Playing with Muse Card Challenge #139

Just a quick post today. I have not made a ton of cards this week but have been coloring and die cutting images to create some Christmas cards and tags. I will be revealing these in the next couple weeks.

Today I am posting a card that I created for the Muse Card Challenge #139. The talented Tracey McNeely created a card as inspiration. Here is my take on her card:

I could have copied Tracey's card exactly as I have the beautiful stamp set she used but instead I chose to use Altenew's "Vintage Roses" stamp set to create my card. I always have such a difficult time with multiple step stamping. It is not only stamping on top of each image precisely (though I have a MISTI now, which makes it easier) but choosing what colors to use. 

I was inspired by Tracey's use of gold on her card. I copied her use of gold on the sentiment but chose to make mine into a strip and not stamp it directly onto the background. I also added some gold mist onto the card base, as well as three gold sequins. I thought it went well with the yellow that I used.

Here is the inspiration piece:

I thank you for taking the time to stop by today. Have a wonderful evening!!

Supplies:
Stamps-Altenew "Vintage Roses," Paper Trey Ink "Words of Comfort"
Inks-Versamark, Paper Trey Ink "Harvest Gold," My Favorite Things "Lemon Chiffon" and "Daffodil,"Altenew-"Frayed Leaf,""Forest Glades," and "Evergreen."
Paper-Paper Trey Ink
Other-Heat Gun, Prima "Gold Leaf" spray, Ranger "Liquid Platinum" embossing powder, gold sequins and foam adhesive

MUSE Challenge #133 and I want to be a Card Design Superstar!

Hello everyone!! I hope you all had as good a day as I have had. Nothing special happened but it was just a great day. The weather was perfect, work went well and one of my students told me I "always wear pretty clothes" and I had a fabulous kick butt work out at the gym!! It cannot get much better then that on a workday, let me tell you.

Today I am posting a card I created for the MUSE Challenge #133. The MUSE card was by Michele Ferguson, a designer I ADORE!! She makes the greatest cards and is the sweetest person to boot!!  Here is her card that was the inspiration piece.

Isn't is so pretty and romantic? I LOVED that patterned paper in the background and so I "attempted" to make something similar. Below is what I came up with.

I started off by stamping all my flowers in white and then used various pigment inks in different colors over them. It did not turn out as bright as I wanted but the effect was there. Then I did a bad thing. I got out my mist sprays in white, gold and green. I flicked the opposite end of the sprayer with the white and the green but not the gold. I sprayed a bit too much gold on it but because it took me so long to make, I decided to try to cover up my mistake and use it anyway. When you get lemons, you make lemonade!!

I put that aside to dry and then created my butterfly. I first stamped the butterfly and fussy cut it out. I then used my Zig Clean watercolor markers and watercolored the background in pale colors. I then used a bit of gold paint to give it some shine. I then layered a die cut vellum butterfly over it and wrapped the center with gold thread. All of these elements were thought out carefully because they were on Michelle's card.

I put the butterfly aside and started to assemble the card. First I adhered a piece of gold vellum over the card panel I stamped. Then I wrapped gold thread the vellum and adhered the decorated card front to an A2 top folding black card.

I then adhered the die cut sentiment and covered it in Wink of Stella. The last step was to adhere the butterfly. 

This was a really different card for me to make and challenged me to the nth degree. It was fun to try to figure out how to do the background and though I didn't get everything "perfect," I think it came out pretty cool.

I am entering this card into the MUSE Challenge #133 and in My Favorite Things "You could be a Design Superstar!" contest. Most of stamps I used are from My Favorite Things, one of my favorite places to shop!!

I want to thank you for stopping by tonight. I hope you all have a  great day tomorrow!

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

MUSE Challenge, Papertrey Ink and Pretty Pink Posh

Happy Sunday!! I hope everyone in the states is enjoying their Labor Day Weekend. I know I have!

Friday night was spent with girl friends. We had the MOST DELICIOUS dinner at my friend Sue's house. Homemade quiche with her chickens eggs, fresh fruit and french toast with her husbands home made maple syrup. She has a garden to table dinner in her own backyard between her lovely garden and her chickens. It was really nice.

Saturday Chris smoked some beef ribs and chicken for my father and my stepmother. They were delicious. It was topped off by my contribution of fresh baked peach cobbler. All I have been doing this weekend is eating!!

Today I had time to play with the MUSE challenge blog. It is sometimes weird how my mind goes when I do these type of challenges. It is not always where I think it will. Here is what I created:

Here is the MUSE card that designer Carol Mayne created:

If you have time, go check out her blog. She has some beautiful cards.

I had my card percolating in my brain over the busy week when I received my Papertrey Ink order. I bought the Leaf Silhouette Die and knew I wanted to use this on my card in lieu of the feathers. I also wanted to do a bit of experimenting so I did a number of different techniques on this.

First I used various colors of ink and inked up some white paper. I then die cut each of the leaves. Next I took a piece watercolor card stock and blended three shades of Distress ink, (Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade and Shaded Lilac) spritzed with water and let the inks run together as I held the card stock, turning it around. I dried the ink using my embossing tool.

I kind of wanted the background to be a bit of collage, like in the stamped feathers on Carol's card. I stamped a word background in the corner in gray ink to start with. By this time, I was wishing for a leaf stamp to match the Papertrey die cut. I improvised by die cutting a fourth leaf out of white paper, inking it with Versamark ink, pressing it down into the background and then covering it with gold Powdered Pearls. I have not done this technique in so long and it was so fun to dig out old supplies again. I then stamped the sentiment from Papertrey Ink's "Words of Comfort" stamp set.

Next I mounted the watercolor panel on a piece of card stock that I inked up with SSS Blue Violet ink and mounted it on an top folding A2 size piece of Papertrey's Harvest Gold card stock.

I mounted the three leaves over the watercolor panel, covered them in clear Wink of Stella and added some orange sequins that Paulina from generously sent "free" when I last ordered from "Pretty Pink Posh" (LOVE that store) and a violet sequin I had in my stash and it is complete.

I actually might make a few more cards like this today as Chris needs one and I need some more in my stash. I also want to make some miscellaneous cards for someone whom I owe a long OVER DUE thank you note to. I figure a bunch of cards would make up for my lack of timeliness.

I thank you for stopping by. Have a fabulous day!!

Supplies:

InLinkz.com