Hello,
Today I needed a card for my cousin's birthday so I decided to use the Papertrey Blog Hop inspiration for my card. You can find the blog hop info: HERE
Here is the inspiration photo:
It is a dark and rainy afternoon here in Seattle so I had a hard time getting the color right on my photos even though I took them with the daylight I had available and attempted to adjust them in my photo software.
The card base is lemon tart, the stamped patterned paper I made is on aqua mist cardstock with the following inks: simply chartreuse ink (PTI); Yellow citrus (colorbox) and Soft Pool (Hero Arts).
This is the first time I have made an entire sheet of patterned paper by hand. I really like the way it turned out and I still have a lot of the sheet leftover to make more cards with. I made a long card 7.5in long x 4 in wide just to try a different size card for fun. I was so excited that my new stamps arrived in the mail today in time for me to use them for the blog hop. The stamps I used are "Lovely Layers" and "Love Lives Here" for the background paper. The sentiment is from "Think Big Favorites #16". I was trying to keep the card fairly simple. And once the patterned paper was made it didn't take long to finish my card. I am still not sure about the bling I added - I wish I had thought to dot the "i" in "wishes" with one of the bling. I tried to switch it but it would have left a mark on the cardstock so I left it as is....oh well....next time.
Happy Hopping everyone!
: ) Jill
Today I needed a card for my cousin's birthday so I decided to use the Papertrey Blog Hop inspiration for my card. You can find the blog hop info: HERE
Here is the inspiration photo:
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| (photo credit on Nichole's blog linked above) |
I was inspired by the yellow and aqua and green colors (though I don't have new leaf ink yet) and by the ruffles.
Here are some pictures of my card:
It is a dark and rainy afternoon here in Seattle so I had a hard time getting the color right on my photos even though I took them with the daylight I had available and attempted to adjust them in my photo software.
The card base is lemon tart, the stamped patterned paper I made is on aqua mist cardstock with the following inks: simply chartreuse ink (PTI); Yellow citrus (colorbox) and Soft Pool (Hero Arts).
This is the first time I have made an entire sheet of patterned paper by hand. I really like the way it turned out and I still have a lot of the sheet leftover to make more cards with. I made a long card 7.5in long x 4 in wide just to try a different size card for fun. I was so excited that my new stamps arrived in the mail today in time for me to use them for the blog hop. The stamps I used are "Lovely Layers" and "Love Lives Here" for the background paper. The sentiment is from "Think Big Favorites #16". I was trying to keep the card fairly simple. And once the patterned paper was made it didn't take long to finish my card. I am still not sure about the bling I added - I wish I had thought to dot the "i" in "wishes" with one of the bling. I tried to switch it but it would have left a mark on the cardstock so I left it as is....oh well....next time.
Happy Hopping everyone!
: ) Jill
