Let's see the inspiration for the theme, The Rainbow Connection. The colours are divine...................
Well, I can truly say I suffered from 'First Designer Carditis'!! I made a few cards before I settled on this one!! You can see the extra cards at the end of the post.
Freestyle Collage is described on TCC blog as:-
-unrelated elements in a collection
-can be done in any style
see The Card Concept Challenge blog, under 'The Styles Defined'
Both parts of the definition give you so much freedom in this style.
The unrelated items........ wood grain and a branch, hearts, a button, sequins, a black sentiment and a rainbow colour grade. When you list the items you realise they are unrelated, but as card makers, we frequently bring disparate objects/techniques together to make a harmonious whole. (hopefully, ha ha)
As Freestyle Collage can be done in any style, I would call this one Cleanish and Layered.
The coloured background is hand painted using Peerless pigments and a water brush. The blue and purple are more dilute than the other colours because I wanted a similar value for each colour in the grade. The sentiment is white embossed and the branch is stamped with Hero Arts Dye Ink.
Scribbles and Splat Thinlits Die Set
Clearly Besotted Leafy Accents
Avery Elle Hand Written Notes
Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling card. (Woodgrain Hearts, negative cut)
Peerless Pigment Colours
Water brush
Hero Arts White embossing powder and Dye Ink
Watercolour paper.
Design Team Links
- Maureen
- Sandie
- Rahmat
- Alison
- Jennifer
- Kerin
- Laurie
- Julee
- Karen You are here
- Michele
- Julie
- Ilina
- Mackie
- Lilian
14 comments:
Hi Karen! Welcome to the team! I LOVE your beautiful and colorful style - -your work looks amazing!
Take care!
Michele, CC teamie!
Wow..what gorgeous cards. I LOVE how you used the bright rainbow colors....beautiful!
All of these cards are gorgeous, Karen! I like the first one the best too. Congratulations on your new DT spot! They are lucky to have you on the team!
Welcome to the team Karen, so good to have you join us and I can see this photo really inspired you. I love how you used the white die against such an amazing background x
These are all incredible! You could have picked any of them to showcase! Congrats on the new DT too!
Oh my goodness! I love all three!!!! However, hearts do make me smile!
Welcome to the team!!!!
Congrats, Karen! I love all your cards - especially the background on the "wonderful" card and those gorgeous die-cut leaves on the bottom card.
So cheerful and delightful😍
These are all so wonderful! Love these die cuts agains the gorgeous backgrounds.
Amazing background!! I'm staring at this, wondering how in the world you got your stripes so perfect! WOW.
Fabulous news (congratulations!) and card!
Oh boy! Congrats on your DT news...exciting! All of your creations are just so colourful and pretty!!
These are ALL fabulous! I can see why you shared them all....too good not to showcase! Welcome aboard - you are SO very talented. xxx
Karen, welcome to The Card Concept team!! Your style is gorgeous- love your hand painted rainbow background and wow, all three cards are spectacular!! So looking forward to designing with you- hugs and have a blessed week!
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