Hello friends! Happy Sunday!
Today I have something a little different for you... a paper fan that yes, actually closes up! I wanted to play along this week with the Shining the Light Challenge over on the ODBD Blog to help celebrate Our Daily Bread designs's 4th Anniversary, coming up next Sat! The challenge is to use aqua or topaz (the birth stone for March) and an ODBD Scripture, quote or sentiment. I also played along with the Inspiration Challenge yesterday at SCS, which was all about fans! So I made my own paper fan.
I hand cut my pattern from Papertrey cs and stamped the flourish and tag from Our Daily Bread designs Flourished Verses and also the small flower from ODBD's Sing to the Lord, using Baja Breeze ink (SU!). I then embossed each panel with a Cuttlebug folder and punched a hole in the bottom of each fan panel. I ran gold cord through the hole and then attached thin ribbon on the back at the edge of each panel so it would fold flat. I tied on a May Arts silk bow and added a tag from the same Flourished Verses set. I stamped a few extra flowers and cut them out, adding them for dimention but in ways that they don't interfere with the folding of the fan, and tied in a string of pearls as well. This could be a stand along card, gift or even would look nice in a shadowbox with a few more treasures added! Hope you enjoyed my project!
I am entering this in the following challenges:
Catered Crop - Ribbon,Let`s Ink It Up - Show Us Your Flowers, Allsorts - Say it with Flowers, Just Some Lines Spring Cleaning time, use at least 2 items that are at least 6 months old (Silk ribbon, gold cord, pearl string), Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Fancy Fold, Crafty Ann's - 2W, SIO – Week 2, Anything But A Card, Hotshot Crafts – Ribbon,
this is so creative and beautiful, dear grace!
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silvi xoxo
Gorgeous embossed in aqua!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool design! This fan looks beautiful Grace! I love the tag embellishment too.
ReplyDeleteGrace, your fan is so beautiful! Love the tag detail!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, Grace! This is stunning! Such a creative idea!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful project and so pretty - love the blue. Thanks for playing along at LIIU this month and good luck!
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! Grace this is so beautiful!!! Love it!
ReplyDeleteOMG Grace stunning work. Thanks for sharing with us at LIIU this month, good luck with the challenge. Hugz Suzanne
ReplyDeleteWow very creative idea. Love the fan and sentiment. Thank you for joining us at LIIU. Hugs, Velma DTM
ReplyDeleteOh how creative and fun Grace!! I just love it!! Your use of the sing to the Lord flowers, the ovals, and the added tag is genius!! Gorgeous!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining and supporting the aqua challenge my friend!!
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Chris
wow this is beautiful...thanks for sharing at just some lines
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Beautiful!Love it...very pretty
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and quite clever! I would be thrilled to have such a fan. Hmmm..... Maybe I could case yours and make my own (:-)
ReplyDeleteThis is so wonderful Grace.
ReplyDeleteHugs Riet.xx
How very pretty and cool! Love it, Grace!
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Clare
Grace this is so beautiful - the blue really appeals to me, being my favourite colour, and the fan is sublime with all the details.
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Maxine
A wonderful project. Thank you for joining us at HSC for our Ribbon Challenge
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What a gorgeous fan Grace!!
ReplyDeleteWow what a lovely design Grace. So delicate looking. Thankyou for entering this into the Allsorts Challenge this week. Good Luck Jo x
ReplyDeleteOh wow what an amazing card. One I could use at times. LOL This is one I need to try! Thanks for sharing with us at SSDS.
ReplyDeleteHow creative, and it actually closes as well, very clever and pretty to boot !!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing with us at Just Some Lines Spring Cleaning!
ReplyDeleteLove, Laura
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So pretty!! Love how feminine it is!
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