Designer Inspiration: Ashley Cannon Newell

Hi Everyone,
Here with my first card based on inspiration from the Papertrey Ink Design Team for the 6 year Anniversary Celebration over at Nichole Heady's blog: HERE 

I am so excited for another year of releases from Papertrey Ink and for blogs full of inspiration and ideas from their wonderful design team.  I hope to make a card from each designer's favorites before the deadline at Noon on February 15th.  It is an incredible prize for one lucky winner! Check out this info taken from Nichole's blog post:

One lucky winner will receive their Papertrey wish list for FREE (up to a $300 value)!  Be sure to create a special wish list within your account on our website labeled "Anniversary".  If you are randomly selected as a winner, you will be sent the first $300 worth of items on that list!!!  Best of luck with the contest!

Have you created your wish list yet?  This is such an incredible prize!!!  

For my first card I chose to work with Ashley's favorites.  I love Ashely's style and her cards always "WOW" me each release!  I chose the banner card in the second row on the right for my inspiration piece.  I loved this card when I first saw it and decided to make a banner card that I could use for any occasion. 

 

Here is what I came up with:

 The stamps that I worked with are from Summer Jar Fillers, Tiny Tags, BB Text Style II, and Tag Its #11.  The peacock feathers are hand cut from a piece of designer paper from October Afternoon's Woodland Park collection. 

Here is a detail shot.  I cut lots of little slits in the feathers and curled the edges up to make them look more authentic.

Thanks for looking at my card!

:) Jill

Halloween Scenes....

Hello Friends,

Do you ever have a fairly simple straightforward card idea in your head and have it go in a completely over-the-top unexpected direction?  That is what happened to me this evening when I started to work on a card for the Cloud WPlus 9 blog hop.  I love the inspiration photo:

I loved all the pumpkins, polka dots, the tree and house and the "BOO" spelled out and sitting on the ladder.  I started trying to put a card together but was struggling for a variety of reasons. So I looked at the photo again and decided to free-hand cut a house and as seems to happen with all of my Halloween cards so far this year I ended up building a SCENE card when the original idea in my head was a very simple card.   

The house was first drawn on a piece of cardstock and then hand-cut. I added embossing to the roof using an embossing folder from Stampin Up and then inked it up to give it a vintage type feeling.  I used the WPlus9 smallest pinking square to make my window openings and I backed them with clear cardstock as "glass", some striped paper curtains and some window panes cut from cardstock.  Then I decided to add a banner to the roof line that says "BOO", some clouds, a harvest moon, and a front yard scene including a black cat, some pumpkins, a bird, some flowers, and a yard sign that says Happy Harvest.  The front door of the house has a gingham heart "window" and opens to reveal another heart and a sentiment.  I still felt it needed some "grounding" so I hand sewed some hemp twine around the outside of the base of the card to create a "frame".    I wanted to also add a witch diecut "flying" over the house but the scale of the die that I had available was too big.  It would have been so perfect though!!  Perhaps I can find a bat to add now that I am on the "scene-building roll!?  I will look....

Supplies:

Stamps: WPlus9 - various sets

Cardstock: WPlus9 and PTI

DP: Simple Stories - Harvest Lane

Felt: MFT

Other: Burlap (smoke in chimney); halloween twine, various dies from WPlus9 and PTI.

(NOTE: If you want specific info please leave me a comment!)

Thanks for taking a look at my card. 

: )  Jill