DCM - July Elemental Inspiration

Good morning!

Well, it's the first of a brand-new month, so time for another elemental inspiration challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

This month, Dawn has chosen the image:

Lots of beachy possibilities here, but I went a different route. ;)

I saw the gerbera daisy, the keyboard, and that lovely palette of colours and an idea formed!

It was time to get out the Daisy Days set and coordinating paper pack from The Greetery.

Paper: The Greetery - Print Shop: Daisy Days
Stamps: Memory Box - Best Life Typewriter Sentiments, The Greetery - Print Shop: Daisy Days
Dies: The Greetery - Print Shop: Daisy Days, The Greetery - Crimped Slimline

This Print Shop collection features a high-quality paper pack in 5 shades (one being a duck egg blue and another a rusty orange), you then use the stencils in the set to fill in the white space on the paper panel, add stamped details, and finish off with some dimensional die-cut flowers as I have done for the blue card or leave it at that.

Both of my cards feature a typewriter-style sentiment (inspired by the keyboard) on a crimped banner. I didn't feel anything else was needed, as the finished backgrounds are just lovely.

For the blue card, I skipped the stencil that colours in the daisies, leaving them white. Just using light grey ink for the stamped details on them really brought them to life.

For the rusty card, I used similar colour tones, but used blush pink for the flower stencil and white cardstock for the sentiment strip.

And that's it!

Make sure you check out the ideas from the rest of the design team here, and play along if you can!

Happy crafting!

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Memory Box - Best Life Typewriter Sentiments stamps (r) Shop at: MISC	The Greetery - Print Shop: Daisy Days stamps and stencils Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery - Print Shop: Daisy Days dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery - Crimped Slimline dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG
Altenew - Blush dye ink Shop at: MISC	Altenew - Limestone dye ink Shop at: MISC	Lawn Fawn - Artichoke ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn - Carrot ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK)
Lawn Fawn - Cilantro ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn - Noble Fir ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn - Pumpkin Spice ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn - Sage Leaf ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK)
Lawn Fawn - Sunflower ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK)	Pinkfresh Studio - Sweet Mustard ink pad Shop at: MISC | SBC	Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	The Greetery - Print Shop: Daisy Days paper pack Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG
Bazzill Cardshoppe - Butter Mints Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH	Bazzill Cardshoppe - Marshmallow Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Tombow - Mono-Multi liquid glue Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)
MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC	Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK)	Taylored Expressions - Blender Brushes Shop at: MISC	Waffle Flower - Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)
Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Thermoweb iCraft - Purple tape for die-cutting - 1 1/2" Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC

Comments

[Dawn Barwick]

Both these card are just stunning and I love the technique you have used.