A whole new month - lets hope the weather perks up for July! We certainly picked the best week of June to go away - I think it's rained every single day since!
It's Daring Cardmakers Day and time for our monthly Elemental Inspiration Challenge.
July's photo is more of a mood-board or collage of several pictures and has been chosen by Lythan and is full of lovely Summertime beach-themes!
As ever the challenge is to create your own card which uses at least 3 elements from the picture.
As ever the challenge is to create your own card which uses at least 3 elements from the picture.
I've used clouds, a deckchair, Straw Hat, Summer song lyrics and bright stripes on mine
The first version also had some bright-coloured bunting, but it looked a right mess, so I pulled it apart, cut it down, added an extra matting layer and grabbed a slightly larger card blank to build it on. It looks much cleaner and more summery somehow
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Background is created by cutting some cloud shapes from all-over sticky Post It notes and using them as masks while I swooshed some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink over the card
The song lyrics were created in Paint Shop Pro - I added them line by line, adjusting the sizes, spacing and positioning a bit - I didn't want them being too neat, iyswim
The deckchair and sun hat are cut on the Silhouette Cameo - I had to make new templates this time and I don't think the deckchair is quite right, which is a bit annoying. Or maybe I didn't quite stick the layers together as I meant to.
The fabric part is coloured using Gelatos and I always get in such a smudgy mess with them - I was probably concentrating more on getting the pieces stuck together without smudging than taking note of how the frame pieces should have been stuck down.
The lyrics piece is matted first onto a square inked more strongly with the
Tumbled Glass Ink, and then onto black Bazzill
Having cut down the cloudy piece as mentioned above, I matted that onto black too
I've used lots of fairly thick chipboard under the various pieces for extra dimension
Daring CardmakersBlog you'll see what the rest of the team have been making - and meet our lovely new Guest designer too
12 comments:
This is fabulous Kathy, love the colours and sentiment.
Hugs
Linda xxx
Love the sentiment and the wonderfully bright deckchairs. The fabric is a great addition. Thanks for the mention :) Shabneez xxx
Great summery feeling to this - now if you could just sort out the weather to match we'd be good to go!
So bright and breezy Kathy. A real taste of summer!
Laine
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Beautiful card and love the colours
it's beautiful and sunny Kathy
Gr Karin
Hi Kathy this is a stunning card I love it. I just wish the weather matched your little scene. Take care. Hugs Jackie
Love the clean, crisp feel of this lovely summery card. Great summer scene you have created.
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A super summery card Kathy. The colours are fabulous and the sentiment verse is lovely xx
Love this Kathy xx Jan
Beautiful I am dreaming of sitting in that chair Hugs Sandra xx
Fabulous card Kathy. Love the colours and the deckchair looks very inviting. Cathy x
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