I just love this Wild Bloom stencil from Papertrey Ink. I got it out today and made 4 cards for different occasions, using different cover plate dies for the backgrounds.
Anniversary
I just love this Wild Bloom stencil from Papertrey Ink. I got it out today and made 4 cards for different occasions, using different cover plate dies for the backgrounds.
Anniversary
There's a new challenge up at Inkspirational #351 - and it's a Moodboard!
Pretty obvious what things inspired me.
The red top mushrooms with their white dots, the snail and butterfly!
I actually made two more (before the two above) but messed them both up with a stencil background and with a hand drawn squiggle frame - you never know what it will look like until you do it - and sometimes you really DON"T LIKE IT - so into the trash they went!
I don't send many Halloween cards but I do like to have some on hand. I have two boxes of Halloween stamps, dies and ephemera - some of it never used yet - so there's that reason too!
I'm having a table at two local Craft Shows this fall and I'm madly creating to fill my boxes with cards.
So today, I looked to the Color Hues Challenge for inspiration for colors. Sometimes the colors just do not speak to me - but today they did!
Today, I'm sharing two cards I made for the newest Inkspirational Challenge that posted today.
I created my backgrounds using two different Northern Lights tutorials on YouTube which I've linked below if you are interested in trying them.
For my first card I found this YouTube Video by Ciara T Designs - Beautiful Northern Nights. She sponges vertical lines of blues and green for the sky along with a darker blue and black around the edges.
I used Ranger Distress Inks on this one, stamped the trees in Nocturne Versafine Clair and splattered with water.
A friend asked me to make her a card to send to friends who go camping in a trailer.
I pulled out some barely used older stamp sets to create this camping in the forest scene. She will write her own note inside the card.
The background is DP from Forest/Stamperia. The stamps and die cuts are from Happy Camper and the sentiment is from Peek A Boo Pals Camp Wanna stamps from Avery Elle. The camper and wagon are popped up on foam dots.
I'm sending my card to:
Today's the day all of the cards exchanged through the Card Chain Challenge for August are being revealed over at the blog. I sent my card to Carol in the UK and received a card from Arlene in California!
We are always given several options to inspire our card designs - but we only have to use one.
This month I used the colors (which I rarely do as I hate being told what colors to use!), I "sort of" used the Sketch, the themes of Tropical and Friendship and the technique of Stenciling!
Phew! I got a lot of the suggestions in this month - I think this might be the most ever for me!
The newest Inkspirational Challenge is up today -
and here is the DT card I made for it.......with a tag added!
I adhered it to the card with a single foam dot in the center so the receiver can easily remove and hang up the tag if they want to!
The tag is 3 3/4" diameter.