Saturday, June 18, 2016

You're a fine-apple!

The challenge cosmos aligned perfectly this week, with three of my favourite challenge blogs inspiring me to make a tropical card.

Just Add Ink wanted a card with stripes, Curtain Call was a Tasty Tropcis theme, and the Color Throwdown even had a pineapple on it too!


I started off by painting some watercoloured stripes, and adding some paint splatter. The base of the card was also a striped Kraft cardstock.

I still can't find my fruit themed stamp set, so I improvised with a Cricut cut pineapple from Canary, Kraft and Fern cardstock, and I wrote the saying using my Cricut and the pen attachment.



Here you can see the sentiment close up- I am a sucker for a pun and the Sour Apple pen was a great match to the Fern twine and cardstock.



This may be my favourite card of the year so far! The idea came together out of nowhere- usually I have to be inspired by a sketch or someone else, but this card only used the prompts listed above. Now I just have to find someone awesome to give it to!

6 comments:

  1. I love the muted colours on your fun card, Lauren. Thanks for joining us at Just Add Ink this week!

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  2. Gorgeously soft stripes, Lauren. I love all your elements combined. Great card. Thanks for sharing with us at Just Add Ink this week. x

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  3. I love your fun, fruity theme Lauren and your lovely soft background stripes are really pretty. Great take on this weeks Just Add Ink challenge. Thanks so much for joining us.

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  4. Love those wide stripes and splatters for your background! Beautiful design! Thanks so much for joining us at Color Throwdown!

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  5. Your improvising worked out great here! Love your striped and splattered background. Thanks for joining us for this week's Color Throwdown and for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge, too!

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  6. Your stripes are very tropical - I love the dreaminess of them. Chantell JAI

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