#1125 – Card Chain Challenge September

Hello and welcome! I got to join the Card Chain Challenge again for the September challenge and today’s the reveal day.

The September challenge had the following options:

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Flamingos / Fish / Friendship

Product / Technique Options:  Foil / Silhouette

And here’s what I made –

If not obvious, I used the colors, the sketch, the Friendship theme and the Foil from the product option.

I started with the background, using Neat and Tangled Rice Paddies stencil. I didn’t have a teal colored ink in my stash, so I used green ink and blue on top of that, going over the same areas so that both the inks blend together to give a teal.

Once done, I set that aside and stamped the mermaid, the shell and the starfish from the Simon Says Stamp Be a Mermaid on white cardstock using VersaFine Onyx black ink and colored them using distress inks. On the mermaid tail, I also used Perfect Pearls of similar colors and also Gansai Tambi Starry Skies in gold to get the colors from the theme. I then fussy cut all the images and went over the edges using black Zig brush marker.

I die cut three panels of increasing size from white cardstock using Hero Arts Infinity Dies Arches. On the middle panel, I added a strip of foiled washi tape, which had a gorgeous wavy pattern on it. On the top panel, I stamped images from Trinity Stamps Sea Life Silhouettes. I then adhered the pieces over the stencilled card base. After that, I adhered the mermaid tail, the shell and star fish and also a few sequins. I also added a few drops of the same gold from Gansai Tambi Starry Skies. I then stamped the sentiment from Winnie and Walter The Big, The Bold and The Happy stamp set.

I got this beautiful card and some lovely die cuts from Linda this month!

Checkout the entire chain of cardmakers who participated this time in the the Card Chain Challenge challenge blog. Wow! I am so impressed every single time by the variety of cards!

Thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂

#1116 – Silhouette

Hello and welcome! We have a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and this time, our leading lady Cathy has asked us to ‘Add a Silhouette‘. Every Challenge is always ‘Anything Goes‘ and the special Topping is included for extra fun. It’s not required to include the topping on your birthday card.

I actually ended up making two cards this time –

I started with die cutting back cardstock using Pink Fresh Studio Floral Squares and adhered a couple together for stability. Next I used the same glossy white cardstock that I had used in this card with some grey toned Brusho powder watercolors to color the panels. This one had some other colors mixed in, which generated a cool alcohol ink like texture. I then trimmed the panel to fit the floral squares.

I then adhered the watercolored panel and die cut panel – for one card I adhered the 2 panels at an angle and for the other I stuck the edges properly together. I also added a silver gemstone on each panel.

For the sentiment, I used Winnie & Walter The Big, The Bold and Extras, heat embossing it in silver on black cardstock. For one of the cards, I trimmed it narrow, and for the other I rounded one of the diagonal corners using a small corner chomper. I then adhered all the pieces on black cardstock using foam tape.

Once done, I felt that the card was missing something. My sister suggested that the background needed to have another layer of card panel to act as a frame. Now since I had adhered everything already, I would have to cut everything out – so I thought of applying the idea differently. I used the silver from Gansai Tambi Starry Colors and watercolored a background for both. I also added a bit of Perfect Pearls in Perfect Copper, to match the floral panels’ background. That made them look a lot better!

And that completed my cards! Step over to the Seize the Birthday challenge to checkout more wonderful inspiration from our guest and the rest of the DT.

Thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