May Elemental Inspiration

 

 

Hello

 

 Keeping it short this time as I'm still catching up with things after our little holiday.

This week on the Daring Cardmakers its time for May's Elemental Inspiration Challenge.  How come January and February are at least twice as long as the other months in the year?

Hello, Joanne here this week.

 

May Elemental Inspiration

We have an “elemental” challenge for you today — just choose at least three elements from the inspiration picture (colour scheme counts as one element so pick two other things as well if you decide to go with colours).

 You can see lots of inspiration from the Design Team by clicking this link

 

 For my elements I chose the pink and green colours. the black and white stripes, a flower, some little droplet stones and a stencil

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I've used a smooth white square card base and made the background by masking off some areas with washi tape and also some masking fluid before applying various shades of green Nuvo embellishing mousse.  Once I'd removed the masking 'stuff' I used some gold mousse through my favourite stencil.

For the flower I inked up some thin card with several shades of pink Nuvo mousse, spraying water to get a random colour effect.  While it was still damp I scrunched it up, flattened it out again and left it to dry.

Im not entirely sure that last bit made any difference to the finished flower but it seemed a good idea at the time!

 

The flower petals are cut using an old Spellbinders 'carnation' die set, which has different sized petals in it.  I achieved the frilly  effect by using reverse tweezers on each petal

 Next I built up the focus of my card; a rectangle of striped card. a chipboard swirl inked in green with a little Nuvo mousse for shine and some gold gilding flakes added, some green leaves from another Spellbinders die set and finally the sentiment piece made with more black and white card

To complete the card I added a few small droplet stones - I can't remember the proper name for them!

Thank you so much for coming by. 

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe, 

 

 

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HAPPY card 2

 

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So, last week I shared a birthday card made using a Crafters Companion HAPPY shaped die set.  Today's card is in a similar vein, but in a different colour palette and with some different flowers.   Shabneez and Sarah's birthdays were in December and the opportunity to get away from Christmas colours and shapes and "go girly" with pretty colours and lovely flowers was just too good to miss!

But one day I shall use this set to make something more masculine - I have loads of 'boy' birthdays coming up so watch this space!

Anyway, back to Sarah's card

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This time I chose a yellow, orange, peach mix of colours for the background shaped card, the upper layer of the letters and also for the thinner card I needed for making the flowers.  I used inks and Nuvo Embellishment mousses for this both sides of the thin card were coloured as the flowers would be 3D

 

I've not had the chance to make a big rose since the card and box I made for my nephew and new niece in law's wedding in July. so as this card would be hand delivered I took the chance of going ultra dimensional with my flowers!  Well, it would be rude not to, wouldn't it?

There is something so relaxing and satisfying about making a paper rose, I always enjoy making them. 

I cut the petals for this one using an extra large flower punch.  I have instructions on how to make paper roses HERE

 

 

 To balance the large rose I used a little trio of small coiled paper roses on the 'H', and added some green die-cut leaves to set them all off.

 To complete the card I made e sentiment piece using black and white sentiment and patterned pieces from my bag of bits.  I can't remember what font I used on this one, but I really love it!

Obviously, with the big flowers this was never going to fit into a regular DL envelope so I custom-made one to fit it. If I'd needed to post it I'd have made a box for it instead

Thank you so much for coming by, please don't go without leaving a little message, I do love to hear from you.  

Or maybe I really am just talking to myself

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,

Hearts and Flowers

 

  Hello!

Once again playing catch-up. today I'm sharing a tag which I made for Dawn's Daring Cardmakers' challenge a couple of weeks ago but failed to blog.

I'm not the greatest fan of making tags - I do like to see what other people make, but I'm [retty much always disappointed in those I make myself!  You can Click here to see what our fab Design Team made for this challenge

As it happened I had a rose I'd made a while ago sitting on my desk along with some other bits and pieces I was using for another project, so I was able to cobble a tag together without too much stress!

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Red card cut into a tag shape

White card stamped with a Spellbinders large 'Love' stamp

Red glitter paper heart was leftover from another project as was the rose (made with red Bazzill card) 

The sentiment and entwined hearts were die cut using a very old Cuttlebug plate

The tag was completed using some lovely red satin ribbon

  That's it for this time, Thank You so much for coming by, please don't go without leaving a little message as I do love to know what you think.

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,