A customer asked me to make her a girly birthday card with lilac/purple/pink. Well the girly bit was more difficult but as purple/lilac are my favourite colours I got stuck in. I decided to use a Sugar Nellie Leanne Ellis image called "Tell me something". She's standing there holding a little bird and talking to him. I have coloured the image with Promarkers and Copics and then I tore the edges, distressed it a bit more and then highlighted the edge with a purple Versamagic chlak ink pad. The image is mounted on a tag that I made myself using alcohol inks and then I stamped the U-mount crackle stamp over it and put on Tim Holtz's black distress powder. I still find this difficult to know when it's finished but this time after I let it cool down and then rubbed away the excess it looked better than my last attempt. More practice needed I think!!! The mounts for the card are some silver mirri card, some purple backing paper scrap and then a scrap of purple vellum. The card is finished off with some lace around the front of the card, a thinner lace instead of ribbon on the tag, some brads to hold the vellum on and a peel-off.
This card fits the following challenges:
Sweet Stampin' - Things with wings
Practical Scrappers - Embossing
Incy Wincy - Distress it
Party Time Tuesday - Anything goes birthday
Papertake Weekly - In the garden
For Fun Challenge - No die-cuts and the main image you must have coloured yourself
Gingersnap Creations - Markers
CAS-tastic - Use any 3 of the following: (1) stamped/digi image (2) inked edges (3) Masking (4) paper piercing (5) lace (6) embossing - I've managed to use 4 out 6 on this card ie (1), (2), (5) and (6)
Rainbow Lady's - Lavender and lace
Meljen's Designs - Long or tall card.
Lovely card. Purrfect shades of the indicated colors. Your client should love it. Thanks for sharing it with us at For Fun Challenges
ReplyDeleteGreat card Kym. Those are also my fav colors to work with and the way you have distressed the edge are super.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at For Fun this week.
"Hugs" Carol
Very pretty card! Thanks for coming to the party at PTT this week!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card! Thanks for coming to the party at PTT this week!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty birthday card, thank you for embossing and for playing with Practical Scrappers this week.
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Tanya
Thanks for playing along on For Fun! Pretty card.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful - they will be so happy with receiving this :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us this week over at Incy Wincy Designs Challenge
Have a wonderful week
Heather
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Pretty card! Thanks for joining us at PTT!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Kym, gorgeous colours!!! I'm sure the lucky recipient will love it
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Rainbow Lady's challenge this week
Claire xx
what a lovely card.. love the colours and the image xx
ReplyDeletethanks for playing at sweet stamping xx
Beautiful card, Kym. Love the colours and image. Thanks so much for joining us at For Fun Challenge this week.
ReplyDeleteAmelia x
Lovely card Kym as always. Thanks for sharing this week Love Cynthia x
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for joining us in this week's CAS-tastic Wednesday Clean and Simple(CAS), "S.I.M.P.L.E." challenge!
Lovely card! Thanks for sharing with us at Party Time Tuesdays.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty card! The purple color is divine.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card! Thanks for playing along with my Party Time Tuesdays challenge!
ReplyDeleteVery soft and pretty. Thanks for sharing it with us at For Fun Challenges.
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely colors! Thanks for playing with MelJen's this week:)
ReplyDeleteWonderful card! Such sweet, soothing colors!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for joining us in our Tall/Long challenge at Meljen's Designs this week! Good luck!
Dee (Spryte)♥
Sprytebyrds Spot
Great card! I love this shade of purple. Thank you for joining us for the Meljen’s Designs “Long or Tall card” challenge.
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