Cards and Creativity: Texture Galore

zondag 2 februari 2020

WE LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE #2 ANYTHING CREATIVE MIXED MEDIUM GOES WITH POLKADOODLES XXX

Hi there crafters out there, it is time for a Brand New Challenge over at the We Love To Create Challenge Blog....are you ready for it.....sponsored by the amazingly talented Polkadoodles!!

So what do I have in store for you for this challenge...

I was so sick of the rain, the hard winds feeling like it is Autumn, so I decided to create a Feel like Spring card, I started with a piece of cardstock and folded it in 3 pieces and colored it with different soft colors of distress inks.

When the first layer with distress ink was dry I went over it with gesso and I used my brayer to distribute it well over my background. I did this to make the colors even softer then they were..... Then I went over it again with the light colors of the distress ink. After that I stamped a flower from the Pretty Perfect Stampset and a few butterflies were stamped, they are from the Flower Collage Stampset, don't you just love them? I colored the flower and the butterflies with the same light colors to make them fit onto my card

What I also did on the background was I used the stencil from the Flower Collage Stencil and Around the flowers I used a fineliner to make them POP out more....so what do you think? Did it work?

And do you see all the little dots? I thought it would be nice to place some dots from the Snowflake Border Stencil on my background to make it more playfull.....and offcourse I had to surround my card with the doodles from the Flower Collage stampset

So here is my finished card, I sure hope that you like my card and I hope that I can give you some inspiration with my card. I had loads of fun creating my card. I can't hardly wait untill you show yours.....

The products that I have worked withe are:

Vintage Text stampset

Pretty Perfect stampset

Funky Alphabet stampset

Textures Galore Stampset

Doodle Borders Stampset

Flower Collage stampset

Flower Collage Stencil

Snowball/Snowy/Bubble/Dots Stencil

So you wanna join into the fun over at the

WE LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE BLOG.......

Come on over and do join into the fun and while your there check out my amazing teamies creations, I am sure you are going to love them all.....

Have fun......

I would like to join into the following challenges:

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge

Classic Design Challenge Blog, Challenge February

Craft Galore Challenge Blog, Challenge #72

Creative Craft Cottage Challenge #125

Creative FIngers Challenge #178

QKR Stampede Challenge #383

Simon Says: Anything Goes Wednesday Blog

Thank you so much for checking out my blog and if you would like to leave me a little comment that would be so much appreciated. Thank you so much.

Hugs Terry xxx

zondag 29 september 2019

WE LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE #10, ANYTHING CREATIVE MIXED MEDIUM GOES WITH POLKADOODLES XXX

Hi there crafters out there, it is time for a Brand New Challenge over at the We Love To Create Challenge Blog....are you ready for it.....sponsored by the amazingly talented Polkadoodles!!

So what do I have in store for you for this challenge...

For this month's challenge I made a Christmas Card. Cause Christmas is around the corner and you can never start early enough to make some.

I started out with a background, it was made with Distress Oxides. I took a piece of cardstock and sprayed on the cardstock with water, then I placed some distress oxide on my Workspace and turned the cardstock upside down...and there ya go, there was enough ink on my paper. I played with those amazing Fancy Snowflakes Dies. I embossed them with Embossing Enamel and made them look like they are covered with snow, what do you think? If you cannot see it on this picture, scroll down after reading and you will see another picture with the finished project.

So I used these 4 colors to make my background of the card. I love the combination of these colors. Nice and soft tones together, what do you think?? Did you ever use these soft tones for YOUR Christmas Cards or did you use the traditional colors red and green? I am curious what your choice is.....so can you let me know?

So when I was finished with the background I played a bit with the Doodle Borders, I stamped around the whole card, to make it look like it was stichted......And The Texture Galore stampset is lovely to use for stamping here and there. On top I placed the Nuvo Glitter.

So what I did next was place the embossed Snowflakes on top of my card and I embossed the sentiment from the 25 December Clear stamp set. So what do you think would you make a Christmas card like this? I sure hope so, cause that would mean that I have given you lots of inspiration by my tutorial. I would love for you to show me your finished projects.

The products that I used are:

Fancy Snowflakes Dies

25 December Clear Stamp

Texture Galore

Doodle Borders

Thank you so much for checking out my blog and if you would like to purchase your own products from Polkadoodles, than click on the product's name and it will take you to the store where you can get your own.

If you would like to play along with my teamies and me on the We Love To Create Challenge Blog that would be awesome, check it out guys and you will see some amazing creations from my teamies, have fun