Good morning all, I do hope you are all well? It’s the weekend, so that is always a good thing! We may even have some sun tomorrow – hooray for that!
Today I am sharing a card that I made from this piece of “art”. I use the term “art” loosely! I coloured this during Kathy Racoosin’s pop up challenge last year. At the time, I also made this card using the same principles of free form lines and simple colouring. I always loved this card, it reminded me of a lava lamp :-).
Back to the panel in question. I’ll be honest. I was really stuck with it, wasn’t sure I liked the colours at all, and this type of colouring was really not something that I was comfortable with. I actually never thought I would use this panel. But, I put my thinking cap on, and this is the card that I came up with.
What do you think? I have to say, I actually really quite like it now that I have decimated it! Funny how a uninspiring square panel can actually become something quite funky when you ruthlessly attack it with your dies!
I simply used four Spellbinders circle dies and cut the entire panel with as many circles as I could (after all I didn’t want any leftovers lol). I then took my My Favorite Things pierced circle dies and cut some coordinating backings for the coloured pieces using vellum, black cardstock, teal cardstock and a blue pearl cardstock – all from scraps which, as you know, satisfies me immensely! I adhered the coloured circles onto the backing circles using double sided tape.
I then played around with the design for a while, and worked out where my greeting would be positioned. I actually planned it in this time – a new experience for me! The greeting is from WPlus9 and was stamped in Versafine onyx black. Now, here’s the thing. I could really do with a MISTI, as this did not stamp too well the first time, and I had to use my Memento Tuxedo black to tart it up a bit! I then heat embossed the second part of the sentiment onto black cardstock and popped it up using foam tape.
Once I was satisfied with the design, I took a photo and then adhered all the coloured circles to the base card.
Of course, I couldn’t quite stop there, so I added some shimmer to a few of the circles and then some glossy accents to a couple of others.
To finish the card, I added some black adhesive stones and a few enamel dots.
Voila! I am going to enter this card into the Seven Hills Craft Monthly Challenge. The colours I used for colouring the panel seemed to work well for option 3 of the colour choices.
I would be really interested in any of your comments. As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a lovely weekend!
Supplies used: My Favourite Things Pierced Circle Stax; Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles Small; WPlus9 Hand Lettered Hello; American Crafts Dear Lizzy Enamel Dots; Papermania Adhesive Stones; Kuretake Wink of Stella Clear Shimmer Brush; Ranger Glossy Accents; Hero Arts White Embossing Powder; Versafine Onyx Black; Versamark Ink; White base card; Vellum; Black, teal and pearl blue cardstock scraps; Promarkers in various colours; Black sharpie pen;
conil says
Woot! Not only like this…more like, LOVE IT! Everything about is sings out to me. Beautiful.
lisa says
So glad you like it! It was so out of the ordinary for me, but a far better card than I would have thought possible from its quite unlikeable beginnings
Sou says
Didn’t know you had a blog Lisa! Really love the way you re-used those bits, such a great design! Awesome job ☺ Hugs, Sou XXX
lisa says
It’s new! Only been going about 6 weeks I think, I took the plunge! Thank you so much for visiting, and leaving me such a sweet comment, hugs Lisa xx
Jenny M says
That’s such a great way to re-use your colouring and the effect is quite striking! Love it 🙂
Thanks for playing along in our challenge this month at Seven Hills Crafts 🙂
Jenny X
Keren Baker says
I often work exactly the same way. It’s more fun seeing what happens! I love your geometric design. It’s a beautiful entry to the Seven Hills Crafts Challenge. Thanks for joining in xx
katrine (treen) says
this card is so wonderful! i love the story behind it, how you started out with one thing and ended up with a total other idea, then how you added detail after detail until it really was lovely. i’m so impressed. you really are good at this! thanks so much for sharing this with us (me, lol) have fun! hugs, treen
lisa says
Awww you are too kind Katrine, thanks for taking the time to read and comment xx
Ruth says
It’s so cool! I love the colours and the little details – I loved that pop up challenge! – and it works so well chopped up into circles. Well done you on getting through your coloured scraps 🙂 xx
lisa says
Me and my coloured scraps, I get more excited about using them than I should admit!