Our current TIME OUT challenge theme is 'Celebrate Friends, Family and Life'. And what a perfect time of year to be doing that!! You can make whatever project you like too, especially good for anyone wanting to show off Christmas photos!!
Our Sponsor for this challenge is Stamplorations who have sponsored and supported our challenge for so many years. Shery (the owner) is so generous to us on the Design Team and she is giving a $15 gift voucher to the winner of this challenge. AND we will be doing a random draw for someone to receive a goody bag from their store too!!
Wish I could make my flowers as beautiful as the ones in my garden, just need to practice, practice, practice!!!
I started off by stamping the flowers on the card front using Gina K Amalgam black ink, that way I could colour them using my Altenew Artist Markers. I wanted to keep it CAS but decided it needed some sort of dimension, so die-cut around it with a Studio Katia 'Stitched Oval' die. I added a panel of white CS behind the hole, die-cut some white foam and glued the flowers on top with some Gina K Connect Glue.
The Just Because Phrase Die was die-cut from black CS and glued into place with the same Gina K glue, as well as some peach and gold sequins from Neat and Tangled.
I'm going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Anything Goes'.
You have until Wednesday 2nd January to link your projects to the TIME OUT challenge. And if your struggling with ideas, pop over to the blog to see what the rest of the Design Team have created for you. Look forward to seeing you in the Gallery!!
Take care
Shona
This is beautiful, Shona! The simple design makes the flower really pop from the card base and your coloring looks very soft and pretty! xxx
ReplyDeleteLove the way your stamped the sentiment! Gorgeous! And enjoy your two weeks off - sounds fabulous!
ReplyDelete2 weeks of fun now-enjoy! Your colouring is so soft and pretty. I love the slight shading around the flowers-beautiful card Shona x
ReplyDeleteSoon after Christmas, Japanese people start preparing for the year-end and New Year’s events.
ReplyDeleteCompared to Christmas, many of these events are based on Japanese tradition and are deeply related to religion.
The end-of-year party is called “bonenkai” in Japanese. “Bonen” means to forget (the worries of) the past year.
People are busy with events on New Year’s Eve.
Oh Shona this is magnificent - love it! the dimension and the gorgeous die cut sentiment are the perfect accent to the beautifully coloured image.
ReplyDeleteIt only rained here overnight and was overcast Christmas morning, then there was one brief but heavy shower mid-afternoon, and amazingly its still sunny!!
Summer may just have come, finally.
Blessings
Maxine
I think your dogwoods look beautiful & fresh. So sorry your Christmas day was so wet...ours was too but only periodically.
ReplyDeleteSo soft and pretty, Shona ... there's a wonderful glow to these delicate blooms! Enjoy your break! Hugs, Anita :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card, Shona. That flower image is so beautiful and your coloing is wonderful. I hope you get lots of crafting time in over your holiday. I had 10 days off - they are almost up and I made 2 cards. lol. Happy New Year to you and yours.
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