Day 4 of Inspired by Kristina Werner with Joy Taylor

Hello again dear friends.

Today is the final day we'll be bringing our Inspired by Kristina Werner week to you. I'm so sad it's over already. 

We thought we'd mix things up a little today, and bring you two cards!

For this first one, Joy and I chose the same card to be inspired by (as always) and the second card, we drew a number out of a hat, so we'll be showing you two totally different cards (as they're inspired by different cards that Kristina made--hope that makes sense!)

Here is the card Kristina made on Day 18

Ummm, hello gorgeous?!

Here is my take:

Every year I like to mix up my Christmas colour-theme, so apparently this year I'm going with pink! lol. 

I used the diecut that Kristina offered for sale on her blog and printed it out on my Silhouette machine. Then I temporarily adhered it to the card and spritzed over the top with Mr Huey's Calico White. I LOVE the effect.

 It's amazingly crisp.

I added a little glittery star to dot the i.

 A tiny bit of Ali Edwards awesomeness to finish the card off with a sentiment!

I love this great pink bow!!

Here are the products I used:

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And here is card #2!

I drew out 'day 12' from the hat, which is this card by Kristina

 I really like what Kristina did with this card. So elegant and understated.

Here is mine:

 I wanted a combination of elegance and fun with this card.

I wanted to use glitter on the Hero Arts flourish but didn't have any of the special 'glue' that Kristina used, so I improvised. As you can see in the photo below, I mixed some Doodlebug glitter in with some AC Aqua Zing Embossing powder. I really like the effect!

The steps for this card are pretty self explanatory, but if you have any questions, PLEASE feel free to ask in the comments below!

Here are the products I used:

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as well as white cardstock, ribbon from my stash and a paper doily!

And that's it for me! Thank you so much for coming by my little piece of bloggy-paradise and seeing what I've made!  

Now come on over to Joy's blog with me. I can't wait to see what she's come up with (genius I'm sure!)

Take care and may your days be filled with glittery magic!

Linda xx

Day 3 of Inspired by Kristina Werner series with Joy Taylor!

Hello friends!

Today's card was my favourite of all the cards Kristina made this year (and that's sayin' something because I loved ém all!) so I'm going to jump right in!

Here is Kristinas SUPER cute card for Day 14 of her series.

 SO cute. I love the little scarves the birds are wearing.

Here is my take:

I used the Lawn Fawn Christmas lights from Cozy Christmas, the birds are from Critters on the Farm (don't tell anyone they're actually chicks lol)'. 

I really wanted to add a 'girlie' something to one of the birds, (to make it look like a girl and a boy on the wire) so I used the tie from the stork's bundle in Lawn Fawn's "Plus One" set. It turned out to be the perfect hairbow! I also coloured the boy bird a darker shade of brown to make the girl that bit more feminine :)

Given that this card is so simple design-wise, I wanted to add an extra element so I heat embossed snowflakes falling all around the birdies but kept it in clear embossing powder so that the snowflakes wouldn't detract from the scene.

Well that's it from me for today--hope you liked it!

Here is what I used:

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*Papers were from Kaisercraft's 6x6 "Christmas Carnival" collection

Now hop on over to Joy's blog with me to see what she's made! I can't wait.

See you tomorrow where we'll be sharing TWO cards!!

*hugs and cute little birds on a wire to you *

Linda xx

Inspired By Kristina Werner Day 2!!

Hey there!!

Did you see Joy's card yesterday?! GORGEOUS!!

So I'll skip straight to my card number two. This is from day 11 of Kristina's series. Here is the card Joy and I chose to base our cards on: 

 pretty no?!

I wanted to go for something a bit more whimsical and cutesy--so I immediately went for my Lawn Fawn Stamps. (who can resist?!)

 As you can see, I copied the basic elements from Kristina's card, but turned it into something quite different.

Here's a closer look so you can see the dimension:

 I'll let you in on a little secret. I stamped the sentiment directly onto the card base but it didn't look quite right, so I took the opportunity to mix it up a bit! I simply cut an extra little strip, rounded the corners to mirror the circles on the bottom of the card and heat embossed my sentiment with American Crafts Zing Embossing powder in Aqua. (matches the paper perfectly!)

So there it is!

Here are the product's I used. 

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The polka dots are from Papertrey Ink and the Paper I used is a Kaisercraft 6x6 pad called "Chapter one"(Linkedy thingo wasn't working on their sites)

Now hop on over to Joy's blog to see what she's done with todays card :) Can't wait!

Thanks so much for joining me again lovely ladies!

See you tomorrow!

Linda xx

Inspired by Kristina Werner Day 1!!

Hello!!

I'm SUPER excited to be presenting you with Day 1 of our Inspired by Kristina Werner week!

Here is the card that Kristina created:

 Super cute and kinda Swedish huh?! I love the simplicity.

SO, for mine, I had a bit of a challenge as I didn't have ANY of the products Kristina used and so I had to go on the hunt for something suitable.

This is what I came up with.

 It's VERY different from my usual style and I'll admit, I struggled a bit.

For the most part, this card is pretty self explanatory. However, if you have any questions, please let me know.

To colour these little houses in (which are from Hero Arts "Mi Casa" set, I stamped the ink onto my craft sheet and then used them as watercolour paint. Because they weren't distress inks, they didn't blend as much, but I wanted a darker colour, so I was happy with the result!

Here are the products I used:

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Hope you liked the card and I'll see you on Thursday for Day 2!

*love*

Linda