Ombre Birthday Just Add Ink #348

Good morning beautiful people, I hope you all kept cool yesterday, I had a lovely relaxing day making cards while the puppies sprawled out on the floor trying to keep cool. Today's card was one I prepared yesterday, and it is based on the Just Add Ink - Just Add Ombre challenge.

I love the look of Ombre things, so when I saw this challenge I as excited to give it a go, and I decided I had to play with one of my favourite colours, purple for this card.

     

     

I wanted to keep it pretty simple and let the Ombre speak for itself, I also decided to use up some of my white card scraps for this one, hence the two sections of the background being of different sizes, though I think it works well.

I used my ink pads and sponge daubers to create the ombre background, on top of this I decided to do a simple white embossed flower from the Butterfly Basics set to add a little interest without totally overshadowing my Ombre background.

I was originally planning to have a plain white panel next to the flower however I couldn't help having a bit more a play so I grabbed out my Gorgeous Grunge set and stamping in all three colours up the blank panel having the colours progress in the opposite direction so the lightest colour was at the bottom allowing me to stamp the sentiment where it would be most legible.

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Butterfly Basics Clear Stamp Set [138816] $63.00	Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set [130517] $34.00
Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Stamp Set [142823] $45.00	Elegant Eggplant Solid Baker's Twine [141685] $5.25

I hope you all have an amazing Sunday, I'll be at work at the green box today, (aka Bunnings) pondering what I can create when I get home, am I the only one who is always obsessing over being back in my craft room? Have a great day and happy crafting.

Watercolour Wings GDP075 & CI04

Good Evening! I hope you have all had an amazing week, I have been getting into exercise and my muscles are killing me, so after a busy day I was so happy to relax in my craft room and do a little creating. For today's project I decided to have a little fun and combine 2 challenges that I thought would go together beautifully. First off I drew inspiration from the Global Design Project and their Winged Creatures themed challenge. Now my automatic response was to reach for my Dragonfly Dreams set, however I decided to make myself use my more neglected Watercolour Wings set instead.

My second challenge I drew inspiration from was the Colour INKspiration challenge, they are a challenge group set up on facebook as apposed to the normal blog situations. When I saw their colour challenge for this week I knew I had to challenge myself to give it a try, firstly because it is a colour combination I would not usually think to use together and I wanted to give it a try, and secondly because I have Delightful Dijon card stock overflowing from my paper stack and I have never used it, so why not drag it out and give it a try.

Now you know the reasoning behind me trying out these challenges I think we should get onto showing you what I came up with. Throughout the process of making this card I was constantly thinking I didn't like it, that the way I was using the colours wasn't working and I was convinced it would turn out terrible.

     

     

By the time I glues it all together and started taking photo's of it I was finally beginning to like it and although it is out of my normal comfort zone I am very happy with the end results.

I decided to bling this card up a little bit with the amazing wink of stella! I am almost out of my first pen of this magical glimmery perfection and definitely need to get more! I also decided to use some pearls down the middle of my butterfly, just to add a little bit more to the card, I tossed up using rhinestones instead but I just love the look of the pearls so much and couldn't go past them.

Finally I added one of the smaller butterflies to the inside of the card just so it didn't feel neglected, I originally made a few of these smaller butterflies for the front until I realized it would look way too crowed if I was to put them on, so I decided to use them to jazz up the inside instead of just pushing them to the side and not using them.

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Watercolor Wings Photopolymer Bundle [140232] $62.75	Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139950] $35.00
Butterfly Basics Clear Bundle [139323] $88.25	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50

That's all from me for today, however the morning promises a hot 40 degree day here in WA so I will be hiding out in the craft room with the air-con on all day so will hopefully have some finished pieces to share with you then.

I hope you all have an amazing weekend and happy creating

Another Thankyou Card

Omg, yesterdays blog hop was so much fun! If you missed I highly recommend going to check it out, there are so many amazing projects to see. If you have seen the projects then maybe you will remember Petra Tailor's balloon slider card. I have been following her slider projects for a few days and just had to try to make my own! If you want to know how to make these effective cards then you should definitely go and check Petra's blog post here.

Now onto my card, I made this for my mum and she loves Purple, just like I do, so that was my choice for this card. I decided to try this style of card out using the Butterfly thinlits, I hope you like my take on this style of card, I will definitely have to play with it more in the future.

     

     

This card was so much fun to make I can't wait to play with this some more and really refine my designs.

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Butterflies Thinlits Dies [137360] $41.00	Avant Garden Photopolymer Stamp Set [143272] $0.00
Butterfly Basics Clear Bundle [139323] $88.25	Bitty Butterfly Punch [129406] $28.00

That's all from me today, hope you have an amazing Monday and that work doesn't get you down too much.