Last weekend I was desperately trying to juggle all the cleaning, laundry, re-packing for my business trip, when I realized to my horror, that I more friends' birthdays looming around the corner. In fact, one of my local girl friend's birthday was last week and I threw a card together that I will save for another post (after she has surely gotten it).
Another friend lives abroad -- and I wanted to throw a fun card for her together, but I also didn't want it to be bulky. My crafty gals reminded me that there was another fun WMS inspiration challenge which I looked at last week during a quick lunch break. Here is what I threw together
Stamps: "Can Ya Dig It" (My Favorite Things), Flowers from Embossing Stamp Set (Martha Stewart)
Paper: Beige (Recollections), Amy Butler Lotus Faded China Pad (K&Company)
Ink: Momento - Paris Dusk (Tsukineko), Momento - Summery Sky (Tsukineko)
Embellishments: 1/8" Spool o' Ribbon - Light Blue (Offray), Sun Yellow Eyelet (Making Memories), Threading Waters Border Punch (Fiskars)
The horrible thing with this card is that when I looked at the inspiration challenge post (a very long time ago), I remembered "flowers" "a lime green accent that exuded freshness" and "round." Lesson learned? Look up the challenge post again ;)
The focus was on the Amy Butler pattern paper (swoon!). The lime green jumped out at me when I was going through my stash and everything just fell into place from there. Since I tried to keep the card as flat as possible I tried to add dimension by stamping my own pattern paper with different hues of the same color. It's hard to tell on the picture, but I pulled a Martha Stewart flower and a matching blue ink and went at it. The "Sun Yellow" eyelets were actually more lime green, but who am I to judge color. I just cared that it matched and added a little accent ;) The threading ribbon through the Threading Waters Border Punch seemed like a way to end the whole card.
Let me know what fun techniques you use to make a flat card look amazing.
8 comments:
I use heat embossing on flat cards. It adds a little dimension and a bit of shine/glitz (depending on the powder you use)!
Great card! There's also paper piecing with stamped images to keep things pretty flat too. :)
The greens and blues really work - great!!!
On flat cards, I also use heat embossing... also lots of texture and different mediums...
Angela xxx.
Lovely card, great colours and layout!
I like that you picked out the flowers and the lime green from the inspiration image; it's another fun way to find inspiration! It's like going with your first instinct. ;-) I love the patterned paper. I love how well you drew focus to the sentiment with the eyelets and solid papers.
Your card is so pretty! That dp is wonderful and I like your threaded ribbon! Thanks for playing our challenge! :)
Such a pretty card, and I love that it's so "Mail" friendly (don't see those much, and we all always need ideas!!) One thing I like to do is wrap ribbons around the card, but don't tie them in knots/bows. It gives the texture and prettiness to the card without the bulk. Thanks for asking people to leave their tips... I've enjoyed reading both the comments AND the post! :)
Stephanie & Laurie: thanks for stopping as usual :) hopefully i can get my act together and catch up on swaps.
Angel Mclean, Ruth M, KindredEsprit, Julie Masse & JeanFB: thanks for the ongoing support and the wonderful suggestions. I also am exited that I have new blogs to follow & read :)
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