Saturday 21 March 2009

Basic Grey Challenge 27 - Texture

I am so late posting this today. I was in work early and have just arrived home (3.30pm) -Yippee - my weekend begins here. When I've posted this my priority is food and putting my feet up for at least half an hour - then I will see if I can't do some hopping and commenting - had problems last night - I kept getting the message ERROR - blogger took too long. You can imagine my reaction - I'm screaming at my computer to Hurry up and get a move on before I get another error notice.

For this weeks challenge at Basic Grey we would like to see some texture on your creations, texture can be achieved is so many ways, but to name a few to give you some ideas, how about heat embossing, dry embossing, flock, felt, glitter, glossy accents, the list could go on, but don't forget though that you need to use at least one item form BasicGrey somewhere on your creation.

Simon says stamp has very generously sponsored this weeks challenge with this wonderful prize for one lucky winner :)


I used Phoebe papers this week and I have to say this did not turn out anything liked planned. I have some gorgeous check fabric in pink, lemon and green that I inteded to use - Could I find it - no!! On to plan B - felt - I started by making some felt flowers but they tended to be too 'heavy' so - in the bin they went. Plan C - back to the felt and use it as a matt. I then took some voile and made a flower base with it added three Petaloo flowers and used some glass chippings as centers . These are from a gorgeous Laura Ashley set Martine kindly sent as part of my Birthday goodies. I used the Sarah Kay image Spring Blossoms, coloured with pastels and mounted on to felt.


Materials
Basic Grey Phoebe papers : Image - Sarah Kay Spring Blossoms : Derwnet pastels : Flourish stamp - Magnolia : Flowers - Petaloo : rest from stash.

20 comments:

Larissa said...

Lovely card! Love the flowerarrangement! Looks really pretty with the voile!

Have a good sunday!
Hugs,
Larissa

Karen said...

Absolutely beautiful. Really lovely.

Love Karen xxx

Sue said...

Gorgeous card Heather beautiful colour combo, luv the layout,and flowers, hope you can blog hop 2nite, sue.x

Moni said...

fab card, love the colouring and the image is beautiful! lovely flowers! Hugs, Moni

Riet said...

what a beautiful card Heather,l love them colours.

hugs Riet.xx

Christine said...

Wow beautifull card, love the voile idea & flower centers.

Christine xx

Danni said...

Gorgeous! Love the way you added the flowers!

Nicky said...

oh WOw - this is so beatuiful

Iren said...

Love this card and the image You've used on it!!!

Hugs

The Crafty Blonde said...

Beautiful card, love the image and the papers are really pretty. Love the flower combo looks gorgeous.
Lyndsey xx

Jo Nevill said...

Absolutely gorgeous Heather, your flowers are fantastic and I love the glass chippings.

Hugs,

Jo x

Tara said...

This is so pretty Heather - I love the colours you've chosen and I'm well impressed with the felt and voile flower creation!
Hope you had a nice rest after your day at work ;o)
xx

debby4000 said...

Fabulous card, the flowers are beautiful and perfect with the sweet image.
luv
Debby

Chris said...

Such a gorgeous card Heather! Beautiful image and colouring and I love the textures with the voile and felt, I have to say I know how it is when you have an idea for something and then can't find what you wanted to use, so frustrating, but your card came out so beautifully even so. Hugs, Chris xxx

Cheryl said...

So beautiful,I love the embellishments and the rich red!!!
Hugs xx

Cardmaking Galore said...

Love all the flowers on your card and the colours are just perfect

Anonymous said...

Lovely card, Heather. The colours are great and I love what you've done with the flowers and ribbon.
Anthea xx

Tara Godfrey said...

Truly stunning, Heather! I love the felt to mat the image...just a fabulous idea! The bunch of flowers is stunning and I love the sweet image which you've coloured beautifully!!!
Hugs,t

Leigh said...

Oh my goodness, both cards are lovely but my fav is the navy,turquoise and lime one. Beautiful.

Tasha said...

Ohhhhh this is onderful great colours and fab embellishments
love tasha xx

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