Hello everyone, it's hard to believe but we've reached the half-way point in this year's 52 cards challenge! Crikey....
This week's prompt comes in the form of an inspiration photo to get you kick-started. :)
Lots of lovely features in this set of images that can be translated onto a card:
- Fancy frames
- Mini pegs/bunting
- Pompom embellishments (dimensional flowers, tissue paper, resin flowers)
- Monograms
- Focus on a quote/word art
- Cute animals like the dog and owl in the photos
- A house/door
- Black as a striking colour element
- Any of the colours: soft celery green, aqua, blush, white, hot pink, black, bold orange
...those are just a few to get you thinking.
Well, this week's card is also the first one taken with my new little point and shoot camera. My Lumix DMC-TZ5 has served me well for almost 6 years but for the past few months it hasn't been able to zoom in on the first go and I've been having to use the "Food" scene setting to take project photos so that the exposure could be tweaked without loosing too much detail.
At the weekend, after a lot of consideration and trying out various point and shoots under the £200 mark, I finally managed to get a Lumix DMC-TZ35 at Argos. I did like the DMC-TZ40 but couldn't bring myself to pay almost £100 more just for the WiFi capability (which is reportedly quite patchy anyway) - I did really like the image stabilization display on the TZ40, the TZ35 still has the grid display for helping you shoot straight (I need a lot of help with that!) but the spirit-level style guide on the TZ40 would have been a welcome addition. I've managed to familiarise myself with most things on my new little camera, and am hoping for better project shots now that don't require much correcting in PSE afterwards. :) Plus I'm hoping to put it through its paces this summer when in Poland. I love my Sony DSLR and the photos I get with it, but you don't want to be lugging a heavy camera with you in your handbag everyday.
Anyway, enough about that and onto my card:
Paper: MME, Crate Paper
Stamps: PTI, Waltzing Mouse
Dies: PTI
Bling: Prima
Other: vellum, 3D foam, sewing machine, Stickles
So my elements were the fancy black oval frame, a monogram, and blush pink for the heart rhinestones. I wanted to soften up the background a bit so stitched a strip of vellum on, the frame is also blinged up with black Stickles dotted right around the inside frame. I cut the B from cream cardstock and stamped it with the corresponding stamp using PTI Aqua Mist ink - you can just make out the cream line still on the inside of the letter. I spent a while trying to find the perfect greeting that would fit the style of the rest of the card, and once again the Big Day Today set from Waltzing Mouse Stamps came out to play - I love the font for the Big Day sets. :D
So that's it for this card, now I need to think about what I'll feature on my Christmas card... perhaps a door with a wreath on it? Who knows! :)
What a beautiful card Nat! Lovely colours and really elegant.
Posted by: Sue | Monday, 07 July 2014 at 01:45 PM
Classy card!
Here is mine - it's my parents 57th Wedding anniversary today so I made my card for their celebration. http://www.amomentintime-craftycooper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/52-card-challenge-2014-week-28.html
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x
Posted by: Lynn | Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 02:00 PM