Monday 11 April 2016

Inspired by W&W 1 - 2 cards

This weekend, I've been spending a good deal of my time in my craftroom. I wish my weekends were longer, since I had a few more ideas I wanted to work on... On the other hand, I'm grateful that DH is recovering well after his surgery, which took place 6 weeks ago after initially having been posponed for 2 weeks. Last week he started doing the morning walks with our dog Bernie again, which is a perfect arrangement for all three: DH enjoys the walks, I get more sleep and can be at my desk a little earlier, and Bernie loves walking with DH (also with me, though).

Anyway, after drooling over the inspiration at the Winnie & Walter blog for a week, when the DT were showing us how they combined W&W products with some Pinkfresh Studio Felicity supplies, it was time to get creative myself using their work for inspiration.

First up I have the following card to share, which was inspired by Lydia's card on day 3. I'm not good at clustering, but I loved Lydia's cluster against that floral background in black and white, so I decided to give it a go.


To mimick the effect of Lydia's die cut heart, I stamped the poinsettia in Memento rhubarb ink onto a piece of vellum and heat embossed the image using Hero Arts clear embossing powder. I coloured parts of the petals on the back of the vellum using a red Promarker. The holly (W&W Happy Christmas) was stamped in green and coloured in using a green Promarker. After fussy cutting the leaves, I clustered them behind my sentiment strip (sentiment from W&W Happy Christmas) and adhered this to my poinsettia. For my background panel, I created a mask and placed that on my card panel because I did not want the leaf image to shine through the vellum, and then stamped the 2 leaf stamps from the Happy Christmas set using black ink. Before mounting my panel using foam tape, I adhered a piece of (never before used) Kelly Purkey washi tape on the left edge of my base card. To finish things off, I adhered a few pearls from a multi-coloured set by Kaiserkraft from my stash.

Challenges:
CAS on Sunday - 80 Flowers
AAA Cards - 62 Anything goes



My second card was inspired by Heather's Hello card on day 5 of the inspiration week at the W&W blog. I loved the big die cut made out of patterned paper on top of this row of stripy patterns. I browsed my neglected collection of patterned paper and found this fun pattern of stripes and stars in one of the Christmas paper pads from a Dutch bargain store and decided to combine this with the Merry die by W&W to create a Christmas card.


After adhering the strip of paper and the red washi tape by Kelly Purkey, I decided I needed something more solid to ground my die cut, so I stamped one of the borders from the W&W Holiday trimmings set (included in the very first Stamp of Approval box) in black. To tie the sentiment in with the rest of my design, I die cut the sentiment again from a piece of red cardstock and adhered it in such a way so as to create a shadow effect. I mimicked Heather's wood veneer heart by die cutting a star from wood veneer paper and two more from black cardstock to create my own wood veneer embellishment and coloured my star using a red Promarker. All that was left to do then was to adhere a few red sequins from the Pretty Pink Posh classic Christmas mixes.

Challenges:
Sparkles Christmas - 63 CAS Christmas
Christmas Card Challenges - 19 Photo inspiration (theme always optional)
Dutch Card Lovers - 252 Use wood veneer / Gebruik houtfineer









15 comments:

  1. Love your use of vellum! Also like how you keep the leaves in black and white. Thanks for sharing at CAS on Sunday!

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  2. You have been busy! Glad to hear your husband is on the mend. Love your clustering card - Lydia does do it amazingly well, doesn't she - but I adore your card with the huge sentiment. It's beautiful and the wood grain gives it a lovely effect. Xx

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  3. Two brilliant cards. I love the paper you used with the die cut greeting on the second one
    Thanks for sharing at Sparkles Christmas
    Jane

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  4. Creatief gevonden dat houtfineer tekstje en een mooie kaart! Dank je wel voor het meedoen met DCL.

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  5. Both your cards are super, love them !!

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  6. Mooie kaartjes! Leuk dat subtiele hartje! Bedankt voor het meedoen met de DCL.

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  7. Love the vellum poinsettia and the addition of the foliage in the back. Thanks for playing along with us at AAA Cards!

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  8. Love the way you did the die cut sentiment out of the same paper as the strip along the bottom! It's a great idea for using up small scraps of decorative paper. Thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers.

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  9. What a great pair of cards to squirrel away until Christmas! I love the one with the vellum poinsettia. Such a good idea to colour on the back of the vellum. The second card has such a modern and stylish look. Love the shadowed sentiment - very classy.
    Thanks for sharing with us at Happy Little Stampers, and I hope you will join us again soon.
    Hugs
    Carol x

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  10. Fantastic cards, both of them! I can't stop looking at the first one, though - wow!

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  11. Mooie kaart.
    Misschien kijk ik eroverheen maar ik zie geen woodfineer??? Klopt dat?
    Je kaart is in ieder geval toppie!
    Bedankt voor je deelname aan de DCL.

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  12. Both cards are great - I love the merry die and how you put that card together! Thanks for playing along with us this week at Christmas Card Challenges.

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  13. Your cards are awesome! I love how you used the washi tape..great design,too. Thanks for joining us at the Christmas Card Challenge this week!

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  14. This is just the cutest card/s ever and just perfect for our challenge over at Sparkles Christmas Challenge "A CLEAN AND SIMPLE CARD" good luck and hope to see you again next time Dt Member Sandra H xx

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  15. Beautiful card. I love her style CAS.
    hugs,
    BozenA DT HLS CC

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