Friday, May 16, 2014

Fun with die cuts and online challenges

Yes, once again, I created some cards to go along with a couple online challenges, retro sketch and Colour Q.
 I did turn the retro sketch on the side.  I had some fun doing some interesting techniques.  The background was created with a Crafters Workshop stencil and some Distress Stain.  I am in love with those two colors together. 
 I wanted to use my brand new word die so it seemed better to turn the sketch on the side to make it work. I also "imbedded" the word which is a fun look.  PLUS - do you see that completely adorable little tie! The word and the tie die are from Mama Elephant.  
 Here is the retro sketch.
This also fits the CAS-UAL Fridays, Three Thirds challenge with the three blocks of white embossed paper.
 For this card I used the Colour Q combo. The minute I saw the combo for this week, I knew I had to use it and sat down that night.  I do have to give a little disclaimer here.  I did use some great brown inks and when they mingled with water, some of the color turned a bit orange.  I promise I started out with yummy chocolate brown. 
 I used a My Favorite Things butterfly die. It comes with four butterflies, I used two.  The top more intricate one and the solid shape one.  When I went to cut out the butterfly from the watercolor paper, it didn't cut out all of the way so I used that to just leave the butterfly on the paper and to pick up the wings.  I did back that with the matching solid butterfly shape, also with the wings lifted.  To go with the gold in the combo, I added some Heidi Swapp gold and some Distress gold glitter.  The Heidi Swapp gold is a spray but if you unscrew the spray nozzle, you can drip or splatter the gold and it is such a neat look. 
Here is the Colour Q combo.
This also fits the Simon Says Wednesday challenge to use die cuts. Both cards use die cuts that I recently bought at Simon Says. 
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

5 comments:

  1. I believe you when you say you used chocolate brown lol! The butterfly looks so amazing against the splotchy background! Thanks for playing along with Colour Q!

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  2. Both of your cards are so gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing with us at CAS-ual Fridays and the colourQ!

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  3. Wowzers! Gorgeous cards!! Both of them are stunning! Great designs!

    Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

    hugs...
    Melissa

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  4. Both great cards. Love how your die cutting goes across the panels on your first one! Thanks for joining the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!

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  5. awesome cards..love the colors!
    Thanks for playing with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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