Colorful Options. Blue Lagoon

Posted on January 2, 2024 by baileyrosy

Welcome to the first challenge of the new year at Colorful Options and our theme for the next month is Blue Lagoon.

This month’s challenge is inspired by the Blue Lagoon resort in Iceland and the Blue Lagoon Island in the Caribbean.

This month we are doing something a little different; we challenge you to use the colors associated with a blue lagoon. Feel free to use one of the colors in the pictures or any combination of colors found in the pictures. Please remember that you may incorporate any neutrals or metallics that you need in your design and that your design does not need to be monochromatic. If you are not inspired by the blue lagoon, join us with a rainbow-inspired craft.

To make my card I used this abstract design from a cover plate from A Pocket Full of Happiness. Distress Oxides were used to colour white card and foam tape to give dimension to some of the card. I have to be honest it really does look so much better in real life.

We hope you will play along with this month’s challenge and look forward to seeing your creations. For more details, pop over to Colorful Options and see the wonderful designs from my fellow teammates.

On another note, I hope that all who celebrate had wonderful holidays and I hope to catch up within the next few days.

Take care

Marie

Colorful Options Silver and Gold

Posted on December 2, 2023 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to a new challenge at Colorful Options where our theme for the next month is to use silver and Gold in your creations.

A super easy card that came together very quickly without any stamping. I used a lovely Pinkfresh Mini frame and silver and gold metallic card . The central piece was embossed with The Tim Holtz for Sizzix Christmas Sparkle folder. I then added some pretty dried flowers in gold and blue and used a wax seal from Spellbinders in a corresponding colour to attach the flowers and there you have it !It took longer to photograph than it did to make due to my reflection in the shiny card. I had to replace the central silver panel with mat card as the shiny one I had originally used kept showing my ugly mug.

In other news It’s been a very sad and difficult time at home lately my lovely Rosy the Frenchie had to be put to sleep. She was a grand old dame of 14 years and decided it was time to join Bailey who had passed away two months earlier.The end of an era….and both were inspirations for my blog name Baileyrosy,they are sadly missed. A few days later I had to have surgery but am glad to say I’m recovering nicely after having a few complications It’s been a rotten year but am hoping from now on in my health will be so much better and can start to enjoy everyday life again.

I thought I would just share a photo of our Christmas window at our new shop, I wasn’t able to physically help but was there for the most important part….the moaning and giving orders part which I’m particularly good at. !

We do hope you will join us at Colorful Options my team mates have some incredible cards to delight and inspire. Keep in mind that our contest is not limited to paper crafts. Paint? Ink? Decor? Drawing? ANY artistic endeavor is welcome!!

I look forward to catching up with you all.

Take care

Marie

Colorful Options “Red”

Posted on November 2, 2023 by baileyrosy

I’m back after a long break due to ill health after I was admitted to hospital for five days with intestinal issues and managed to catch covid just to put icing on the cake. The road to recovery has been slow and I’ll require surgery and more tests shortly but I’m feeling so much better and getting stronger by the day. Unfortunately, this all coincided with the opening of our new shop which had to be delayed by two weeks thankfully we are up and running now.

Enough of my moaning and on to the task at hand. Colorful Options has a fabulous new challenge with one of my favourite colours….red.

I made a frame using some old Spellbinders dies and embossed a piece of card with this fantastic EF from WeRmemory keepers. I brushed carefully over the top with Distress Oxide in Coral Red so as to keep some of the white card visible. I then attached acetate as I was planning to make a shaker but as it happens I didn’t like the result so left it as was. The faceted heart is courtesy of Mr Holtz and Sizzix also colored by Distress Oxide and a tad of clear Distress embossing glaze for a little shine.

We do hope you will join us at Colorful Options the DT has some amazing cards to delight and inspire and you can also find out more about this challenge and the wonderful gifts for our lucky winners.

Here’s a little glimpse of the new shop, not a very good photo but the best one I could get from a distance to show both windows.

I look forward to catching up with you all.

