SAF 2017 Guest: Rebecca Luminarias: Paper

Rebecca did a splendid job showing us how to turn simple paper that we use everyday in our card making into fabulous embellishments.  I decided to select another of the take 10 inspiration photos for my card.  I choose this one:

This was definitely outside my comfort level but I just loved the pop of yellow with all the gray/green colors.  I decided to try and mimic the great card by Nicole Heady here. 

I just love the way it looks like a door.  The panels are embossed with one of the Mix and Match scallop dies.   My wreath was composed of Bitty Bouquet and the sentiment is from Just Desserts.  I used Rebecca's paper strip bow technique to add to the wreath.

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Make It Monday #263 Background Building With Frames and ColorTthrowdown #413

Amy Sheffer shares with us a wonderful technique for her MIM video over at Papertrey Ink.  It involves building a background with frames.  Check out the video here.

I loved the technique of Amy's!  She first shared a card using this technique back in Feb of this year on her blog.  See her fabulous tulip card here.   I had saved this card of hers because I knew one day I'd like to copy it.  I was excited when she showed this card in her technique video because I now had an excuse to duplicate it!

I also pulled my colors from the latest Color Throwdown Challenge.

Below is my card:

Because of the bold colors in the challenge I went bold with my stenciled background.  Turns out that doesn't work for this technique.  I am not loving my card!  Amy's soft stenciled background was obviously the way to go.  My white frames got lost on this busy background so in an attempt to bring them back to life I colored the dots in with blue marker.  I stamped a flower my PTI's bitty bouquest and a tiny sentiment from PTI's the skinny to complete the card.   One day I might redo this card in different colors or something.

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Papertrey ink August 2016 Blog Hop Challenge

It's time again for the Papertrey ink monthly blog hop.  We are supposed to make a card using the inspiration from the photo.  Normally not long after looking at the photo I can picture in my mind what sort of card I wanted to do.  This time nada, zip...nothing!  So I sought out more inspiration.

I found the wonderful card above on Betsy's blog.  You can check out more details on her blog here.
I loved how the flowers tucked into the bold sentiment.  I also loved the artsy background.

I pulled the melon berry and berry sorbet colors from the photo and made my watercolored background.  I also took some fine linen ink and watered down white acrylic paint to produce splatters over my watercolored background.  The flowers were stamped in the same colors. I added a hint of navy as the centers of the flowers too.   The text block birthday die was cut with fun foam.  I accidentally used my white Wink of Stella glitter marker (instead of the clear) on the flowers.  However, I wasn't about to start over.  Luckily...The white maker gave the flowers a white washed look which actually worked well with my watercolored background.  A few iridescent sequins finishes the card.

Supplies listed and linked below:

PTI Text Block: Birthday Die	PTI Bitty Bouquets Stamps	PTI Bitty Bouquets Dies

PTI Berry Sorbet Dye Ink	PTI Melon Berry Dye Ink	PTI Fine Linen

Momento Nautical Blue Dye Ink	Zig Wink of Stella White Marker	White Fun Foam

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