Karen Creates Cards: October 2016

20 October 2016

The Card Concept Challenge 60 -Chevron Pumpkin

This week at The Card Concept the theme is 'Chevron Pumpkin'. It seems so odd to be looking at gorgeous Autumn colours when here in New Zealand we are seeing the new shoots of Spring.

I really was inspired to do a shabby card with this inspiration photo. I love that Freestyle Collage gives me the freedom to work in any style. For this card, I have bought together wire, metal, florist net, twine, and paper. I love the chevrons so have included embossed and stamped versions of those.

The metal button was very shiny and didn't photograph well so I dabbed it with ink and Versamark to knock the shine off it.

Lawn Fawn Leaves

Papertrey Ink Sentiment Notched flowers Set-Sentiment

Hero Arts Chevron Woodblock Background stamp.

Sissix Chevron embossing folder

Spellbinders scallop circle.

Distress Inks.

Hero Arts Embossing powder and Versafine Ink

A very old purchased Sunflower

Butterfly Kaisercraft

Floral net, wire, Twine

Here are the links to the design team's blogs:-

Clean & Simple

Sandie Munro

Rahmat

Clean & Graphic

Alison Barclay

Jennifer Timko

Clean & Layered

Kerin Sylvester

Laurie Schmidt

Shabby Chic

Julie Gearinger
Maureen Plut

Freestyle Collage

Karen Davis You are here

Michele K. Henderson

Classy & Elegant

Ilina Crouse
Mackie Robertson

Mixed Media

Julee Tilman

Lilian Forsyth

Come and play along with us at The Card Concept

Have a great week.

19 October 2016

Inspired By All The Little Things #28

Today I am joining in with the Inspired By All The Little Things challenge. The inspiration is so gorgeous....velvet pumpkins!!

I do not have a single pumpkin stamp, but as luck should have it, I had a flower stamp!! Aheeem.........

I have mixed Altenew leaves with a Tim Holtz flower and used the colours from the image.

Altenew Beautiful Day
Tim Holtz Flower Garden
SSS Flower Friend - Sentiment
MFT Scallop frame swiped with white acrylic paint
Distress inks
Brilliance black Ink
Hero arts white embossing powder
Background is DP

Thank you for dropping in.

07 October 2016

Inspired By All The Little Things #26

When I saw this lovely inspiration photo at Inspired By All The Little Things I just had to join in.

I love the rustic feel and the earthy colours. I found it quite odd not to colour the flowers and leaves in some way but I felt they were OK as is.

Alternew Doodle Blooms dies and stamps - leaves
Tim Holtz Flower Garden - flower
MFT Scallop Frame, 'you'
Spellbinders - circle
Avery Elle Hand Written Notes Sentiment.
Digital print background

Thanks for dropping by. Have a great weekend.

06 October 2016

The Card Concept Challenge 59 -SweetTreats

This week at The Card Concept the theme is 'Sweet Treats'. Such gorgeous colours to play with. My fellow design team members have created a diverse range of colourful cards to inspire you so do click on the link to take a look :)

For my card, I swiped a blueish dye ink pad lightly across the white, linen texture background.

I found the texture on the cone very inspiring and I love how the cone acts as a base for the explosion of colourful ice cream. I tried to recreate that using the tag as a base.

The Scribble Flowers are 'blobby' like the scoops of ice cream. I stamped the colour several times using Distress Inks then black stamped the Scribbles. I repeat stamped the Scribbles using Versamark and white embossed. I did dry off the black Versafine ink before using the Versamark and white powder, but obviously not enough, hence the speckled black lines. Using the powder tool between would have prevented that.