Casing Cecile

Not long ago I was fortunate to find the blog of Cecile Ortiz.  Her work is amazing - unbelievably gorgeous.  One card in particular that I loved was this one and I just had to have a go at making one for myself.

 

Although I love this card and have tried to copy it faithfully, it is not as delicate as Cecile's card.  Her flowers look so real. 

 

 

As I only had a six inch square of the beautiful venetian designer paper, I made my card a little differently, which also allowed room for a message.

 

 

 

Ingredients are all SU:

Stamps:  Simply Sketched; Forever with you; En Francais

Ink:  Soft Suede

Card:  Soft Suede; Very Vanilla

DSP:  Venetian Romance

Other:  Pretty prints Embossing folder; Pearls

 

I think I will be keeping this one. 

 

Do pop over and check out all of Cecile's beautiful creations.

 

Mary 

Special Blend

The team at Less is More are looking for a shaped card this week - not square or rectangle!! 

 

Now I know why they call them challenges!!  A shaped card! hmmm ... I do have one set of framelits but as someone had already used that set I had to really put my thinking cap on. 

 

I decided to make a champagne bottle, totally forgetting about the one layer part of the deal, so to overcome that I decided to print my "greeting" direct to the cardstock.  I then stamped the square for the label and the little vine and then masked those sections off before sponging the pink champagne.  I used a SU gold marked to simulate the gold foil and the silver marker to make the wire lines.

 

The ingredients were mostly SU: Whisper White card;

Forever with you stamp set;

Pink Pirouette ink;

Raspberry Ripple and Gold and Silver markers.

The square stamp is an unknown one that I have had for years

and never previously used.

 

I do hope that the computer generated "greeting" has not breached any of the rules of the challenge.

I did have fun with this one.

 

Mary