My friend Katie is always telling me I should enter some of the craft challenges different bloggers put on their blog. As you know, I don't want to be committed to doing anything on a regular basis since I'm retired. But today I was playing around and made some digital stamps using Inkscape. Also using Inkscape, I made the stamps different colors. Then I got to thinking.......maybe I could make my own cardstock using my flower images. Here's what I came up with.
I layered three different colors of flowers all over my digital mat on the Cameo and then printed it out. I used Chalk-AH-Lot Star Dust chalk to put a shiny glow to the entire card.
Next, I made cut files with the same digital stamp and then inked the edges with Chalk-AH- Lot Pearl Purple chalk, after cutting the stamps out.
There's a little section at the top that I left white for demonstration purposes.
I cut out 6 flowers and chalked the edges, poked a hole thru each one, scrunched the 5 smallest flowers up to give them some grunge and make them 3-D and attached them all together with a brad. I used my Cameo to cut out the words Get Well Soon and attached everything to the front of my card.
and here's the finished project. Do I need to start a crafting blog or just stick to going's on at the ranch? You be the judge!
Wow that turned out so pretty!! Love the images too! Thanks for playing along with us this month at Chalk N Stock! I am so glad that Katie told you you should!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tammylee, I appreciate it.
DeleteOh Linda is GREAT...my vote is you start a craft blog to go along with your ranch blog, I think peps would love to see what you create and how you do it out in no mans land...lol...you did a great job at explaining it and your a pro already...well done...thanks for playing at chalk n stock...I love it...!!!
ReplyDeleteExcellent Job Linda.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful! Love the way you layered the flowers and used chalk. Thanks so much for joining the challenge at Chalk N Stock!
ReplyDeleteYou're very talented and I love what you did. I'm so glad you listened to your friend and entered this in our challenge at Chalk N Stock.
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