…an active alchemy

Sharing a birthday card featuring a lovely digi from Make it Crafty called Chelsea Hugging Legs, gotta love us Aussies for our (un)imaginative names!

To create my card, I’ve followed the sketch over at Creative Friday, I just enlarged the square element to fit my digi.  Used a chippie from Uniquely Creative I picked up at the recent Paperific Show to add my sentiment. 

Unfortunately, in this set a couple of words were missing the dots for their ‘i’ and ‘wish’ was one of them.  Luckily, I was planning on playing along at CAS-ual Fridays for their current sequin challenge so I just used one for the dot.  Added a trio of larger ones as the only other embellie on this card to keep the focus on the pretty image.

Over at Simply Create Too they’re looking for stitching and I’ve gone for some of the faux kind.  I cut my image using a stitched square die from Simon Says Stamp! and then cut it again from my top cardstock and used the negative space.  This is an awesome set of dies as they have stitching on both sides of the cut.  To add a bit of dimension I popped the image up on some foam tape.  Love how a bit of stitching can add interest to an otherwise CAS design.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E31, E35, 0

Lips E04, R56, R59

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit BG10, BG11, BG32, BG34, B49, C6, C8, C10, W0, W2, W4, W6, W8, W10, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Bellbird Paperarts Embossing Powder ~ Clear Sparkle

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Simon Says Stamp! Dies ~ SSSD111454 Stitched Squares

Embellishments

Little Things from Lucy’s Cards Shaker Selection ~ Caribbean Dream

Uniquely Creative Chipboard ~ Words

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Multiliner ~ 0.1 Black

Molotow Paint Pen ~ Signal White

Prismacolor Pencils ~ 925 Crimson Lake

Spica Pen ~ Silver & Turquoise

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Peacock Feathers

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Vibrant Teal

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Stamps

Make it Crafty ~ Chelsea Hugging Legs

Challenges

Simply Create Too #142 ~ Use Stitching (real or faux)

Thanks for stopping by!

…there’s no such thing as a stranger

Sharing a card featuring the beautiful Cherry Blossom image from Make it Crafty.

This is going out to a special lady turning 90, although I have kept that rather subtle on the card!  Two things this special nonagenarian (not a word you get to say too much!) loves are flowers and small birds so I have combined them on this card.  Colouring flowers is certainly not my forte but I gave it my best with some no lines water colouring.  I chose cherry blossoms after seeing the inspiration photo at The Card Concept where I also picked up the blue background although I did make mine into a sky with some fluffy white clouds.  As an aside, how awesome is that dress in the photo, would love to add it to my wardrobe!

Decided to add some interest to the otherwise CAS layout by fussy cutting the bottom of the flowers and then the mat and base cardstock.  Would have been way easier if I could use my Silhouette properly to do the cutting for me but I think it was worth the effort.

The image was so large there really wasn’t room for a sentiment on the front, well, not a fancy one befitting of a 90^th birthday card.  But the pearl theme at Allsorts prompted me to dig out the pearl heart from my stash to frame a Remnant Rub 90 and have one of Tim’s metal birds carry that pearl heart on a string of pearls.  Have to say I always associate pearls with older ladies ~ Barbara Bush anyone? ~ so they were perfect for this card.  Although I did learn the anniversary gift for 90 is stone, really?!  You achieve that milestone and you get a lump of stone, guess that’s what happens for an anniversary that next to no one achieves!  But I did frame my top panel with a piece of grey cardstock as a nod to the stone and it did fit the colours nicely.

To tie the bird in with the flowers I coloured it slightly with a Victorian Velvet Distress Crayon covered with some Picket Fence.  It is subtle but looks nice in real life.  And because my focal image is of flowers I am also entering this in the current challenge at Crafty Friends.

Oh, and I added my fancy sentiment, a gorgeous chippie also from Make it Crafty to the inside of my card.  Love how the chippies look coloured up with Distress Markers and doused in clear embossing powder.  Tied it altogether with some pearls.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Clear Super Fine Detail

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

My Favorite Things Stencil 6x6 MIX-ables ~ ST-99 Cloud

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Pearls ~ Snow

Make it Crafty Chipboard Cursive Sentiments ~ Happy Birthday

Pearl Flourishes from stash

Pearl Heart from stash

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Adornments Nature

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie ~ Remnant Rubs Numbers

Inks & Paints etc

Derwent Watercolour Pencils ~ 6 Deep Cadmium, 10 Orange Chrome, 14 Deep Vermilion, 20 Crimson Lake & 32 Spectrum Blue

Kuretake Gansai Tambi ~ No 10 White, No 37 Deep Pink & No 47 Dark Brown

Tim Holtz Distress Crayons ~ Picket Fence & Victorian Velvet

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Crushed Olive, Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar & Victorian Velvet

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Spun Sugar & Victorian Velvet 

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Fabriano Watercolor Paper ~ 200gsm Hot Pressed 
Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Smokey Slate

Stamps

Make it Crafty ~ Cherry Blossom

Challenges

Allsorts #464 ~ Use Pearls

Crafty Friends #82 ~ Flowers

Thanks for stopping by!