May AEI♥U Challenge

It is getting late this evening, but I have been having fun most of the day being creative and crafty.  My favorite past time! ( other than watching STL baseball of course).  So, one of the cards I made is for the latest Avery Elle Challenge.

OK - I didn't know WHAT I was going to do when I started making this card.  That is probably why it takes me such a long time to create one card most of the time, because I don't do sketches before hand or anything, I just wing it!  I knew I wanted to use my Avery Elle set All Squared Up, but from there, I had no other direction.

Here is the inspiration photo....

And here is what I came up with.....

I stamped onto a piece of white card stock the circle image from this set in five different Hero Arts Shadow Inks - Mint Julep, Tide Pool, Pool, Cornflower, and Navy.  I overlapped all of the circles, and then I took some Navy washi tape, and a bubble aqua patterned washi and adhered it down the middle of the circles.  Then, I took the Navy stamped circle and cut out the middle with a craft knife, and then punched it out with  1 3/4 in. circle punch and popped it up on foam adhesive turning it the opposite direction and placed it in the middle of the circle row.  I, then stamped the "Thinking of you" sentiment in Navy, and to represent the boat being tied up, I stamped a "friend" sentiment that goes with my jewelry tag punch from SU! and added that to my middle circle for a fun element.  I adhered that panel to a Navy panel that I embossed with an embossing folder called "Fancy Fan" and adhered that to my white card base.

I like how this turned out.  I think all the time it took for me to do this from start to finish was worth it for this fun design.

I hope your weekend is a relaxing one, and you are able to do something that makes you smile.  

See you soon :)

- Kari

Pocket Full O' Posies ( AE Challenge)

Hi all! Today's post is all about the Avery Elle Challenge.  This will be my first time playing with them.  They are quickly becoming one of my favorite stamp companies.  All of their images are wonderful, and versatile, and the stamps are excellent quality.  I wanted to participate in the challenge for a chance to possibly become the April Guest Designer!  How cool would that be!!

The challenge is to create a project from this photo.

And, here is my take on this photo.

 

There are so many wonderful colors and patterns to take from this photo.  Of course, what jumps out at you is the yellow chevron!  Chevron is my favorite!!  Instead of stamping out a chevron background, I wanted to mix it up a bit, and knew I had a chevron bag from Whiskers Graphics in my stash, and it happened to be yellow!!  I adhered the bag to my white card base, and then took out my stash of paper flowers and picked out some orange, and dark pink ones and adhered them to look like a had a "bunch" of flowers coming out of my bag.  To finish off the flowers, I added some small pearls to the middle of the flowers.  For my sentiment, I stamped out the chevron banner tag in Rose Bud Memento ink from To The Point stamp set, and stamped out the "hello there" sentiment from the same stamp set - I cut out my banner tag, and then added some pink bakers twine and adhered to my card base with foam adhesive.  

Here is another look at my card.

It was fun participating in this challenge!  I hope to do it again in the next one!!  Have a great rest of the weekend!