Bows Galore!!!

Today's Challenge Me Tuesday at Practical Scrappers features bows. I made a card with a bow, and inspired about and interview I've read at this month's Cards mag, I added a flower to the bow, a brad to the centre of the flower, and some bling to the brad. Embellish, embellish, embellish!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a simple card but I enjoyed making it, especially as it is not birthday themed and took me out from the birthday preparations for a little while. 

List of supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill

Alpha stickers: Sassafrass

Wood Veneer Die-cuts: Studio Calico

Ribbon: Assorted

Flower: Prima

Brad: Basic Grey

Die-Cut: We are Memory Keepers

Bling: Assorted

I also made another bow for a LO, this time a paper bow. This LO is based on Let's Scrap sketch 6-29-11, a block sketch. Block LOs are something I really can't do, I struggle and struggle, and never get a result I like. Then I see other people's work and say "Why didn't I do that?". That happened to me this week. I made a double pager I hate (it has gone into the album, anyway, but I didn't want to take a picture of it). Then I decided to take only some elements from the sketch, and work from that. So I took the three pics (that I turned into three columns of pics), the line with an embellishment below the pics and the title and an embellishment on top of the pics. And this is the result. 

It is a LO about the things DD liked and disliked at 4.8 years of age. I made the paper bow from this fabulous tutorial here. 

List of supplies:
Patterned paper: Crate Paper, Pebbles
Dimensional Stickers: Pebbles
Letter stickers: American Crafts
Brads: eyelet outlet, Pebbles
Rhinestones: Darice
Glue: Glue Glider Pro
Markers: Staetdler

Check Practical Scrappers for more projects with bows and Let's Scrap for a new sketch and a fantastic prize!!!! 

Nurses' Day Card

DD has the most amazing school nurse. She can patch anything up and make anybody feel good in a few minutes. And if she can't, she'll get mom or dad to school immediately. Who wouldn't love her? I know DD loves visiting her so she volunteers to take anybody in her class who needs a band aid or has any other problem to her office. She also gets her t-shirts wet because she knows the teacher will send her to see "nursey" and get a dry one. I've just found out the International Nurses Week is this week, so I have made a card for her. DD will choose a present, sign the card, probably add a picture, and take it to school to give it to "nursey". Here is my card:

TO ALL NURSES, HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Supplies:

Patterned paper: from my box of scraps!

Cardstock: Bazzill

Paper flowers: Sassafras

Brads: Bo Bunny

Sentiment sticker: My Mind's Eye

Chipboard swirl: from the RAK I got from my friend Kathy!!!!

And more butterflies!

Practical Scrappers continues with the butterfly theme; today it's the time for layouts. With so many butterfly embellies around, I'm sure there will be lots of submissions from both DT and readers! My LO is based on a old pencillines sketch, though I don't remember its number:

I don't usually like using butterflies and flowers on layouts about DH, but this one was actually about this fabulous house we rented during our holidays, in Saltaro, Sweden, so I never paid attention to the fact that only DH was in the pic! 

Have a good time card

I've had such a busy week with my in-laws plus SIL visiting us that I forgot to post the card I made for this week's sketch at Let's Scrap. Debby's creating fantastic card sketches, which makes it easy to put a lovely card together in a short time. Here's my take on this week's sketch:

Love this design from Cosmo Cricket's Social Club line, it can make any project look great!

You still have plenty of time to post your take on Debby's card sketch and win a fabulous pack of trims and handmade vintage flowers from this week's sponsor, Frogfeathers. 

Rain, rain, rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week's LO feature at Practical Scrappers is Rain, Umbrellas and Puddles. I don't have too many pics of the kind, having spent the past 6 years by the Sahara desert, and the few I have are already scrapped. I started looking at my picture gallery, home pics, holiday pics, school pics, to see if I could find one for this theme, and finally found it! You won't probably notice it, but this was a sunny day! DD had new umbrella and raincoat, and decided she couldn't wait any longer, so she went out fully equipped for the imaginary rain!

I loved this rain technique I saw in this month's CK, so I decided to lift it, but giving it a girly touch. The flower brads were just perfect for this!

Candy alert!

I really enjoyed the NSD blog hop and challenges last month, and all the lovely comments everybody left, so I decided to have a new giveaway in June. I will post it on Thursday 10th, but I can give you some clues, to keep you thinking... the giveaway question has to do with brads... the prize, too... come back for more clues tomorrow!