Pink Romance

It's time for another Peep of the Week challenge at Power Poppy.  This time, I have used the gorgeous Gladioli digital image created by the amazingly talented Marcella Hawley of Power Poppy.  I decided that I wanted a very romantic feel for this one so I chose my background paper from The Romantic Garden paper pad by Meg's Garden and layered it onto pinky red cardstock.  I wrapped heart shaped lace plus pink seam binding around and added a bow.  The Gladioli image was printed onto blending card, coloured with copics and die cut with a Spellbinders Classic Oval die.  I layered the image piece onto black cardstock die cut with a Spellbinders Opulent Oval die, then onto white cardstock die cut with a Spellbinders Lacey Oval and then onto the pinky red cardstock die cut with another Opulent Oval.  I added a black bling flourish for a bit of zing and it was finished.

Copic Colours used were:  R81, R85, YG61, YG63, YG67.

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Train Travel

This months challenge at Scrapbook Boutique is a masculine one in colours of blue, green and dark brown.  I chose papers from Kaisercraft's Pack Your Bags Collection, layering the stripes and green papers plus one of the diecuts onto dark brown cardstock.  I added some dark brown May Arts net ribbon down one side and a strip of the ticket paper. I stamped the train image from Stamp-It's siset075 with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto blending card, coloured it with copics, cut it into a square and layered it onto green and blue cardstock.  The sentiment is from Stamp-It's siset046 set and was also stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa.  I guess this challenge is to remind us that it's nearly Father's Day, but this is a birthday card  for my wonderful Dad who actually turns 96 on Father's Day this year!!

Copic Colours used were:  YG11, YG13, YG17, B00, B02, C1, C3, C5, C7.

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Riviera Review

This months "Pop Goes the World" challenge at Power Poppy takes us to the Italian Riviera.  I immediately thought...........Geraniums!!  The inspiration picture features turquoise, rusty red, buttery yellow and grassy green.  I chose my background papers from Prima's Zephyr collection paper pad and layered them onto turquoise cardstock, punching along one side of the vertical piece with a Martha Stewart border punch.  I wrapped some satin edged organza ribbon plus some rusty red seam binding around the bottom of the card front and added a bow.  The Power Poppy Geraniums were printed onto blending card, coloured with copics and die cut with a Spellbinders Marvelous Squares die.  I die cut some rusty red cardstock with the next size Marvelous Square die, added it to the card front and popped the image piece on top with foam tape.  I have to say these are not my usual colours, but I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out.

Copic Colours used were:  R22, R24, R27, YG95, YG97, E11, E13.

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Peace

The latest Friday challenge at JustRite Papercraft is to use a negative die cut - i.e. the piece left after die cutting.  Well, I immediately thought of this Couture Creations die called Venetta Intricutz Sophia Collection that I bought on sale at the Brisbane Papercraft Expo in June - you die cut a flourish but the negative part looks really great.  So, I cut a rectangle of X-press It blending card, punched a short side with Martha Stewart's doily lace border punch, then placed the die on one side and cut and embossed it.  I stamped the bunch of flowers from JustRite's Black-Eyed Susan Vintage Labels Five stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured it with copics.  The sentiment is from JustRite's With Sympathy set.  I added a black and white check ribbon and bow, then layered the card front onto black cardstock.

Copic Colours used were:  C1, C3, C5, C7, C9.

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