Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #73 - Sketch and/or Shape It Up

It's another Once Upon a Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and this week we have the theme of "Shape It Up" where we want to see your shaped cards. We also have a wonderful sketch if you want to use it.

Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes or Your Favorite...
Crafts and Me - Stamp Something
Scrapbook Sisters - An English Country Garden
Diva's by Design - Florals (2 entries only)
Speedy the Cats Friends - 3D Flower
Happileigh Scrappin - Flowers and Stitching
Basic Grey - Shabby Chic
Card Cupids - 3 or More Layers
One Stop Craft - Texture
Delicious Doodles - Texture
My Mum's Craft Shop - Punch It
Your Next Stamp - Shaped Cards
Card Creations by C - Shaped Cards
Little Claire's - Shaped Cards


Card Recipe:
Image - Hannah at a Fence
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Basic Grey Curio
Doily Die - French Pastry by Cheery Lynn Designs
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Garden Trellis
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts, Prima and Love Letter Roses
Pearls - The Paper Studio
Sentiment - Heidi Grace
Lace - Wrights




I did this card pretty much freehand, just hoping it worked out as I went along! I started with a 6" square base from which I used a lid from one of my ribbon jars to cut a semi circle into the top leaving and uncut piece for the fold to hold the card together. Then I picked out a border punch, trimmed the base to the right depth and punched. Then I cut out a whole circle, edged it with lace, add the the patterned paper and then completed like a regular card. What I like is that I can make an envelope for a 6" square on my Scor-Pal and mail it easily!
I really enjoyed making something a little different and I hope you will spend time and show us your shaped cards over at The Pixie Cottage this week

22 comments:

jennie'g' said...

what a stunning card and love the shape jenniexx

Random Acts of Krafting said...

Truly amazing. Just love your work Katie.
Hugs
Tanya R

Janeen said...

FABULOUS creation. Thanks for sharing it with us. Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends over at Mark's Finest Papers. Good Luck

Anne-Marie said...

Your work really inspires me to do better! I absolutely love everything about this card....stunning!

KanataNewf said...

Oh my this is stunning. Love all those gorgeous flowers and your colouring is amazing.

Karen Howard said...

Wow, Katie... this is really stunning! I love everything, the flowers, your design, the image! Hugs, Karen

redwasher1 said...

WOW!! That is beautiful!!!
Thanks for sharing it with us at Speedy's Friends.

Tammy L said...

wow! another stunner! I never get tired of your creations. You have such talent. Thanks again for joining our Anything Goes challenge at Craft Your Passion this week.
Tammy GDT

Unknown said...

Hi Katie, WOW this is just fantastic. Just beautiful, love the colours and the image is so pretty and coloured perfectly. Thanks for joining in with us this time at Divas by Design. Sarah

Unknown said...

Gorgeous work. Thanks playing along with DD this week
hugs
Ildiko

Liz's creative corner said...

Thanks for joining us at Basic Grey with this lovely card,fab shape and details, hugs Liz xx

Laura (sandytoz) said...

Thanks for playing along with Paper Crafting Journey! Beautiful card!!

Laura (sandytoz)
PCJ DT

Vicky said...

Stunning Katie...!

thanks for joining us at Divas...and good luck...!

hugs Vicky xx

Happileigh Scrappin' said...

I love your card, love the lacy look. Thanks for joining us at Happileigh Scrappin' this week.

Carol Hurlock said...

How uniquely beautiful. I love the shape of your card and that rainbow lace. Your image is colored to perfection and everything is just impeccably placed and embellished. Thanks so much for playing along in Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge. Good luck in the drawing for the stamp set. Hope to see you again in our next challenge.

Bear Hugs,
Carol :O}
Mark's Finest Papers DT

Teresa said...

How clever are you, this is a great shape card and a beautiful image and embellies,
Thank you for joining us at crafts and me this week.
Teresa x

Bella´s Bastelecke said...

Beautiful cards...such cute images...thanks for joining us at Bearly Mine ……..
Hugs
Judith

cebelica said...

Brilliant! I love the layout! Thank you for joining us at MMCS challenges this week! Hugs! :)

Star said...

This is just amazing! Your coloring is fabulous, and that frame! Those roses! Just beautiful.

Thanks for playing with us at Happileigh Scrappin', and we hope to see you again next week!

Hugs,
Star

Unknown said...

wow hunni this is stunning xx Thanks for sharing it with us at my mums craft shop xx

Crystal said...

Oh WOW this is soooo stunning, what a gorgeous design!!! thanks so much for joining us at Your Next Stamp this week!

Maureen said...

LOVE the shape - I'll need to try this out sometime! And the lace edging is just gorgeous! Thanks for playing along with us at Your Next Stamp!