The Card That Started It All

This card was made weeks ago, for Taylor's sketch challenge #64, but I kept it under wraps because I very quickly decided that I had to use these elements again for convention swaps and didn't want to spoil the surprise. You may notice a lot of white flecks on the card: that's not white embossing powder or anything like that, it's just dust and fluff that collected on the card over the weeks it sat here waiting to be photographed and a quick brush didn't get them off (I was in a rush as I needed to attend to dinner!). The main image is the Bloomin' With Beauty flower stamped on Whisper White and cut out just as I did for the bookmark swaps (though the others are coloured much nicer). The black strip across the middle has Bella's Border embossed in black just as I did for the "Bella & Edward/Jacob" cards, although here I did it twice (turning the wheel around the second time and trying to get a mirror image effect but I didn't quite line it up perfectly). The sentiment comes from yet another set, A Beautiful Thing, which I inked with my Basic Black, Riding Hood Red and Garden Green markers. I was quite happy with how this turned out!

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Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, Garden Green, Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Bloomin' With Beauty, Bella's Border, A Beautiful Thing, Frames With A Flourish
Inks: StazOn Jet Black, VersaMark
Accessories: Basic Black marker, Riding Hood Red "marker", Garden Green marker, Dress Up Ribbon Originals, aquapainter, dimensionals
Show watched while creating: Twilight

Convention Swaps Part I

Caroline was correct, the inspiration for this piece was Twilight. I actually got the idea for the flower while working on a sketch challenge last week and loved how it turned out so much I decided to make it for a swap. The flower was stamped in StazOn on Whisper White cardstock then watercoloured with the aquapainter picking up ink from the lids of the inkpads, and then the flower was cut out. The apple was clear embossed on Riding Hood Red cardstock, punched out, and then I went around the outside twice with a Basic Black marker. You need to go over the black a second time to get it really black. I loved how these turned out, they came up better than I had imagined... but I am sure the non-Twilighters that swapped with me were thinking "what's an apple got to do with the flower???"

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Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Bloomin’ With Beauty, Tart & Tangy
Inks: StazOn Jet Black, VersaMark; Riding Hood Red, Garden Green for watercolouring
Accessories: Aquapainter, Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon, scallop circle punch, 1 3/8” circle punch, 1 ¼” circle punch, clear embossing powder, Basic Black marker
Show watched while creating: Twilight

Cinema Saturday #25

This card was inspired by the movie Goldfinger, this weeks challenge over at Cinema Saturday. I based my card on the tux that Sean Connery is wearing (under his wetsuit...) at the start of the film... I could have done a lot of different things (especially with the martini glass from the new Cheers To You set) but decided to go with a simple, elegant and classic card which sums up Bond for me (particuarly the older movies). I also drove my kids mad singing the theme song.

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Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Brushed Gold, Very Vanilla
Stamp Set: Bloomin' With Beauty
Inks: StazOn Jet Black; Purely Pomegranate for watercolouring
Accessories: blender pen, Garden Green marker, Sahara Sand marker, scallop edge punch, Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon (from Spring mini), dimensionals
Show watched while creating: Goldfinger

Bloomin' With Flowers

The other day I felt like making something with lots of layers, so I went searching for a sketch to match and decided upon Julee's Mojo Monday sketch. I picked a colour scheme, stamped my flower twice (may as well make two cards at the same time!) and started colouring. However I wasn't far into my colouring when I thought I may have made a bad move with doing a Soft Sky wash over the flowers before colouring them with Taken With Teal... so I coloured my second image with Lavender Lace flowers instead. I made this image up into the card you see above and then decided to persevere with the Teal flowers image. It came out fine, but I still prefer the Lavender Lace flowers.

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Cardstock: Old Olive, Lavender Lace, Taken With Teal, Soft Sky, watercolour paper, Tempting Turquoise
Stamp Set: Bloomin' With Beauty
Inks: StazOn Jet Black for stamping; Soft Sky, Taken With Teal, Lavender Lace and Old Olive for watercolouring
Accessories: aquapainter, 3/16" corner rounder, Circle Ice Rhinestone brads, Sherbet Ribbon Originals, dimensionals, white gel pen
Show watched while creating: Heroes