Triangles from every Angle with Our Vintage Affair

Good evening to you all in the land of blog. 

An interesting Title don't you think, but what does it actually mean, well today sees the start of the next challenge at

Our Vintage Affair

with the fabulous theme of 

"Triangle"

this might be a triangle card, or triangle box or anything with the shape of the triangle...

But before I move on I would like to thank the ladies at Clearly Inspired for selecting me as one of their top five winners

So back to Our Vintage Affair

We are sponsored this challenge by the fabulous "The Craft Barn"

So I decided to try something a colleague from another DT did, which I have to say I thought was stunning, so here is what I created.

I made a trio of triangle boxes.  I used some Pansy papers from the Dragon's Lair

and printed the templates found on the internet directly onto them, now I did make a slight mistake here and printed the template onto the coloured side, instead of the back of the papers, but the little dotted lines looked so good as faux stitching that I adapted my creation to suit.  I have added lots of flowers and a spray of varnish glitter.  Flowers are a mixture of Wild Orchid, Hobby House, Hobby Craft and a branch punch to finish. The ribbon is some pull through ribbon and just finished off the top point of the central box.

Do pop over and take a look at the other wonderful inspirational pieces by the rest of the Design Team.

I would like to say it is lovely to see some new faces joining us at Our Vintage Affair, and I hope lots more of you will hop over and follow along with us.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 300 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 300 follower candy you can do so here, thank you to Feline for now advertising my candy too. 

OMG!!!! you lot are the best ever 405 followers, I am totally astounded, cannot believe it and even better more candy to buy for September Whoop Whoop !!!!!!!

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!!

well cannot wait to see what you all put in the pot this challenge :)

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

The Pixie Cottage - Say it with Flowers

Cupcake Craft - Stitching 

Happiliegh Scrapping - More than one fold

Nettie G's - Fancy Folds

Catch the Bug - Anything Goes

Paper Creator's - All about the flowers

Hugs and enjoy the rest of the week

Kate

xx

Watch the Birdie with Our Vintage Affair Design Team New Challenge

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the new challenge at 

Our Vintage Affair

Remember the first challenge of the month is always a layout challenge, but pop back on the 15th of the month for the card/altered item challenge

So the sketch for the August Layout is this stunning one, with the theme of Birds

Having been given some lovely papers by our Sponsor 

Nikki Sivils

I could not wait to get started, so here is what I created for my design team inspirational piece

The base papers are from Grimsby Crafts and then the top paper is one of the lovely papers from Niki, just perfect for the theme and my ideas.  I tore and distressed all around the edge of the papers Niki had provided using my little old baby wipes and Tim Holtz "Vintage Photo" distress ink.  I tore down a little at the top right.  I stole from one of my vases the tops of some twirl twigs and tied these together with twine to frame the image.  The image is from the first wedding I attended and the photo was taken from behind the paid photographer, so you can see all those guests with their cameras and the bride and groom performing those horrid photo stunts.  I hung a Marianne die cut bird cage from the twig after coating the die cut in Tim Holtz old paper crackle paint. The little birds were purchased oh so long ago from Hobby Craft, I painted these in the crackle paint too.  The floral sweep on the bird cage well let me tell you these were some dolls house hanging baskets, which I cut to pieces and used, a perfect size.  I added a feather to the torn piece at the top, some nestie leaves and a couple of Marianne fern scrolls. The little flowers are from Rui Tong.  I added some stick on butterflies but coloured them with copics to turn them pink to match the lettering. I love how it turned out.

Here are some close ups

 oh almost forgot added some tiny gold beads to the bottom of the bird cage.

The little bit of fluff the added feather

Oh almost forgot the little bird charm too, but here he is :)

Now don't forget to pop over and see what my wonderful team mates have created for your inspiration.

I would like to say hello to all of my new followers, hope you like what I work on and that you may pop and join in with us at Our Vintage Affair.

As always and very importantly thank you to you all for your wonderful comments, and thank you for taking the time to leave them, I appreciate all of them.

If you had not noticed my candy was won recently but another took it's place, so if you like what you see today and want to see more of what we get up to at Our Vintage Affair, pop here enter the candy and follow along with me.

I am entering this layout into the following challenges

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Happileigh Scrappin - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles - In the Garden

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Make my Monday - Things with Wings

Come and Get It Challenges - Anything Goes

Kenny K - Metal Embellishment 

One Stop Craft - Vintage

Crafts 4 Eternity - anything but a card

Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Our Vintage Affair Monthly Layout Challenge

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

This evening brings us to the next challenge at

Our Vintage Affair

As always the first challenge of the month running for two weeks is a layout challenge and this month we have another fabulous sketch to follow with the added requirement of needing to use at least one flower hand made by  yourself

Here is the sketch

but don't forget that handmade flower

So here is my design team inspirational piece for you today, but don't forget to hop over and see what other delicious creations have been made by my teamies

