Another Beat The Blues Entry for Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Well i seem to be all or nothing when it comes to ideas for my card making, i can go weeks where i get utterly frustrated because i cannot even get an idea of where to start and other times the ideas just keep coming and i can barely keep up with them. I originally coloured two images for my previous card because i was not entirely sure which one i wanted to use so ended up with two coloured images. I chose the LOTV image for the previous card and this Hannah Lynn image was far to gorgeous to remain stored in my stash so off i went and created another card.

The card base is one i had in my stash and measures 15cm x 15cm. I cut silver pearlescent paper to 14cm x 14cm and mounted onto the card blank using double sided sticky tape. The 4 patterned paper strips are all 3cm x 11cm (they were actually what i had left over after making the previous card) and mounted them on card the same as the card blank. I then trimmed a fairly obvious border around each but did not measure this. I then aligned them how i wanted them to sit, i find this helps me to do because i have a tendency to change my layout so many times before my final card. I then adhered them using double sided tape. I then added the black ribbon. Once i had coloured the image i had already mounted on silver pearlescent paper and mounted again on black card stock, all using double sided tape. I adhered the image to the card from using foam tape so it is a little raised from the background. I made the bow and adhered this to the card using Glossy Accents and finally added the blue gems. I have a tendency to be extremely critical of my own efforts but must confess i am pretty happy with the way this turned out.

I used...

Hannah Lynn Digital Image

Black Pearlescent card blank originally purchased from Kmart

Patterned papers are all by Doodlebug Designs

Black Ribbon was from my stash

Blue Gems from Kaiser Craft

Copics B23, R81, E50, C7, C9, G05

Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star

Glossy Accents and Double sided tape from my stash

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Thank you for visiting and i truly appreciate your time and comments

Jox

LOTV Card in blue

Hope everyone is having a great week end so far?

This is my card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week which is Beat The Blues. I really enjoyed this as i truly love blue and i already had some fabulous papers in my stash.

I made this card on a black card base from my stash which measures 14cm x 14cm, i cut a square of patterned paper 13cm x 13cm and then mounted this on silver pearlescent paper which i trimmed a narrow border, i did not measure this i just went by my eye on that. I cut three strips from different patterned paper in 3cm x 10cm and mounted them on silver pearlescent paper, again i did not measure these dimensions i just went by eye. I coloured my image using Copics and cut this down to size, i mounted it on silver pearlescent paper and then mounted again on black card stock. I punched two butterflies, on silver and one in black and used Glossy Accents to adhere them. I stamped my sentiment on a white card blank and again cut down to size. Both the image and the sentiment are adhered to the card using dimensionals. I then lastly added the gems and pearls.

I used...

Black card stock from stash

silver pearlescent paper which i pick up from my local newsagent

LOTV image

All patterned papers are by Doodlebug Designs and i already had these in my stash

Copics in R81, B23, E40, C2

Sakura Gelly rolls in Marine Star, Clear Star and Yellow Glaze

Black Gems and Blue Pearls which i am pretty sure are both kaiser Craft

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Thank you for visiting

Jox