Paper Doll Design

This week we are hopping with Dena Rekow and using her blog  http:// www.thecreativitycave.com/  as inspiration. I spent so long looking through Dena's blog - not because I couldn't find anything, but because I loved so much! In the end I decided to use this card as my inspiration.  I loved the simplicity and the depth created with the different green ink colours used. And here is the card I created. I used the open leaf from Healing Hugs stamp set and stamped it in the colours  Pineapple Punch, Mango Melody, Poppy Parade and Lemon Lime Twist - such a juicy fruit mix of colours!   I wanted the colours to be uplifting for the sentiment that I used from the Friendly Expressions stamp set.  I embossed the background with the Lovely Floral embossing folder to give added dimension and then mounted the embossed and stamped panels on Pineapple Punch. I cut around the sentiment and layered it with dimensionals. All in all, an uplifting ca

Today we are CASEing the work of Sarah Fleming! Sarah is a demonstrator in Texas, USA and her blog Prepare to Dye papercrafts  is full of great ideas and designs. The design I chose to CASE was this one: I liked the tone on tone and the sentiment that popped. Here is my take on Sarah's card: I used the Rich Razzleberry for the base and the Designer Series paper from the Share what you love pack.   The beautiful delicate die-cut is from Botanical Tags thinlets - these are gorgeous! I used the vine stamp from the matching stamp set - Botanical Bliss - to stamp down the side of the card in Rich Razzleberry ink, giving it that tone on tone look. The sentiment is from the Treat Time set which has lots of occasion sentiments in it. It was hard for me to chop this sheet of DSP as I really love the design on the other side, but, you know what, I have other sheets and I can always buy more!!  Don't be afraid to chop into your paper!