Good Morning!
Our Jbelle challenge this week is to CASE our team mate Kim! Kim has also done a fabulous tutorial for us about how to color with Koh-i-noor Pencils and Gamsol ~ you can find it HERE! Kim's darling card that I chose to CASE is HERE! I just realized that I forgot to add the sentiment ~ ack!!! Oh well, too late now!!! Here is my card ~
The base of this card is Chocolate Chip and is 4 1/4" square. The next mat is Brocade Blue and then a pretty decorative mat from Basic Grey's Lily Kate Collection. The pretty blue strip across the lower portion of the card is also from the Lily Kate Collection and was mounted on top of the lower pink square. I added THIS Antique Gold Twinkle ribbon on top of the blue strip.
The top layer was done like this ~ I first stamped the swirl from THIS Basic Grey stamp on Cryogen White shimmery card stock using Celery and Close to Cocoa ink. I then added Coffee Shimmerz on top of the swirl. I then used one of my largest square Nesties, laid it down on top of the swirl so it would cut just outside the swirl. I use Scotch tape to tape the Nestie down. I then took a smaller Nestie (2 smaller than the first one I used), centered it inside the first one and then used a small amount of Scotch tape to tape it down. I then ran the entire piece through my CB and ended up with the center focal piece and then the larger outside frame. I matted the smaller square with a scalloped square cut from Chocolate Chip card stock. I added a couple Prima flowers (Lindsey JUST received some BRAND new Prima ~ you can check it out HERE!!!) and added a Basic Grey glazed brad in the center and mounted the flower on the swirl using a dimensional. I punched a MS butterfly from the blue swirled paper and added pink Taylors Twinkles on the butterfly and blue twinkles to accent the swirl.
Now, don't forget that tonight at 8 EST, I will be picking the winner for my give-a-way ~ all the details can be found HERE!
If you would like to play along, please include the keyword JBE040 when you upload to SCS so we can all see what you made! Need some inspiration, check out the girls creations ~
Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!
~Lynda
Super sweet!
Posted by: Maren | February 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM
This is beautiful!!! I love how you added the Coffee Shimmerz!!!
Posted by: Kimberly O'Rosky | February 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Gorgeous!!!!
Posted by: Rachel Hope | February 17, 2009 at 02:22 PM
Beautiful! Love the patterned paper and the brad.
Posted by: Jill | February 17, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Lynda this is stunning, do i always say that, well your cards are always so beautiful.
Posted by: Cindy Haffner | February 17, 2009 at 05:12 PM
This card is beautiful! I love all the little embellishments you have added to give it extra bling too! Gorgeous!
Posted by: Kim Prince | February 17, 2009 at 07:20 PM
Quite lovely!
Posted by: Linda C. | February 17, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Congrats on getting published! And this card is gorgeous!
Posted by: Betty aka ZacksNana | February 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Congrats on getting published!!! And this card is absolutely gorgeous!!!
Posted by: Betty aka ZacksNana | February 18, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Gorgeous! Love the soft colors, the touch of bling- beautiful!
Posted by: Kisa | February 20, 2009 at 01:03 PM