Another chance for Artistic Expression this week - from pages 132-181.
I've chosen the top card from Pg 138, and pretty much just switched out colours.
First I chose my DSP, and it was Delightful Daisy, my colours just evolved from there. Not how I had imagined but happy with the result. There are five dragonflies in this card, first a body from the DSP, with a vellum detailed d-fly laid over, Wisteria Wonder stamped in Night of Navy with the dragonfly stamp and die cut with the outline shape again, then one of each size of the detailed dragonflies in Wisteria Wonder. They are all glued at the upper body only, so there is a lot of movement to this card which is hard to see in a photo. I have used a vellum scalloped layering circle for under the big dragonfly rather than the white, which you can only see when you go hunting for it. Greeting from Dragonfly Dreams which has been stamped off in Night of Navy for the repeat stamped background. A little silver metallic thread along with Night of Navy baker's twine for the bow. And rhinestones to finish.
I think I'll definitely do this card again, and will try it in different colours... Thanks for stopping by, please carry on and visit Peta now:
This week we have a Guest Designer - Welcome Nicole. The section we are Caseing is Love and Sympathy pages 86-101.
Hi if you've just hopped over from Petas page. Today I chose the bottom card on the image from page 101:
Using Daisy Delight for the flower, Thoughts & Prayers for the Greeting and Best Birds for the background. I went with Smokey Slate for the base card and Crushed Curry for the background stamping and the flowers with Wild Wasabi leaves. With the colouring I tried to be slap dash as in the cased picture, I liked the blank areas of colour. See below for a close up.
I smooshed the Night of Navy onto a non-porous surface and added a little embossing paste, then used this to texture the middle of my flowers. When dry I dabbed a little more colour over the top and used Rich Razzleberry around the edge - (my colouring was inspired by this flower, Osteospermum):
The close up shows the texture better hopefully. The shine on the petals is by stamping the daisy in Versamark and then Crushed Curry before clear heat embossing (see here for more on this tip). This meant I would have more control over the white space I wanted but it made colouring around the centre a bit of a challenge...
Enough from me - time to pop over and see what Megan has been up to...
We are not very good at sending cards to our extended family, but when I learned someone was starting school, I decided a special card was in order. Although it was a little late, I hope she enjoyed receiving this card. It started off being a quick and easy card, but things got added as I went along! Hard to tell what is going on, but it is a shaker card. And as I do - created it the hard way!
My intention was to upcycle the foam left over after mounting my Reverse Words. I stamped Hooray in Melon Mambo onto my Thick Whisper White card base - then added the foam after removing the red rubber from it. Popped in some sequins and added the acetate to hold my sequins in place. I stamped Bella on Whisper White and fussy cut around half of her so I could get the Stiched Shapes oval die under her to cut the oval, and the same idea from the Melon Mambo mat. The 5 was cut from Melon Mambo and Basic Black and I like how it hovers over the edge. I could see a little foam which I didn't want, so popped a few flowers around the edge and some birthday bling, and added 5 balloons instead of the 1 Bella usually has. I see now I forgot to add more strings, but I don't think she'll mind too much.
The inside has another Bella image and greeting:
Although today's post is a little late, I liked how this card for a special young lady, turned out. I saw a similar design online from Bluetenstempel and this is my take of it. I wanted a hint of colour so it may be misleading because the photo was taken on the Blushing Bride Glimmer paper, however the colours I chose were Pink Pirouette and Sahara Sand. All stamped images were from Touches of Texture. The Thinlits used were Rose Garden, Detailed Dragonfly, Stitched Shapes, along with some Layering Circles. The finishing touches were the rhinestone and the heart from the Subtles Enamel Shapes.
I decided against a greeting and opted to use her age for the inside:
