Challenge #10 Use a Ribbon... and More from Mo

Morning TEW fans! It's Maureen here, firstly apologising for not being here for a whole month! I think the children being off school has completely thrown me and my mojo into a muddle!

I have a couple of projects to share with you today - here's hoping my keyboard holds out.... one of said children spilled juice on it today and it playing up! Apologies for spelling errors! hahaha

Challenge #10 started on the first of July and its the freebie challenge - what a stunning image to receive as a freebie! I have used paper from Forever in Time, the Perfect Prints 'Dusk' paper pad. The black card is coredinations and has been embossed. I coloured her with Promarkers and added some iridescent Wink of Stella glitter to the folds of her dress and hair bow. The card is finished with a Craftwork Cards sentiment, black card candi and, of course, some red satin ribbon.

I used an image from The East Wind towards the end of June for a challenge at Crafting by Designs. The theme was 'Here comes the summer' and I felt that one of the Ashley images would be perfect!

I have coloured Ashley with Promarkers and edged the image and papers with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink. The papers are from the Fancy Pants Designs 'Beach Babe' paper pad. I have die cut the mount with an x-cut die. The flourish is Die-Namics and the rolled roses are Marianne Designs. The banner and sentiment were made by hand. I have finished with some pink card candi and lots of 'Star Dust' Stickles on the surf board corner design.

Here are the links you need -

The East Wind Blog

The East Wind Facebook Group

The East Wind Facebook 'like' page

The East Wind Etsy Shop!

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Bettina's Ribbon showcase

Hello everybody it is tuesday and time for me, Bettina, to share my project for our new challenge over at The East Wind today. The theme for this fortnight is ribbons and we've got a new freebie and you've got that one too if you are a follower of our newsletter!!

Here's my make for our current challenge:

My papers for my make this time is from Maja design and I've used a gorgeous polkadot ribbon from my stash and added some lace and flowers from Wild Orchids Crafts. Don't you just love the ribbons in her hair?? 

Did you notice the shape too?? I did use Go Kreate for this make, as I love the look it gives the card and the sentiment is from TLC. They have some lovely freebies on their site too!! My lovely lady is coloured with promarkers as usual. Wanna play along?? There is still 2 days left to join in on our challenge over here!!

Crafting Vicky

Hello everyone!  It's Monday and it's time for me Crafting Vicky to share with you my card for the new challenge over at The east Wind and this time it's about ribbons!  And if you are a follower of the newsletter, you will have gotten this fabulous digi free!!!

Isn't she just gorgeous?!?  She already has a bunch of ribbon in her hair!!!

The paper for this card is from Summer breeze - 1st edition.  I used some ribbon from my stash.  I also used my Angel corner die from Poppy stamps.  I added a bunch of bling as well.

Here's a closer look at the fabulous digi that I colored with my copics.  

Isn't she just fabulous?! You really should check out the new digis!!! And of course register to the newsletter if it's not done already!

Have a great crafting day!!!  

Hugs

Fierce

Hi Everyone, It's Bonnie here today to share a tag I created with the new The East Wind release from Monday called Michelle the Nutshell. This was one of the winning photos from the portrait game that Kyra then drew and released as a digi. We all loved the photo and the image is a delight to colour and create with.

I coloured Michelle with Prismacolor pencils, adding a little detail with silver gel pen and a green half pearl for her earring. Michelle was then matted in black partially to add strength to the image because I knew her head would require several layers of foam tape in order to match the level of the metal.

The background started as a black #8 tag (3 x 6.25 inches). I applied Perfect Medium through a Dylusions harlequin stencil and then dusted the gluey spots with Interference Green Perfect Pearls. It has a gorgeous shimmer in real life and yet remains subtle. The metal sheet which is black on one side and silver on the other is from Add a Little Dazzle. It's fabulous stuff...embosses and cuts like butter, can be torn, rolled, so many possibilities. I embossed it with my favourite Tim Holtz folder, Riveted Metal. I then cut it down the center about half way and rolled the two halves back towards the edge like it was opening up. Before I adhered it to the background, I applied Black and Rust Alcohol inks and blending solution to age and grunge it up.

On the image, Michelle has a buckle at her neck so to repeat that I threaded a dotty ribbon through an Idea-ology buckle and wrapped the ribbon around the tag, using the same ribbon for the topper. As soon as I saw the photo and then Kyra's image, the word Fierce popped into my head as in a fierce competitor, fierce friend, and "don't mess with me" kind of fierce. I love the attitude I am imagining. The gold metal beads spell out Fierce and repeat the metal from the lower part of the tag. The last element is the heart with wings. It started out brushed gold but I added a little Treasure Silver wax to highlight the detail and tie it in with the other metals. I chose the heart because to me it represents both freedom to be an individual and speed from her roller skates.

Thanks for visiting today. We have a couple of challenges going on right now ~ our Facebook challenge theme is Wedded Bliss and our blog challenge theme is Ribbon. We'd love to see your projects entered into either of those or just shared with us on The East Wind FB group.

Bonnie

Use a ribbon

We have a sweet and easy new challenge for you over at THE EAST WIND

Use a ribbon, see, I said easy. Who of us doesn't love to use this wonderful stuff?

I made a reveal card, 2 x A4 and a bit of scoring on my Scorepal, it was easy!

RECIPE 

Fabulous image called belle of the ball from THE EAST WIND, but if you sign up to our newsletter, you can have her for free! Sign up HERE, coloured with Copics

DP I think K & Co, (had it ages and forgotten for sure)

Sentiment, corners and flower DO

Butterfly Craftwork

Ribbon from stash

Stickles on the gown