Congrats to Ali! I loved her gallery but I have to tell you, her wonderful sea of white is scary to me, lol. I love looking at CAS cards and ones w/ a lot of white space. but I have a real hard time doing that on my cards. When I see a lot of white space on my own cards, I start feeling shaky and nervous.
Anyway, I chose Ali's Butterfly. I kept the white space, color and layout but I added an embossing folder. ribbon and used different images.
I used images from 3 different Our Daily Bread designs sets. In order to get the right color, I used the 2 inks...first inking w/ the aquamarine then tapping the blue lagoon on top before stamping. I caved a little on the background. All the white space was a little too much for me so I added some texture. The embossing folder was used on the background, but I only embossed up to the border at the bottom.
It still felt a little unfinished, so I added the bow and ribbon and then the butterfly. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.
Thanks so much for looking! Congrats, Ali and Happy Easter, everyone! Close ups will be on my blog in just a bit: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012 GMT Views: 5312
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Registered: March 9, 2005 Location: OH Posts: 28551
Sun, Apr 08, 2012 @ 7:26 AM
Julie, it sure looks like you've conquered your fear of white here! This is just exquisite.
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Registered: January 25, 2008 Location: Scotland Posts: 385
Sun, Apr 08, 2012 @ 12:23 PM
Thank you for your kind words Julie....you did make me giggle being scared however definately no need to be as you have CASED my card beautifully! Love love love this take on my card
Registered: May 27, 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 12844
Sun, Apr 08, 2012 @ 1:59 PM
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, Julie. I love your colors, the embossing, the borders, the ribbon, the stamping, the butterfly--all of it. It is exquisitely done.
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