DCM - August Elemental Inspiration

Morning and welcome to a brand new Elemental Inspiration challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

It was my turn to choose the image for this month, and here it is:

 

For my 3+ elements, I went with the blue/green/white/yellow colour palette, woodgrain texture, stripes, and a frame inspired by the rings.

Paper and sticker: Maggie Holmes - Garden Party
Stamp: The Greetery - Sentiment Suite: Birthday
Dies: The Greetery - Sentiment Suite Basics, Hero Arts - Wood Frame Infinity

In typical fashion, I had so many ideas buzzing around in my head when I picked the image, but when it came down to sit at my desk and make something, I just couldn't get everything I'd been contemplating to work.

So it was back to the drawing board and I knew I wanted to feature the Garden Party collection somehow as I had these great layered flower stickers waiting to be used.

That then led me down the road of thinking of using the flowers as the subject of a picture frame on a wall with striped "wallpaper". I simply added some floral paper below the dado rail and the background was done.

I used a Hero Arts Wood Frame die to cut the frame from brown cardstock (twice) and layered it up before adding a subtle blueprint of paper as the backdrop of the flower stem.

Then I attached the frame to my card with some string to hang it from an enamel dot.

I found the perfect teeny sentiment to fit inside the frame, and that'll work for namedays as well as birthdays and other occasions. I will just add the appropriate text inside when I need to send it. :)

So, all in all, very simple, but it fit the bill!

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

Happy crafting!

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The Greetery - Sentiment Suite: Birthday stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery - Sentiment Suite Basics dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	Hero Arts - Wood Frame Infinity dies Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC
Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: EH | MISC	Maggie Holmes - Garden Party - Taking Notes paper Shop at: SBC	Maggie Holmes - Garden Party - Wildflower paper Shop at: SBC	Maggie Holmes Garden Party - Layered paper stickers Shop at: SBC
Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Sizzix - Sidekick 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

[Angelnorth]

It may not be what you planned but it’s definitely very pretty Nat, love the woodgrain frame especially!