Get Well Inlaid Diecut

This card owes it existence to something akin to the chicken and the egg debate. Inspiration from The Card Concept, Paper Smooches Sparks and CCEE Stampers Challenge blogs. I've used the PS Sparks February sketch, inlaid diecutting from CCEE Stampers and the colours, textures and multimedia style from The Card Concept inspiration photo.

I've stamped with distress inks and pigment ink. The background is watercoloured with distress inks, with aqua dolce gelato blended with my finger and more distress ink around the edges. I've covered the embossing paste with stickles and splatted some distress paint. I've white washed the wooden vase with distress paint and a white colouring pencil to mimic the white wood in the inspiration photo. The central vase is a homage to the vase I instagrammed a few weeks ago and is coloured with brushed pewter distress spray stain. The third vase is velum, coloured with a Sky Blue ProMarker and I've added seed beads to look like the decorative glass beads that can be added to vases. 

Perspective is a tad skewed with the sliver vase and it appears to be floating a little. My die cutting was a little high and I only noticed it as I  edited the photos, when it was too late to start again. I don't know if I would have started again anyway, as the die cutting was quite intricate and this is a piece of art where the rules of physics don't need to apply!

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers CCEE1509: Inlaid Diecuts

Paper Smooches Sparks Designer Drafts February Sketch

The Card Concept #29: Get Well Soon  [Photo Inspiration- White wood, Stitching (wool) Colours: Blue, Green, Red, Orange; Style: Multimedia]  [Winner]

Media: Distress inks, pigment inks, gelato, ProMarker [alcohol marker], colouring pencils, distress stains & paints; cardstock, wood veneer & vellum; embossing paste, Stickles, glimmer mist, wink of stella & glass beads.

Supplies

Stamps: Paper Smooches Crystal Clear, Chit Chat
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Paper Smooches Crystal Clear 3 dies

Ink: Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, Crushed Olive, Ripe Persimmon

Paper: Card, vellum & wood veneer from stash

Colouring: Sky Blue Promarker, White & Green Colouring Pencils, Aqua Dolce gelato, Distress Markers- Firebrick Red, Festive Berries, Ripe Persimmon, Mowed Lawn, Shabby Shutters, Salty Ocean, Weathered Wood.

Highlights: Stickles, wink of stella, seed beads, embossing paste, brushed pewter distress stain, picket fence distress paint, glimmer mist 

 

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Get Well 10 Minute Craft Dash Circle

This card is for a friend who had an accident recently. I wanted to cheer him up, make him smile and hopefully forget about his injury for a bit! I hope this falls under the category of Get Well as I wanted to play along with the 4 Crafty Chicks. 

The deer was coloured very quickly using three shades of brown and a pink, please don't look too closely! Then I stamped my speech bubble and set to die cutting. It took 5 passes through my die-cutting machine to get all the shapes. More stamping, liquid glue, pop dots, Wink of Stella and a crazy dash for a few dabs of enamel! Did I make the 10 Minute Craft Dash cutoff? 

I created this card in 8 minutes 54.13 seconds. Now I just have to hope this posted in time to link up to the challenge.

I designed a circular card so the I could enter Sentimental Sundays 'Pick from our Favourite Challenge', under Challenge #177: Shaped or Easel Cards, but mine isn't a birthday card so I'll have to enter it under Challenge #146: Anything Goes. I missed these first time round and really wanted to give it a go.

One last photo with the special envelope I created for the card. This time the card is facing away from the sunlight so you can see the pattern on the pale blue paper.

Challenges:

10 Minute Craft Dash #32: Anything Goes {Favorite}

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #187: Pick from our Favourite

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #175: Get Well

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Into The Woods

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa

Paper: Kraft card from stash, Lawn Fawn Dalphne's Closet, Pink Lemonade

Highlights: Wink of Stella, Enamel

Dies: Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Circle & Scalloped Circle Stackables, Into The Woods, Paper Smooches Borders 1 Wise Dies

Colouring: Promarkers, Flexmarkers

Hope to see you again soon!