Thinking of You - Clean & Simple

It has been a little while since I wrote my last post - so much on the go these days! I hope to post more regularly, however they may be short and sweet. Craft fair season is coming quickly and most of my evenings will be spent crafting!

After a few weeks off, we welcome you back to another KCRR challenge!

The two items randomly chosen for today's challenge are as follows:

 



Leaves

Thinking of You

 

Now this is a combination with lots of options! I thought about using leaves from punches/dies, but decided to turn to my favourite stamp set - French Foliage. With fall season coming up, I thought this would be perfect. Using the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge this week, I created a clean and simple thinking of you card:

 

 

 

 

The edges of the Crumb Cake cardstock are distressed and sponged with Chocolate Chip ink. I used Orchard Harvest DSP for the flagged strips and added a third strip for the sentiment. The large circle with stamped leaves is popped up using dimensionals. I love using the colour combo of Cajun Craze, More Mustard and Old Olive for fall!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure to visit Karly's Creations to see how she used these two elements in her card.

 

Come back tomorrow for a new "Inspired By..." challenge!

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: French Foliage, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest DSP

Ink: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip

Tools: Circles nestabilities, Distress tool







KCRR #21 {Thinking of You}

Welcome to another KCRR challenge! We've moved it up a couple days this week as we are both getting ready to go on holidays this weekend (yay!).

For this challenge we decided to randomly choose three items, instead of the usual two:

Spritzing

River Rock

Blossom Petal Punch

 

To be honest, I had a tough time with this one! I guess that's why they call it a challenge :) River Rock is probably my least favourite colour. I find it hard to combine it with other colours. However, I'm glad I had an excuse to use the other two items! My spritzing tool was still in its original package and my blossom petal punch doesn't get much use.

 

I picked a sketch from a card challenge blog that is starting to become one of my favourites for card sketches! It is called Sketchbook Saturday. I love the sketch this week!

 

As you have probably figured out by now, I love layers on my cards :) And this is one is full of them! I chose different shades of blues as a combo with River Rock and I really like the end result!

The butterfly is created using the Blossom Petal punch for the top wings and the Bird Builder punch for the bottom wings. The wings are embossed with Perfect Polka dots. I added pearls to the centre and curled strips of cardstock to make the antenna. I was inspired to create this butterfly when I found this card on Pinterest. What a great idea! I kept the spritzing to a minimal and just spritzed the doily with Night of Navy. It adds that final detailed touch to the design of the card. 

I actually like the colour River Rock in this card. It's so soft and subtle, making it a perfect Thinking of You card.

Thanks for visiting! Hop on over to Karly's Creations to see how she incorporated these three elements in her card.

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: You Are Loved
Paper: Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Midnight Muse, River Rock, Whisper White, Neutrals DSP
Ink: Midnight Muse, Night of Navy marker
Tools: Blossom Petal punch, Bird Builder punch, Doilies Sizzlit, Spritzing Tool
Accessories: Pearls (Michael's)