This weekend
one of my friends asked me how I came up with my ideas for cards and how did I
plan out what colors and layout to use.
To be honest, I really couldn’t answer her. Sometimes I am inspired by something else I
see and then it grows from there.
Sometimes I just pick an image that meets the theme, color it, and then
see where it goes. Then sometimes
something just pops into my head from who knows where. Today’s card is one of those.
Impression Obsession has a challenge theme
this week of “You Did It”. I searched
through all their stamps that I own, trying to come up with something that
would somehow meet this theme, and decided I did not have anything that would
work. Then last night an idea popped in
my head and I decided to try it. Last
year my daughter graduated with her masters in viola performance and before she
could graduate she had to have her final recital. I was visiting her and we were busy working
on wedding invitations that needed to get out so the recital was not top in my
mind. I couldn’t come back to attend it,
but did get to sit through several of her practice sessions and it was like a
private performance. Even though this
card doesn’t say the actual words “you did it”, it represents the thought of
her successful performance!
The sentiment
is from IO’s Seashell
Collage. I used a marker to color
only the saying and stamped this on a torn piece of musical designer paper,
then added distress ink around the edges and the saying. This was layered on a distressed piece of
cream cardstock stamped with the Dance Party Collage. I only inked the outer sections of this stamp. Then I cut around it, colored by sponging with
ink, and distressed the edges. Behind
this is another piece of cream cardstock that I stamped with the Damask Cover-a-Card,
distressed and inked the edges, and layered on a light pink card base. I had a few flowers and a strip of ribbon
left on my table from another projects so I added this, along with some pink
pearls inked with brown.
Is it too late
to send her a card?
E. Marie
I
entered this card in the following challenge:
Impression
Obsession Challenge - You Did It!
Bunny Zoe's Crafts April Challenge: Recipe -
Anything but Square and include Pink - Lace - Pearls
All Sorts Challenge Week 306 –
Bingo (Lace, Flowers, Pearls)
Papertake Weekly Challenge –
Words, Words, Words
Party Time Tuesday Challenge
#197 - Anything Goes
11 comments:
Beautiful card and I love the story that goes with it.
Beautiful card!
This is a beautiful card, and a wonderful sentiment for a musician. Yes, I would send it to her, it can be interpreted many ways!
Gorgeous colors and details Marie. Send it - cards are more appreciated when least expected I think - and she'll love it.
This is gorgeous! Love the colors and your design looks amazing.
This is stunning, the colors are perfect, yellow being my favorite of course!;) Thanks for joining us at Party Time Tuesdays! :)
Thanks for joining my theme at allsorts tracy x
Holy schmolies this is GORGEOUS! I totally pinned this so I can drool over it later. Love the lace and the sparkles and the rough edges. Wherever your designs come from, keep them coming!
This is beautiful Marie, and I would defiantly send this card, your daughter will love it! it's never too late to send some thing as special as this, it obviously means a lot to you to let her know how proud you are of her:) xx
Thank you also for sharing with us over at 'Papertake Weekly' this week xx
Hugs,
Marjorie xx DT
Don't you just love how beautifully this turned out, Marie? I have that stamp, too, and had not considered using it in a floral-musical capacity! WOW! and the ballerina is a great touch. I had that stamp at one time and am not sure what happened with it! I just looked for it, and it's gone! LOL I must have sold it. Thanks for the beautiful inspiration - remember when there was such joy in creating our own stamped "custom papers"? I long to go back to doing those types of things again - thank you for the inspiration. xo
Gorgeous project! The colours are beautiful! Thanks for playing with us at Party Time Tuesdays.
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