CI#26 beautiful marine colours

Welcome to the second Colour INKspiration bloghop for 2018. School is back and the pace is about to ramp up again.... which is why making time to be creative is so important. I'd be lost without my craft time, and I am truly grateful I get the opportunity. (Thankyou to my very tolerant and generous husband). If I can combine creativity with a job on my to do list so much the better. It's one of my sister's birthdays this week and she loves cards that move. So making this card for her was a perfect opportunity to combine tasks. Her beautiful cards are very intricate with lots of interlocking movable pieces, but my style is quite different. So while they are gorgeous marine colours this week I have stuck with flowers for now. I won this set at Onstage which was great because it would not have been at the top of my wishlist, but I have to say I am loving the Cake Soiree set much more than I anticipated.

I have watercoloured a panel of shimmery white cardstock and adhered that to my cardbase. Then I have scored a sheet of acetate and adhered the small flap on the rear of the card so that the front "window" is free standing, and I have adhered my bouquet of flowers directly onto the acetate.

As well as the embossed flowers and diecut leaves from the Sweet Soiree set I have added some of the silver and vellum elements from the Coordinating embellishment kit. (There's so much in that kit there are loads of inspirational projects using it in this week's CASEing the Catty bloghop).

If you were to put a sheet of white card behind the acetate this is what you would see.

When you lift the acetate there's a little bit more detail!

Some of the watercolour DSP this year is pale enough that I like to write directly on the coloured paper rather than white again. You can see the inside of Cate's card is a bit of fun.

Next on the hop this week is ROSE I can't wait to see how she has used these colours

It's such a pretty colour palette there are some gorgeous cards and projects to see on this weeks hop.

I hope you have a creative week and remember,

"don't just post online,

post something pretty!"

cheers, Liz

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Envelope Dies perfect for an Acetate Tent card and some new DSP

After creating yesterday's cards I was on a roll and created this one using the beautiful Gilded Autumn DSP and the Fancy Phrases stamp set. I really love the sentiments in this set. It is such a simple design and easy to create. You can find all the directions on yesterday's post for Just Add Ink (JAI#518) I watercoloured the white leaf after I had adhered the gold veins just to soften it, and I added a strip of mint DSP to the front of one of the tent stands as the white was a bit stark. That's the cool thing about this design, you can change it up plenty of ways. I'm sure we can all send these type of cards at the moment. I hope you are safe and well, and staying connected, wherever you are. I hope you have a creative week and remember, "don't just post online, post something pretty!" cheers, Liz Product List Ornamental Envelopes Bundle [ 155168 ] $83.50 Envelopes Dies [ 153531 ] $63.00 Shimmery White A4 Car

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CTC#116 Inspired by Pages 20-31

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