Greetings once again from a lovely warm Antipodean Island - ahh I do love late spring!!
Once again I am featuring a card using digi images from Priscillastyles - this time the Flying Birds set, which has six images - three of the birds and three of the beaded flowers. I used the double image of the both birds and the flowers.
The flowers were printed onto a piece of patterned vellum and gold heat embossed, which gave a lovely deep background. This I matted onto cream card stock and then a very deep brown.
I put this aside and coloured the bird images with chalks and cut them out.
I was then able to match the pink with some card, and made my background panel with that, again using the dark brown to mat it onto. I toyed with embossing it, but as the main image was so 'busy' I kept it simple.
When I did the final assembly of the card, I added some decorative strands of (?) plastic that I sourced from a local business - it is generally used for window dressing , and this business is retailing it for home, think Christmas, decorations. The beauty of it is that it reflects the colours that it is against, so is very versatile!
I enjoyed making this card - and what I had planned happened, which is quite a change, and here is the final result, complimented by the addition of some Kaiser pearls.
I am linking this to
Paper Sundaes Challenge #25 - choose your sundae toppings - embossing and blue
Basic Grey Challenge #33 - Wings (no Basic Grey product, sorry)
Thank you for calling by - I treasure your comments.
May your day be blessed.
That's pretty Mum ;-)!
ReplyDeleteOh Maxine - I am so-o-o glad you showed the close ups - they are gorgeous!! This would have to be my favourite of all of your cards - I ADORE the gold and shimmer it is so elegant and RICH - you have outdone yourself Maxine - I am loving this - definitely a favourite with me! Thank you for joining us at the Midnight madness Sketch Challenge - we love to see you! {{{hugs}}}
ReplyDeleteLinda MMSC & PS Design Teams
Wow this is gorgeous what beautiful detail and those birds look wonderful I love it.
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Lorraine x
This is stunning! Love the design and colors. Thank you for joining us at Stampin Sisters in Christ.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, Maxine! Your coloring is outstanding, and your background is just beautiful. Awesome job with these "priscillastyles" birds and with the sketch!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for playing along with the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge.
Denise
MMSC Design Team
This is a gorgeous, elegant creation, Maxine. Love the amazing color combo and the gold embossing is breathtaking against your pink birds.
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ReplyDeleteWow, what a stunning card. All the elements work so well together. I really love the layout.
Thanks for joining in the fun this week at KKKG.
Michelle :-)
What a beautiful card! I love the colors. Thanks for playing with us over at Paper Playtime this week :)
ReplyDeletemichelle
amazing! Love the gold embossed background!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Paper Sundaes this week!
Hi Maxine - me again - you know I am loving this for both Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge and the Midnight Madness Challenges - it is perfect for both! Still loving it! {{{hugs}}}
ReplyDeleteLinda SSIC and MMSC Design Teams
Wow Maxine! This is so pretty! The gold embossing is really rich and the birds are lovely... lots of fussy cutting there but so worth it! Love this and thanks so much for joining us at Stampin Sisters in Christ!!!
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Grace
This is simply beautiful.. Thanks for joining us at KKKG this week. Hugs, Linda
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card and the embossing looks great!
ReplyDeletebeautiful card, love the gold embossing. thanks for playing the critter sketch challenge.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Thanks for playing at Paper Playtime. :) Janis
ReplyDeleteBeautifully done Maxine. This is phenomenal. The birds look so magnificent. Great job with the sketch this week. Thank you so much for playing along with the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge.
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Carol :O}
Midnight Madness Design Team
Very pretty card, Maxine! Thanks for joining us at Paper Sundaes this week!
ReplyDeleteThis card is so adorable. Wonderful embellish and love how you color the image. Thanks for joining us this week at Critter Sketch Challenge Blog for our Embossing Challenge! We Hope to see you again for our next challenge! Thanks Again, Tammy
ReplyDeleteI am in awe of your gold embossing on this card...it is amazing. Thank you for having such great pictures of your creations.
ReplyDeletePriscilla
This is so lovely Maxine!
ReplyDeleteThe birds looks amazing in pink and your background is so vintage and cool!e
Thank you so much for joining in on our challenge. We really appriciate your support and hope to see you again next week.
Mvh
Gunn
Midnight Madness Design Team
Ps. No, I don't have your snailmail adress - but I would love to have it!
Maxine this is great I love layout and the effect the embossing gives :D
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at KKKG and good luck.
Hugs
Amy xx
Maxine, WOW this is just stunning! The gold embossing is just so rich and gorgeous, especially love how you matched the color of the birds with your card stock. Thanks so much for joining us for this week's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge, ! love seeing your creations!
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Marsha
MMSC-DT, PSDT
What a beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing with us at Critter Sketch this week!
Another fabulous technique to inspire me!!! Love it. I think sometimes I'm so busy just trying to meet deadlines, that I have forgotten how much fun it is to try new things. Fabulous chick!
ReplyDeleteHa! Did you ever catch my attention when you wrote of late spring! We're in late autumn with total winter weather freezing and melting depending on time of day, any and all entire night chinook winds...high temps of 43F in the night and 34F on computer weather station before I came onto your blog site!! Ice will be slippery as a wet mirror today so make certain your footing is solid!good treads on your shoe sole. Birds are totally refreshing when crows, ravens, and magpies outnumber chickedees, robins not migrating south and a very occasional sage grouse these days. Your card birds grabbed a second look of enjoyment and refreshment. Praises be for Creator's way of balancing this earth in his might and power all because He loves us!!
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