Showing posts with label Better Together. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Better Together. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 April 2018

The Paper Players 388 - Design Team Card


Today, LeAnne has a colour challenge for The Paper Players. Isn't it pretty? With that gorgeous graphic, I couldn't help but think of lavender and the lovely lavender set that was available during Sale-a-bration. Then I got the stubborns and decided that I wouldn't use it!



Even so, I couldn't get away from the idea of flowers and got out a long neglected set, Wild About Flowers. I really like this set because the stems and heads are different stamps, so that it's really very easy to create colourful garden scenes - or do both in a dark colour and make a silhouette.



I used Sheet Music to create a background in Wisteria Wonder and the other two colours for the flowers. Even though the colours are so pretty, there was something elegiac about them, so I made this a sympathy card. I think not all sympathy cards need to be heavy and black.


We'd love to see what you do with LeAnne's pretty colours. Pop over and see what the rest of the team has done with them here.

Here's a quick reminder of the rules at The Paper Players.
  1. Create a NEW paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
  2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
  3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
  4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, total. Entries linked to more than 4 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
  5. Have fun!
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Monday, 28 November 2016

CC&S201 and JAI338

After a bit of a drought on the ideas front, it was great to finally find some inspiration tonight after work, especially when it was brought about by two of my favourite challenges.

Just Add Ink has an inspiration photo this week.


I love the colours, especially the rich blues and purples with the touches of metal from the brushes.
I paired it with the sketch at CAS Colours and Sketches.


Here's where it ended up...


After sponging and blending the masked vertical column, I sprinkled it with water to get some spots of lifted colour. This not only gave some interest but it helped to suggest rain or tears, which goes with the sympathy sentiment.


After stamping the images in ink, I added in some copper embossed leaves at the bottom and some copper splatters at the top, adding to the rain effect.


And on the inside...


Update: Delighted to get an Honourable Mention at Just Add Ink this week.
Update: Delighted to also be a Weekly Winner at CAS Colours and Sketches

Ingredients
Card: Rich Razzleberry, Watercolour paper, Whisper White (inside)
Stamps: Awesomely Artistic, Butterfly Basics, Better Together
Inks: Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry, Versamark, Tuxedo Black
Other: Copper embossing powder, Sponges, water, masking tape.
All products Stampin' Up.



Monday, 5 September 2016

Just Add Ink 327

One of my favourite challenge sites is Just Add Ink and it's a colour challenge this week.


The colours naturally made me think of the Seaside Shore suite of papers and stamps but I didn't want to go overly nautical.  Something I've always struggled with is masculine cards and I'm also pretty slack about getting to terms with some of the packaging goodies I own. So, I set myself the task of a card and co-ordinating gift bag, suitable for a male and inspired by the colour challenge.

Here's how that ended up.


I'm really happy with the gift bag. It's the large size, made with the gift bag punch board. The bits I'm most pleased with are the 3D effect on the 'For You' created with the Soft Sky shadow layered in behind and the inlaid stars.


The card picks up on the themes of the bag and also uses a new set for me, Better Together.




Update: Utterly delighted to win at Just Add Ink!

Ingredients
Card: Dapper Denim, DSP from By the Shore, Very Vanilla, scraps of Soft Sky and Calypso Coral
Stamps: Better Together
Inks: Dapper Denim 
Other: Lots of Labels framelits, Mini-treat Bag thinlit set, Circle framelit, Subtles enamel shapes, dimensionals, Burlap ribbon, Gold binder clip