Crafting Vicky - Lili with Berries

Hello!  It's time for my inspiration and for this post I decided to make a little Fall card with the great  Lili with Berries.  I used the great sentiment Berry Sweet

And here's my little card with her.  I thought it was perfect for fall.

I had fun making this with my Forever Fall Card kit from Bobunny.  I used my Label 29 from Spellbinder.  I used some bling from Queen and Co and added a little ribbon and bow from my stash.

Here's a closer look at the great digi that I colored with my copics.

Hope you have liked my inspiration!!!!  And that you will go and check out the the store for all the great images :)

Have a wonderful day.

Hugs

Crafting Vicky

Lili With Berries - Faux Silk

Hello, Crafty Peeps!

Normally I post on Saturdays, but since I used an Inky Impressions image for one of my other challenges, I thought I would share it here on our Inspiration blog!

The Image I am using for my project is Lili with Berries.  I wanted to post a project this week, and since I already had this image colored up (and it was almost a perfect match for my card stock and DP) I decided to use it.  

I rubbed just a little too hard on my tissue paper while executing the "Faux Silk" technique.  The tissues tore in a couple of places and I had to "improvise".  I didn't have time to color another image and start over so I just went with it.

 I was attempting to create a distressed "faux silk" layer behind the image panel...like a piece of crumpled silk fabric.  My ever observant husband asked, 
"What is this challenge?  Stamp on crumpled up tissue paper? "  
"No, dear," I replied, "this is supposed to be a faux silk look."  
"Oh yeah," came his reply.  "Like that blouse you bought that wrinkles up as soon as you put it on.  Well I guess you got this faux silk thing down pat!"  (Laughter, laughter, laughter)

Simple inside.  Red is such a strong color it really does not need a lot of help.  The DP strip across the top covers the brad prongs.  In spite of my tissue paper boo boo, I really like this card.

A Simple Little Thanks! - Lili with Berries

Hi, Crafty Peeps,

Hope your Saturday morning is off to a wonderful start!  My post this week is a pretty straight forward card.  I am using Lili with Berries  and the Thank you Berry Much Sentiment for this inspiration post.

This week, my goal is to inspire you to think differently about where elements appear in your design.  I decided I wanted to create two focal points, the sentiment on the front and the image on the inside. 

 The designer paper I used is so strong, I knew it would compete with any image.  Of course, you could add a solid mat on top of it, which I did not want to do. Paper is a powerful design element.  I wanted to work with this paper's design rather than have it work against me.

 Using solid coordinated card stock strips, and leaving my sentiment white,  I created a deconstructed bow tie.  This simple focal draws the eye away from the bold chevron design and identifies the sentiment as the point of interest.

The inside is intentionally left very bare!  The image is the focal here.  I did search and search for my itty bitty blueberry stamp, but could not find it.  I like to leave lots of room for writing personal notes. After I glued the note square down, I found a few more scraps of my designer paper.  I would have used those to create a faux mat for the note square.  Maybe that will be a part of next week's post!

I hope you will be inspired to use elements in your designs in ways you have not done before!  

Hugz,

Chana Malkah