Hello! This next fortnight at Time Out, we have a fabulous ‘CASE … With Your Own Twist’ challenge for you … our designer to CASE is the wonderfully talented and delightful Karen Dunbrook from Snippets … her gorgeous card is a little further down. Here’s my take …
and here’s Karen‘s amazing inspiration …
You can see where my focus was … stencilled panel, splatters and a sentiment with different fonts … my twist was making a one layer card and the graduated colour combo. I masked off a panel on my card base, die cut a few Poppystamps‘ Lorelei Leaf sprigs out of post it tape, arranged the leaves on the panel and sponged/blended four colours of Distress Ink over it. A little water was splattered over the panel and once it was dry, I stamped the Neat & Tangled sentiment (made up of two stamps), coloured the little heart with Distress Ink and added a coat of Glossy Accents to it.
Where does your creative imagination take you when you see Karen‘s lovely card? If you’d like a few ideas, there are plenty on offer over at the Time Out blog, from our talented Guest Designer, Jen from I Create and from our own wonderful DT! Hope to see you in the gallery!
As well as being inspired by Karen‘s card, I was also inspired by …
Little Tangles – Thankful
One Layer Simplicity – A Multitude of Gratitude
Simplicity Thanksgiving Crusade – Giving Thanks/Gratitude
SSS Work It Wednesday – Thank You
SSS Monday – Something Beginning With N … mine is nature
Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂
My Papercraft World 
This is lovely Anita. Love the background panel with the sentiment edging in from the right. Lovely balance and great inspiration.
Hugs.
Karen xxx
Beautiful blending of inks and love the splatters. Gorgeous touch of gloss!
Love the warm Autumncolours and that stencil! A card that has only things to like 🙂 Hugs, Gerrina
Gorgeous take on Karen’s beautiful card! Love the blended fall colors,Anita !
Love your beautiful ink colors and masking. Stunning!
This is so very pretty. i really like the fall colors you used to blend and the masking. The sentiment is lovely, too. Such a pretty card. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! Love the gradient sponging and the addition of the little heart! So glad you joined us at OLS, my friend!
Beautiful inking!!
Fabulous colours and masking – a gorgeous card! xxx
Good Morning Anita! Karen’s cards are always inspiring to me and I learn techniques from her posts. How creative of you to make your own stencil and it is beautiful card. There is always a softness to your cards and that is very appealing. A nice gradual blending of the colors and a nice focus on the sentiment. I like it! Hugs, Barb
Bonjour, Anita!! I LOve your one-layered lovely! Any color you blend on your signature linen cardstock is just that much prettier … post-it tape huh? Really wonderful idea!
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This is so striking. I just love your color gradations and the way you artfully arranged your leaves. A real one layer wonder.
Perfect CASE of Karen’s card. The handmade stencil is gorgeous with all that blended color you’re so good at. Stunning look and brilliant to fulfill all those challenges. BIG thumbs up.
Wonderful! The gradient coloration is wonderful.
Your sentiment is soooooooooo cool Anita! A perfect mix that totally works together – especially the little heart at the end of ‘soul’. Your ink blending is spec-tac-u-lar! Great job creating your own stencil too 🙂
What a beauty this is, Anita! I love your choice of colors on your stenciling and your sentiment is perfect! Fabulous CASE of Karen’s card!
Lovely card Anita! I love that you kept a bit of green to connect back to Karen’s card. Perfect sentiment choice, great mix of fonts and scale for the card.
Beautiful colors Anita, and that tiny heart is the perfect addition!!
Fantastic blending and splattering of those beautiful colors! Very impressive that you made it into a OLC!
love your ombre take on the inspiration card, anita!! so very pretty!!
What a great OL, Anita!!! The colours you have used for your sponging, and the leaves you’ve done the masking with, are just stunning!!! The glossy accents must be so beautiful IRL!!!! Love the sentiment and the cute little heart!!! A lovely card!!!!
Have a great weekend!!!!
Hugz
This is simply beautiful Anita…I love the wonderful look you created!
Eep, I’m so behind again! I’m in love with your CASE of Karen’s card, Anita! I have that stamp set and just adore it, especially the sediment you used for this beautiful card! I want to send my heart-felt sympathy to you for the terrible loss to your country and its innocent citizens. Again. It hurts the world down to its core. Blessings to you with love and hugs, Darnell
Oh, you have done it again! Your off center placement of these blended colours for this WOW sentiment is fabulous! I adore this sentiment and the font pairs so perfectly with the leaf shape. Such a stunning card, Anita!
I hope your Sunday is kind and gentle…
Big hugs ma belle!
XOX
I love how you created your own stencil from die cuts – and what a gorgeous modern design you made! The autumn colours you chose are so pretty! You should consider linking up at AAA Cards too – your card is perfect for our challenge this week. Jill
Such a beautiful card! Love the colors you used!
Anni
The stencil is one of my favs, and I love the beautiful colors you chose to work with on this pretty card. TFS & Hugs
Such gorgeous colors. And beautifully paired with that pretty sentiment!
So pretty! I love this inking effect. Thank you so much for playing along with us at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week 🙂
My kind of card! I love its simplicity. It is perfect in every way!
Thanks Anita~
Just perfect, Anita! I have to tell you, my heart aches every time I think of what happened in Paris, but the one good thing about the constant reminder everywhere is that thoughts of France inevitably lead to thoughts of you and that makes me smile.
Love that you made your own stencil, very clever! Cx
Beautiful take on Karen’s card! I love the textured card base, it adds a lot of interest. xxx
Gorgeous take on Karen’s inspiration! I love the colors of the background!
Why didn’t I think to mask some of my leaf die cuts. This is such a great CASE of Karen’s card, Anita. I love the colors you’ve blended.
What a beautiful sentiment – and a lovely stencilled, watercoloury background too. I really must pull my stencils out more often…they’re gathering a pile of dust in my stash somewhere!
You’re such an innovator, in creating this lovely leafy stencil from your dies! So beautiful, and made even more so when paired with the kindness sentiment. I need to pull out my stencils and get to joining the gallery! Sending hugs of comfort to you and your shaken country…
Hugs~c
Love the colors! Thanks for playing along with the LT challenge!
Gorgeous blending of colour from top to bottom.
Anita, I love how clean and simple your card is…and how colorful! The balance and layout are perfect, too. Thanks so much for sharing this card with the Thanksgiving Crusade! Blessings.