Teal Black and White!

 

Hello Friends,

I'm posting this card for the Inspiration Challenge this weekend on SCS that I'm hosting.  The website I chose is called "My Deco" and it is a collection of boutique items from all around the world!

The inspiration piece I chose is this "Corsica Tablecloth".  I loved the colors and contrast of the teal, white and black.



For the background of my card, I started by stamping flowers from SU's Stippled Blossoms set in black Memento Ink.  I then added white crayon to random areas that I wanted to remain white. (The crayon acted as a resist to the ink in the next step.)  I then added sponged on Tim Holtz "Broken China" distress ink all over with a felt applicator.

I die cut a Cheery Lynn Designs "Doily Dies" frame and adhered it to my background. I then added a couple of paper roses I had already made (Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms) to the lower right corner of the frame.

Next  die cut two of the butterflies from the "Exotic Butterfly" dies set by Cheery Lynne.  I temporarily positioned them inside the frame to figure out where I was going to put my sentiment.  Once I figured that out, I set the butterflies aside and gold embossed my sentiment from "Perfectly Penned" by SU inside the frame.


Finally, I permanently adhered the butterflies back onto the card, added some Ranger Platinum stickles and Jolees jewels for a little glam.  And here's the result...

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

 

Watercolored Poppies

Hi Everyone,

Hope this is a very blessed Easter weekend for all of you!

I made this card for the Inspiration Challenge this weekend -- I'm hosting (here) and I hope you'll join me!   I chose the website "Eglantyne Shop" which I don't have a clue what that means, everything is in Chinese Script.  I just know that I love everything on it!!  I could easily make a dozen cards inspired from this webstore!

I chose This ローズモチーフ・シルクボックス Item from the "New" section as my inspiration.  Translated it means "Rose Silk Box."  I think.  Anyhow, I was inspired by the print, the softness and the colors.  And I love all things Victorian.  So it was an easy choice!




I started with a textured panel of Blush Blossom cardstock and very lightly rubbed Groovy Guava ink over the raised texture to bring out the pattern just a bit.  I then heat embossed the "Watercolor Poppies" image from Rubbernecker in white EP.  I colored in the poppies with my "Watercolor Wonder" crayons, referencing my inspiration piece, then used a Sizzix EF to create the textured border.  I added a bracket of bling from "Want to Scrap" across the top of the panel to balance the placement of the image.  I adhered the finished panel to creme colored cardstock base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

 
 

Die Love!

Hello Friends!

At last I am on my last two challenge cards from the Love Fest over on SCS, but they were both fun ones and I used lots of my new dies!

I created this first card for the Love Fest challenge hosted by The Greeting Farm.  We were to create a card with a "love" theme using dies.  So, I used many dies!!  I used a "Framelits" die by SU!, the "Fancy Lattice" die by Spellbinders, a Vintage Noir #6002 flourish die from Joy Craft, a SU! "Embosslits Beautiful Wings" butterfly die and all three sizes of rose dies from the Spellbinders "Bitty Blossoms" die set. Now that's love!! 

After assembling all my die cuts, I glued them to my card base and I added some tear-drop pearls and a vintage button heart. I started to add a little banner with a verse about love, but decided to leave it off since the design was already so busy. Hoping my heart button alone qualifies as a "love theme" for the challenge!

My next card was super quick and simple.  This one goes in the mail tomorrow to my Aunt Dolores who has been battling cancer for almost a year now.

I made this card for the challenge hosted by Verve: "In Love with Color".  I used TH Large Rosette die, a Quickcuts Pinking Circle die and a new Sizzix "Decorative Border and Heart" die.  The sentiment in the center is from Verve "Hope Blooms" set.  This card was as quick and easy to make as it was to blog about! 

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!
 

More Love Fest Cards

 

Hi Everyone,

I've been making cards for the Love Fest Challenges on SCS again this weekend.  I'm also incorporating a few other cyber challenges along the way, so below are the cards I've created for all of them today.

The first one above is for the "Die Crazy" Simon Says Stamp challenge and this week's IC.  The webstore for the IC is "Designs by Lucinda".  How could I not participate in that challenge when my MOM'S name is Lucinda!!  How fun!!

I used three dies on this card: "Absolutely" by Simon Says, A Sunburst from Lil Inker Designs (I love the way the die creates little perforations around the edges!), and a Cuttlebug trees die (one of those older silver-toned squares).


The paper is "Earth Love" by Cosmo Criket and the sentiment is the coordinating stamp set from Simon Says that goes with the "Absolutely" die.  I free hand cut the banner.  To cut the "hills", I used my fun new Kiwi Lane Design "Sentiments" template set that I won from the Scrapbook Expo yesterday!  (It's so much more fun to  "win" a new toy!)

This next card is for the Inspiration Challenge hosted by the Cats Pajamas.  I always have a hard time with the gray/yellow color pallet that was in the inspiration piece, but I gave it a shot anyways since I had some new stamps to play with (again from yesterday's Scrapbook Expo)!  All the stamps used on this card are by Rubbernecker.  The flowers are "Poppy Layers", the background is "Victorian Lace" and the the sentiment is "Easter Blessings."

I stamped my background, the images and sentiment onto white CS, die cut the shape then mounted it onto a gray panel. I added some jewel bling just to balance it out, but overall, left it pretty simple. The die I used is from SU Labels Collection.

This card is for three challenges.  The "Make My Day" Lovefest Challenge hosted by MFT; the current "Case Study #129" Challenge; and the current "Basic Grey Challenge #88" which is "Anything Goes" but you must use a Basic Grey product.  I used "Perhaps" DP.

The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets (I think the set is called "A Couple of Cuties") and I used some scalloped Peel Offs lines, a dove charm and some HL gold flowers to embellish the card.




Thanks for stopping by and checking out my work!!

  
 

Double Z Fold Card

DP used: K&Company Ancestry (all other supplies described below). 

Hi Friends,

Still messing around this weekend with the fun challenges over on SCS. Today's challenge is by Score Pal and they asked for fancy fold cards.  I don't do very many fancy fold cards, but there was a "Double Z Fold" card I spotted on Pinterest that I wanted to try.

This card on Marisa's blog is the one I cased.  Please check her post here for the  dimensions and layout that I followed (you'll see the similarities when you check it out!). 

Here's a "tour" around my finished card via different closeup pictures:



This is the top left.  I made the rosettes on my card with the Sizzix 3-D Flowers Die using the same DP as the main panel.  I made 7 small ones and 4 big ones (and got quite fast at it I must say, LOL!!).   I sponged TH Tea Dye and Walnut Stain ink on the petals and then added Ranger Star Dust Stickles on all the edges.  The swirl die cut is Cheery Lynn Tropical Flourish and the golden gems are by Want 2 Scrap.  The heart, fan, and white rose on this card are all buttons from "Favorite Findings" with the back shank cut off.

 

This is the bottom right side of the card.  The stamped sentiment is Fiskars Make a Wish Quotes on a Spellbinders Floral Oval using the same DP as the main panel of the card (back side).  Same embellishments used here as the top left. 

This is a view from the back.  The lace boarder is SEI Love Birds collection. 

This is a look at the inside of the card. The lacy background is also SEI Love Birds Collection. I cut a piece to fit the inside, sponged the edges, and adhered it with white glue. I will be adding a smaller (probably oval) panel over it that will allow me to write inside. 

Finally, this is the card closed as it will be presented.  Just FYI, those rosettes are not as dark as they look, they are a lot creamier IRL.
TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!