Friday 24 October 2014

A spring card


Hey Crafters,

Only two month to go to Christmas eve. I am already in a pretty Christmassy mood, and bought the first gift this week. Unfortunately I can’t wrap it yet, because I haven’t yet found the perfect wrapping paper.

Opposed to anything  the season suggests, I created a spring card last night. Don’t ask me, probably purely wishful thinking. It’s gotten so cold, and I am not yet ready to turn on the heating yet. And I’m under the weather at that.

 



I got this patterned paper cheap at am outlet sale and wanted to use a bit of it. So I adhered two strips of the paper along the edges of my off-white card base, a small one with the striped pattern and a larger strip with the insects pattern.

To match the PP, I pulled out the tiny insects stamps from the Avery Elle set “more stories” and stamped a border along a piece of watercolor cardstock. I tried my best to match the colors, so I used a light grey ink for the outlines and water colored the wings with an antique linen distress ink. Then I cut off one edge along the insects and popped up the panel on my prepared card base.

For the sentiment  I stamped a banner on a leftover piece of the same watercolor cardstock, colored it with antique linen and fuzzy cut it out. I added this with more foam tape and as an afterthought added another bug and a small dotted line near the banner. That was risky, but it turned out ok.

The envelope is created from the same patterned paper.

Hope you like it.

Have a great week-end

Ela




Challenges:
Less is  more: Week 194 Little creatures
Stempelküche:  Challenge #5 Designpaper / Patterned Paper

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Ela and so sophisticated.
    Love your attention to detail with the class envelope to match.
    Thanks so much for sharing and taking part.
    Sarah xx
    Less is More

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  2. lovely card!Thanks for joining us at Stempelküche-challenge and good luck!
    Hugs,Beate

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  3. I'm sorry my visit is a little late this week!
    This is super... love the matching envelope!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  4. Lovely card and envelope!
    Thank you so much for joining us this week at Less is More
    Anne
    LIM Designer

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