When I saw Karen Dunbook was this week's Queen I was soooo excited!! I am in awe of Karen's amazing CAS style - every design has that truly special WOW factor.
Karen - I LOVE your design style! As much as I try I've not yet mastered anything close to your beautiful CAS creations.
I decided on this absolutely GORGEOUS card of Karen's: {Freshness of Spring}
Changes were with stampset, Nestie, papers, punches and embossing folder. Kept Karen's fabulous layout.
Further inspiration for this card came from today's Inspiration Challenge website - what a nice surprise to visit this unique on-line store called Ruche. So many fun things and so reasonably priced!! Checked out the jewelry first and right away found this unique ring with a beautiful Rose that reminded me of a couple of SU! Rose stampsets: {Yellow Rose Cab Ring} Thanks Stef!!
The Rose and leaves were stamped, then penciled over to give more depth to the images. This card is going to one of my fellow Punckateer Pals who has a birthday coming up in April - Happy Birthday Quiltzi!!
Thanks everyone for looking!
Thank you Karen for sharing your beautiful art!
Enjoy your weekend,
Hugs,
Audrey
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Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44848
Sat, Mar 26, 2011 @ 7:33 PM
Ohh it's so fun when I'm actually right in the gallery and can catch a wonderful punchkateer card right away!! Ohh gorgeous yellow rose! I love how you popped it up - and the embossing in behind only adds to your cards wonder!
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Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 16426
Sat, Mar 26, 2011 @ 7:34 PM
Lovely case of Karen's card Audzi! Love the embossing - lots of depth there, and that flower is so pretty! I totally agree with all your comments about Karen and that cool Ruche site. Hugz!
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Registered: July 23, 2007 Location: Alberta, CANADA Posts: 49294
Sat, Mar 26, 2011 @ 7:51 PM
Love your awesome embossing and your fun green patterned strip. Nice scallops and pearls.
Thanks for participating and honouring Queen Karen with your creation!
Registered: February 21, 2009 Location: Mt. Pulaski, IL Posts: 29997
Sat, Mar 26, 2011 @ 8:07 PM
This is so, so beautiful! I love your EFd BG and the colors are gorgeous!
P.S. The picture of you in the avatar kept reminding me of someone and today I was flipping through the channels and saw Laura Dern (the actress) in a scene on a movie and I knew that was who you reminded me of!!
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Registered: July 9, 2008 Location: Stars Fell on Alabama Posts: 30812
Sat, Mar 26, 2011 @ 8:52 PM
AudreyAnn, your wild rose is scrumptious! Your embossed folder is awesome and I love the green strip. What a wonderful sentiment with a beautiful font. Over the top gorgeous!!!
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Registered: January 29, 2006 Location: Mount Forest,Ontario Canada Posts: 7853
Sun, Mar 27, 2011 @ 4:12 AM
A beautiful case of a beautiful card. I particularly LOVE the EF you used. The rose is gorgeous; I like how you've presented it in that oval. The banner is brilliant in color and design and the sentiment finishes it off perfectly. I struggle with stamping sentiments in color, but this just goes to show how beautiful it looks.
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