Casadia!

Hi all, I have a second post for today! A little while ago, I came across Wida Miller's blog through my blog buddy Meredith MacRitchie's blog. Wida has started a little Case challenge - starting off with one card of inspiration, then taking it from there. The idea is to see how far we can go with this fun idea! 

The interesting thing is that the card I have produced today bears little or no resemblance to the original card! So following through the other participant's creations, you can see how this design has evolved from one thing to another!

You can read all about it here at Beachorado, and if you feel inspired, maybe you'd like to join the fun too?

This is the card that started the ball rolling, this stunner from Laura Bassen:

..which led to this striking beauty by Dana Nelson:

..which led to my festive themed card using the colours from this week's CR84FN colour challenge of Burgundy, Grey and Cream:

I used the same focal point and sentiment position along with the lace and velvet ric rac trim as on Dana's card, but the image worked better on a landscape card for me.

I silver embossed the pine branch from Waltzingmouse Stamps Festive Foliage set onto some Sahara Sand card, and cut out. I then distressed the edges with some Pumice Stone distress Ink.

I then stamped the knitted pattern from WMS Nordic Winter in London Fog and Cherry Cobbler inks, and the sentiment is also WMS from the Compliments of The Season 2 set.

I added some cream lace and Red velvet Ric Rac from The Ribbon Reel, and added 3 metal brads.

I do hope you feel inspired to hop over to Beachorado and have a look at the progression of this design, and maybe you will fancy joining in too!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline