The Card Concept #136 - Bright florals

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I love the stunning inspiration photo for this month's The Card Concept #136 challenge.

The gorgeous blue textured background & stunning colours in the bouquet of flowers was a feast for the eyes. For my card I went with a stenciled background for a faux textured look & tried my best to bring in similar coloured flowers for a clean & layered look.

I white embosssed Altenew Flower Garden stamp set on Fabriano extra white watercolour paper & coloured with Daniel Smith watercolours. Background is ink blended with Tumbled Glass distress ink.

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Stenciled background

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I made this background for The Card Concept #135 Red, white & blue

The colour scheme was my focus with I guess a clean & layered style.

I decided to use a layering stencil set that I hadn't tried before. The set is a digital download from the The Ton Stamps consisting of 7 layering stencils which I cut on my Silhouette Portrait using Silhouette stencil material. I was really pleased with how the stencils mostly lined up with the occasional adjustment. I recently invested in a Wendy Vecchi Mini Make Art Stay-tion & it has made my life so much easier. No more masking tape to hold down stencils & the magnets are very strong. It's a bit hard to see in the picture but the flowers are 2 shades of red using distress oxides. I'm looking forward to using these stencils with other colour combinations so stay tuned.

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Just a note

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Once again I raided my healthy stash of backgrounds to create this card for the Altenew August 2019 Inspiration Challenge

The Altenew Virginia Rose & leaves were made from Colorburst powders on watercolour paper. The main flower centre was painted with gold watercolour paint in two different colours. I used Altenew Sketched Lines stencil with Ranger Texture Paste & Weathered Wood distress ink on the main card front. To finish I added a few clear gems as water droplets.

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Favourite flower

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Trying to pick a favourite flower is nearly impossible but when it comes to stamped images I'm always drawn to peonies. There are just so many lovely designs out there & I was thrilled when I saw that Alex Syberia  had released some digital images. Her work is always so beautiful & these digi designs are just stunning. My first thought when I saw them was how beautiful they would be using the Foil Quill. With a few simple steps they came out just perfect! I tried the design on both Canson Mixed Media paper & Strathmore Bristol Smooth with near perfect results each time.

The flowers & leaves were coloured with Daniel Smith watercolours. I used the Altenew Bubble Wrap stencil for the background with Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polish in Blossom. The sentiment was also done with the Foil Quill using Golden Rule Sketch Font from the Silhouette store.
I am sharing this at The Flower Challenge #35 - Use your favourite flower.

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Plenty of sparkle

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There is a bit of bling overload in this next card that I made for the Altenew March 2019 Inspiration Challenge.

For the background I used Altenew Halftone stencil with Altenew Frayed Leaf ink & Cosmic Shimmer Aurora texture paste. Both flowers were cut from a combination of watercolour, distress ink smooshed with Inka gold & glimmer mist papers. So there is lots of shimmer & gold accents!  Dies used were Altenew Fantasy Floral & Rose Flurries. The embossed sentiment on navy card is from Altenew Beautiful Lady set.
Also entering this into The Flower Challenge # 30 - Anything Goes

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Thanks

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When I saw the inspiration photo for The Card Concept # 65 Fresh & Bold  challenge I knew I had the perfect background piece in my stash. It very much reminded me of the pillows on the bed.

I used Dylusions sprays & the reverse of the stencil (flipping over the stencil after inking through & stamping down the excess ink off the stencil) on mixed media paper. The positive piece I used on this card last year. I added a MFT white scallop frame (to match the pillow ruffles) and W&W Thanks die-cut word. I love these W&W words as they are bold enough to stand out on busy backgrounds. A little Star Dust Stickles was added to some areas of the flower centres although as always it's a little hard to see. I'm going with Clean & Graphic style.

Also entering into the following challenges -

HLS CAS Challenge - Stencil  

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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Hello

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I'm sharing a card using some more new items I received just before Christmas. In particular some Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Moonstone. It took me so long to decide to order this but I am so glad I did! I have lots of texture pastes & you can use glitter with them but the mess can be frustrating. Not only is there no glittery mess with these glimmer pastes but they are simply dazzling! Moonstone is a clear iridescent and the colours in the glitter matched the colours on my watercolour panel perfectly!

Now, apologies for the photography but I must have taken 40 different shots with both phone & camera in several different lights trying to bring out the colour of the glitter! I nearly went insane doing it but this was the best shot if a little dark. The close up below is a little better.

I started with a panel watercoloured with Worn Lipstick, Squeezed Lemonade distress inks & splattered with Prima Color Bloom Empress Gold. I die-cut W&W Hello cutaway from the watercolour piece & twice more from white card & stacked. Before adhering to the card front I applied the Nuvo Glimmer paste using Prima Tubaroses stencil which was also part of my new stash.

I am entering into the following challenges -  

The Card Concept #64 - Pretty things - my inspiration was the colour of the flowers & gold accent for a CAS design

Happy Little Stampers January CAS Challenge - Stencil

SSS Wednesday Challenge - New Something 

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With love

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I made today's card to enter into the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 360. This will be the first time I have entered this challenge but always love seeing their inspiration photos. Since looking at cupcakes is all can do these days I may as well enjoy the creative aspect.

