Spring Beauties ~ Scrap-Friendzy Music Challenge, WWU #2, Whimsical Wednesdays Challenge #1

My challenge for the girlz at Scrap-Friendzy is to incorporate music into a layout.

Here is my example for the challenge:

I hope you'll come join the fun at Scrap-Friendzy with the warm and inviting community of paper crafters you'll find here.  While most of the projects are layouts, cards and any kind of paper crafts are welcome.

I've also included in my design, ScrapFIT Weekend Warm-Up #2: It's time for WWU #2!  I know that everyone is super busy, and if you're like me, you need to make a list of everything you need to accomplish each day. That is what this WWU is all about... LISTS!  Create a layout or project that includes a LIST of some sort.  Also, use the color BLUE somewhere.  This challenge is posted on their FaceBook page.

My list includes the things that show me spring is here and blue is reflected in the bling on the flower border, bullets for the list, musical flower centers, and French knots on the ribbon flowers.

Whimsical Wednesdays is a brand new challenge site that just started up this week.  Here is their first challenge: Create a Spring or Easter LO and incorporate a bug or critter onto the page.  The challenge will be up for two weeks, so you have plenty of time to join the fun!

I included this butterfly:

I also had fun with the Let's Scrap DT Challenge #91:  This week I challenge you to use fabric and stitching on a layout or card.  (Due to life happens and the sun doesn't shine to get a decent photo, I missed the deadline on this one, but really enjoyed incorporating the elements for this challenge.) 


My fabric is the flower lace, and my stitching is the hand stitched French knots in the center of each of the lace flowers.  It was fun to pull out a skill I learned decades ago and haven't used in a loooong tie.  The French knots ended up being a perfect accent on this LO!

I used this gorgeous Let's Scrap sketch from 10-24-10 ~ left side:

Now here are some more close-up shots:

I lightly inked this flower lace with Distress Ink.  Way back in my high school years, I learned to embroider.  While I have hand stitched on some of my layouts, this is the first time I have used an embroidery technique with these blue French knots:

I stamped the music image over a coordinating grid patterned paper, then punched, inked, and shaped these little flowers.  I alcohol inked some glass pebbles for the centers:

Materials used to create this layout:

K&Company paper ~ Flora and Fauna Celeste

Stampendous Wood Stamp ~ Music Score

Martha Stewart Punch ~ Rose Leaf

EK Success Punch ~ Retro Flower

Ranger Distress Inks ~ Dusty Concord, Black Soot, and Peeled Paint

Ranger Alcohol Ink ~ Stonewashed, Purple Twilight

Ranger Stickles ~ Lavender

Pebbles from floral department

Darice Hot Fix Rhinestones ~ clear (alcohol inked)

Whispers Embossing Powder ~ silver

Metal Music Notes ~ from my stash

DMC Embroidery Floss

Flower Lace ~ from my stash

BossKut Gazelle ~ cut letters for title and list

Tim Holtz distress tool

Ink Jet Transparency paper ~ from my stash

Blog Candy Winner

You can just imagine how excited I was to see that I had won this generous and wonderful candy from Kim while hopping my way through the Whimsical Wednesday blog hop last weekend.  Be sure to stop by her site and see the fabulous work she creates!

Other challenges:

Craft Us Crazy - Challenge #5 ~ Spring/Easter theme

Crafty Sentiments - Glitter it up challenge ~ Glitter glue used on butterfly image

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - DDCC #107 ~ Spring Has Sprung

Little Miss Muffet Challenge #6 ~ Stitching

Shelly's Images - 4-7-11 Scrappy's Birthday Bash Challenge ~ Use flowers, bling, and stitching

ABC Challenge ~ R is for Ribbon

Belli Challenge - Think seamstress ~ Using old and forgotten embellishments - Embroidery thread used for making French knots has been in my possession since the early 80's.

Freshly Brewed April Challenge ~ Flowers

Your Next Stamp Challenge #39 ~ Stitching

Clear it Out Tuesday ~ Going Floral

Going Grey with Scrap-Creations Recipe Challenge ~ Pick 3: **Ribbon, **Flowers, Pearls, **Glitter, Buttons, Charm.  My three are **'d.

Digi Design House DDH3 Challenge ~ Stitches ~ French knots are hand stitched

Heart 2 Heart ~ Spring has Sprung

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~ Blessings ~