Runway Inspired

I managed to find some time to play along with the current Runway Inspired Challenge. It's been ages since I've joined in and I had a blast with the inspiration photo.

I was inspired by the geometric pattern and that you could see through the dress.

For the background I applied Squeezed Lemonade and Abandonned Coral Distress Inks through the Heidi Swapp Fence Stencil. I cleaned off the stencil, placed it back on the design and applied Translucent Embossing Paste on top. This paste dries clear so the colours beneath are still visible.

I die cut Paper Smooches Roses Die and Leaves from black card stock and backed them with vellum so the background design would still be visible.

I finished off with a sentiment from the Altenew Label Love set and a few enamel dots.

You can see the shine and texture from the embossing paste in this photo.

I'm also entering this card in Simon Says Stamps Anything Goes Challenge.

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Curtain Call

It's my first time playing over at Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge and it's an Anything Goes Challenge inspired by this pic.

I really like this photo and took inspiration from all the white space, the cubbies, the pink and pool colours and the hydrangea on the desk.

I white embossed the hydrangea from Hero Arts and watercoloured it and the background with Distress Markers. The background was done with Embossing Paste and the Mini Cubist Stencil from The Crafters Workshop and the sentiment is Paper Smooches Quote Tag.  I finished off with some ribbon and a cute clothespin.

I'm also entering this for the Simon Says Stamp Emboss It Challenge.



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Runway Inspired #62

It's been a long time since I've made a card for the Runway Inspired Challenge. But with a little free time and a beautiful photo to get my mojo working, I decided to play along.

Isn't this dress so pretty...I was totally inspired by the gliding birds against the dark blue background.

I did tone-on-tone stamping with Hero Arts Flourish Background and made some stencils of flying birds on my Silhouette and used them to add embossing paste on top of  the flourishes.  While the embossing paste was still wet I sprinkled on Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter for a subtle sparkle.

I stamped the sentiment on vellum, added a strip of silver glitter paper, some May Arts Silk Ribbon and a pretty button to finish off the card. I was thinking this would be a great card for a wedding.

There's still plenty of time to play along with the challenge, you'll find all the deets here.

I'm also entering this in Simon Says Anything Goes Challenge.


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Simon Says Birthday Challenge

It's a Simon Says Stamp Birthday Challenge to celebrate 5 years of fun challenges on their blog.

I used translucent embossing paste for my background, stamped the sentiment onto card stock and placed it in a glassine envelope along with some sequins.

Hope you get to play in the challenge, you could win a fabulous prize from Simon Says.

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