ABC Challenge P is for Pearls

Good morning all. It’s time for another Challenge over at ABC, and today we are bringing you P is for pearls. Our sponsor this week is Whiff Of Joy and on offer is this gorgeous stamp

This is my interpretation of the challenge

Sadly, I actually didn’t have any pearls, oh dear! Luckily I do have some lovely pearl beads though so I made a couple of pearl pins, which I used to embellish the floral decoration. The image is a Whiff Of Joy stamp called Willow Sitting and I have coloured her with promarkers and shaded with prisma pencils.

The BPs are bazzill for the plain blue and K&Co from an old pad I have had for years. The butterflies are resin embellishments and the floral piece is from the latest Marianne dies. The filigree part I used up a piece of paper from Prima which I managed to ruin after a disastrous attempt to stamp directly onto it went horribly wrong, but there was all this pretty floral image around the outside which I had trimmed off for later. The dies are all filigree designs, but for the flower I ran a piece of the blue bazzill through my BS with just the embossing mat instead of a cutting mat next to the die and it very neatly embossed the flower instead of cutting it out, which meant I could put a solid shape beneath the filigree top and have it look like it all belongs together. I did try just drawing round the die and cutting out a flat shape but it didn’t look anywhere near as good as the embossed piece. Note to Marianne, you are missing a trick there, you could have included an embossing die to go behind the filigree shape!

I am thoroughly enjoying my new positions with both ABC and Dream Valley and, of course, Crafty Cardmakers, but there is a drawback. You can’t win the lovely prizes they have on offer!

So I shall try my luck with these ones instead

Tuesday Throwdown – Use up your scraps (my flower see above)

Incy Wincy Designs– Pastel Colours

Card Cupids – Anything Goes

Bugaboo Stamps – Anything Goes