Thinking of you

Some sad news from a dear friend prompted to make card as a pick-me-up. I have a new stamp set that comes with this large bird and also the leaves. I stamped them onto black card stock. Then I embossed the leaves with mixed metallic embossing powder and the bird with clear. I colored the bird in with metallic markers and used a collaged background.

The text mimics the colors of fall leaves.

Entering this in:

Allsorts Challenge: Week 754 Friendship

Inspiration Station: Inspiration photo. I was inspired by the colors and leaves.

Shopping Our Stash: #509 Emboss like the boss

The Card Concept: #201 Fall leaves - I took mine from the leaves, and used the colors.

Eternal sunshine

 Sunshine is what I wish for my summer vacation. Instead, I have been looking at rain clouds. It is a rainy summer up North where I live.Nevertheless, or for that reason, I was inspired by a couple of challenges that called for Vacation themes.

My starting point were the lovely colors of Inspirational challenge. I also got the idea for my starburst layout here - from the beach ball.

I have a lot of gelli prints, so I started by pulling out the vacation-appropriate colors: pink, turq, yellow, orange. Then I stamped "Happy Birthday" onto a cloud, which I placed in the center and flanked by two smaller clouds.

Entering this into these lovely challenges:

 Bastel-Traum: #125 Vacation/ Ferien

Inspirational Challenge: #51 Photo Inspiration

AAA Birthdays: Game #52: Anything Birthday goes

A Place to Start: AG/ Life is a beach - I am playing the AG option

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: AG

 

Thank you for your visit!

Text only

 Sometimes text just takes the center stage. (It reads: Best wishes on your special day)

 

 I was heavily inspired by the color orange and started by stamping the background with a cover plate stamp (Hero Arts). I did that twice, once with white and after repositioning the stamp, once more with Abandoned Coral. The background was an ink swipe with Spice Marmalade.

I raised part of the sentiment and stamped the rest underneath (Hero Arts), then heat embossed it with white. Finally I adhered some random letters around the main one - for no other reason than the card needed something but I did not want to add new imagery.

 

 

I am entering this into the challenges that inspired me:

A Blog Named Named Hero: Sentimental Journey

Inspiration Station : #50 photo - I was inspired by the moody oranges

Shopping our Stash: #499 Sentimentally yours

A Place to Start: June AG

 

Thank you for your visit!

Poor darling

 This is one of those serendipitous days when a couple of challenges seem to point to the same direction. 

Firstly, I was very inspired by this image of goldfish that Inspiration station has posted. I remembered I owned a goldfish stamp by Paper Source that hasn't really had a chance to play for a while.

I just love those vibrant oranges and yellows.

I decided the fish had to be solitary. When the fish travel in schools like you see on the above photo one doesn't really notice one especially. Only when a fish is separated, put into a jar and left there for everyone to gawk at, then it is exposed. I felt this would express a certain fear of future that we experience when starting something new.

I stamped the fish into the mason jar, washed slightly over everything with diluted Broken China. I then colored it in with oxides and distress inks and added a layer of Glossy accents to make the colors really pop. Lastly I stamped a few water grass onto the bottom of the jar.

The background is a Gelli print from my recent session. I also added some enamel drops and the sentiment that felt very right for this little fellow, but is also motivational for the intended recipient.

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 Entering in:

Inspiration Station: #10 Pet Goldfish

ColorCrazy challenge: Week 28 Anything goes

Get Creative: #103 AG opt. show water