Saturday, 3 January 2009

A couple of other door plaques

I have been making door plaques for the rooms in our house, and made one to coincide with the launch of the new Sugar Nellie Challenge blog and its sister blog, Sugar Sugar. I thought I would show you a couple of the others I have made ...

I made this for the dining room. I used K and Co papers and Papermania earth tone inks to distress the papers.

I love this Sugar Nellie image and it reminded me of both my own two littlies and the little girl I mind - they are forever having tea parties and birthday parties for the cuddlies.
This is the one for the girls' room. I have had to add the ribbon and paper beads as Ellie was very taken with the ones I made for the Craft room plaque. There were 3 beads until a certain 4 legged member of the house got at the plaque!!
I used these gorgeous Magnolia stamps as they seem to reflect the girls' personalities so well. Ellie is growing out of pink and was happy to be coloured in blue, whereas Beth ("I like pink") had to have pink! I have tried to make it look as if they are sitting on the stairs.

The papers are all Making Memories and distressed the edges in making Memories rose ink. I did some faux stitching and used my Olivia CB alphabet for the lettering. The beads were made using off cuts, and the ribbon is from my stash.
I now have the slight problem that the plaque won't go in the frame unless the the beads get squidged!

5 comments:

Ali Watson said...

Fabulous creations Cathy, gorgous DP. Love them!

Helen said...

These are both fab Cathy!
Helen x

Macpurp said...

these are beautiful! and such a lovely idea for door plaques!
xox

cats whiskers said...

Wow Cathy these are fab what a great idea, I do love all your Daisy cards you have such a grear way of colouring her.
Hugs Jacqui x

Victoria said...

they are lovely, I adore the way you have used the paper to resemble stairs it looks brill x