Sympathy card

This week's colour challenge on Less is More is to make a card with lots of

White space but not  WHITE 
 

I had difficulty coming up with an idea for this as I don't often use coloured backgrounds.  Having used this American Crafts card for another challenge I realised it would work well as a background - unfortunately the photo does not do justice to the colour which is more turquoise in real life.  I tried to keep the card CAS but added some interest by machine stitching around the panel.

Materials used:-
Die - Lifestyle crafts flowers
Background stamps - Clarity stamps aliums
Sentiment - Woodware
Inks - archival aquamarine and Colorbox celadon
American crafts coloured card

I am also entering this card into CAS on Sunday where challenge #80 is flowers.

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments.  Margaret

Muse best wishes

This week's Muse is Michele Ferguson who makes the most beautiful CAS cards.  I was inspired by the layout of the Muse card and the placement of the embellishment.  I die cut the alium twice to give it a little bit more dimension.

Materials used:-
Clarity stamps - Aliums
Sentiment - Chocolate Baroque Mackintosh sentiments
American Crafts coloured card
Dies - Lifestyle crafts flowers and Dienamics pierced rectangles
Ink - colorbox Cats Eyes celandon

I am also entering this card into CAS on Sunday where challenge #80 is flowers.

Thanks for visiting!   Margaret

Stencilled Christmas Tree

Maria Fischer (reislingmama) has produced a very graphic design to inspire us this week at Muse Christmas Visions. I was inspired by the circles used to create the tree and the background paper.

I used a stencil to apply texture paste for the circles.  The designer paper is from a Maya Design pack which has lots of lovely vintage designs but I chose a more graphic one for the background of this card.


Materials used:-
Stencil - Balzer Designs
Cosmic shimmer texture paste - gold pearl
DP Maja Design - A Gift for You

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments. Margaret

 

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:-
AAA cards - Game 61 Stencil
Merry Monday - make a card based on a Christmas carol - my one is "Oh Christmas Tree