Get Creative Challenges Blog Inspirational Post

Inspirational Post #131

Good day, fellow crafters. Today I present my inspirational submission as part of the Get Creative Challenges DT. We are a monthly challenge blog where anyone from anywhere can play along! Any project is welcome and we hope you will play along with us, we'd love to have you! The theme for this challenge, # 131 btw, is "Ladies Only".

For every challenge we, as the design team, attempt to bring you themes and ideas that will test your abilities and, ideally, ignite your enthusiasm to explore fresh ways of thinking. However, what I like most about being part of the team is seeing how we each showcase our take on the theme and sometimes just what the card means to the creator.

I hope you are inspired to enter this challenge and I can’t wait to see your creative take on this week’s theme. Be sure to tag me on your entry and/or comment below so I know to watch out for you. Remember Crafting is Happiness!

To create these card I first began with choosing the perfect background paper for my design. In this case I settled on this gorgeous shade of pink, which you may say to yoursel “Why? It’s is just, well pink”. The answer however is the interesting thing. This paper is watercolor paper and the color is a result of being soaked in black cherry sugar free Cool-Aid for 24 hours and then allowed to dry. This particular piece was either in the middle of top of the stack I put in as it is a lighter shade of the pink that results from this method, which to be honest was a lot of fun.

Once the paper was completely dry I then used the Picket Fence Studios BFF Girls Night Out stamp set and black ink to stamp my image and sentiment.

The color was then added and the panel and mat were trimmed to final dimensions. I adhered them together with Bearly Arts liquid glue and then adhered the composite to a nice bright pink card base. With that, I called the card complete.