Runway Inspired Challenge #86

Hello and welcome to a new Runway Inspired Challenge.

To be honest, I was struggling with this outfit. I love the outfit. It was the pattern and the dark shades that got me. Combining patterns and darker colours together was a struggle. I almost gave up and asked Jen for more time to get a card done for this challenge. Just after I did that, I had a brain wave and made this card.

Hennah Elements is one of my favourite stamp set from Altenew. That is because the images in this set are beautiful and the outline of these images are nice and thick. These images make a statement when stamped on coloured cardstock in black. So I stamped the images from Hennah Elements on a purple cardstock panel covering the entire panel. The panel was beautiful with the pattern which coordinated with the purple of the skirt from the outfit.

Then I stamped the large flower twice, small flower one and a few leaves on white card stock. I coloured using copic markers. The flowers in the teal blue and leaves in red. They were all cut out by hand.

The base of the card is black. I adhered the purple panel at an angle with bits of gold foil cardstock sticking out on either side. Trimmed the excess off. The flowers and leaves are clustered and adhered using foam adhesives for dimension. I brushed shimmer on the flowers using Wink of Stella. The sentiment is from Label Love stamp set also from Altenew.

Check out Runway Inspired Challenge blog for design team projects on this fabulous outfit. Come and play along with me.

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I am over at Winnie & Walter!

Yes, I am over at Winnie & Walter Blog today sharing a watercolour card.

Here is a sneak peek of the card.

Check it out! 

This is my second post for today. My first post is a super CAS card.

Super CAS card!

Evening everyone,

Mad Monday! I have a super clean and simple card today using Penny Black dies and stamp set.

I love bird cages. I have a few at home and garden. Penny Black new releases have a set of three bird cage dies called Vintage Birdcages. I decided to use the center birdcage die cut in gold foil cardstock. I also die cut the birds from In the Garden die also from Penny Black in white cardstock. I coloured the birds with R81 and R85 copic markers. On the card front, I sponged some Tumbled Glass distress ink , then spattered some clean water and pale pink colourwash from Heidi Swapp.

Then I glued the sitting bird on the cardstock with the bird cage on top. I applied glue to the outer edge of the bird cage to make cure the centre of the bird cage bulges a bit for dimension. I then glued the flying bird as if it is coming to the cage. I pocked a hole on the top of the bird cage and threaded gold thread with an Orchid sequin from Pretty Pink Posh added to it.

The heart shape balloon is from So Very Much stamp set. I stamped it in red ink, then brush with pink wink of Stella and applied glossy accent.  The sentiment is also from So Very Much stamp set stamped in grey ink. I have added a thin strip of gold foil cardstock to this panel before adhered on to the card front with fun foam.

I love the simplicity of this card and also the subtle dimension and texture on the card given by the bulging bird cage, the gold thread, sequins and the glossy accent on the balloon. 

Here are the three products I have used to make my card.

 They are all available from Penny Black store.

 

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Shaker card!

Afternoon everyone,

I am sharing a shaker card today with you using Taylored Expressions stamp set.

I have been seeing a lot of sea creatures, fishes and water based cards all over the place. They all look gorgeous especially with watercolour technique used to create a scene. I jumped into the band wagon and created a shaker card using Taylored Expressions Under the Sea stamp set. 

I used watercolour card stock upon which I stamped all the images from the stamp set using black Versafine ink. The images are heat embossed so I can watercolour them. Zig pens come handy to quickly watercolour especially the tiny nooks and corners. I used zig pens to watercolour the background too. Of course, I could have used masking fluid or rubber cement to mask off the images and watercolour the background. But I did not have the time nor patience for it. And Zig pens make it easy to acces the tiny nooks anyway. So I went ahead and coloured the entire background using three different hues of blue. One the bubbles, I added some glossy accent for add dimension.

The frame is die cut using MFT dies. The sequins inside the shaker card is from Pretty Pink Posh. They are Corn Flower blue, Winter Mix without the snow sequins, Cobalt, Sparkly Clear, Silver, Sparkly Clear seed beads and Silver Shimmer seed beads.

There is a little boy who is celebrating his 5th birthday next week. He loves fishies and desperately wants an aquarium. His parents at the moment cannot handle having an aquarium at home as another baby is on the way and they have a dog as well. So this card is his aquarium with his favourite fish - The Shark in it :) I showed his mum and she is  very sure her son is going to LOVE the card. Cannot wait to see his face when I give him the card :)

BTW: Last night, my friend LOVED house warming card and everyone loved my carrot halwa. It was a pleasure to see everyone enjoying it.

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Bless this house!

Afternoon everyone,

I am visiting my friend's house for dinner tonight. They have bought a new house and settled into it now. It is an informal house warming dinner that they are hosting. I have bought a gift and made a Indian dessert called Carrot Halwa. To go with it, I made a card as well. Thought I will share the card with you.

I have used This Awesome House stamp set from Winnie & Walter to make my card. I heat embossed the house on watercolour card stock in white and water coloured using Zig Real Brush markers. Then I used Essentials: Audrey Cutaway to die cut the scallop panel. I also white heat embossed the banner and the flower pots, wate rcolured them and cut them out. I adhered the flower pots and banner are popped up using foam adhesives. The sentiment on the banner is also from The Awesome House stamp set.

I die cut another scalloped panel using Essentials: Audrey Cutaway using white cardstock and adhered on an grey card base using foam adhesive, similarly the house panel on the larger scalloped panel using foam adhesives. I have brushed the banner and the flowers on the flower pot with Wink of Stella.
 I love the soft look of the watercolour house and flower pots and banner with the sentiment in black for a nice crisp contrast. This draws the eyes to the sentiment. I love how this card turned out. Hope they do too.

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Have a great weekend!