Saturday 14 October 2017

Inspired by Shari Carroll

I have been spending quite a bit of time in my craftroom this past week, together with my sister, who is visiting. Her visit coincided with a number of fun challenges as well as the latest Online Card Class, Merry Making, so we decided to tackle a few of these challenges together ... and now my sister realises she needs more stamps haha.


The above cards were inspired by Shari Carroll's wintry scene on Day 2 of the OCC. Personally, I was attracted to the colours, which were a perfect match to the colours in inspiration graphic of the current Card Concept challenge. We used silver acrylic paint for a subtle (selective) resist background (Collage Music background, Hero Arts), smooshing (DIs in Evergreen bough, Iced spruce), additional blending (DIs in Evergreen bough and Walnut stain) and stamping (Altenew warm grey inks). We chose different stamps to finish our scenes, though.


On my card (above), I used the tree and deer from an old Inkadinkado set, a stamp with 2 smaller trees from an Essentials by Ellen set and a sentiment from a Crafter's Companion set.


My sister used trees from the Mini Holidays 2 set by Stampers Anonymous, the deer from the Santa's coming set (by Kelly Purkey for Simon Says Stamp) and a sentiment from an old set by Flourishes. She does not have a blog of her own, but she allowed me to enter her card into the same challenges that I'm linking up at.

Challenges: 

Winnie & Walter - WCMD Variations challenge with Shay
I hope it's OK to link this one up since the 
cards are made by different persons. 
If not, please ignore our entry.


The Card Concept - #79 Rustic Neutrals
Both our cards fall into the Mixed Media/Vintage category


Penny Black and More - Close to Nature

CHNC - #355 Anything Christmas goes (optional: stripes)

CHNC Extra - Always anything Christmas goes





14 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card Marianne. Love the layered effect you got with your smooshing.

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  2. Your backgrounds look super Marianne, lovely muted colours making the prefect backdrop for the wintery scenes.

    Many thanks for joining us at Penny Black and More challenge.

    B x

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  3. Lieve Marianne,wat komen onze kaarten prachtig uit.Ook jouw ondergrond/voorgrond heeft veel verscheidenheid aan kleuren,zó mooi. Wat waanzinnig mooie kaarten en zó leuk om ze steeds terug te kunnen kijken op jouw blog. WAT een mooie herinnering!!!.wat een leuk verhaal heb je erbij geschreven.😘😘😘Ineke

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  4. How wonderful that you could have creative time with your sister! Your cards are lovely.

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  5. I love the colour tones. Thanks for entering both of my CHNC challenges with your lovely crafting - hope to see you again soon. x

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  6. I love the colour tones (as one the other card too - what crafty sisters - lol!) Thanks for entering both of my CHNC challenges with your lovely crafting - hope to see you again soon. x

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  7. Love the soft colors. Thanks so much for joining us this week at The Card Concept.

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  8. Two beautiful cards - and how fun that you had a go at that together. I hope there's more fun ahead?

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  9. Stunning cards. Love the background. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra Challenge
    Julie T

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  10. Oh, wow, i love the colours used on this very striking christmas card! Thank you so much for playing along with us at the penny black and more challenge!
    Linda

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  11. The colours are lovely, Ineke, and i love the dimension of the trees with the deer at the bottom of the card suggesting movement. How fun to be able to spend time with your sister creating fabulous christmas cards! Thank you so much for playing along with us at the penny black and more challenge!
    Linda

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  12. You and your sister made some gorgeous cards here! I love the colors! Thanks so much for joining us at CHNC Extra with these pretty cards! :)

    ~Marie B -DT

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  13. Wonderful winter cards! Thanks for joining us at Penny Black & More and good luck!
    x Daniela (DT)

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  14. Fab creation, thanks for joining Penny Black & More @ Allsorts challenge, good luck.
    Happy crafting
    Tracy x

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