I have had a very busy week of spring cleaning. It is actually the start of Autumn for us here is Australia, and I was motivated by the slightly cooler weather! So today, I gave myself the day off and I have been playing in my Craft Room!
Card #1 - Pink
I stamped up the flowers from Altenew BAF Coneflower using Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed with WOW Clear embossing powder. Flowers were layered using shades of pink/purple and greens, then diecut. I rumaged through by stash of Scrapbooking cardstock & DP & snippets of cardstock to pick some pleasing colour combinations for the background. Flower was placed on cardfront with 3D foam dots for added dimension.
The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black & heat embossed, die cut twice & layered, then placed on the front of the card with 3D foam.
Card #2 - Green & Gold
Followed the same process as Card #1, but this time I chose Greens as the predominant colour.
The sentiment was stamped
with Dark Green ink, die cut with a Spellbinders Tag twice &
layered, Gold Cord added to tag, then placed on the front of the card with 3D foam.
I quite enjoyed making these cards, even though I am really NOT a fan of Green :) You have to try something out of your comfort zone every now and then!
Both of my cards have been inspired by the sketch in Freshly made Sketches #575.
Linking Card #1 with the following challenges:
Cut It Up #272 CAS (clean & simple)
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What a lovely card Cathy - and great use of snippets as well! Both Sarn and I love coneflowers so I know she will love this card too!
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Di xx
Two lovely floral cards made with your snippets. Nice layouts on each.
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND. Once you’ve finished playing on the swings, meet me and Di up in the Treehouse for a nice mug of hot chocolate! xxx
Both cards are just so pretty. The flowers are gorgeous and just the hint of striping - very nice. Thank you for joining our Cut it Up CAS challenge.
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Larelyn (CIU owner)
What a lovely design! The bits of gold are perfect in that paper along with the beautiful flower! So happy you shared with us at Cut It Up! ~Katrina
ReplyDeleteTwo very pretty cards. I love pink but my favourite of them is the green based one. Hugs mrs A.
ReplyDeletebeautiful designs, thanks for joining us at the inspired by challenge.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! Thanks for playing at IB!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful....fantastic coloring of your flower!! Way to go shopping your stash!! Thanks for play along with our "Flowers, Flowers Everywhere" challenge over at Shopping Our Stash!!
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