Hello and welcome to my blog. The Global Design Project challenge really caught my eye this week - it's a CASE the designer challenge using this wonderful inspiration from Madeleine Mrotzek.
To CASE a design means you copy and selectively edit the design - you take something from the original and make it your own. I rarely use a colour family altogether on one card and I'm not sure that I have ever made a slimline card! My interest was definitely piqued with Madeline's example, and as I'm in Christmas card mode I chose to create a card with the Decorated with Happiness set to make a slimline card using the Brights collection of colours. Hop over to the Global Design Project #364 post and you'll see lots more ideas inspired by Madeline's card.
I began with a pile of inkpads from the Brights family and began stamping one of the baubles from the set on to matching cardstock. Then, I wondered how the baubles would look if they were white heat embossed. Answer? I like the effect!
The Decorated Pine die set includes dies to cut out the baubles and also a selection of stars. So, as I was cutting the baubles out I cut out some of the stars at the same time. Two versions of the same card were forming in my mind...on to the assembly.
For the first card, I began with a Shimmery White card base together with a smaller layer to display the baubles on. I arranged them, without sticking them, so that I could add some stamped details behind them. I used the stamps with the star and dot patterns and added colour according to the position of the coloured baubles. The sprinkled colour breaks up the whiteness of the background. To finish I added Basic Pearls to the centre of the baubles, some of which are raised on dimensionals, and a sentiment from the Spruced Up set. The decorative layer sits on a slightly bigger layer of Bermuda Bay.
The second version uses the white heat embossed baubles. They sit on a layer of Shimmery White card that is slightly bigger than the card base. This time the added decoration is a sprinkling of the die cut stars. Extra detail is added to the stars as they are die cut creating more dimension. Again the colour graduates according to the colour of the baubles, but I added a few Shimmery White stars too! I added the same sentiment from the Spruced Up set, however, this time it is white heat embossed to tie in with the baubles.
I made sure that my cards would fit our Slimline envelopes. I will be making more slimline cards for sure! Thank you for the inspiration Madeleine - I am so pleased with the way these turned out.
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