Monday, 4 April 2011

Bloomin Blossoms

I'm trying to rekindle my artistic side as it seems to have been stagnating for a while. I'm going through blogs and following their links to card challenges in the hopes that something will kick my bottom into gear.

Well, I found the Allsorts Challenge Blog (http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/) and their challenge was to use 'blossoms.' I sat and thought and then thought AHA, I delved into my boxes of stamps and found this stamp. I haven't used it much recently and thought it fitted the topic .

As well as trying to motivate myself I'm trying to move from my usual method of making cards. Using sketches is a great way of gently nudging you to try something different. Whilst looking through blogs I found Papertake's weekly challenge (http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/) and thought I'd use their sketch. I love how the card turned out. I tend to shy away from patterned paper even though I love it, so I was glad to get this sketch as a starting point.

I loved the DT cards from both blogs. Very thought provoking.
Thank you to both Allsorts and Papertake. I enjoyed making this card.

3 comments:

brenda said...

Very pretty indeed.

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation and joining in my Bloomin’ Blossoms theme at Allsorts this week

B x

There's a Stampalot voucher up for grabs here

Angie said...

Lovely card Genevieve your flower image is coloured beautifully. glad you have found us at papertake weekly and i hope you will play along with us again in the future.
Thanks for joining us this week.
Hugs Angie x

Fleur said...

This is so pretty
Thanks for joining our challenge at ALLSORTS this week, Good Luck
Hugz Fleur xXx