Saturday 22 August 2009

Creating a background using digital stamps

<Digimax S600 / Kenox S600 / Digimax Cyber 630>
This card was inspired by a recent card I saw on Kristina's blog. I know it looks nothing like her card, but as soon as I saw hers, the design and colour scheme for this card came straight to mind, and this is almost exactly how I imagined it, apart from the pink heart. I don’t like the pink heart a whole lot, but I thought I’d show you guys the finished result anyway…

I think if I was making this again, I would probably print out another, larger heart onto the lavender cardstock, embossing in silver, then layer beneath the smaller dark purple heart. I may even change this card to reflect that as I’m really not feeling that pink heart. Or just stick with the single dark purple heart as the whole focal piece?
<Digimax S600 / Kenox S600 / Digimax Cyber 630>
Anyway, the whole point of this was to use Mujka’s digital design for the background left hand side (above), as this is what sprang to mind when watching Kristina make her card I talked about earlier.

I simply love this ornate pattern, which was originally designed for wedding RSVPs and invites etc. So that’s why I think it works well on this love themed card. You can download this for free at MyGrafico once their new site is up and running again. I’m already looking forward to it as I’m sure it’s going to be great! :0)
Tonight I sat and planned about 8 cards in my sketchbook (!) so I have a load to get making, and a rare day to myself tomorrow, so I will have fun playing & get a few of them videoed to show over the next few weeks.

4 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card, very elegant. Love the colours. Its funny how you can be inspired by something, and the item your making is completely different.

    Jane :0)
    xxx

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  2. This turned out very lovely Wendy!

    Yaneri
    www.scrapycrafter.com

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  3. this is lovely, very elegant.

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