Tuesday 10 January 2012

Summer Days

oh for those lazy hazy days of Summer .. .. and a garden to sit in making daisy chains, well that might not be on the agenda for this year as the garden is more than likely going to be a building site! Although this cute LOTV stamp came out awhile ago I've only just added it to my collection. It's quite detailed and I can see from my close up that I have missed the odd area - call it artistic licence! I've coloured with Copics in shades of red, cream and sage green for the Colour Create challenge, although I've not included the optional buttons. For the reds I used R24, R27 and R29; the greens are E81, YG91, YG93, YG95 and YG97; the creams are YR21, YR23, YR24, going into brown shades E35, E37 and E39.

Here's the card. I've used another freebie piece of patterned paper, this time by Serif, matted with sage green cardstock. I've embellished with satin ribbon, a strip of red card punched with a Martha Stewart lace punch, Marianne diecut fronds from LR0106 and Nellie's Choice punched and embossed little red flowers and creamy yellow butterflies. I did the colour enhance thingy in Photoshop and the creamy shades have gone a tad yellow/mustard - they are not quite so bright in real life .. .. but you could say they are a good West Country clotted cream colour!

I had planned on sharing this card with you earlier today but had to finish up some tiling .. .. and got a bit of grit in my eye so have been in agony this evening. I think it's out now, but the eye is very bloodshot and quite swollen, but at least I can see to type and hopefully it will be better in the morning.

The Lollipop Crafts and the Fairytale blog challenge is to use something new - my stamp is new, and the freebie paper is new too.

16 comments:

  1. oh wow this is gorgeous Annie - i love the colours.
    Lisa x

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  2. Your card is wonderful hun! I love the image and colors!

    Hugs
    Jay Jay

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  3. so pretty Annie, love the floral border. sorry to hear about your eye, hope it is better soon!
    Deb xx

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  4. Eine wunderschöne Karte mit diesen 2 Kindern auf der Sommer-Wiese !
    Liebe Grüße
    Helga

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  5. Oh fabulous card Annie, love the sweet image.
    luv
    Debby

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  6. Oh Annie - do take care of that eye. You really are in the wars! Your colours are wonderful - I just love that ribbon & the way your red punched flowers pick out the red flowers in the image & how you have highlighted the butterflies in the image with the same colour punched butterflies as well.
    Paula (PEP)

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  7. Annie, this is beautiful. Its another of my favourite stamps.
    Mind you they all seem to be my favourites LOL.
    THANKS FOR YOUR KIND COMMENTS ON MY BLOG. Hugs Chris x

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  8. What a wonderfull project you have made! Thank you for joining us at Fairy Tale Challenge! xx Bianca

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  9. Ooh Annie, I have to say I didnt think I was a mega fan of green but I have to say every time I see green on cards I actually love it! And add to that youve added a super warm red too so now Im in colour envy now!

    Quite beautiful!

    Keryn x

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  10. This is beautiful Annie, the papers, those flowers and that image look stunning, I love this a lot.
    Hugs
    Lorraine x

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  11. A fabulous card. Nice colours and great colouring.
    Love your design!!
    Thanks for joining in over at Colour Create.

    Sylvia.

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  12. What a beautiful card I love the colours you have used gorgeousx

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  13. Gorgeous!! The image is so sweet and love all the die-cuts! Thanks for joining us at Lollipop Crafts! ;)

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  14. *Awww* That´s such a cute image and I love how you dealed with the flowers! :)
    Thanks for joining us at FTC!
    hugs
    Nina

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  15. This is just awesome! You've done a spectacular job!

    Thanks for joining us at Lollipop Crafts challenge

    Crafty Hugs
    Juelmarie DT

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  16. fabulous card Annie, I love that cute LOTV image...thanks for joining in with our Colour Create challenge
    Mina xxx

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