Thank You! Falling For You with RGStudio360

Hey there inky friends!  I'm back with another fall themed card featuring the deeeeelish stamp/digi set from RGStudio360 called "Fall Wreath".  I was inspired to create another project featuring the beautiful leaves in this set and pulled my design inspiration from the RGStudio360 Community (Facebook) Mood Board Challenge #8.  If you're not a part of the group, make sure to request to join!  It's full of awesome inspiration and fun challenges!  Take a look at this mood board and see how many pieces I incorporated into my card creation!  What do you spy?  The colors?  Can you see all of them?  How about the burlap?  Falling Leaves?  Perhaps you can see a hint of those boards?  Lots and lots of inspriation!  

To create my card, I started out by blending a bit of light greenish-blue ink onto the cream card panel and then mounted a piece of pumpkin colored paper that I tore a bit.  I flicked some of the Neocolor2 Aquarelle watercolor onto this panel using a super-fine paint brush.  Next, I added a tiny strip of dark green cardstock to the top of this layer and then added the satin ribbon and the burlap ribbon. 

Next, I proceeded to assemble my leaf cluster from the "Fall Wreath" digi set onto the card and around the ribbon to mimic my idea of tossing leaves into the air and letting them softly float on down. Some leaves were directly glued while others were popped onto the card  panel with foam squares.   Remember, this set is available in DIGI and CLEAR STAMP FORM! 

Finally, I added some golden thread and fussy cut the thank you sentiment.  I applied a bit of the same greenish-blue ink onto this sentiment with my finger and then applied some glossy accents to give a little more dimension.  This sentiment was mounted onto the card panel with some foam squares.  I mounted this panel onto a green card base. 

WAHOO!  That's two pretty fall cards created with this gorgeous stamp/digi set!  Next up, another-more CAS style card, more "flat", more simple.  Come back tomorrow to see my final card featuring this gorgeous stamp/digi set! 

Pretty in Pink...Joy Clair's August Mood Board Challenge

Hello there Joy Clair friends!  Today I'm joining my fellow Joy Clair designers as we introduce our monthly "Mood Board Anything Goes Challenge".  This mood board gets me all kinds of mushy.  I love the girly colors, the woodgrain, the florals, those tasty Macs and...that yummy drinkie-poo.  I thought about making myself some of my own rose water macarons and a lavender martini and then slapped myself and said...I need to make a stamped project.  Ahhh...I guess the foodie items will come a little later.  ;)  

Check out this month's gorgeous mood board and come play along with us this month!  You just MAY win a fabulous prize if you play along!  Add a link to your creation on our August Challenge page HERE and wait patiently to see if you're the winner!  

Do you see that photo #2 next to the wondows?  Well, THAT was my inspiration...I challenged myself to dig through my Joy Clair stamp set stash for the perfect little stamps to create the nine billion itty bitty flowers to make this gorgeous cluster.  I found the image in the Born To Sparkle set.   

I started out by stamping the background using the drippy sparkles/glitter shower portion of the stamp set.  I didn't mount my stamp on a block as I just wanted to ink up a sprinkling of those sparkles- as to mimic how these flowers hang so drippy from the tree.  I used a new ink pad/color from Fun Stampers Journey that works perfectly for this color theme.  

After stamping the background- and adding a little sparkle washi tape, I moved on to stamping the flowers.  The little starburst image would work perfectly for the insides of the flowers!  

After stamping the flowers, I started cutting them out.  I knew that many would say "THAT WOULD TAKE FOREVER!" so I thought, heck, why not, let's time how long it takes me to fussy cut all those flowers....

 

Just about TEN MINUTES!  Not bad.  It seemed like it went by in a flash.  Next up, I had to form the florals- I laid the little circles onto my Misti foam and used my FSJ tool to cup each one of the little circles.  How long would that take???  

I pressed the timer again (I didn't delete the previous time).  So...about seven minutes to get those little flowers flowerific!  

next up was assembling the flower cluster.  I forgot to press the timer this time so I have no idea how much time passed.  Probably hours.  ha ha...

I didn't have any more little flowers to fill in the white space so I just said- let's move on to the leaves and I'll fill that white space with sparkle.  ;)  Sparkle always works!  

Yeah, SPARKLE!  It' works. 

Before I added a few tendrils for added texture and attached a stem then glued the whole thing to the paper,  I stamped the sentiment from the Scriptures of Love stamp set on the card base (using my Misti for a crisp image).  Voila.  It's done.  Don't ask how long it took.  I have NO idea- I was lost in creative bliss!