Guest Designer - Apollonia de Jong-de Bruyn

Today we welcome our Guest Designer for the Impress Us challenge.  Please say hello to Apollonia de Jong-de Bruyn (a.k.a. Plony) of Plony's Blog who was the Design Team's favourite from the All Creatures Great and Small challenge.

Hi everyone, I am Plony and I live in The Netherlands in a small village close to Rotterdam. I am a wife, a mother and a grandmother and all this...and a lovely border collie in our family makes my days full of happiness. I am one of those people who just must do something and crafting fills the other part of my life. I started with knitting, crocheting, flower arranging and suddenly there was my card making addiction. I love to color with Copic markers and.....I love vintage. Cards, home decoration.....and preferably with a lot of lace, flowers, pearls.....that kind of (girly) things.

I had to think about what to do with this theme and this is what I made.

I started with a die to make a little bag, used an embossing folder to IMPRESS and added some color with finger wax. A few roses and a nice bow made it to a lovely little present.

I decided this wasn't enough for a present so I made a matching tag.   Again I used the embossing folder and the finger wax.....It's how much you use that makes the color darker.

Eventually I made a note pad to add to the little present. I took a piece of paper, embossed it and waxed it, added this at the note pad with sticky tape, wrapped ribbon around it and added some sweet items to make this look pretty.

I hope I succeeded in making the impression I had to make for the challenge. Here is another look at all three items.

I thank the team of Frilly and Funkie for having me as a guest designer.  It was a real honor.

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Pop on over to Plony's blog to check out all the details of her lovely trio of gifts and while you are there take a look at her other wonderful creations.  When you are done come on back and share your creation with us for the Impress Us challenge, which can be found HERE and runs through Tuesday, November 6 at 11:55 pm EST.

On Saturday one of our designers will be here with a fabulous Saturday Showcase that you won't want to miss and then next Wednesday the gals on the funkie side of the team will be impressing us with their makes for the challenge so do come back often.