Embossed Flowers

With the fabulous inspiration from the Card Concept photo and design team, I wanted to create a card using flowers in the classy and elegant style. I love the Painted Flowers by Altenew and used their March Challenge From Places Abroad to design the gold geometric background on vellum taking a little inspiration from each of the photos.

I've also played along with Craft for the Craic's Bingo using the diagonals: flowers, more than two layers [five] and diecut or image, more than two layers [five] and stitching. I wasn't sure if my flowers should be classified as such or as an image, so I hedged my bets!

Virginia's View Embossing Challenge was also on my mind with the embossing paste background, platinum embossed flowers and my die also embossed the card base a little as well.

Challenges:

Altenew March Challenge: From Places Abroad [gold ceiling design, geometric pattern on glass door, flower mosaic]

Craft for the Craic March Challenge #14: Bingo! [Diagonal]

The Card Concept Challenge #30: Thinking of You [Pink roses, white container/frame] {winner)

Virginia's View Challenge #13: All things Embossed [Embossing paste & powder]

Supplies

Stamps: Altenew Painted Flowers, Wplus9 Fresh Cut Flowers
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp Moroccan Stencil

Ink: Memento Angel Pink, Rose Bud, Pear Tart, New Sprout, Versamark

Paper: White Card & vellum from stash

Highlights: Gold embossing paste, platinum embossing powder, gold thread.

Hope you've enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Mixed Media & Embossed Thinking

Mixed Media background card with lots of embossing: embossing paste dots sanded back to white after applying gelato colour, sprays and stamped stripes, embossed label tape and white heat embossed then watercoloured images. I chose the background colours from the Card Concept's inspiration photo and sanded the embossing paste back to white as a nod to the vase in the photo.  But how did I go from flowers to postbox, I hear you ask! When your thinking of someone you might send flowers, but mostly you'll send a note through the post (or email through the internet) and as our postboxes are green and all spring like it was settled!

I've used the CAS(E) this sketch but, as the card involved lots of steps, fussy cutting and messing about with gelatos and sprays, it doesn't fall under their CAS theme. It does contain dots, stripes and lovely Lawn Fawn images so perfect for the Lawnscaping Challenge and three types of embossing for Virginia's View Embossing Challenge which is one year old this month. Embossing was one of the first techniques I tried as a cardmaker and I still love it in all its forms.

Challenges:

Lawnscaping Challenge #101: Use dots and/or stripes

The Card Concept #30: Thinking of You Mixed Media

Virginia's View Challenge #13: All Things Embossed

Media: Distress markers, pigment ink, gelatos, Memento marker, sprays; cardstock, watercolour card; embossing paste, embossing powder, Stickles, glimmer mist, wink of stella, staples, wooden peg, label tape, thread, glass beads & sandpaper.

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn You've Got Mail, Clearly Besotted Basic Stripes
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp Polka Dot Party Stencil, Tim Holtz Dot Fade Stencil

Ink: Memento London Fog, Versamark

Paper: Watercolour & Grey Card from stash

Colouring: Momento Tuxedo Black marker, Gelato- Aqua Dolce, Butter Cream, Banana, Guava, Bubble Gum, Lavender, Squid Ink, Distress Markers- Mowed Lawn, Old Paper.

Highlights: Stickles, wink of stella, seed beads, white & pearlescent embossing paste, Heidi Swapp Gold, dylusions white linen ink spray, glimmer mist, embossed label, gold thread, wooden peg, staples.

Anyone following me on Instagram will recognise the postbox. I originally coloured this as part of Kathy Racoosin's (The Daily Marker) 30 Day Colouring Challenge. It's lovely to see the coloured image on a card!

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Wplus9 Spotlight Floral Pearls

My first attempt at the spotlight technique. I've used stamping as I didn't have any suitable dies and wanted to play along with Wplus9's Challenge. All my images are stamped in London Fog or Tuxedo Black on the card front and I've used Love Letter, Pistachio and Cottage Ivy for the diecut spotlighted flower. I created a Clean and Layered card for the Card Concept Floral Theme and used pearls for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. I couldn't find any black card for my layers so I've used Black soot distress ink to alter some white card.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes with Pearls 
The Card Concept Challenge #4: Floral Theme
Wplus9 Spotlight Challenge

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals
Ink: Memento London Fog, Cottage Ivy, Tuxedo Black, Memento Luxe Love Letter, Pistachio, Tim Holtz Distress Black Soot

Dies & Punches etc: Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals dies

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: washi tape, stickles, Wink of Stella, half pearls

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

PS Sparks Photo, CFC128, Sketch Saturday #297

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge Blog has a fabulous inspirational photo this week and this is my interpretation. I've used the gold, pink, grey, wood and a heart.

I've used Sketch Saturdays sketch rotated 90º so the central panel looks more like a wall hanging.

I'm entering this into CAS-ual Fridays Challenge to create a long farewell card. My card is 15x10cm (about 6x4 inches).

Challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays CFC128: So Long
Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: Photo Inspiration
Sketch Saturday Week #297


Supplies
Stamps: Paper Smooches Crystal Clear, Chit Chat 
Ink: Memento Rose Bud, London Fog

Dies etc: Paper Smooches Crystal Clear 3, Xcut Nesting heart dies, Tim Holtz Dot Fade Stencil

Paper: White card & vellum from stash, SSS Wood Veneer in Cherry Finish

Highlights: Wink of Stella, gold embossing paste, sequins

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Muse Framed

Therese Calvird is our muse this week. I've taken inspiration from her card layout and inverted it. I've used the same shaped card, plus I've framed my image in a dark solid colour with large white border and used five elements with a sentiment. 

The blue flamingo amongst the pink ones reminded me of Vincent Van Gogh's Irises: one white flower in a sea of blue, of being alone in a crowd, standing tall and being yourself.

I coloured the daisies & cardstock with Promarkers/Flexmarkers.  I love the flick the Flexmarkers provide and I look forward to practicing this technique.

Challenges:

Muse Challenge #25

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #163: You've Been Framed

Sister Act Card Challenges #15: Anything Goes

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Love Birds 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black 

Dies & Punches etc: Simon Says Stamp Fresh Daisies Die 

Paper: White card from stash 

Colouring: Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and get a chance to see the other cards inspired by Therese.

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