It's Monday again and that means another challenge at Heart Song Inspirations. This week our theme is Anything Goes OR Use Your Favorite Colors OR both. Anyone who follows my blog probably knows by now that anything in the purple family falls into the category of my favorite colors. I love pairing purple with yellow or with green.
For today's card, I used a sketch from Sassy Li'l Sketches, but I took a few liberties with it.
The image, 'Watering Can', is one of my favorites from Heart Song Designs and can be found at the store here. I colored it with Copics and cut it with a Spellbinders flower shape die, cutting around the bird, the handle and the spout of the watering can so they would stick outside the shape. The purple die cut is from one of the new Spellbinders dies I got and it has the butterflies all around the edge of the circle. I cut two of these, one from purple CS and one from yellow CS. I saved all the butterflies that dropped out of the border and I used two of them, stacked together, to add the dimensional butterfly to the image. They actually are adhered right on top of a butterfly in the image. I added the pearls to the butterflies on the die cut after adhering the circle to the black, score-embossed CS. The card base is silver-metallic CS. The gingham bow and the flowers are handmade.
I'm also going to be submitting this card to CASE Study, where I haven't played in a long time, and this week instead of CASEing a card from someone else, we are to do a card that shows our "signature style". I hope this is my signature -- I always sign my name with purple ink! Doesn't that make it a 'signature' style? I'm also posting it at Moving Along with the Times where their challenge theme is Birds. The Ribbon Reel is on the second week of their plum, green and silver/gray challenge so I'll submit this over there, too. Craft Us Crazy and Stamps R Us are both doing Anything Goes, so anything you make for this challenge would probably fit in over there, too, and vice versa.
Thanks for visiting here today and I hope you'll get a card made and play along with the Heart Song Challenge this week. After all, what better excuse for using your favorite colors on a card? Happy Stamping. NanaConnie
For today's card, I used a sketch from Sassy Li'l Sketches, but I took a few liberties with it.
The image, 'Watering Can', is one of my favorites from Heart Song Designs and can be found at the store here. I colored it with Copics and cut it with a Spellbinders flower shape die, cutting around the bird, the handle and the spout of the watering can so they would stick outside the shape. The purple die cut is from one of the new Spellbinders dies I got and it has the butterflies all around the edge of the circle. I cut two of these, one from purple CS and one from yellow CS. I saved all the butterflies that dropped out of the border and I used two of them, stacked together, to add the dimensional butterfly to the image. They actually are adhered right on top of a butterfly in the image. I added the pearls to the butterflies on the die cut after adhering the circle to the black, score-embossed CS. The card base is silver-metallic CS. The gingham bow and the flowers are handmade.
I'm also going to be submitting this card to CASE Study, where I haven't played in a long time, and this week instead of CASEing a card from someone else, we are to do a card that shows our "signature style". I hope this is my signature -- I always sign my name with purple ink! Doesn't that make it a 'signature' style? I'm also posting it at Moving Along with the Times where their challenge theme is Birds. The Ribbon Reel is on the second week of their plum, green and silver/gray challenge so I'll submit this over there, too. Craft Us Crazy and Stamps R Us are both doing Anything Goes, so anything you make for this challenge would probably fit in over there, too, and vice versa.
Thanks for visiting here today and I hope you'll get a card made and play along with the Heart Song Challenge this week. After all, what better excuse for using your favorite colors on a card? Happy Stamping. NanaConnie
19 Comments that I appreciate. Thank you.:
Great card... I love the summery-feel of your image and you have an amazing amount of detail and work in it. Great job!
Thanks for joining us at Stamps R Us and hope to see you again.
Marilyn
wow! all those little pearls in just the right spot! How did you ever accomplish that? Your cards are so pretty with the loveliest colors and unexpected layers, PC!
Love your card and glad to see that new Spellbinders die in action. It's really pretty with all the butterflies, especially the way you accented them.
Love the colour combination and the spellbinders die you have used I love this die as it has butterflies and I love them. This is simply a stunning card.
Linda xxx
Great card, love the image & the colours are fab!
Thank you for sharing with us at MAWTT this week, good luck!
Hugs Shell xx
Wow! your card is so cute and sweet full of details!!!
great job!
Great card - love the Spellbinders die and fab colours.
Thanks for playing along with us at MAWTT this week.
Good luck.
Debs xx
Beautiful!! Love how you used the butterflies too. So pretty.
Lynn
Purple is my favorite color and you did a beautiful job coloring the image also!! VERY pretty :)
beautiful card! thanks for playing at SLS! :)
I missed this beautiful card yesterday....had company that just left this morning and now catching up on some of my favorite blogs. Beautiful die cut!
Very pretty card, I love this watering can image and the circular frame, lovely. Thanks for joining us at The Ribbon Reel this week.
So beautiful, I just love that Spellbinders die, how cute! Thanks for sharing with us at The Ribbon Reel this fortnight!
This is gorgeous, Connie! The purple is so stunning with the yellow and green, not to mention all the pretty white. I really like your shaped pieces, too, and the fun little butterflies you added to the scene. Butterflies always finish off every garden perfectly, I think. :-) Yes, I would say signing with purple makes a signature style -- a fun one, too!
Thats what sketches are for for taking liberties, you did a fantastic job here just love your take on the sketch. Thanks for joining us at Sassy Lil Sketches and good luck.
Marie
Loveee the purple =D I like how you left the watering can white and color the rest of the flowers =D
Gorgeous card NanaConnie! The butterfly punch and pearls are such a beautiful frame for that pretty image - lovely!
Hugs, Shannah xox
Beautiful card NanaConnie. So lovely just like you.
Hugs
Dana
What a lovely card! Thanks for playing with us this week at CASE Study Challenge! :)
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