My inky travels along life's rocky road

Friday, 16 September 2022

Contemporary Congratulations

 


It's that time of life when many of my son's friends are getting engaged and he wanted a couple of cards 'without hearts and stuff'. I had seen a card on Pinterest (or maybe someone's blog?), liked the CAS, contemporary style and had scribbled down a quick sketch on a scrap of paper. I forgot to jot down where I saw it but if I find it I will add a link.

I die cut a perforated rectangle, embossed it with an old Cuttlebug folder and added some fun foam behind it. The leaf die is from a Sizzix set - Spring Stems. I painted some Twinkling H2Os in majestic blue and mystic blue onto a scrap of watercolour paper, spritzed it with water to blend the two colours together and die cut the butterfly (I have no record of where this butterfly came from).

I wanted a sentiment in keeping with the clean style of the card and after a few attempts went for this small peel off. A few gems gave the card a subtle sparkle.

Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Monthly Tag Challenge - September


 The theme for this month's challenge was bees and the colour yellow. Although there are many bee-themed stamps available I don't have any and I was thinking of  looking online for an image when I discovered I had some paper napkins with bees on. 

The background was easy enough with my honeycomb layering stencils and fossilized amber, spiced marmalade and crackling campfire DOs. I found a quote that gave me the chance to use some TH wildflower dies which I coloured with alcohol markers.

I fussy cut a bee and added it with the computer generated quote. Yes it's quite busy but then so is a bee!

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