The challenge today was perfect for me to honor a few Queens that I have missed. I don't usually combine such challenges but I have missed almost 100 and there would be no way to catch up and honor each one separately. I'm sorry upfront if this hurts anyone's feeling. I have tried to do my best and I hope each one of you can see the inspiration you gave me.
First Congrats to all three Queens. I am very familiar with each galley and love all three, for different reasons.
Queen Charlene, QFTD108. I was introduced to Charlene's gallery through the challenges on SCS. It is an honor to case a card from her wonderful gallery. She has always been sweet to me with her comments. This was the first card I found, I love the CAS style and the cute little bear with his balloons.
Queen Lisa, QFTD96. I have admired Lisa's galley for as long as I can remember. I love the fun and creative cards she always seems to come up with. One day I saw a Skype banner on SCS with a cute cloud bg, a few minutes later I was peeking through Lisa's galley and wouldn't you know it, there was that same cloud bg on a card. So I knew which card I had to case ... I tried sponging it but it just didn't look clean so I cut it out and popped it up.
Queen Laurie, QFTD76. Pick your own queen. I picked Virgo5. I was introduced to Laurie's galley while I was a guest designer for Totallystampalicious. Love her style, her fabulous coloring and creativity. I had the same image as this card and thought I could make a easel card with the design.. I'll have to try the fold she used but that will have to wait for another challenge.
I popped up the cloud layer and the little elephant twice. I used fun bright colors and made an easel card. The elephant and balloons are a bugaboo image.
Thanks for looking
Date: Friday, May 4, 2012 GMT Views: 2277
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Registered: July 17, 2005 Location: Staying inky in eastern Connecticut Posts: 79205
Fri, May 04, 2012 @ 4:50 PM
Irene....it is sooooo fabulous to see you back in the galleries....it has indeed been a longgggg time......AND I am guessing that you have moved since you now refer to Florida in your profile....so glad we met before you moved away.....good luck in your new home....AND you are making fabbo cards as usual...this is so darn sweet
Registered: November 17, 2006 Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia Posts: 52798
Sat, May 05, 2012 @ 1:39 PM
OH MY, IRENE.. THIS IS SUPER, SUPER CUTE.. LOVE THE DIMENSION ON THE LITTLE ELEPHANT, AND HOW YOU DID THE CLOUDS IN THE BACKGROUND.. WONDERFUL DESIGN.. LOVE IT....
HUGS..PAT