Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Creative Belli 122- Christmas in July


The Creative Belli challenge is a Christmas inspiration challenge for the next two weeks. Our inspiration piece is this beautiful Christmas china that belongs to our design team member, Karen Wallace. Thank you Karen for providing us with such lovely inspiration to create our cards and projects.
The spirit of the Belli challenges is to encourage you to use your OLD and FORGOTTEN embellishments!

I used the colors of the china as my inspiration and played around with more SVG files:
  Everything about this card- except the sentiment circles (digi image from McMahon Five Designs)- are SVG files that I cut out using my electronic cutting machine and the Make the Cut.  I imported an octogen shape and joined it to make it into a card (that folds). Then, I imported a scalloped octogen for my flower background. The flower SVG is from McMahon Five Designs and is available NOW as a FREE digital image AND as a FREE SVG file.  This flower works beautifully as a tropical flower OR as a Poinsettia, don't you think?
The Papers I used are: Incandescent  in Rosso and Candido and Mica in the gold. The Green paper is from my stash : )

Here is a close-up of the card so you can see the shimmer better.:


Be sure to stop by the other Belli Girls blogs to see what they made for you today....you will find lots of awesome inspiration!!! If you upload a card to Splitcoast, PCP, Stamp TV or another online gallery be sure to add CBC122 in the keywords section.

Anne Harmon Jessica Stockmeyer,  Joan Ervin, Maria Matter Mary Marsh
Karen Wallace Joy Hadden Robin Parker Ceal Prichard

Challenges for my card:
Digistamps4joy-Christmas
Die Cuttin Divas- Octagon die cut card shape
TipTop Tuesdays- Shaped Cards
Crazy Challenge-Christmas in July
Karen's Doodles- Shaped cards
Paper Creations- Christmas in July
Crafty Pad- Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are staying nice and cool!
Shelly

32 comments:

Tanya said...

so pretty! I love that shimmery paper, now I need to find some, lol!

Sharon said...

this is beautiful Shelly!!

Creative Diva said...

Beautiful flowers. Just admiring the paper you used. Thanks for joining us at DCD.

Hugs,
Patty
creativediva98.blogspot.com

Joan Ervin said...

What a wonderful shape you used, Shelly, and I absolutely loooove your poinsettias...they are sooo gorgeous!!!

paige said...

Beautiful design and love the shimmer!

Chrissy D said...

Shelly, did you go to CHA today? Your card is beautiful! I love the dimension of the flowers. Great job on the challenge!

Unknown said...

Great job! Love those flowers.

Dawn said...

Lovely flowers! Love the shimmery paper you've used too! Thanks for joining us at The Crafty Pad this week!
Good Luck
Hugs
Dawn xx

Dr Sonia S V said...

Shelly the shimmery flowers are so beautiful !

2amscrapper said...

love the shimmer--beautiful flowers

Cindy said...

Very creative and I love the paper also.

Elaine Stark said...

A lovely Christmas card and a great shape too. Thanks for joining Top Tip Tuesday. Elaine

Terry said...

The dinner set is some great inspiration! Love the shimmer in this lovely and festive card!

Pat said...

Oooo sparkles, love the paper and your card is very creative. It looks as if you put a lot of time into it. Thank you for joining PCI's challenge - Pat

Stempelkobold said...

Cute Idea! Lovely colors. Thank you for playing along with us this week at the crazy challenge! Good Luck, Dominique

Robin Parker said...

Shelly, love the shimmery paper of your poinsettias. The sentiment and gold bow are the perfect accent.

Misty Olsen said...

What an amazing card Shelly!!! I love the SVG files :o) TFS!!! your wonderful project with DCD...

Mistyrose
Die Cuttin Diva

Cheryl said...

Gorgeous card! I love the pretty, shimmery flowers.

Gerri Herbst said...

so wonderful...The flowers are outstanding. love them.

Cre8tiveVet said...

wonderful job on this card! Thanks for joining us at DCD. -Yvette
cre8tivegirls.blogspot.com

Anne said...

a beautiful card, thanks for playing along with Karen's Doodles and good luck
Anne x

Juliet A said...

That is a really fun shape, and the shimmery paper is perfect for poinsettias!

Ellis said...

Lovely card! =) Thanks for joining us at Digistamsp4joy!
Hugs, Elenor

Miranda said...

very pretty Shelly
gorgeous
thanks for joining the paper creations ink challenge this week
hugs
Miranda

~♥~The Navy Wife~♥~ said...

This is lovely,so pretty and perfect for our Christmas Challenge this week at The Crafty Pad. Thank you for sharing and playing along with us and we hope to see you again next Sunday! Good luck in the draw!

Anonymous said...

Wonderful card, just love it
Thanks for Joining us at Paper Creations Ink
Michael

Caroljenks said...

What a gorgeous card - the shimmer is fab, as is the shape.

I LOVE the china by the way ;)

Thanks for joining us this week over at Top Tip Tuesday for our 'Shaped Cards' Challenge.

Carol x

Gerrie Johnnic said...

Great card....your inkspiration is great!

joy said...

Pretty, pretty poinsettias! The shimmery paper and dimensional petals are wonderful!

Lynn Stevens said...

Such pretty flowers Shelly, and she has great taste, I have the same set of Christmas china, Winter Greetings and I LOVE it!!!
Hugs lynn

Bettina L. said...

What a beautiful card. Love the colours. Thank you for playing at last weeks Top Tip Tuesday challenge. Hope to see you again. Bettina

Star said...

Gorgeous! LOVE those flowers.

Thanks for playing with us this week at Digistamps 4 Joy!

xx Star