Elemental Inspiration Picture for March

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How has your week been?  There are a few of my friends and family with birthdays within the next few weeks so I've been trying to get ahead with cards, and gift buying. That's a sort of excuse for my poor blogging, well it will have to do!  I'll try harder next week, otherwise I'll have a pile of unblogged projects and that would never do! 

Over at the Daring Cardmakers Svenja has been looking back on her holiday photos from last summer and used some of them to make our Elemental Inspiration Picture board for March

Can you believe it's March already? On the other hand: we've had some definitely springy days in February, so why-ever not...

It's Svenja here and I've packed some sunshine into this month's elemental inspiration picture for you. Please choose at least three elements from the pic and use them on your card (colours count as one element). 

In the end, I made two very different cards, but each has the required three elements from the picture board

This is Svenja's picture.

For the first card I took as my inspiration the layout, the coloured floats on the nets, the fishing boats and I also used the colour palette

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I started by adding lots of blue inks to a piece of card, then cut this down to a 9x9cm square.  This square was then cut into the various sections of the LO and all but the square that would have the beads on were glued in place.  The last one was glued down after the beaded string had been wrapped around it.

Using an image I found on the internet I hand cut the pieces for the fishing boats from red, black and white card.  The portholes are just tiny circles die cut from spare blue-inked card

I threaded some beads onto natural coloured twine for the 'floats' element and added an anchor charm.

To finish, I drew some wavy lines on the rectangular pieces with Ice Stickles

I wanted to go a bit "off piste" and see if I could make something completely unrelated to the picture board but still
using 3 elements from it.  

This time I chose the nets, the ropes (twine) and again the floats.

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The background was stencilled using a Prima stencil and a pretty set of 4 Versamagic ink pads

I strung a variety of beads in matching colours onto gold thread and added them to the card by way of needle holes.  The string is tied and glued on the inside of the card.

I inked thin card in the same colours and used this to make three different flowers, adding bought flower stamens to the centres

I used Bakers' Twine to echo the ropes in the picture and tied a double bow to add to the tag.  The sentiment is a home-made decal sticker

The dies for the flowers. leaves and tag are all Spellbinders

That's all for this time.  I hope you like these cards and feel inspired to join in with the Daring Cardmakers this week, we'd love to see what you can make.

There are some lovely ideas from the design team over on the blog. so please hop over there for a look.

Have a great weekend

Happy Crafting