Paris......

Hey Everyone,

The new challenge is up at "Sketchy Boards".......I really liked this months Sketch and Inspiration photo! I had the perfect picture of my daughter and her partner in Paris.

The Eiffel Tower was cut using Summer in Paris cricut cartridge. It is embossed with Antiquities weathered white.....the rough texture does not show up that well in the photo, it has added  more dimension and interest to the paper cut. I found the wooden letters for the title at 'Typo'.....they were covered in pretty papers.......just perfect for my page!

Here is my inspiration......

Great Sketch and Photo

Come join in the challenge!

Not a lot of paper craft happening here at the moment.....I'm busy painting furniture again, Shabby-ing things up!  Here's a peek at one thing I finished yesterday.

I should have taken a before photo..........the wood was close to black and the metal was rusty!  At the start I was not sure whether to leave the metal and just paint the top........but after spending sometime on pinterest I knew it had to be all white! 

Love my cute little Aqua colour knome sitting next to the planter of herbs. Its a bit different but it all seems to work :) I need to put a photo in the frame.

Late last night  I was picking up my son from work, as we were driving under a bridge there was a loud bang.........someone threw a rock at the car.The wind shield and the bonnet  are damaged!  It was a huge rock.....slighty smaller than a brick. So lucky we did not get hurt! 

I'm off to phone the insurance company.

Its the second day of Spring..........love the warmer weather!

Hope your week is going well

Tracey x

Shabby Patterns.........

Hello everyone,

What a busy week I've had........No time to craft! 

So today was perfect, I just played around with all kinds of things in my craft space.

 I made a card for The Shabby Tea Room. 

The challenge this week is "Shabby Patterns" - be inspired by the colours in the photo, add flowers and damask.

This is what I came up with.........

I was inspired by the Shabby looking chairs.........I cut my chair using 'Summer in Paris" cartridge, then I had fun with Tim Holtz distress crackle paint. The glass centre of the flower represents the vases, the  lime green twine is for the fruit and can you see the tiny tea pot......I thought this would look cute sitting on the table!

Enjoy your weekend............Thank you so much for visiting and leaving such kind comments.

Be back soon I hope

Tracey

Dreams..........

Does it look like I am in Paris?..........I wish!! I'm actually sitting in the "Parisian Court Yard" at Universal Studios.

These are a few photo's taken on my trip to  America last year.

And how well do they go with this new Kaiser Collection "Gelato"! Its so pretty, lots of soft pastels........

My layout is based on the June #1 Kaiser sketch.

I tried to duplicate the colours of the flowers that were surrounding me in the courtyard.

These large roses I made. Every thing is Kaiser except the word Paris......I cut that from "Summer in Paris" cartridge.

Thankyou so much 4 visiting

Have a great week

Tracey