Our Challenge this fortnight, hosted by Fiona, is a photo inspiration challenge. Make a card or project inspired by the following photo. You can take inspiration from any part of it really, from the actual image or from the colours.
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I chose to take the colours of the photo for my inspiration. I love the turquoise - but what caught my eye was the gold on the chairs. So I used those two as my main colours whilst bringing in a little white too.
Whilst looking for new ornaments for my tree, I came upon this turquoise sparkly snowflake ornament - and I knew that I wanted it for this project. It is rather large so I used an 8" square card - but it is rather light and doesn't make the card 'front-heavy'
I kept the glittery feel with white glitter card. I have a tonne of glitter card - I used to love using it all the time - but haven't done so recently - so there was plenty there for me to get stuck into. I used it to cut two Spellbinders Lace Doily motifs. These were laid on top of each other - one as a square and the other as a diamond. This provided the background for the snowflake. I also used the white for the scalloped square.
The gold card is from my local market - it's fairly lightweight card, but I love the fact that it is matt instead of shiny. I cut the small square for the snowflake using a nestie, and the large square was edged with the Classic Scallop Edgeability, and an insert from Decorative Inserts 6.
The turquoise card is from the Create & Craft Pastel Textured Cardstock pad - I have both the brights and pastel and love them both!! It was edged with an insert from the Classic Ric Rac set.
The wide ribbon and matching bow are from my stash - bought in Lidl several years ago. And the pearls are from Diamond Occasion - I have all sorts of colours of pearls from them!!
Take a look over on the Crafty Cardmakers website as there is loads more inspiration there from the rest of the fabulous Design Team.
Take care
Cxxxx
Beautiful, Carole. That decoration is perfect!
ReplyDeleteLove the stunning snowflake, its a gorgeous card.
ReplyDeleteYvonne
This is just beautiful!!! LOVE that glittery snowflake--and the bow is amazing! GORGEOUS! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous Snowflake Carole and it's gorgeous teamed with the gold. xx
ReplyDeleteOoooo this is just gorgeous!! I love all of your punch work and your gold bow is beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteFiona x