Cards Galore - Colour Inspiration

Hello and welcome to my crafty blog.


Today I am posting my DT card for the Picture Inspiration challenge starting today over at the  Cards Galore Challenge Blog .

And this months prize is................Wellington Goodies!!!!

And this months theme is:

'Colour Inspiration'

Use these four colours to make your project, plus you can pick one of the following to add too...White, gold or silver.

 

Here is my DT card for the challenge.

 

 

I love the rich jewel colours and I worked through a couple of cards before I got one I felt was close enough to the colour range chosen. I also opted for white as the additional colour to help push the colours out.

I started with a white 15x15 cardbase, folded as a tent-fold card and sponged the centre of the cardbase with a deep pink ink, making sure to leave some area dark and others light. The canopy of hearts was die-cut from deep lilac card with a strip torn away from the bottom to allow the lighter core colour of the card to ad a little contrast. This layer was adhered to the cardbase so that the punched-out heart-shaped leaves let the inked area show through. I then die cute a tree from lighter lilac card and adhered  it to the lilac layer to complete the tree. I slotted the satin ribbon under the card topper and added the sentiment to the base of the card. To finish I used some of the little hearts for a fallen leaves effect and some glitter flower sitck-ons for a bit of bling!

Hope you like my card and thanks for stopping by to read my blog. Your time and comments are always welcome. Don't forget to enter into the challenge with us for yourchance to win the Wellington Goodies.

Ax

Materials Used.

Both dies- Canopy and tree trunk from MemoryBox

Sentiment-  The Crafty Pad digital stamps

Cardstock- Papermania - Soothing Heather.

Ribbon from stash

Bounty of Buttons - The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog

Hello and welcome back to my crafty blog.

Today I'm posting my DT card for the new challenge starting today 15th April over at the   The Crafty Pad   and the theme is Bounty of Buttons.  The images for the challenge have been provided by our wonderful sponsor  Robyns Fetish and I've chosen the digi stamp Cute Bear for my DT card.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5
digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper set of their choice.

http://robynsfetish.com/shop

Pop over to the  The Crafty Pad   and check out the other DT creations. Some really great examples to inspire you for the Bounty of Buttons Challenge.

The digital image was printed onto white cardstock and coloured with Tombow waterbased markers. 

The bow was made with a strip of yellow cardstock , punched with a border punch and folded 'concertina wise' and then made into a circle. A piece of white tulle was added to the back of the yellow circle and a heart with a stamped sentiment from Verve Stamps was adhered to the front. The buttons as flower centre complete the card.

The digi image is from Robyn's Fetish, green backing paper Stampin' Up, the remaining papers and embellishments came from my stash.

 I would also like to enter this into the following challenges

2 Sisters - Flowers

Crazy 4 Challanges - Buttons C4C132

Card Making and Papercraft.- Buttons

 Stamping for the Weekend - Ready Teddy Go!

Thanks for stopping by to read my crafty bloggings. Your time and comments are appreciated.

Ax.

Flowers and Watering Can -The Crafty Pad April Releases.

Hi all and welcome back 

Been a bit busy catching up with my DT projects and today I am posting my DT card featuring one of the  new Releases for April from The Crafty Pad  .

If you would like to win this NEW RELEASE, all you have to do is leave a comment on today's post and your name will go into the draw! It is that easy! 

 For another chance of winning, become a follower of The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and leave us another comment saying you are a follower (new / old / and or existing) and get a 2nd chance into the draw.  

For a 3rd chance in the draw - comment on ALL 4 of the release days (yesterday Sunday, today Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday) and go into a separate  draw to win the complete set of 4 images!

My card used this cute little Watering-can and flowers and I chose green and lilac as my main colours.

I use my Tombow Markers because they are water-based  and I can colour my digi images without smudging the black outlines or transferring printer ink onto my Copics nibs. ( that's the problem with an ink-jet printer) Using a few patches of colour on an acrylic block, mix in some water and depending on how 'dark' you want your colour, you can layer the colour onto your image , deepening the shadows bit by bit until you get the colour depth you want. I think it gives that nice 'water-colour' feel to the finished project. The image was matted to a green gingham scalloped piece of card and popped up on some dimensional adhesive pads.

My card is an A5 white cardbase, a white doilly cut to fit, a strip of purple from my stash and piece of lighter lilac card stock and some hand made flowers. A few 'leaves' cut from green mulberry paper  and die-cut gold flourish completes the embellishment.



Materials Used

Digi Image: Flowers and Watering-can - The Crafty Pad

Card-stock: Papermania - Soothing Heather Capsule Collection

Paper doilly, ribbon,