Altenew August Inspiration Challenge

Hello everyone!

I hope you already saw my cards over at Ruby's blog. I was invited last week to be part of "Guesting with Ruby Naz".

These cards are based on Altenew's August inspiration challenge.

Details on how I made them are over at Ruby's blog!

 

Challenges: Altenew, Simon Says Stamp, Cas-ual fridays, HLS August CAS Challenge

Guesting with Ruby

How cool is this?

I am over Ruby's blog today - what an honour to be invited by the super talented Ruby herself.

I have a little interview there and a couple of cards to share with you.

I hope you will leave me some love there!

Rustic

Helllloo!!

I saw this gorgeous moodboard over at Artful Crafting and thought I'd play along.

The colours are SO not up my alley. I would've just used a couple of shades provided (preferably the greys and blue) and created a monochromatic card. BUT I wanted to challenge myself and stuck to the colours shown.

The big rose is handmade. The other three roses I dyed using distress inks.

The moodboard photo is so rustic and grungy, I wanted my card to have the same look

Applied tons of gesso and texture paste, also used Tim Holtz layering stencil to add design.

I also added a lot of stamping on the background but you cant really see that in photos because of the splatters.

Sentiment by Altenew, dies by Spellbinder and Cheery Lynn Designs.

Tons of sparkle on this card, closeup below.

Added a couple of sequins and I was done. 

I hope you like it. I was very apprehensive, I didn't want to add the rusty lattice, I was itching to add a white one instead but I stopped myself. I think it doesn't look too bad, it actually works, separates the floral arrangement from the background!

Challenges: Artful Crafting, Our Daily Bread Designs, Tuesday Throwdown, Lawnscaping Challenge

Up!

It's been a while! Thought I'd play along this week's Retro Sketch.

Coloured this image a while back using Faber Castell classic pencils.

I am loving the happy feel of this shaker card!

Hope you guys are well.

Thats it from my side.

xx

Erum

Shades of Blue, Touch of Gold

Hello everyone!

I really wanted to link up at Virginia's linky party so I decided to combine a couple of challenges together. My inspiration comes from the fabulous card by Joyce Mehrberg, caseing her card (linked at the bottom of this post) for Happy Little Stampers CASE the designer challenge.

And this is my first time playing the Altenew Inspiration Challenge!

You should definitely check out the gorgeous entries!

Here are my cards separately.

This is a one layer card. I waterclored the flowers from the Altenew Wild Hibiscus set. I glued the fussy cut flowers and leaves giving different dimension to all pieces , added some stamping on the background using Golden Garden set, the sentiment is from the Painted Butterflies set. 

My flower centers are very tiny sequins.

For this card, I followed the last week sketch over at CAS(E) This Sketch and followed the same pattern as in the previous card, as in fussy cut flowers and stamping on the base.

Stamps used here are from Altenew's Wild Hibiscus, Golden Garden and Label Love.

I don't know if it's visible but there is a gold foil cardstock strip right above the black and white diagonal strip (which I created myself using a black marker).

Here are a couple of closeups.

Here is the BTS pic I shared on my Instagram a couple of days back.

That's all from my side. I hope you like both the cards!

Thank you for inquiring about my mum folks, she is doing better now - not 100% but better.

Love and hugs everyone!

- Erum

 

Challenges: Altenew inspiration challenge, Simon says stamp, Virgina's View, Case the designer