ABC Challenge – C is for Cupid

Well that's the first month of 2015 done and dusted and do you know what that means? Time for another fabulous ABC Challenge, and this time our challenge is C is for Cupid and we want to see all your lovely creations for Love/Romance/Valentines/Wedding/Engagement. We have two sponsors this challenge: Marianne Design & Stamp and Create.

For this challenge, I decided to do something a little different. I have some beautiful Marianne Design dies and wanted to use some of them in my creation. I have always loved horse and carriages, and they shout "Romance" at me, and I think they are perfect for this challenge. Rather than stick them on a card, I made a 3D carriage drawn by 2 matching horses. I think they are a fabulous background for this Don and Daisy image, too. Anyway, here is my creation for this challenge:

  

I stamped Don & Daisy Just Married onto Kryogen card stock and coloured them in with my copics. The colours I used are: C00, C0, C1, C2, C3, C5, C7, BG0000, BG10, R24, R21, R20, E57, E55, E53, E51, E50, E0000, E000, E00, E11. Here is a closer look:

 
To make the carriage, I cut 8 carriages and glued 4 of them together for strength. This gave me the two sides of my carriage, I then cut a strip of card, made an ovalish shaped tube and glued one of the carriages to each end, to make it into a 3D carriage. To do the horses, I also glued 4 of each horse together. To get them to stand I used a toothpick behind the ribbon and a small punched heart under their hooves for a little more balance. I then decorated the horses and carriage with ribbon, brads, bling and flowers. I drew the bridles on the horses as it was a bit fiddly to make them with ribbon. Here is a closer look:

To make the tree in the background, I cut 4 trees using the die, folded them in half and glued them together so they stood up.
I hope you enjoyed my project. I'd love to see what creations you can make and enter in our  ABC Challenge,

Supplies:

Marianne Design Don a & Daisy Just Married Stamp– DDS3303
Marianne Design Craftables Dies: Horse – CR1297, Large Christmas Tree – CR1224
Marianne Design Creatables Die: Princess Carriage – LR0302
Glue dots, toothpicks, white ribbon, red heart brads, rhinestones, pearls, SU white Chalk Marker, Wild Orchid Craft flowers

Challenges:

I am entering this project in the following challenges: 

• We Do Doobadoo Challenge 2 Romance
• Sweet Stampin Challenge - Love
• C.R.A.F.T Challenge - #296 Valentine's Day
• Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Love/Valentine's Day