I fell in love with the colours right away as these were the exact colours I had at my wedding long, long ago!

 With my limited photography skills this card was so hard to photograph. I tried something different for the background. I really love my embossing/texture pastes but the gold is very bright & brassy and I wanted something more subtle. So I used Ranger Texture Paste with a Tim Holtz stencil & then when the paste was dried I applied Kuretake Gansai Champagne Gold over the top. I wasn't sure if this would work but it was perfect. It is such a lovely soft gold with so much sparkle.

The Altenew Wild Hibiscus flowers were stamped & embossed with AC Zing Gold EP & then coloured with Altenew inks using a waterbrush.

I am also entering this into the following challenges -

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge 

Happy Little Stampers Mixed media Challenge - Shine 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Flowers

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Birthday wishes

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I managed to have a play with some more new Hero Arts goodies & made this card using Hero Arts For You Flowers colour layering set.

The background has been stenciled with SSS Zig Zag stencil & Altenew Sea Glass ink. Unfortunately it doesn't show up well in the photo & I simply couldn't get a better shot but IRL it is darker. The flowers & leaves were stamped with a combination of different brand inks using the MISTI. Most of the leaves & small flowers were then cut on the Silhouette using their Pixscan technology & the rest fussy cut. I used some Liquid pearls as the centres on the aqua flowers & Wink of Stella in the white centres of the pink flowers. The PTI Birthday word was sent to me by a sweet friend as I have long admired this particular die but as yet don't have it in my stash. I used a liberal coating of Wink of Stella on the birthday word before adhering (albeit a little crooked lol) & finishing with a SSS sentiment word. As usual it was impossible to get a good shot of that gorgeous sheen of the WoS.

I am entering this into the following challenges -

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Make it Girlie

The Card Concept # 53 - Bright & Fresh

I'm going with clean & layered with my inspiration being the gorgeous floral.

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge - 

Stamped Flowers/leaves, stenciled background & die cuts/fussy cutting.

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Pretty pastels

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I was playing with some Prima Color Bloom mist sprays & came up with this quick card using a sort of stencil I cut on a Silhouette machine.

When I say sort of I forgot in my enthusiasm to remove the outer cut lines around the 4 flowers which resulted in 4 individual stencils instead of just the petals cut out of one sheet. Hope that makes sense. Anyway it just means I can use the flowers more as masks & they will be useful with my gelliplate so a happy accident I guess. Anyway this card was sprayed with Prima Color Bloom Cotton Candy which is a lovely pearlescent pink but as with all pretty shiny things hell to photograph! A few sequins for flower centres & a SSS die-cut & stamped sentiment and it's done.

I am entering this into the following challenges -

SSS Work It Wednesday - Pastel

SSS Wednesday Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

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Thinking of you

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Dropping in with a card for the Sparkle & Shine Challenge Eleven

Love the vibrancy of the gorgeous orange flowers in the inspiration photo. Here's my take -

I stamped Simon Says Stamp Artful Flowers on watercolour paper with Versamark ink, then heat embossed with Wow Opaque Bright White embossing powder. I coloured the flowers with Kuretake Gansai watercolours & when dry added some Star Dust Stickles to the flower centres. I stencilled Twisted Citron Distress ink onto main card base before arranging the die-cut flowers & stamping sentiment. Final touch was to add some sequins.

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Supplies - 
Stamps - SSS Artful Flowers
Die - SSS designer Flowers
Ink - Versamark, Twisted Citron Distress Ink
Wow Opaque Bright White EP, Star Dust Stickles, Sequins

It's a Special Day

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A card for the Runway Inspired Challenge # 87

I absolutely loved the elegant top in the inspiration photo. Had so many different ideas floating around in my head it got confusing in the end so settled on the following -

I softly applied Shaded Lilac Distress ink on a white panel & using Tim Holtz Bubble stencil applied silver embossing paste over the top. The flowers were stamped on vellum with Versamark & embossed with Wow  Silver Pearl embossing powder. The back of the flowers were coloured with Copics & then fussy cut. Some leaves were die-cut from vellum & glued into place with the flowers using Multi Matte Medium and keeping the glue to under embossed lines so it wouldn't show. Left glue off areas of the flower edges to lift them slightly for a little more dimension. My biggest struggle was the sentiment as I wasn't really happy with the placement but couldn't find an alternative I was happy with either lol! Trying to be a perfectionist is a pain sometimes!

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Supplies - 
Stamps - Winnie & Walter The Big The Bold & Extras, Altenew Persian Motifs (sentiment)
Dies - Spellbinders Sprigs, Winnie & Walter Big, Bold & Extras Cutaways
Ink - Shaded Lilac Distress Ink, Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black
Tim Holtz Bubble Stencil, Studio 490 Silver Embossing Paste, Wow Silver Pearl embossing powder, SSS Moonshine Sequins, Copic B63