Tuesday 2 April 2013

April Showers

Well it's the second day of April and here on the South Coast we've not had a shower yet. In fact it's been a beautiful day. For my card today, I've used this sketch from Seems A Little Sketchy



The theme this week at Cuttlebug Mania is April Showers and the girls there have come up with some beautiful cards. I've used an image from the Mabel Lucie Atwell CD which is so cute. I was going to triple emboss the image to give a glossy look but once I'd put the first layer on, I really liked the mottled look as it reminded me of rain so I have left t at one layer.


The clouds are from a Stampin Up embossing folder which gives a really sharp image. The paper is left over from another project but the colours went so well with the image, I couldn't have found anything better in my stash. I've used a Joy Craft border die across the middle and a Stampin Up die for the greeting. A few gems and the card is finished. I'm also entering this into the Joanna Sheen challenge which is Come Rain Or Shine


Cuttlebug used for embossing clouds, sentiment strip and border die

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful....love the design and colours.xxx

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  2. I like your "wet" image. Very clever of you.

    Thanks for joining us at Seems a Little Sketchy.

    Mari

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  3. Gorgeous card. I love the sweet image and lovely colours.

    Thanks for joining the Joanna Sheen challenge this time.
    Lorraine x

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  4. so gorgeous kim.beautiful vintage image and i love the sheen :D

    xx coops xx

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  5. Super duper cute!!! Thanks for playing along with us at Seems A Little Sketchy!!

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  6. Hi Kim, love your card, they are soooo cute!!! We have a Dutch childerens song about 2 girls in the rain (Hanneke and Janneke, they were best friends), it reminds me of them!

    Thank you so much for joining us at Cuttlebug Mania!

    Cuttlebugs & Hugs
    Jannie

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  7. Ah, so lovely. Thank you for joining us with our April Showers challenge at Cuttlebug Mania this week.

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  8. What a great card, I love the embossing folder you used, and the image is such a sweet one. Thanks for joining the April Showers Challenge at Cuttlebug Mania.

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