The beautiful papers are available at Grimsby Crafts, the image is cut out from one and the other I have used a MS round the page punch on.  I used the recent wedding photo's and decided to use my oval nestie on this one.  I have used lots of nestie punched leaves and lots of burgundy and white roses, some nestie tags, the MS heart punch, ribbon, pearls and stickles and a two fabulous charms that Loretta kindly sent to me. The scrolls are cut from the same paper as the bride and groom image as is the little bird top right.  The bottom of the cut out bride dress I have used the MS doily punch on and I have also used liquid pearls to decorate this and other areas.  now you are asking where is your hand made flowers, there are three of them on each of the MS hearts. I have also added some ribbon to the tags, 

Here are the close ups

Really enjoyed creating this piece.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and hope you like what I create and that in some small way it inspires you to try something new or different.  I would like to say thank you to my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my work, I love each and everyone of them. THANK YOU

Don't forget I still have my celebration candy running here

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Diva's by Design - die cuts / punches

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Ruby's Rainbow - Flowers

Deep Ocean - Flowers

Scrap Creations - Anything but a card

Top Tip Tuesday - T for Tags

Hooked on Craft - Flowers

OLLB - Summer Flowers

One Stitch at a Time - Wedding

Crafty Catz - A charm

Fairy Fun Fridays - Wedding

Crafty Purple Frog - Swirls and Pearls

Digi Doodles - Anything Goes

Paperplay - Anything but a card

Enjoy the rest of your evening and hope you have a great weekend

Hugs

Kate

xx

It's a Background Stamping Card Challenge at Our Vintage Affair

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

This evening sees not only the start to my week off from work, but also the beginning of the new Card challenge at 

Our Vintage Affair

The theme for this challenge was chosen by our very talented Loreta who not only came up with the fantastic sketch to work to but also the theme.

We are sponsored this month by   

The Craft Barn

and the prize is a £20 voucher to spend in their store!!  So onto our challenge!!  The theme this month is to use 2 stamps as the background and also to follow this sketch.  

Here is what I created for my design team inspiration

I used a cappuccino pearlescent paper for the base layer and the contrast.  I used my orange and brown stazone and a wordy stamp and then a swirly stamp to create my own paper which I spritzed with a little gold very lightly.  I located this image on the internet and cut it into three and then layered each one and then placed in a row. All distressed to give it that vintage feel and the little tag and ribbon to finish it off along with the flowers.

I would like to say hello to my new followers and thank you to my wonderful visitors who have taken the time to leave me such inspirational comments, love them all :)

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Digi Doodle Shops Best - No patterned papers

Everybody Art Challenge - Distress

Hugs

Kate 

xx

Our Vintage Affair Monthly Layout Challenge and Candy Winner

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Today brings the next challenge at 

Our Vintage Affair

The Layout Challenge for this month is to use this 

sketch with the theme of "Grandparents"

but before I move on to show you my design team inspirational piece, 

I have a winner from my OVA Candy

Congratulations to Miria, if you would like to mail me here with your snail mail address, I will post out your winning candy to you.

So onto my creation here it is

I have used one of my new MS around the page punches , some gorgeous papers from Grimsby Crafts and those flowers, well thank you to Polly of Artfulwings and owner of Our Vintage Affair, who showed us how to make these in her recent scrap layout class at Grimsby Crafts.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges

Ali Factory - Distressing

CRAFT - Wedding/Love

Charisma Cardz - Something that flies (butterflies on the layout)

Craft Us Crazy - Remembrance/Love

Digi Doodles - Weddings

Paper Crafting Journey -Anything Goes

Pixie Dust Studio - Create your own establishments

The Rubber Cafe - Weddings

Crafts and Me - Punch it out

Papercraft Star - Wedding

I would like to say hello to my new followers, fingers crossed that one does not drop, as after the WW blog hop celebrations I will be celebrating my next '00 hit, but usually when I say that one drops.  I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments, I love them all.

I am thrilled to have found out yesterday that I won at 

thank you ladies, I have waited a long time for one of these beautiful blinkies :)

and just into my mail box, and just had to show you, here are the ladies and Wendy herself, from the Warrington Copic Certification that I attended, not pointing me out though and did try to hide in the photo

Enjoy the rest of your short week and if you are like me feeling a little under the weather with a couple of germs then hope you improve for the weekend

Hugs

Kate

xx

The Next Challenge Is On at Our Vintage Affair

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Now this was the challenge set by the very talented Polly ofArtfulwings for Our Vintage Affair.

It is a napkin fold card, and although easy to make, did take some time, but oh so worth it.  

If you want to see a tutorial on this you can pop over to 

Our Vintage Affair

to see the tutorial and all the other awesome creations by the design team and of course to view the new challenge

This month we are sponsored by the

CRAFT BARN

Here is my design team inspirational piece

The starting point is a 12 x 12 piece of white card.  This is then scored and folded to create this amazing effect.  The papers are all from the GCD Studios Ella Blue stack of papers, some of the pages are textured but all have an amazing linen look and feel to them.  The MS punch is my new one from Grimsby Crafts.  The frame for the image is a Nellie Snellen Eastern Rectangle Die.  The image from the good old www.  The roses on this creation are from the Hobby House.  The creation was distressed with Antique Linen Tim Holtz distress ink.  The ribbon is from my stash.

