Friday 12 March 2010

Mother's Day Card and Shimelle

I recently came across an issue of Papercraft Inspirations and they had an article on making cards with flowers. One was a hyacinth made from brads and this tied in very nicely with the first prompt from Shimelle's class, to use up some metal embellishments.
I am not really a 'pink' person, though I often seem to end up making pink cards, but I have had these flower brads unused for ages in my stash supplies, along with several others! So I took inspiration from the mag' and made this card
It also uses up lots of scraps of card from my scraps box so I feel even better about using things up from the stash pile!
I would also like to enter it if possible into the challenge at Creative Craft World for the Mother's Day Challenge. My friend has just become part of the DT over there, so big Congrats to Oonie. Pop over to the blog to see the stamps you could winfor this competition and what they are all up to.

I have spent ages browsing the forum for the 'something out of almost nothing class' with Shimelle. There are so many talented scrapbookers out there and the hints/tips and designs from my fellow classmates are just as inspirational as the PDF's that the 'teacher' sends in prompts. Although the focus is on scrapbooking and layouts it is relevant for making cards too as I have shown today. It is hard for me to do any layouts at the moment as we are still out of ink! There are scrapbookers from around the world and it is just brilliant to share with so many talented people, I feel very lucky!

16 comments:

  1. This is beautiful! It's lovely to share inspiration with classmates - this has inspired me to make brad cards myself :-)

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  2. What a great way of using brads....had never thought of using them this way.

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  3. It had never occurred to me to use brads like this what a fantastic effective card :c)
    xx

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  4. What a great way to use up all that surplus stash us crafters are guilty of hoarding! I speak from personal experience (hope my husband never reads this confession).

    Your card looks stunning and so creative!

    Thanks for joining in our first challenge over at Creative Craftworld - hope to see you there regularly!

    Sarah x (DT)

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  5. That is such a brilliant and effective way to use brads, it's a beautiful card x

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  6. *waves*

    So pleased you have joined in on the first challenge Fluffy.

    Love the idea of using brads your card looks fabby.
    xx

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  7. Great way of using up stuff, you did a great job (I like your version better than the original in the mag!!!). Have a super weekend,
    big hugs
    En xx

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  8. very pretty, love the metal embellies for the flowers :) xx

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  9. Wonderful card, great use of those brads. Thank you for your lovely comment on my layout. Anesha :)

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  10. Love this card! I have a bunch of similar brads, so it's a great inspiration. Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting - it's nice to meet some new bloggers in Shimelle's class. I'm off to have a look around your blog!
    Rinda

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  11. what I lovely card I think the way you have used the brads is a brilliant idea. Thanks for taking part in our first challenge.

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  12. Love the brads!! Totally inspiring because I never thought of using them that way! :)

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  13. Gorgeous, love the use of the brads :) x

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  14. love the card. where did u do ur midwifery training? i trained in reading and then worked on nicu for 12 years all over the uk?
    Jo xxx

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  15. That's lovely!

    Sue (Creative Craft World DT)

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  16. What a great idea! I remember having those brads somewhere.....

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