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Main image: from Penny Black "Tiny Wishes" transparent set, coloured with watercolour pencils and rose on hat decorated wtih Stickles;
I also roughly painted the flowers with the H20's in iridescent gold, which made them quite twinkly.
I'd like to enter this card for this week's Creative Inspirations Challenge #13 which is
Something old, something new ...
I have interpreted this broadly as being a wedding card; but if we need to be literal then here goes ...
Something Old - pink & cream wedding papers from issue 3 of Creative Cardmaking magazine
Something New - Willow, Oakley and sentiment stamps by Whiff of Joy, and my MS Valentine Hearts punch
Something Borrowed - the idea of masking the bride so that you can still see the groom through her veil - from the lovely Rach's blog (example here)
Something Blue - this was me last night, as I only finished this card at 12.20am lol!!
Here's a peek at the inside....
Here is a leaving card that I made last night for a lovely lady at work .... I couldn't help but think that this gorgeous cute hedgie image, with her trainers on and rucksack ready to go, was just perfect for this occasion!
I would like to enter it into the following four challenges:
Papertake Weekly #19 - Dawny's sketch. Now I have taken a couple of liberties with it insomuch as I have rotated it by 90 degrees, and then I have replaced the oval with a wavy rectangle (cos that's what I had to hand and I didn't want to cut off hedgie's uber-cute feet lol!) Anyhow - I hope you still get the idea :-)
Stamp Something this week has a theme of pink, green and yellow - so I deliberately chose these beautiful summery papers to fall in with that.
Simon Says Stamp wants to see summer fruits or summer fruit colours - well I have not gone especially for English summer fruit colours, but rather for exotic fruits such as watermelon pink, lemon, grapefruit yellow and kiwi fruit.
Stamp With Fun #15 asks us to use shapes or punches - I have used nestie shapes for my matting and layering, plus punched leaves and a border punch (inside).
Talking of which ... here's the inside ....
So get your thinking caps on and give it a swirl (sorry - couldn't resist that!)
Here is my card - I decided to go at it from a slightly unusual angle, inspired by this fabby swirly felt ribbon I had left over from last Christmas. I'm currently well behind with making my Christmas cards, so this seemed like an ideal opportunity!
I quickly went online (as you do) and was thrilled to discover that she has some really yummy goodies in the shop - quite a few ranges of rubber stamps and also fabulous embellishments including some really unusual charms and ribbons. I got completely engrossed in browsing and must have filled and then emptied my basket several times as it was so hard to choose!
Eventually I decided ... Elaine delivered fantastically quickly and here's what I received - how gorgeous is all this??
Hope to see you all back in the challenge this week!
Hugs
One lucky winner can win this gorgeous stamp.
Have a great weekend, and look forward to seeing all your creations !