The Card Concept 29

The Card Concept 29 has a Get Well theme, along with inspiration from this photo.

Here's my card. I was inspired by the colors and display of the crocheted flowers.

The inspiration for my card came from Nina-Marie and her amazingly gorgeous

spattered masterpiece here.

I chose two butterflies from Paper Smooches Graceful Beauties set, inked them
with Distress inks, sprayed them with water, then stamped them on watercolor paper.
I spattered coordinating watered down inks, and the sentiment is also from Paper Smooches.

I would define my card as somewhat clean and simple.There's still quite a bit of
white space but in hindsight, I should have used smaller butterflies.

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The Card Concept 27--LOVE

I'm playing with The Card Concept Challenge #27 and here's the inspiration photo.

I created a card in the Clean and Simple style. My inspiration?

The woodgrain and ombré letters.

I ink distressed white cardstock in three colors of Distress ink before cutting out
 the sentiment several times and layering them. The tiny hearts are from
an Avery Elle set and the "you" is from Winnie & Walter.
 

I should try other card styles but when the white space starts to fill up,

I get a little antsy and always resort to a CAS card. Maybe one day...

 

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The Card Concept 10--Coffee

I'm playing in The Card Concept's latest challenge with a COFFEE theme.

Here's my shaped card and I kept it clean and simple. Or maybe it's clean and layered.

I used the Sizzix Bigz Coffee Mug die and some Highline papers from Basic Grey.

I followed the tutorial here to construct the card. The sentiment is from
(the now closed--sniff!) Fresh Squeezed Stamps.

Here's a side view of the card. It's the perfect size to enclose a gift card.

I'm also linking this up to Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge--Die Crazy--

to use dies on your project. I love this coffee mug die but I'm not a hot coffee drinker.

Iced coffee is my poison and I poison myself almost every day.

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The Card Concept 8--Umbrella

I'm joining my first Card Concept Challenge because the theme is to use an UMBRELLA.
I just couldn't resist.

 

The colored umbrellas were die cut from a scrap piece, and I also die cut
three white umbrellas and mounted them randomly to mimic the challenge photo.
The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter.

The white umbrellas were an afterthought. At first I had just the colored ones

and that's when my card was Clean and Simple. Now it's Clean and Layered. I think.

Still lots of white space and layers of umbrellas.

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