Lavender and Lace

So excited, that my Let's Celebrate card was shown in the card school section of the latest Quick Card magazine.
This has certainly given me a lot more confidence in my cards and I am now taking the plunge to enter  the Lavender and Lace card making challenge over on the Allsorts challenge blog. Just hope I have linked it all correctly ( I am not the most technical person....)  

So, here it is:

I started with a square card blank and cut a square of white paper measuring 1cm smaller than my card blank

Also in the mood for something new, I tried out resist stamping for the first time.

I created the background by stamping one of the Autumn Agapanthus stamps from the Woodware stamp range in clear embossing ink around the edges of the white square.

I then heat embossed this with Papermania's Seafoam White embossing powder. I coloured the background with lilac versa colour ink (heliotrope)

I created three equal panels by stamping the second stamp from the Autumn Agapanthus set in the lilac ink, heat embossed with clear powder and inked the background with Antique Linen Distress ink.

I stuck the panels on top of my background and added a strip of lace fabric tape I came across on a recent trip to Germany across the front.

I created the sentiment panel the same way as the background.

To finish the card, I added some lilacs pearls to the middle of the flowers and the four corners of the background panel.

I hope you and the people over at Allsorts like it.  

Have a fab day everyone...

Sonja 

Always in my heart

A sentiment that can be applied to so many occasions...

This one I started with punching a border along the right side of my card blank using the Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch and inked the edges of the card using Tim Holtz Antique Linen distress ink.

I then cut a slightly smaller piece of black card, punched it using the same Martha Stewart punch and layered this with one of the beautiful Teresa Collins Fabrications papers that came free with the May issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine.  I attached this to the card blank leaving a small border.

I die cut  a Spellbinder label 4 from black card and a slightly smaller one from white card. I inked the white one with the same distress ink as the edges of the card blank

I added one of the matching  Teresa Collins chipboard sentiments and added some black Kaisercraft gems to make the sentiment stand out a bit more before fixing this to to the main card on a top a black card strip

I die cut a butterfly from black card, added a lighter  Kaisercraft gem to its middle and attached the butterfly to the top right of the card.

All in all, quite an easy but I think effective card, what do you think ?

Sonja xx