Friday 13 July 2012

A Cascading colour challenge


This card has been two days in the making! I started with the challenge at Technique Tuesday where there is a fab tutorial on how to make cascading cards. I have made a couple, and they are so amazing! Then, I combined it with the Secondary Colours (purple, orange and green) theme at Make My Monday. I wanted the overall effect to be like a gift, so I started with the orange twine bow.  I found everything in my stash which were the required colours, including a few Fimo buttons and flowers that I'd made myself a while ago. I used double sided Papermania card to make the card base and punched out a few butterflies using my SU butterfly punch - a recent purchase.  It was then just a case of putting it all together, which I did this morning, over at a friends' house, where we had coffee and crafted for a couple of hours. Lovely!!
Thanks for the good wishes yesterday, re my daughters' leaving ceremony.  Here is a picture of us going off for the day.  We had a lovely time, but now she's officially 'left' school....sniff, sniff...

13 comments:

  1. How pretty! I love your colors and your flowers. Great job on the cascade card.
    hugs,
    Ellen

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  2. Lovely card Louise! Sweet pic of you and your daughter. I have a son who will be leaving for college soon and I just can't believe he's that old already - sniff.

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  3. OH MY WORD!!! This is adorable, Louise!!! Love the butterflies! Thanks for joining in my second color wheel challenge at MMM! :) Thanks for supporting Technique Tuesday, too!!! :)

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  4. Louise your card is beautiful! I love the orange and purple combo.

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  5. A very cheerful colour combo, Louise. Love it. Buttons, bows and butterflies - this card is determined to spread some love!

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  6. A beautiful card, with pretty embellishments. Thanks for joining us in Mynette's colour challenges at make My Monday. Caz

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  7. This is gorgeous Louise - I love it - thanks for joining in at MMM this week - Jacqueline xx

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  8. thank you for joining us at MMM with this fabulous card
    suzi b :)

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  9. Beautiful card and such lovely details.Thanks so much for joining us at MMM.
    Valx

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  10. A really lovely shape card Louise and so prettily decorated.
    Thanks for joining in at MMM.
    Fliss x

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  11. What a wonderful explosion of colour Louise - I love it! What a great photo of you and your daughter looking fabulous too. Those moving on ceremonies always set me off! Vicky x

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  12. Your card is simply amazing! Such pretty colors and such detail! Your daughter is beautiful!

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  13. Delightful card...so interesting and colorful;)

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Louise xx