DCL challenge #194 - flowers

Today a card with design papers. Yep, you are not very used to it anymore, as I worked on many CAS cards over the previous months and used only a few papers. But I like to work with design papers, so I created a birthday card with Crate Paper's The Pier. It actually is a summerline, but most of the papers and embellishments are useable throughtout the year. I bought the embellishments with the papers, but still hard to work with them. They are more suitable for LO's I guess. I added a flower to the card which suited perfectly with colours and shape. I inked all of the edges to give it a vintage look.

With this card I like to participate in DCL's current challenge: say it with flowers!
Have a nice evening!

DCL #180 Backgrounds

This week's challenge at the DCL blog wasn't that difficult: create your own background.
And so I did. The text was first stamped on a scrap of paper before stamping on the card which gives a softer printing. I did the same with the roses. By accident I got structure in the roses. I stamped on a scrap with linen structure and this also appeared onto the stamped images. I added some leaves to give it a fresher look. The birthday tags are pierced with a eyelets and hold in place with twine.

 

Have a nice day!

DCL #171 and MCSC #12

Over the past few months I have seen so many beautiful white based cards with paperpiece techniques that I have to try it myself. I usually work in a vintage coloured style, but I'm fond of the whites as well. However it is hard to switch from 'dirty' colours to white cardstock... This morning I saw the DCL challenge for this week with a beautiful colour card from which you have to use five colours. And for the CAS blog of MCSC the challenge of this month is: 'anything goes'. Perfect mix of challenges, isn't it?
So I checked my paper stash and compared the colours of the challenge with it. Summer Fresh of Simple Stories matched the best (poppy red, dusk blue, linen, lemon zest and monaco blue).
After finding the papers I had to look for a stamp set which I could use for paper piecing. I've got only one at the moment which is usable and that is 'Up, Up, Away' from PTI. It is really a fun technique! I coloured the baskets with a Derwent pencil. Do you know Debby Hughes' blog? She inspired me to work with a strip of patterned paper at the left side.

That's it for today! Thanks for coming by and have a nice weekend!

DCL #139 & Make it Monday #67

For today two challenges in one card! The team of DCL  has given a sketch as a challenge for this week. You can find the sketch here. Betsy Veldman of the Papertrey Ink team explained in a video how to mix patterned papers. The regular visitors of my blog know that I love mixing and matching, although I mostly mix and match with papers of the same brand. But lucky me, this was also allowed for the 'Make it Monday'-challenge of this week. If you struggle with mixing and matching you definitely have to go Nichole's blog and watch the video.

For this card I mixed the different papers of My Mind's Eye - Be Happy. It offers polka dots, gingham, hexagons, stripes and drawings. I mixed them all up and tried to find little drawings (like a bird and rose) for the small squares of the sketch in combination with less designed papers. I tried to find some contrast as well between the squares. For the border I mixed a gingham with a grid in the same colour scheme. Unfortunately the pattern of the square at the right upper side  is hardly visible, but it is a hexagon pattern in a very soft pink color.

The sentiment is from the 2012 Birthday Tags of PTI stamped with Tsukineko Brilliance Pearlescent Poppy. I did some stitching and inked the edges a bit with distress ink Vintage Photo. The ribbon is a nice addition to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!