Here is the opened up creation 

The sentiment inside is a MSE (although sorry you cannot see it enough to read it)

Here is a close up of the image

Anyway although it looks difficult it is not - I would definitely give it a go

I would like to remind you all that the OVA Candy is still on, click on this logo at the top right hand side of my screen to see what you need to do, which is not much really and nine chances of winning :)

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Creative Craft Challenge - Vintage/Distressed

Everybody Art Challenge - Flowers

Papertake - Punches / Die Cuts

Sparkle Creations - Shaped Cards

Tuesday Throwdown - Die Cuts

The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Design Dollies - Creative Folds

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

The Emerald Fairies - Anything Goes

Thank you to my wonderful visitors who leave such inspirational comments, love them all

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Our Vintage Affair Monthly Layout Challenge

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

This evening starts the next Layout Challenge at

Our Vintage Affair

The theme this month for the layout is to use the sketch below and add 3 different types of laces.

This was another fabulous sketch to work with

Here is my design team inspirational piece

I have added one type of lace around the torn large circle.  The edges were distressed well before the lace was added.  The second lace is around the journal sheet, which has been placed onto a MS punch around the page rectangle with liquid pearls added to each little heart.  The third lace is around the main image.  Pearls and diamante's added along with hand made flowers and hand made leaves along with a Butterfly which I used the high gloss embossing cracked glass effect on. The title has been created with the little scrabble tiles.  

Don't forget to check out the other DT inspirational pieces as they are gorgeous pieces of work.

Now just a reminder before I go

pop over here to enter the mega Blog Candy

I would like to enter this scrap page layout into the following challenges 

Shannon's Sentiments - hand made embellishments

Stamping Vacation - Use paper with large flowers

Sugar Creek Hollow - Embossing (the butterfly is high gloss embossed, frozen and then cracked)

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Try Something new (the cracked glass effect)

Crafts 4 eternity - Anything Goes

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge - Inspirational Photo

CCEE - Add a Butterfly

Delightful Challenges - distressing

Digi Doodle - Anything Goes

I would like to say hello to my new followers and thank you to those wonderful visitors that leave such inspirational comments, I love them all

Hugs and Enjoy the last day of the extended weekend tomorrow

Kate

xx

Our Vintage Affair Monthly Layout Challenge

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

This evening marks the last sleep prior to my eleven days off from work, although I will be busy tomorrow, I will not be able to wait till tomorrow night

I have some new stash I want to play with :) and cannot wait

However this evening is the commencement of the next challenge at

Our Vintage Affair

It is a layout challenge

with a theme of

Pearls

Our Monthly sponsor is

with this fabulous prize and the DT were lucky enough to be provided with some gorgeous papers to get creative with

Here is my design team inspirational piece

 

I really enjoyed creating this piece, gorgeous papers and another fabulous photograph of my wonderful sister, that I miss so much and just look at those gorgeous pearls :)

A close up of my sister delivering her Yoga class

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Cooking It Up with Katie - Flowers, for a lady and pink

Crafts and Me - Pink and Sweet

Crafty Creations - 1 technique, 2 embelishments and 3 patterened papers

Truly Scrumptious - Vintage

Anything Goes - Pearls

Everybody Art Challenge - Pearls

Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Open Challenge

Do pop over and see the other design team creations as they are fabulous, and don't forget that that amazing CANDY

I would like to say thank you to my wonderful visitors for their lovely comments and hello to all my new followers

Hugs Kate xx

A New Challenge at Our Vintage Affair

Good evening to you all

I bet you have all had the most amazing weekends, how could you not with all this lovely sunshine :) shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maybe I should keep quiet or it might go away.

Anyway enough of my waffling, this evening is the beginning of the next challenge at

Our Vintage Affair

Today is a Tag Challenge

A TAG FOR YOUR EASTER PRESENT.

but you must use the provided image

Here is my design team inspirational piece

This tag has been created with my deckled edge rectangle nesties.  I have over stamped this with some swirls I recently bought from Grimsby Crafts.  The image was one that Polly found us isn't it sweet.  The ribbon and pearls are from our fabulous sponsor this month Inkido and the flower and feather are from stash.  The whole creation has been distressed with vintage photo and sprayed over with a fine gold glitter mist.

Do pop over and take a look at the rest of the Design Team pieces as they are gorgeous.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

2 Sisters - Easter

Crazy 4 Challenges - Brown Green and Vanilla

Sugar Creek Hallow - Vintage Easter

Delicious Doodles - Ribbons for Easter

Paper Cutz - Bunnies, lambs, chicks or Easter eggs

Phindy's Place - Easter

I would like to say hello to all my new followers and thank you to my lovely visitors who take the time to leave such wonderful comments

Hugs Kate xx