Patterned Papered Dreams

Hexagons Love

Well, hello! I hope you're having a nice week so far. Did you know that challenges are back at the Moxie Fab World? Right? I missed the first one (it was about constelations) but there's no way I'm missing the current challenge. Hexagons. One of the most versatile trends out there!

So here is my hexagons card:

 

 

I went to town with this die from WPlus9 (I used the B one). After die cutting it in a few bright colors, I was playing around with them to see how I wanted to position them on the card and oh la la! Happy discovery! I could make a heart!

 

 

The sentiment is from Mama Elephant. I stamped it on a spare hexagon, adhered it with foam tape and added white enamel accents to the heart. Done!

Will you be giving this challenge a try? You should ;) Thanks for stopping by!

Oh Happy Day

Hi there! I have a card! I have a card! I made it inspired by my friend Taheerah's Cure for the Monday Blues challenge... and I missed the deadline. Again. But here it is anyway. As you can see, I stretched a bit out of my graphic comfort zone.

It's still a clean card but at the same time it doesn't look that clean. Do I make sense?  Perhaps it's because of the cream card base. Or because I was super brave and stamped my sentiment in red, ha! Does this happen to you? I tend to stamp the sentiments always in black or brown.

 

 

The inspiration elements from the pic were the frame and the colors red and pink. I used mint instead of aqua. In this close up you can see I used a linen textured cardstock.

 

 

All the stamps are from Avery Elle, as is the Mint ink (rest of ink used is Fresh/Impress). The gorgeous flowers are from my brand new Love Notes (gosh, how I love Nina's designs!) and the sentiment is from Oh Happy Day.

I'm also entering this card in both the new AEI(love)U Challenge, which is birthday themed, and the AE Guest Designer search. Wow! I think it's the first time I link a card to 3 different places :)

Thanks for visiting!

 

 

 

Congratulations

Happy Friday! Checking in today with a card I made last weekend with some Avery Elle goodness. Throwing my hat into their guest designer search :)

 

 

I started by stamping the frame from Celebrate with different colors. The I heat embossed a sentiment from Petals and Stems on a black cardstock strip and finished with a few die cut stars for good measure.

As you can see it's a pretty simple card to make. It remind's me to a subway map minus the station's names. The frames where stamped with Fresh ink but guess what? A friend who came from the US this week brought me a few of the new Avery Elle inkpads and they are amazing! It's the same formula as Fresh, which is my all time fave. I hope to post something with them soon.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Guesting on the Runway!

Hello friends! Guess what? Today I'm joining the Runway Inspired Challenge girls as a guest designer! I love, love, love the whole concept and would have never imagined than an outfit could be interpreted so many ways. Oh, but it sure can... just take a look at the RIC archives. Amazing.

Ok, so I guess this is the closer this 1,55 metres girl will ever be to a runway, ha! Here's the inspiration outfit. It's one of Diane Von Furstenberg's signature wrap dresses, this time in a striking geometric print.

 

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My take on it is based on the colors and the geometry. I used a crazy ammount of white space to draw the attention to the focal panel, and let it "breathe" at the same time. Does that make sense?

 

I designed the panel on the Cameo software. The striped rectangle is a premade design from the Silhouette store, so I just typed the sentiment in a slim font (to mimic the model's body) and welded it to the rectangle. Once everything was die cut, I cut narrow strips of colored cardstock with my trimmer and adhered them to the back of the rectangle. A bit time consuming, but pretty relaxing too :)

 

You can check all the challenge details here. I hope you'll play along!
Thanks for visiting!

CFC128: So long...

Hi everyone! Today's post is a bittersweet one, as it's my last one as a Girl Friday at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge. I still remember the ginormous happinness I felt when I received Michele's acceptance email after I applied for the team, and I will always be thankful to her for this great chance to be part of such a wonderful challenge. And specially for the friendships I've made. Thanks so much for everything, Michele! You're one amazing lady and I'll do my best to keep playing  :)

But wait! There's still a new challenge up and running. The deet is to make farewell cards that are longer than the average card. There's a fab Cas-ual Fridays Stamps prize up for grabs, so play along!

 

Here's my farewell card. I started with a scor-tape strip covered with glitter. You know, farewells need a bit of drama, right? The plaid was stamped with the lines from WTF, which was the first stamp set Michele released. And the colors, of course, are CAS-ual Fridays signature blue and orange (actually, the blue should have been more a tealish one, but well...). The bold sentiment was die cut with the Cameo. Yes, again ;)

¿And that tiny bow? It's a die designed by Nina Yang for Avery Elle. You can find it here but beware... it's addictive!

 

And a closer look

 

So there you go! I hope you'll play with us this week and thank you so much for all the sweet comments you've left me during my time with CAS-ual Fridays. I hope you'll still visit me around here :)

Happy weekend!