Saturday 20 September 2014

CASE Study Challenge #209 and Altenew September Challenge


Good morning! 

My card for CASE Study Challenge #209.
This card was in Top 3 in the challenge.

My card for Altenew September Challenge.
This card was one of the winners in the challenge.

Today I am back with two cards that I made yesterday. Started with a card in mind for this week's CASE Study Challenge #209 and ended up making two cards with different colour themes with the same design. This week's challenge is inspired by Debbie Hughes and this is the inspiration photo.

I was inspired by craft card stock and white colour. 

A few days ago I made a card with these Magnolia stamps by Altenew. I water coloured them with distress inks. I wasn't quite happy with my colouring so I kept practising and tried different colours and shades. For both of the cards for today I used Antique Linen for the main colour and added some shading with Gathered Twigs and Rusty Hinge. I also added a little bit Perfect Pearls for the water to give some shine. My card base is Neenah Desert Storm card stock and I die cut a frame using a die from Spellbilder's Nestabilities Distress Edges die set. The branch die cut on the back is a die from Memory Box called Blooming branch. On the background I used some old hand made paper which I can't remember who's made it and where. The sentiment and the little dragonfly are from a stamp set called Wildflowers by Technique Tuesday.

My second card is basically the same as the first one but I used Memento inks: New Sprout and Bamboo Leaves for the branch and the sentiment tag. My card base is Neenah solar white card stock. I will enter the second card for Altenew September Challenge: From the craft room. The theme is Lime Lemonade. This is going to be my second entry for this month's challenge at Altenew but I can't help myself since I think this card is so much better than the first one that I made - especially my colouring. This is the inspiration photo for Altenew's challenge.


I was inspired by the background and and white, lime and yellow colours. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Marika

9 comments:

  1. Both of these are breathtaking. So lovely!

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  2. Both cards are absolutely stunning! Your coloring technique is really amazing, the flowers look three dimensional!

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  3. Oh my goodness! Marika, both of these cards are beautiful! Thanks for joining us at CASE Study!

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  4. Both of your cards are so beautiful and elegant. Everything perfectly balanced and so lovely to see!

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  5. Beautiful cards Marika. Love the flowers (I think I need to get those now) and the soft shades you added. The backgrounds look great. (Your name sounds Hungarian... are you from there by any chance?)

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  6. Absolutely stunning! I just had to pin those fabulous flowers!

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  7. Breathtaking beauties..Awesome coloring!!!

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