Winning papers

I was lucky enough to win some gorgeous papers from a new, to me, company called Craft Consortium. They arrived yesterday and I was so blown away by them that rather than the Christmas cards I had planned to make I made 2 birthday cards with them and wanted to share these gorgeous papers with you.

The pad is called Gypsy, Gypsy and consists of big 12" by 12" papers. They are such a gorgeous texture that I had to have a stroke before I cut into them. Does any one else hate cutting into lovely papers...funny isn't it.

I made 2 cards, I will share the second one another time. For the first one I was inspired by this gorgeous sheet which reminded me of Victorian scraps.

I cut out the lovely image and some of the flowers surrounding it.

I also used this lovely roses sheet from the pad for my backing paper and cut a piece to fit my card. I decided to make a very vintage looking card and even used a Kraft card blank to add to the feel. I distressed the edges too

I mounted it on a Spellbinders frame and even the paper in the frame is the reverse of one of the sheets in the pad. I added some Lili of the Valley stamped tags and sentiment and a snippet of ribbon.The rose frame around the sentiment is Wild Rose studios. There are also couple of gems to give some sparkle.

So this is what I made......lucky me winning such lovely papers.

Here are some close ups

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground 194 I have used snippets of card to make my vintage stamped tags and a snippet of ribbon too.
Creative Inspirations Your favourite occasion mine is birthday

Whimsy anything goes or Halloween

Crafting from the heart anything goes
Artistic Inspirations anything goes/twist of magic
Simon Says stamp Wednesday die crazy
That's Crafty lovely leaves
Deep Ocean Shabby chic
Crafty Friends B is for for me it is for Birthday
ABC R is for recipe mine is the first vertical line; pink, ribbon ,rhinestones

We have Daisy staying. Bless her, I have had such fun this afternoon after work. She had her bath at 6.30pm and then into her travel cot at 7pm and is fast asleep, such an angel. I won't linger for long here as my Hb and I plan an early night ready for our little sweetheart to be awake and bouncing at 7am!

Thanks for visiting me and enjoy your weekend, we certainly will...the conker hunt awaits tomorrow.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x