oh happy day {RIC guest designer}

I won't lie. When Jen asked if I'd like to guest design for the Runway Inspired Challenge, I started sweating a little bit.  These girls mean business.  And the fashions aren't always straightforward. But it turned out to be so much fun.

The inspiration photo, from the Matthew Williamson Spring 2014 collection:

It's very flashy. ha. These are some of the things I took from it: the popped up flowers, the translucency underneath the popped up florals, the mix of white and cream, and the flashy pants (which I translated into gold glitter, no neon yellow for me!).

I white-heat-embossed florals onto a kraft tag base, and then did some translucent-type watercoloring over them.



The sentiment was also white-embossed, but onto a strip of cream cardstock.  I helped the lettering come back to life with some subtle watercoloring as well.



I had to pop up at least one flower, didn't I?  And pop it a gold, glittery center.  I hung it from a smaller, vellum tag.

I hope you like it!  Click over to the Runway Inspired Challenge blog to see more inspiration from the Design Team, and check out the prize that is up for grabs.

♥.

Deasy Designs

Hi peeps!

I'm helping out my friends over at Deasy Designs as they launch their next 2 digi sets.  And you get a 2-fer today - as I was downloading the new Sweet Treats set, Sofia asked if I would print her a few of the images so she could make her own card :)

Because this is my blog (!) I'll go first:

I grabbed the burger and fries images, re-sized them a bit and added a bit of scripty font to make this diner-inspired card.  The checkerboard background is from PTI's "on the farm" set.  Simple, to the point, and featuring fast food = perfect guy card... right?  hee.

And now, featuring my 7-year-old-up-and-coming-card-designer:

Sofia had me re-size the girl, background strip, and ice-cream sundae to her specifications.  She then colored the images and had me help out with the cutting (since she's still in recovery from her tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy, I obliged *grin*)  She stamped her own greeting (from CSS' "sweet sentiments" set) above the window.  She asked me for foam squares so she could make it "pop" - and she had her eye on that washi tape before we started anything, I think ;)  A few tiny hearts from the SU owl punch, and some black enamel accents on the eyes finished it all off.

Here is the Sweet Treats set in full:

Head over to Deasy Designs and comment for a chance to win this super-cute digi set!