Glass Dome Glossy Accents

Welcome to another challenge at Sparkles, we had lots of amazing entries for our Christmas in July challenge you certainly make it difficult for Design Team to choose our favourites.

This time round we have a fabulous theme, Beach, and or Tropical chosen by the lovely and talented Dawn S.

I decided to frame it and take it to my summer house, unfortunately, I wasn’t able to crop the photo for some reason so please excuse the photo.

I used a fabulous embossing folder by Altenew but kept it plain as I wanted the colours to really pop on the leaves and the Whittle Lizard. I’m not sure who makes the outer frame as once again I was remiss and chucked out the packaging. When I bought it I thought that all of the frames were attached but it turns out it cuts tiny weeny skinny frames which for me and my sausage fingers are difficult to handle. I tried to keep them all attached on this card with the help of lots of tape and glue although I did lose a few of the little tykes along the way.

The leaves are by Memory Box which has a coordinating embossing folder it’s a bit of a pfaff trying to emboss the leaves without them falling out of the folder once you have die cut them in fact the whole card was a bit of a pfaff, to be honest.

The leaves were colored with Distress oxides and then lashings of Glossy Accents.

The Whittle Lizzard is also by Memory Box I wanted it to look like it was jumping from leaf to leaf. The sentiment once again is curtest of Mr Holtz.

We do hope you will join us at Sparkles Monthly Challenges my teammates have some amazing cards to delight and inspire.

I’m also linking up to Colorful Options who are asking us to use the colours yellow and Green

Take care

Marie

Yes me again just couldn’t stay away !!! This month over at Get Creative we are celebrating our second birthday and after the resounding success of last October’s month of card making we have decided that this will become a firm fixture on our calendar , that means that the thirteen team members will each be hosting their own challenges and they will also be responsible for choosing a winner and offering a lovely prize. You can enter as many times as you like as long as your card is for a specific challenge .

For my challenge I have chosen Clean and Simple (CAS) I seem to be stuck in that mode at the moment, to be honest I’ve been stuck in it for a while and am thoroughly enjoying it !

Your entry MUST be Clean and Simple. This means that clean and crisp lines, minimal or no embellishments and lots of ‘white’ space should be used.

White space does not need to be ‘white’. It can be any colour. White space is a term used for the area of your card with no stamping, embellishments etc. So come and see what I made

I used this lovely stamp by Inkylicious with black archival ink and coloured the eye with a blue copics marker. I placed over the eye an oval beveled glass dome to give dimension. I had a bit of trouble with the lips as due to the intensity of the black ink every time I colured them red they just look very dark and I wanted something bright and luscious. I ruined loads of images untill I finally had a brain wave. I used glossy accents to go over the lips and when dry coloured over the top with red copics and got exactly the look I was going for. I created a frame with my cameo to encase the eye and popped it if with some foam , the sentiment was computer generated. I really enjoyed making this card so made another using the same stamp but using yellow leather this time as a base

I really love the effect of stamping onto leather and this image was a joy to work with , for once I can actually say that I really like how they turned out .

We would love to see you over at Get Creative and if CAS is not your style then there will be twelve other themes to choose from and each one has a gorgeous prize , which reminds me nearly forgot to show you what the winner of my challenge will receive.