A very different style!

I have given this post it's title because, for me, that's exactly what it is - a very different style. Having said that, I really enjoyed making it and am surprisingly pleased with the finished card. It does look so much better in real life as the butterflies and leaves are both curled to stand out a little which gives more dimension than you see in a photo.
The reason behind the making of this card is that a demo on ILWS has decided to set up something new called 'Pinterest Challenge' whereby someone chooses a card they've seen on Pinterest and the challenge is to replicate it using SU products.
And this is the first one (far right)
The one thing that does annoy me about Pinterest is that when things are repinned so many times it can take a long time to get back to the original - if at all. However I think that the credit for this particular card should be given to someone called Nataliya Serova, but I could be wrong!
I'm sure you don't want to be bored by me giving you step by step detail of what I did so I will just tell you the products and leave it at that
Stamp sets - En Francais, Summer Silhouettes, In Stitches Wheel (which has been taken apart to make separate stamps), French Foliage and a retired sentiment
Elegant Butterfly Punch, Autumn Accents Bigz die
The background which the distressed panel sits on is a piece of Basic Black DSP from the Neutrals stack which has been sponged all over with Lucky Limeade - something I've never thought of doing but it does give a really nice effect.
If you would like to enter the challenge, or just take a look at what others have done, this link will take you there http://www.inlovewithstamping.com/forum/showthread.php?p=238630#post238630

I hope the next challenge card inspires me as much as this one did!

Simply Stampin' Sketch

The Simply Stampin' challenge this week is a Sketch (top right) and here is my interpretation of it. I started by stamping the border, in Early Espresso, with my adapted In Stitches wheel (see yesterday's post for more details about this) and then placed a strip of Crumb Cake DSP above it but slightly overlapping. Part of the swirl stamp from Everything Eleanor was coloured with a Crumb Cake marker and stamped above the DSP. I then took the stamp from the same set which looks a bit like a plaque, stamped onto Whisper White in Crumb Cake, added a few flowers in Crumb Cake, and then cut out leaving a white border around the edge and positioned this onto the card. The flowers, from Everything Eleanor, were stamped in Melon Mambo and the stamens highlighted using an Early Espresso marker, then cut out and glued in place (I used a dimensional for the flower at the bottom to give a bit of depth). A few Crumb Cake leaves punched with the 2-Step Bird punch were added along with a sentiment from Style Beautiful and challenge over!

Stripes

My card for today is 'Stripes' which is this week's one-layer challenge at Less is More. I put my thinking cap on whilst I hoovered my very messy craft room (and managed to blow up my hoover into the bargain but that's another story!) and remembered my adapted 'In Stitches Wheel' and, if you haven't a clue what I'm talking about, pop over to Vicky's post here where she gives a brilliant tutorial on how to do it.
I stamped the 'stripe' three times down the side of a card blank in Basic Gray and then stamped an image from Just Believe on top using Basic Black and added a sentiment, also in Basic Black. A very CAS card which could be adapted to suit any occasion
I hope you've all managed to stay safe in the wintery weather this week and managed to get a lot of crafting done because it was too cold to go out :0) This morning I awoke to an extremely hard frost, you know the kind you see on Christmas cards, with all the trees (and cobwebs!) white and sparkly - very pretty with the sun shining on them. I haven't actually ventured out but I'm sure it's very, very cold so I think I'll stay put!
Enjoy your weekend and if you're out and about take care. x