Take care

Marie

Simply Less is More #492 C is for Celebrate

Posted on September 16, 2023 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to a new challenge at `LIM for the next two weeks we are asking you to create something using our prompt C is for Celebrate.

This card was one of the quickest I have ever made, due to the fact that my brain is addled with so much going on in my life. I had mistakenly made a card for our November challenge and when I went to upload it realised my mistake and had to whip up a new one in a matter of moments. I used my brand new Scrolled Punch and Pierce Plate (try saying that after a few libations !) from Spellbinders. I bought this beauty after seeing the fabulous and talented Michele Ferguson from I Card Everyone create an immaculate card.

Here I’ve only used the centre part of the die to keep my card clean and simple, having said that this die is rather challenging but Michele does have some top tips to help and boy did I need them.

Here’s a card I made using the complete plate as you can see there are hundreds of little die cuts, definitely not one for the faint-hearted.

In other news I had a lovely visit from my crazy sister and niece from the UK unfortunately my niece was very ill with a high fever and terrible cough all week so was unable to join in most of the activities but that didn’t stop my sister and I from have lots of fun. Unfortunately whilst they were here my beautiful little Bailey the mini pinscher passed away we are absolutely devastated but having my sister here was a great comfort. Bailey was a very cheeky chappy but his name lives on in my blog title and our memories.

We do hope you will play along with us at LIM my teamies have some amazing cards to delight and inspire.

I’m also linking up to NBUS as this die is fresh out of the packet.

Craft Rocket #107 Clean and Simple

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend

Take care

Marie

Colorful Options

Posted on September 2, 2023 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to another color challenge at Colorful Options but firstly a huge thank you to all who took part in our last challenge so many amazing entries.

For the next month, we are asking you to use orange .

I really struggled again as this is the third time that orange or shades of it has been a requirement for my last three Design Team cards and orange is definitely not a colour I like to use.

I did the best I could using this wonderful Spellbinders Kimono die . I used the Altenew embossing folder Arches for texture, coloured with Spiced Pumpkin Oxide ink, incidentally, it’s the only orange colour I have. I then paper-pieced the embossed and coloured card back into the kimono outline.I added my go-to Tim Holtz sentiment and and a little heart covered in lashing of Glossy Accents and there you have it.

We do hope you will join us at Colorful Options the Design Team once again have some amazing cards to delight and inspire.

I’m afraid I’m so far behind in commenting as getting the new shop ready is taking it’s toll. My lovely sister and niece are visiting from the UK and we intend to spend a few days away at my summer house I was hoping that the shop would have been ready by now but as usual here in Greece things tend to slow down this time of year. Hopefully I will be able to catch up next week so please forgive me.

Wishing you all a happy and healthy September.

Marie

Less is More #Challenge 490 Orange

Posted on August 19, 2023 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to another fun challenge at Less is More and for the next two weeks we are asking you to use the colour orange in your creation but don’t forget to keep it CAS.

I used an Inkylicious sunray stamp and stencil which I embossed in black ink then cut out the centre panel and coloured with Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide and used clear embossing powder to give some shine. I then popped it up with foam tape for dimension. Matted with orange card and used my go-to sentiments from Mr Holtz, there you have it.

A super simple card that came together very quickly which is just as well as getting our new shop ready is certainly taking its toll on me crafting wise and am so behind on commenting so please forgive me.

We do hope you will join us at LIM my team mates once again have some amazing cards to inspire and delight.

Take care

Marie

Sparkles Monthly Challenges #167 Beach and or Tropical.

Posted on August 15, 2023 by baileyrosy

Welcome to another challenge at Sparkles, we had lots of amazing entries for our Christmas in July challenge you certainly make it difficult for Design Team to choose our favourites.

This time round we have a fabulous theme, Beach, and or Tropical chosen by the lovely and talented Dawn S.

I decided to frame it and take it to my summer house, unfortunately, I wasn’t able to crop the photo for some reason so please excuse the photo.

