Hello everyone! I’m in such a great mood today, I can’t stop smiling. I’ve been working really hard at my craft and slowly by surely its paying off. So, I’m really proud of myself.
I’m here today with a card for the Muse Challenge #69. This is my first time playing along with them so I hope I don’t disappoint them.
Cornelia was chosen to create the Guest Muse this week and her card is full of bright colors, a cool technique and FUN!
Here is her card:
My job is to use the Muse card as inspiration and create one of my own.
When I looked at Cornelia’s card, it reminded me of my all time favorite technique, WATER-COLORING!!! I love how she made the colors mix with one another and the splatters across the card.
So I knew right away that I had to pull out my Koi watercolors. I decided that I wanted to use colors I hardly use that are bright and will stand out on the black cardstock I wanted to use.
Before I painted, I scored the watercolor paper to give it added texture.
I used colors #3, 12, and 16 to create my sentiment and hearts. You can see the colors on my swatch here.
Like Cornelia’s card I wanted to create a one layer card so I decided to create an inlay card with my sentiment and hearts. So, I die cut my sentiment and hearts from the watercolor piece.
After I cut out all of my pieces that I need to create my card, I realized that I wanted my card to have a stitch edge so to create that I had to use my large journal stitch die, which in turn cut off a portion of my card. I was ok with that because I love the stitch edge. That idea came from Nichol Magouirk.
After that cut, my card was no longer a one layer card. I put all of the piece together and here is what I came up with.
Here is my card:
I added sequin, enamel dots and rhinestones to resemble Cornelia’s paint splatters. I choose colors that were close to my watercolor sentiment and hearts.
Sooooo, what do you think? No stamping required. I love how it came out.
Supplies used:
Thanks for stopping by!
~Kymona
Kreative Kymona 
I love it Kymona! You should also enter it into the AAA Card Challenge! It’s a new challenge and has ‘Chalk’ as the keyword. This would totally qualify.;)
Thank you so much Hazel!! I will check it out! I love all of these challenges!!
Hazel I missed the deadline. I will check out their challenge.
Oh, sorry Kymona! 😦 I didn’t realise that!! I was going to enter that one too, so I guess I have missed out too!!! I better get my skates on then for the next one!!
LOL, me too!! The challenges over there seems very interesting
I love how this turned out too! Isn’t it amazing when something goes wrong and ends up better than we ever expected?!
I agree Bonnie, I love how the card came out after the cut. I’m glad I stuck with it.
Hi Kymona, your card is just wonderful! You card has such a happy feel to it with all those wonderful bright colors (I love bright colors – I guess you could tell…) I am happy you are playing along at the Muse this week! Thank you so much.
Cornelia, thank you for your kind comment. I agree with you bright colors are great and I love them. I had fun interpreting your sketch. This was a fun challenge. Thank you for having me.
This card is really nice. This is the kind of card that you would not want to ever throw away. As I saw it, I thought that it would be beautiful as a journal cover. The jewels and sequins added such a beautiful touch!
Thank you Nikki. Your right this would be perfect as a journal cover. I might have to make another one for my gratitude journal. Thank you for the idea.
Fabulous card! I adore the colours you’ve used (orange is one of my fave colours) and I love the reverse take on Cornelia’s card – watercolouring the sentiment against a black background! Inspired! xxx
Thank you so much Semsee! I hardly use those colors, so I’m so glad I decided to use it now.
WOWOWOW!
I love everything about this…well I do love everything you’ve created but this is really so much HAPPY! Love the rhinestones and sequins!
Thank you Elle!!! This card is yours!! I will include this card in my swap package!
The colors and the stones are hot. Love this card
Thank you Erica!!
Such a clever take on this week’s Muse – I love that you reversed it and put colourful letters on a black background! So glad you joined us at Muse this week!
Thank you Ardyth! You are the one who inspired me. I follow your blog and I always see your Muse cards, the card you posted yesterday pulled me in. So I decided to play along. Thank you for that.
Love that blended color die cut on the black. It really makes it pop! And that embellie trail going up the card is so cute! Love this card!
Lauren
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Lauren, thank you for your kind words. Your birthday card is super cute. I love how you were able to get the sentiment across all of the three die cut words. That was a great idea.
Gorgeous card! Wow! I even love the negative 😀
Thank you Cara!!! Yes, I love the negative too. I want to use that piece in the future.
This is one fantastic card! Love your creation–Welcome to Muse!
Thank you Grete! Your card is great too. I love the colors and how you painted them on he card. Very pretty.