Now on to today's card. I'm super excited to share this one with you because I'm participating in the Global Design Project Page's 100th project challenge!! This is a very special event as it celebrates 100 amazing and fun design challenges. In addition, it features some brand new products that will be realeased September 1st with the new holiday catty. Now before you judge me about making holiday cards early, I will remind you that I have always been the type of person who likes to get my holiday cards started ahead of time. That way, when Christmas comes around, I'm not stressing about getting them done in time to send; I can just enjoy that wonderful time of year with my family.
For this week's design challenge, we were to chose one (or all) of gorgeous cards created by the design team this week to CASE. If you're not familiar with the term "CASE", it means to "copy and share everything ". You can select as many elements from the original design that inspire you and apply them to your card, with your own Twist of course! You can check out all the stunning projects here. I chose to case the lovely design by Jessica Williams. What I love about Jessica's card (besides everything, lol) is the aesthetically pleasing layout. I love the cluster of elements in the middle left of her design, with the perfect balancer-the circular element that grounds the entire design. Here's her design:
My take has been inspired by her card layout design, so I made sure to include these elements. One of the things I really love about this card is all the colors and textures. Yet, there's something simplistic about it. For the background, I used the brand new Winter Wonder Textured Impressions embossing folder, one snowflake embossed on the top left corner and one on the bottom right. Then I took the stunning new Foil Snowflakes (they come in silver and gold and plain on the backside so you can ink them in any color you like) in silver and took my Starburst punch and punched the center out of one. This created a neat new outer rim look for the snowflake. I'll use the center for another project later on.
Next, I die cut one of the stars from the Starlight Thinlits dies out of watercolor paper and used both Dapper Denim and Tempting Turquoise to watercolor it. I added a different star die cut from silver foil and then finished of my card with some of the gorgeous mini Silver Sequin Trim. That's today's card! Thanks so much for stopping by! See you all on Wednesday's post!
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Thanks so much for playing along with GDP100 Lauren and for choosing my card to CASE! What I love about it (beside everything, lol) is that you've managed to pack so much punch into one card. Love the silver & blue, the embossing, the sparkles, and the Christmas! It's NEVER too early for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteOh thank you, Jess! And thank you for the gorgeous inspiration! Love your designs!
DeleteLove the way you used the embossing folder. Now I have to have it. Thanks for playing along with Global Design Project.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Shawn! It really is a "must have", lol!
DeleteWhat gorgeous layering! It's never too early for Christmas cards (well, as long as it's July or after). :) I love your CASE of Jess' card. Thank you so much for helping us to celebrate the 100th challenge of the Global Design Project! I'm glad you played along.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Brian, and thanks for another great challenge! Jess is truly an inspiration so it was easy! 😊
DeleteBeautiful card as always, friend. I am Casing Jessica's card too. :) I love what you created using her inspiration.
ReplyDeleteThank you, sweet friend! I loved your design as well! What a fun challenge!
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