Inspired by Mother Nature

Mother Nature - a great source of inspiration. When I saw A Day For Daisies' freebie I just new that I had to have some natural, colorful inspiration so I turned to pinterest and found these two beauties:



 

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Needed to make two belated birthday cards so no need to choose which one to draw inspiration from :o) If I had used a die, I could have entered into the A Day For Daisies challenge, but opted for my woodgrain embossing folder instead - a little more rustic touch to the cards.

 

 

Both cards are now enroute to their destinations.

 

Challenge Inspired By A Challenge

Little over a month ago, I challenged myself to make one weaved heart per day for a year .. ok what was I thinking?!?! *LOL* Have not given up, but is having fun. A couple of days later I decided, that this years Christmas cards should have a theme - using the hearts on all my cards.

When I weaved heart number 35, I discovered the possibility stamp the center, but also missing the right stamp. A Day For Daisies latest challenge "A bit of Holiday & a bit of Red" has the perfect freebie, and one of the challenge rules is, that we are to use the stamp on our card :o)

Another Christmas card finished and still lots to do.

Reflections.....

Everybody, who have seen the news the past 24 hours would know, what has saddened my mind. Not only is Norway a neighbour, but also a nation we share a lot with.

Recieved an email this morning from A Day For Daisies about new digistamp releases, a reminder about the latest challenge and a freebie digistamp. I stared at the stamp, 'cause a card idea immediately occured in my head. I know there is an impromptu memorial being held at the Norwegian Embassy in a couple of hours, but have chosen not to go (even if it is close to where I live) and make this card as a tribute instead.

Jane Austen Meets Challenges

I have been reading one of my favourite books "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen - Looove that book and that might explain why I have both the BBC tv-series and the 2005 remake on DVD.

Inspiration to my cards comes from a lot of places - this time is no exception. Remembered seing a feebie digi-stamp on A Day for the Daisies blog including a challenge, where we are to use stitches in our card as well as one of their stamps.

Lace and/or doily was required from the CCCE stamper's challenge and finally the sketch I chose to follow is from Just Us Girls, as it was perfect from my idea.

Just realised that the blue in the sketch may have prompted/inspired me to use blue color tones in the card - pastel red was out of the question as I can only remember seing colors tones like blue, black, white, grey and green wheen seeing Jane Austen inspired pictures, but hey maybe I am wrong in that perception. Anyway, here's my Jane Austen inspired card:

The text used is actually from the Jane Austen book "Sense and Sensibility" - I realised a while back, that I had two identical paperback copies of the book and decided that one of them was to be used in my cardmaking.