Hooray for Friday - the end of the week and time for another Phindy's Place Friday Challenge! This week we have a theme picked by Rhonda Miller, our first ever Guest Designer - welcome Rhonda! The theme is April Showers Bring Forth May Flowers which is a fun and easy challenge that you can interpret any way you want.I chose to use a slightly different digi set from a series that Phindy has drawn, called Lil Gems, they are smaller digis that are not designed to be enlarged to fill a whole card front. The Garden Gems were just so much fun to use that I couldn't stop at one card! I love the idea of cards made with "Inchie" stamps and wanted to do something like this, however I chose to make my images measure 1 1/2" which is of course the beauty of using digis, make 'em the size that works for you.
The first card I made is quite clean and simple, it's a kind of April Showers card. Images coloured with Copics, mounted onto green Bazzill Bling and then again onto dark green Bazzill Bling. The sentiment is computer generated, the papers are Basic Grey Kioshi.
The second card, which also uses Kioshi DP, is a sunnier card, showing the May flowers. I have read that to make pastel colouring really stand out, mat it onto black, which is what I did. It's very high contrast against the yellow card, but I like it! But I have a confession to make: this was going to be a perfectly laid out nine-patch. Somehow, late last evening, a tiny bit of inaccuracy crept into my cutting and the hairsbreadth of difference in size stood out like a sore thumb. What to do? OK a quick rearrange and I set the centre square on point which hopefully camouflages the difference:)
Dareu2DigiStamp has an Anything Goes challenge this week, so I'm entering my cards for it. Absoloutely LOVE these little images and can feel a "series" of cards coming on :)Enjoy Friday and remember, it's nearly the weekend!
Anne these are wonderful. The first card with that sentiment and images is just so perfect and the second with that gorgeous paper!! Great job.
ReplyDeleteAnne, your cards are both wonderful! I love that you used those little garden images instead of one 'big' focal image - great idea and absolutely adorable!
ReplyDelete{hugs} Sylvia
WOW! WOW! WOW! Anne, you've done an amazing job!! These are just so super awesome!!! my gosh!
ReplyDeleteI normally have hard time figuring out how to use smaller stamps, but you did an amazing job!!!!
hi Anne...these are BOTH just gorgeous...I LOVE your idea and may have to CASE it! :)
ReplyDeleteLove both of these cards, Anne!! Dang....now I really need those little gems!! Don't you just love that BG Kioshi paper!?! It's so perfect with these images!! LOVE THEM!!!
ReplyDeleteThey are both awesome and I love the "fix"-a lucky "error"! Got to get these papers! Hope you got my e-mail!
ReplyDeleteWow!! These are just brilliant. Love both of them for different reasons: the first one would be brilliant for a lady gardener - who hates housework, as many of us do, and the second - well I reckon anybody would love to receive it.
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Valxx
These are fabulous cards Anne. They are both so clean and fresh looking. I love what you have done with the Lil Gem images - and those gorgeous papers!
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I would hav never thought there was anything wrong with cutting! Still can't see it! lol
ReplyDeleteI love lil' gems too but I'm useless at mosaic style like that. :(
TFS
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Annika
Anne, your cards are gorgeous!! I love the little images you used for both cards. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards, I love the gardening theme and your pretty designs. Thanks for joining us at DU2DS. Chris :)
ReplyDeletelove these mosaic type cards! these images are just perfect for that....hmmmmmm, I feel a case coming on LOL
ReplyDeleteI love this stamp set- and I love both of the layouts- I love the idea of the 2nd card layou- I love that DSP and what a clever layout to add it to your card and conserve the paper at the same time! TFS
ReplyDeleteAnne, How clever and talented are you. I just adore both these cards, the simple, clean layout on the 1st card with the brilliant sentiment, and the use of those lovely papers really do pop out when backed on black- something I would never have thought of trying before.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have even noticed these lil' gems images when going through Phindy's store, but I truly love what you have created with them.
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Trish
Both cards are so gorgeous! You did a great job...
ReplyDeletexxx Anne-Marije
Ohhh Anne! I just love both of your cards. The DP is, of course, perfect and these awesome images match it so well! What a great layout too on the second card. Just beautiful! hugz, Mary
ReplyDeleteAwesome, Anne!! I need to take another look at Garden Gems! May have to add this to my Phindy collection! Beautifully done!
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome card. It is one of two that I kept coming back to as I scrolled along. Absolutely wonderful
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