Monday 8 July 2013

Cherry Feathers!


So today is my first ever DT post for the Clean and Simple Team over at the new challenge site House of Cards.   What's that you say - what is this great challenge of which you speak?  Well my friend, where have you been these past months?   The House of Cards is a genius little idea of a challenge where each month we set a theme, for example this month it's a colour theme based on the delicious bowl of cherries above, but rather than a month long challenge, we change teams each week and ask you to make a card in a different style but still based on the ongoing theme - geddit?   Cool huh!

I am on the CAS team and we're up this week with a whole goggle of gorgeousness to inspire you so do make sure you check out the inspiration from my teamies http://houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

Despite the colour palette featuring 3 of my favourite shades of teals and aquas I decided I really wanted to stretch myself so I chose to use not just 3 of the colours (as per the challenge) but to add the delicious cherry reds too.  After an awful lot of failed attempts with stamps and inks, I finally settled on paper and buttons and here's my cherry-feather card:


I cut the 3 feathers on silhouette cameo from 3 different shades of blue card.   I stamped the sentiment using stamps from Clearly Besotted's Fancy Feathers set and mounted the white strip onto bright cherry red.  I mounted the whole white panel onto some dark burgundy cardstock and finished with 3 cherry red buttons.

I hope that I've inspired you to play along in our first CAS challenge at House of Cards and can't wait to see what clean and simple designs you can come up with based on our cherry colour scheme so hop on over and play along - you've got all week  http://houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/




9 comments:

  1. LOVE these feathers!!! Fabulous card

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  2. What a fabulous feathers CAS card Tara and you have used the colours brilliantly! the sentiment and feathers are just perfectly suited! I'm really looking forward to seeing more of your work for HOC! Have a great week, Ruth x

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  3. Great card Tara, saw at HOC and had to pop by and tell you how stunning it is! The 3 feathers against all the white space really pops and love the little buttons x

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  4. Those feathers are stunning... They make me drool over a die cutting machine/ cameo! Such an elegant and pretty card. xx Nonni, your HOC Fun & Cute DT sister :)

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  5. Tara, this is totally brilliant!!! LOVE the idea of the feathers--it's such a great way to showcase the colors! An absolutely perfect debut at HOC and I am so excited to see more from you! HUGS and hope you have a great rest of the week!!! :)

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  6. I love the feathers die. Great use of the colours in the challenge.

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  7. Great interpretation of the challenge, Tara! The feathers are stunning and I love the buttons you placed at the base.
    Rosi x

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  8. This is a fabulous card Tara. Love it. Hugs.

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  9. Beautifully CAS Tara and congrats on your first challenge... I love how you've used the colours :0)

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