Trigger Tuesday

This weeks trigger over at Moxie Fab World is a room that is elegant and clean, neutrals with a touch of pink.

I love the medallion design in the carpet and the soft colours and was inspired to make two cards.

I chose this elegant medallion stamp from Magenta, stamped it with Encore Champagne ink and clear embossed on some pearlized paper.  I thought this would be perfect for a wedding card.

I didn't really like how the ribbon element came out so I decided to make another card and changed the ribbon and came up with this card.

I'm still not sure which card I prefer but decided this one would make a lovely anniversary card.

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Runway Inspired Challenge

I've made a card for the first challenge at Runway Inspired Challenge. The blog is run by Jennifer Rzasa, who makes absolutely fabulous cards, which can be seen on her personal blog here.

Here's our first inspiration.

Love the happy yellow and the eyelet/lace feel to the dress.

The stamp I used is from Magenta. The image has a stitched look to it and I stamped it three times in yellow to make the border and I set it off with a bit of black paper and some white pearls. I wanted to keep it CAS, just for Jennifer!

Wishing you an inky weekend!

Etsy Inspired

The EtsyInspired blog is celebrating their 100th challenge so I thought I would make a card! The inspiration is from Cathy Walters Etsy shop. She makes beautiful pendants and this butterfly one caught my eye. Love the blues and purples!

Here is my card inspired from the pendant.

I used Alcohol Inks in blues and purples to colour some glossy paper and them embossed the butterfly in black on top and added a bit of shimmer with a Stardust Pen. The background was done in Distress Inks and all was mounted on the Big Scalloped Circle die cut. I didn't add a sentiment on the front, instead I stamped it on the inside of the card. I do this quite often to have a cleaner looking front.

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Butterflies and Spring

Anne over at Gaal Creative is having a challenge called Butterflies and Spring. The idea is to brighten up your blah winter day with some thoughts of spring.

The butterfly on my card black embossed on paper that I watercoloured in purples, blues and aquas. I added a bit of shimmer with a Stardust pen. The background was silver embossed on paper that I had randomly coloured with pigment inks. I added a sentiment and some ribbon to finish it off.

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Virginia's Challenge

Virginia has posted a challenge here called "Beat the Winter Blahs". Her one criteria is to have a "wow" factor on the project.  Since today is the first day I've seen the sun in ages I wanted to make a bright card that felt like spring. I think the colours on this qualify as a "wow" factor, don't you?

The flower is from Magenta and I stamped it twice on some paper I coloured with India Ink and embossed it in white. I curled the petals on both layers to give some dimension and used two of my border punches for the sentiment piece.

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Valentines

I'm back after my little break and am posting some Valentine's Day cards. This one is an experiment in layering, not sure if I like it. The heart image is from a company called Magenta. A Canadian company with beautiful high quality stamps. I embossed it with silver ep on paper that I had watercoloured. The red layer is a piece of metal put through the Cuttlebug and the background is a Hero Arts stamp clear embossed.


These next two cards were quick to make. I just embossed the image and coloured in a bit of it with Glaze pens and added a decorative edge with punches.

For this I cut out a couple heart shapes and clear embossed the large heart and used a herringbone stamp for the small one (all stamps Hero Arts). I stamped the XOXO onto the ribbon and added a border punched strip.

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