Friday 14 August 2015

Playing with the Damsel of Distressed Cards

Well hello there friends! I've been missing again, but today I'm so excited to be back with a very special post.

One of my all time favourite blogs to visit is The Damsel of Distressed Cards - the creation of Becca Cruger. Becca's cards are always so bright, artsy and totally amazing and reading her posts never fails to put a smile on my face! Not only that, but Becca is so supportive and leaves the best comments on other people's blogs!


Bec has a great post once a month called Featured Friday in which she highlights another crafty blogger who is a huge inspiration to her. Well imagine my surprise when I got a message from her asking if I would be the featured blogger this month!  I really mean it, when I say I'm honoured, because she has featured some incredibly talented crafters!

Anyhow, as part of the feature, Becca has chosen one of mty card's to CASE and I have also CASEd it. Here is the original and the new card.





I have chosen to make my card more CAS, by having a white panel, but adding some texture with the dry embossing.
I used distress markers, applied directly to the stamp, spritzed with a little bit of water and then stamped. When they were dry, I fussy cut them. I love using vellum in this way, because it looks so 'dreamy'.
I used the same colours to dye the seam binding, which ties in with the original card.
I thought the stripes suited the CAS look.

Well I'd like to give a huge thanks to the gorgeous Becca for the shout out - it really has inspired me to get back in to card-making after a very long time without my crafty Mojo!





10 comments:

  1. Yay! congrats on your feature at Becca's blog, loved to know you better :) and I so love your butterfly card :)

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  2. Just popped over from Becca's to say "Hi" Jenny. congrats on being featured...love your original card and your CASE. Carol x

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  3. Jenny you truly are one TALENTED stamper! I am so honored that you said yes to my request!!! Your butterfly card is so striking with the vellum overlays. Thank you for making my heart so happy!!!

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  4. Hi jenny - I have come here from Becca's place, and I must say I love the dreamy look you get using vellum - you have inspired me to try it out.
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  5. Congrats on this honour Jenny! I LOVE your original card ... so amazing, and I love your CAS version as well. Gorgeous butterflies and love the texture from the embossed background. xx

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  6. LOVED reading your post over at Becca's.....and your cards are stunning. I'm only just starting to play with watercolours....you've got me all fired up now:):)

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  7. Gorgeous Jenny!! What an honour to be one of Becca's featured artists!! Your cards are just stunning, love the watercolour effect! hugs :)

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  8. Popped over from Becca's blog as I love colour too, so glad I did as I'm following now too - gorgeous inspirations here thank you for sharing! Karen x

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  9. Thank you for popping by my blog :) Your cards are beautiful!

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  10. Finally getting time to catch up with everyone. Great interview on Becca's blog, and I love your CASE of your original card.

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