It’s Festive Friday and time to start challenge #FF0101! We are recognizing International Wetland Day and that is what we used to create our Inspo List. To join in the challenge choose any 3 (or more) items from the list to use as inspiration for a card or project, whether it represents International Wetland Day or not is totally up to you!
I chose green, blue, and florals as my inspiration. The background was made with alcohol inks, and to add the gold I used foil. By pressing the foil onto the background before the alcohol is completely dry the foil adheres to the wet areas, which is usually where the colors meet. I chose a gold die cut to place behind the floral, whic I colored with Copic markers. I used some Nuvo drops to create the middle of the flowers and some gold pearls to finish it off.
For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design team.
Melanie Hungerford ——– You are here!
Joining in these additional challenges:
Cut It Up! #243 – anything goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters – the color blue
What a Stunning Card. The Gold foil is sublte but just makes it! I will have to try that
Beautiful, Melanie! The touches of gold look gorgeous with this blue and add a touch of elegance! Love it!
That is stunning. What interesting techniques you used to create that background, and the flowers are beautifully colored.
Thanks for sharing your awesome project with us at Cut it Up!
Evelyn
http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com
Beautifully created, love that background! Thank you for joining our challenge at The sisterhood!
Diane TSH DT
Oh Mel this is just gorgeous! LOVE that background!! I really need to get my alcohol inks out again … thanks for inspiration! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Sisterhood of Crafters challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
SISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERS
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
P.S. Are you aware of the new color challenge that began just this month? It’s called COLORFUL OPTIONS CHALLENGE and the January color is BLUE … I hope you’ll come share this beauty with us.
Gorgeous! The background is amazing, truly beautiful. Love the delicate gold die cut and the lovely flowers.
Wow Melanie! Beautiful card! I love how you make backgrounds with alcohol inks 🙂
That’s so beautiful Melanie – those colours are just fabulous!
This is absolutely gorgeous, Melanie. Your AI background is just stunning – love the bits of gold. All of your other elements are beautifully colored and placed. Fantastic make for our challenge.
Melanie this is absolutely fabulous! The background is stunning and the addition of the gold really makes this card something special. Just beautiful!
Melanie, this is just so bold and graphic. The background is fabulous and the touch of gold adds a wonderful touch of shine. The flowers are beautiful.
Hugs
Jaydee
Love this. That background is gorgeous