I used a fabulous embossing folder by Altenew but kept it plain as I wanted the colours to really pop on the leaves and the Whittle Lizard. I’m not sure who makes the outer frame as once again I was remiss and chucked out the packaging. When I bought it I thought that all of the frames were attached but it turns out it cuts tiny weeny skinny frames which for me and my sausage fingers are difficult to handle. I tried to keep them all attached on this card with the help of lots of tape and glue although I did lose a few of the little tykes along the way.

The leaves are by Memory Box which has a coordinating embossing folder it’s a bit of a pfaff trying to emboss the leaves without them falling out of the folder once you have die cut them in fact the whole card was a bit of a pfaff, to be honest.

The leaves were colored with Distress oxides and then lashings of Glossy Accents.

The Whittle Lizzard is also by Memory Box I wanted it to look like it was jumping from leaf to leaf. The sentiment once again is curtest of Mr Holtz.

We do hope you will join us at Sparkles Monthly Challenges my teammates have some amazing cards to delight and inspire.

I’m also linking up to Colorful Options who are asking us to use the colours yellow and Green

Take care

Marie

Less is More #489 One Layer

Posted on August 5, 2023 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to another Less is More one-layer challenge but this time we have a photo to hopefully inspire and get those creative juices going.

My card came together so quickly for this challenge as I had recently received my Spellbinders Letterpress and `I knew exactly what I wanted to do and that was a first for me.

For those of you who haven’t heard of the Betterpress, I urge you to check it out it’s such a simple way to add fantastic texture to your cards it’s such a pity you can’t see it in the photo, plus the Betterpress plates can also be used for hot foiling which is a win-win as far as I’m concerned.

We hope you can play along with us at LIM my teamies have some fantastic cards to inspire and delight.

I’m away for a few days at my summer home enjoying the calm before the storm as we are currently opening a new jewellery store in Thessaloniki and from next week it will be all hands on deck.

Wishing you a fabulous weekend

Marie

Colorful Options August Challenge

Posted on August 2, 2023 by baileyrosy

Welcome back to a new challenge at Colorful Options, we were blown away by the number of amazing entries for our July Red, White, Blue theme you certainly know how to make the Design Teams job difficult!

For this month’s challenge, we have another great color theme, and we do hope you will play along.

I made a couple of cards as I just loved the colours.

For my first card, I used once again my favourite oval frame and I still don’t know who makes it as the packaging was discarded. The cover plate die is by Tim Holtz called bubbles I cut it twice coloured with Distress Oxides in Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron and lavishly added glossy accents. foam tape was added to give dimension and then I changed the orientation in order to give a different pattern. A little gem and an idea-ology sentiment was added and there you have it.

For my second card, I used three memory box dies to create this woodland scene using the same distress Oxides as for the above card. The little moo cow is also from Memory box. I added a few splashes of water for good measure and lots of foam tape for dimension.

We do hope you will join us at Colorful Options and check out the fantastic cards from my teammates who will hopefully inspire you to play along.

I’m also playing along with Tuesday Morning Sketches #718

NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff)#53 as my Memory Box die is on its first outing.

Take care

Marie

Christmas in July #166 Sparkles Monthly Challenges

Posted on July 15, 2023 by baileyrosy

Hello all and welcome to a new challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges and what a challenge it is too! As I’m writing this post the temperature here in Greece is 43 C !!! and our challenge for this month is Christmas in July and boy oh boy do I wish it was cold outside.

I made this super simple card using my Cameo to cut out the reindeer which I inked up around the edges with a little Distress Ink and added a red pearl for it’s little nose. The circles were cut using Spellbinders dies and embossed using a lovely winter embossing folder also by Spellbinders. Sentiments courtesy of `Mr Holtz and there you have it.

We do hope you will play along with us at Sparkles Monthly Challenges my teammates have some incredible Christmas cards to inspire and maybe even kick-start your Christmas creativity.

This weekend I will be avoiding the coast as I’m sure all of Thessaloniki will be at the beaches due to this very hot spell. I will be staying behind to enjoy the empty city with like-minded friends drinking plenty of cold beverages wink wink. Whatever you are up to make it fabulous!

I’m linking up to Daring Cardmakers who are also celebrating Christmas in July and Craft Rocket Challenges.

Take care

Marie