It's my friend, Lesley's Birthday and thought I'd go for a monogram card.
This is a one layered card using my very old large alphabet from Hero Arts, and masking with The Greetery Birthday Blooms, and then I embossed with my NBUS Altenew Frame.
I used to Copics to colour the letter and make shadows.
... Less is More #446 : OLC Monogram
... NBUS #28
I had some doodle flowers left over from this card, and thought I'd better use them up and not let them gather in the ever increasing left-overs pile!
I added a light touch of shading on the inner side of the doodle lines to give a little depth.
Then I topped the centres with Nuvo Glitter gloss, and covered with a layer of Gloss Accents.
My entry to ...
... CAS Colours & Sketches #421
Here goes with my second set using The Greetery Birthday Blooms. The first set, HERE, was with the Altenew Enchanted Garden ink set. This time I went with the muted blues from Altenew Tranquility ink set.
The second card follows a sketch (but I missed the deadline - oops). I got the idea of fading out on the blending from Vicky's card.
It was only when I was looking at the photo that I realised I had my wreath off-center from the faded strip. And I was too tired to re-do it. Sigh!
For the third card, I wanted to make it quite CAS. Lots of space to breath.
Which is your favourite?
I gave a zoom class to my group of regular stampers since we are stuck in lockdown. It was quite fun as some were in the UK. I tend to go to my stamps and ink way more than my dies, so I was doing cards using die cuts.
First I distressed some cardstock in rainbow colours. I had planned for more pastel colours, but in the end, I over-distressed and I had bright colours. For these 2 cards, I only used the bottom section of the wide panel.
I die cut once in the rainbow cardstock, and once in white.
I drew a rectangle around the card in pencil, using a ruler to get it straight. Then I went over it by hand with a black pen. Shaded with Copics. I just LOVE these sentiments from the Greetery set Birthday Blooms.
I kept the rainbow outline very simple.
I added Tonic Nuvo Glitter Gloss to the leaves and enamel accents to match the colours.
... Die Cut Divas : Slimline Card
... CASology : Long
I've just received my first stamp set from The Greetery .... Birthday Blooms! It's one of those sets that don't look like much in the packet, but oh do they make wonderful cards!
And I can't stop playing with it! So here's a bunch of cards using this set ... these are just the purple ones!
The first one was CASed from Dana's card, just to get the creative juices warmed up.
This one was inspired by the sketch challenge at Global Design Project.
I'm so disappointed to miss the deadline with posting this one. Loved the sketch.
This is a small card ... only 3¼" x 4". I had pieces left over from cutting cardstock to make slimline cards. I have 6, so this will be the first of a set as a gift for a friend.
Here's the whole gang!
More colours are stamped and die cut but still on my desk. So expect more.
My entry to ...
... Global Design Project #282 : Sketch
... Twofer Card Challenge : My choice. I choose blooms.
... The Flower Challenge #54 : Shades of Purple
... Addicted to Stamp & More #400 : Die cuts & Stencils
