Thursday 27 January 2011

Geraniums, a Card for 2 Challenges

Good morning. Here we are, Thursday again....which means it will soon be Friday and hence the weekend.

Here is a lovely card for two challenges: Crafty Creations - Let's Heat It Up and Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #38 - Flubbers.

For the first challenge it needed such things as heat embossing, warm colours or something to remind us of warmer places so I heat embossed a Geranium stamp (Elusive Images), which reminds me of all the window boxes in France in the summer, and used lots of warm sunny colours. For the second challenge - Flubbers means flowers so the Geraniums and the hand-made embellishments fit the bill.

The stamped and embossed image (brass WOW powder) was water coloured with Aquamarkers and a water brush. It was cut out with a Nestie and the edges worked with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink. A slightly larger cut out was made from a coppery card to frame it.

The orange and yellow flowers and leaves were cut out in various sizes with a Cricut /Gypsy, layered up and a gem added for the centres.

The easel card was made from 3 large Grand Nestie scalloped circles (about 6" diameter) layered with slightly smaller ones. The central circles are made from a gorgeous hand-made, thick, textured paper, cut out with a Nestie and over sprayed with copper mica mist.

Everything was assembled with D-S tape, foam pads and adhesive to give the creation you see before you.

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful card, and yes it reminds me of those windowboxes full of geraniums in France too. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this week. xx

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  2. Hi Shirl, love your flubbers never heard that expression before, but your card is gorgeous and it does look so warm and pretty. With love and hugs Shirleyxxxxx

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  3. I loved your easel card!

    Congrats!

    xxx

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  4. this is lovely, well done on such a great creation

    thank you for getting crafty with us at Crafty Cardmakers xx

    hugs
    Judie xx

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  5. this is really pretty . thanks for sharing this with us at craftycreations.

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  6. Aww this is just lovely!
    love the image and those flowers are fab!
    Thanks for joining in the fun at Crafty Cardmakers this time!
    Hugs Melly xxx

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