

Janet said...

Beautiful card!....beautifuly coloured!X

Tab said...

Fabulous card, just adore the images and colours!
Hugs Tab xxx

crafty amy said...

Brilliant card I love the touches of sparkle and the ticket tape sentiment is fab! You have picked gorgeous papers that match beautifully.
Thank you for joining us at stampin' for the weekend and good luck with the challenges.

X Amy X

Dee2 said...

Sweet princess! She looks like the princess from Mario.

Gina said...

This is beautiful Sandie, I love your colouring of the image, sorry i have not been commenting lately, I will be better from now on :)
Hugs Gina xxx

Bev said...

Oh this is so adorable Sandie, such a sweet image and a fabulous card x

Susie Sugar said...

Wow love your cute image and fantastic colouring
Gorgeous designs and detail as well
Hugs Susie xx

Nancy said...

Your card is adorable, Sandie:O) Love the gorgeous papers, the lace looks amazing and the charm is so cute. The WOJ image is stunning, your colouring of it is wonderful. Thank you for joining Stampin' for the Weekend this week. Good luck!
Nancy;O)

Anonymous said...

Beautiful card, Sandie! You've coloured the cute WoJ image fantastically. I love the papers and embossing. The lace and the flowers are gorgeous.
Thank you for joining us at SFTW and good luck! We hope you'll join us again next week. :)
Vanja

cats whiskers said...

Hi Hun what a simply sweet card this is love that image and those gorgeous papers. Hope you get your Magnolias, they have hjust e-mailed me to say my Yearly Subscription run out after the spring kit, nice of them to let me know :(
Hugs Jacqui x

Donna said...

Gorgeous card Sandie, love your coloring on the Princess. The papers are gorgeous and love the details of the lace the charm hanging from the flowers and using a label machine for your sentiment.
Thank you for participating in the "Stampin' for the Weekend" challenge again this week.. Good luck and we hope you'll continue to join in on the challenges on a weekly basis. Have a great day.
Donna xx

surgical girl said...

i really like the different textures there and the pretty polka flowers!

Kimmi said...

Beautiful card Sandie, I love this little image, she is so sweet. Beautiful papers and I love the Lace detail.

Thank you for playing along with us this week over at "Stampin' for the Weekend". We hope you enjoyed making your card and that you join us again for our next challenge! Good Luck.

Kimmi

Vicki said...

Wow!!! as usual Sandie another amazing creation. Such a beautiful image, which you've coloured fabby. I love those papers and the lace is so pretty, the flowers and lil charm add a lovely finishing touch. Thank you for joining us again this week with our colour challenge over at SFTW, good luck xx vicki xx