"Hi!" My First Frosted Design Card

Happiness is when you stumble into new challenge blogs with an inspiring sketch! (the site is not new, just new to me heheh). So here's my first time playing along with Frosted Design's card sketch challenge #1, yup, it's also their first card sketch challenge!

Using Basic Grey's Indie Bloom. It's the same one paper; Guacamole, using both coordinating sides, matched with pale yellow cardstock.

This is FD's card sketch #1:

Here are some close-ups:

My own handmade satin ribbon bloom :) Crystal sparkle center; Crafio. Sentiment tag; Slice Dilly Dally, inner piece is canvas with sentiment alphas from Basic Grey.

Border punch; Martha Stewart, lace and crochet trim; local supply.

Inside the card. Lace trim local supply.

I really love how the BG papers matches so perfectly, the floral designs really made the card POP!

Thanks for visiting! XOXO!

TCR Palette #69: Boy I Think You're Amazing!

TCR challenges are always challenging! The standards are so HIGH and I often find myself not having the shades that are on the palette (still a newbie, my stash is still very small). When I saw #69 I decided to try it out, quite an unusual color combo I must say. I had to go and get myself some pool blue paints and new papers... taddaaa ... excuse to shop!

BOY... I think you're amazing!
All the embellishments are Basic Grey Hopscotch chip stickers and office tabs. Patterned paper is an old 7Gypsies Canal Venice. Other than that, we have TA Mist in Turquoise and Adirondack Acrylic paint dabber in Pool Blue, some brown felt, some netting, corrugated paper, a button and a BG brad.

I made this felt button flower; free-hand cutting hehe. It looks really unproportionate actually. The big button did a good job hiding it. Scattered the chip stickers on the corrugated sheet. I had to resist very hard not to use flowers here, I didn't want to girlie-fy the layout too much.

I split the office tab so I can use it twice. Foil chipboard alphas from AC.

Here's the other portion of the office tab.

I got so into the color scheme after I'm done I actually went on and made a card. I so happen to pick up an orange paper from Basic Grey's Life of the Party line (Again! I'm so into BG lately!)


Using up some scraps here, plus I was just dying to use this new Penny Black stamp I got from Cherry On Top.

 

Thanks for dropping in! Have a great week ahead :)

Guest Designing on Cardabilities #36

BIG THANKS to Karan of Cardabilities for the honor to guest design for sketch #36. I was so surprised and excited when I got her email a few weeks back. Truly truly truly delighted and honored! :) :) :)

Woohoo! Here is a screengrab of the page :) It's my first ever guest design stint heehee so you can imagine I'm really thrilled about this moreover I'm still pretty new to the scene! Pardon my going on and on about it heehee :P  Anyhow, do pop over and have a look at the gorgeous cards created by the Design Team as well, they have wonderful inspirations for sketch #36.

Here's the sketch:

Isn't it awesome??? Won't you come over to Cardabilities and play along with us?

My interpretation of the sketch

Trying to stay true to the sketch so I kept the body of the card empty and focused on the cluster of embellishment. I'm using Basic Grey Sweet Threads papers and chip stickers here, the background dark brown is the underside of a Basic Grey Hello Luscious Dandy, sandpapered. Happy Birthday tag is handwritten on a BG tag.

Used some netting underneath to add some dimension and texture. Butterflies are my favMS Royal B'fly  Punch.

Again using BG papers but the base 'script' paper is Prima's Botanical.

Thanks so much for popping by! Have a lovely blessed Sunday!