I love the inlaid die cut technique so I was very much inspired to play along in this week's MUSE challenge but whilst I stuck to the layout and stripes on the original I twisted the colours up using the Paper Players colours (although my dark blue isn't quite right as I don't have that colour) and I decided to get all Christmassy with snowflakes.....
I used one of the dies from the Swedish Ice Star set from Marianne Design and die cut it from some pool party card. I stamped some stripes (Clearly Besotted) using the darker ink onto a strip of white narrower than my base card and die cut the snowflake again (keeping the little bitty triangles this time so I could piece them back in to the gaps in the snowflake centre. I added a little snowflake sequin for a tiny hint of bling and a sentiment from Waltzingmouse.
For the base card I stamped and embossed (as it turns out with pretty rubbish clear powder!) some snowflakes from Verve stamps and then sponged the two inks over and blended them together. I really wanted them to stay white but despite getting good coverage the embossing really didn't resist the ink very well at all but I do quite like the soft effect I've been left with so I decided to pretend that was the look I was going for all along ;-)
Here are the challenges I was inspired by:
http://musecardclub.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/muse-challenge-39.html
http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pp167-jaydees-color-challenge.html
I used one of the dies from the Swedish Ice Star set from Marianne Design and die cut it from some pool party card. I stamped some stripes (Clearly Besotted) using the darker ink onto a strip of white narrower than my base card and die cut the snowflake again (keeping the little bitty triangles this time so I could piece them back in to the gaps in the snowflake centre. I added a little snowflake sequin for a tiny hint of bling and a sentiment from Waltzingmouse.
For the base card I stamped and embossed (as it turns out with pretty rubbish clear powder!) some snowflakes from Verve stamps and then sponged the two inks over and blended them together. I really wanted them to stay white but despite getting good coverage the embossing really didn't resist the ink very well at all but I do quite like the soft effect I've been left with so I decided to pretend that was the look I was going for all along ;-)
Here are the challenges I was inspired by:
http://musecardclub.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/muse-challenge-39.html
http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pp167-jaydees-color-challenge.html
Such a pretty take on this week's Muse - love your colour choice! Thanks for joining us!
ReplyDeleteOh boy!! This is absolutely gorgeous - I do like the soft shading around the stamped snowflakes. And I love the inlaid die cut. I really must have a go at that technique!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love this card, Tara! The inlaid snowflake is just beautiful and I love the soft masked border. Thanks so much for joining us this week at The Paper Players!
ReplyDeleteI just love the inlaid snowflake and the snowflake strip on the side, beautiful card!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous - love the inlaid snowflake on the stripes and the sentiment fits so perfectly!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Love the emboss resist snowflake border strip.
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous Tara and the softness of the snowflakes is actually a lovely look! Vicky x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card Tara. Love the inlaid die cut technique !!!
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic, your colour choice and inlaid snowflake are gorgeous :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic take on the Muse card!
ReplyDeleteI love how youve turned the design into a modern Christmas card..... must try the inlaid technique out too :0)
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