All You Need is Love

"All you need is love...bum ba da dum".   Remember that song by the Beatles? This is the time of the year for 'love', so this card is for the "Love is in the Air" challenge at Simply Create Too and the 'Love' and 'Ribbon' challenges at Paper Pretties. Every "love" card need fantastic colors so the colors are from the inspirational photo at CR84FN.

The image is from Mo Manning, colored with Copic markers, DP from MME paper pad, Eiffel Tower die from MFT and the ribbon, flowers and rhinestones are from Michaels  OMG alphabet soup in that last sentence (wink). I had to color some of the floral background paper to get it to match the colors on the image. This was accomplished with Prisma colored pencils. You get a lot more use out of your papers if you can 'tweek' them with colored pencils...YEAH.

This is the inspirational photo that was used for this card.

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Thinking of Spring

The winter here in the Northeast has been exceptionally mild. So being the eternal optimist, I can't help thinking that Spring is just around the corner. Hahaha. Who am I kidding? It's only January!

The color challenge at CR84FN this week fits right into my 'Spring' fantasy. The colors are lt. pink, yellow and neutral. The air is always so clean and fresh in the 'Spring' so I wanted my card to be clean and fresh. The sketch at Mojo Monday was perfect for designing a clean, fresh 'Spring' card.

The stamps are from Printworks, embossing folder is Cuttlebug, DP is from a Heidi Grace paper pad, ribbon, glitter dots and silk flower are from Michaels. Each floral image was stamped twice, colored with Copic markers and then one was fussy cut and mounted on top of the other with foam tape. The vase was paper pieced. Stickles were used to highlight the vase and the centers of the flowers.

Here is the inspirational photo...be sure to read the quote.

The sketch was turned on it's side to make my card.

Be sure to check out the next  post....more 'Spring' flowers!! (Flourishes Hyacinth's are up next), If wishing could make it happen.....It would already be 'Spring'!


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CR4FN45

Yippee! The color challenges at CR84FN are back. It was good to exercise the creative brain cells and good to be back to a familiar routine. This weeks challenge has some vibrant colors from photos that were taken by Deborah, one of the talented members of the CR84FN design team. Deborah took these picture while on a trip to India. How great is that! TFS, Deborah.

The image from MFT was paper pieced and colored with Prisma colored pencils and blended with Gamsol. The embossing folder is from Sizzix, pearls from Hobby Lobby. I couldn't find any ribbon that matched the blue. Figures....I must have the world's largest supply of ribbon but wouldn't you know it....nothing matched. How is that possible?? I used a Copic marker to color white satin ribbon to coordinate with the 'blues' on the card.

The oval behind the image was misted with a Perfect Pearl and water mixture to add a little sparkle. The DPs are from a HOTP paper pad.  Okay I solved the ribbon dilemma, now for the flower....once again nothing matched! Happened to see a post it note pad near the phone...could it be the right color?? Yippee it matched. I punched a 1/2" circle out of the post-it note, spiral cut the circle and formed my own rolled flower. Gotta love it when a plan comes together.

Two small pieces of the Copic colored ribbon were used to make pseudo leaves. The smallest rolled rose die from MFT and the post-it note paper were used to form the flowers.

Each flower has a pearl in the center and the edges of the flowers and the scalloped border were highlighted with Stickles. The embossing was highlighted with Tim Holtz distress ink pad (Spiced Marmalade).

This is the fantastic photo that was used for inspiration.

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