Saturday 12 April 2014

Twisted Love and Joy

How silly of me, I seemed to have used the colours from this weeks challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown last week! I wonder if that was subconscious...? Here they are


Here is last week's card
See what I mean?

So, here is my card for this week's challenge, and I chose to make a twisted easel card and enter a couple of  my regular Christmas challenges Completely Christmas, where anything goes and Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge, for making it square, and a new challenge I have found Christmas Fun Challenge blog, a monthly challenge where the cue is a Christmas card for a man (I think this is quite masculine with it's geometric design).


I stamped the Off The Grid image in River Rock, added the fussy Cut Love and Joy, in Tempting Turquoise and used a grey washi tape for the inside of the card. The second shade of blue I used for the matting.  There are various bits of bling, including pearl centres added to the snowflakes on the washi tape and dimensional sparkly white snowflakes on the grid.
A very contemporary card for a colour scheme which lends itself to modern designs or traditional ones.  Do have a look at the work from the rest of the DT, you'll see w.hat I mean.  I always think you should send these twisted easel cards to a card-maker as they only make sense to them!

11 comments:

  1. So beautiful, Louise. Love the clean look and the all the lovely embellies just seem to fall in place. It's the perfect twisted easel. Have a great weekend!
    hugs, Asha

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  2. Louise, I really like this twisted easal card. I like the layers, the cut sentiment and pearly accents! It's really fab!

    I can see what you mean about the coloours on last week's card too :)

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  3. Very Pretty Designs thank you for sharing with us over at Completely Christmas, we would love you to join in with us again next week for another fab challenge....
    Hugs
    Suzy B Owner Completely Christmas
    Xx

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  4. Gorgeous, I LOVE doing Christmas year round too!!!

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  5. LOVE the fun side easel and I adore that fun grid image! And the cutting job is AMAZING! HUGS and have a great rest of your weekend! :) Mynn xx

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  6. super élégante Louise, sobre et chic, très jolie création,biz

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  7. Very Pretty Design, thank you for sharing with us over at Completely Christmas, we would love you to join in with us again next week for another fab challenge....
    Hugs
    Suzy B Owner Completely Christmas
    Xx

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  8. You're really making me regret that I didn't buy that LOVE & JOY stamp Louise. Fabulous idea to combine that with the grid stamp. You are becoming quite the classy grunge girl! Super card! Hugs D

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  9. Thank you so much for entering our Completely Christmas challenge 7 and my CHNC challenge 172 with your lovely card - we hope we'll see you again soon, Hazel, DT - you could also enter this into my CHNC challenge extra for April - I'd love to see it there too. x

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  10. That is a fabulous card Louise, love the blues with the touch of grunge and the amazing fussy cutting of the sentiment! A very suitable masculine Christmas card I think! Happy Easter! Ruth x

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  11. Great card - love the background you've created.

    Thanks for joining us at Christmas Fun.

    Helen x

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Louise xx