Va-Va-Vibrant

Howdy!

And here we are over the hump and sliding down towards the weekend. Whee! It's funny that even after you retire and every day is a weekend, you still say things like "have a great weekend" to your other retired friends! Years of habit, that.

So, okay, before I show you my card you might want to put on your sunglasses and convince yourself that it was really me who made it! Here tis.

Say what? Yup, I done that.

I kept looking at the photo inspiration for the current The Card Concept challenge, where my friend Hannelie is guest designing:

Isn't that photo so vibrant and happy? (The DT and gallery cards are fantastic, too!) I decided to try watercoloring with my SAI markers and a water brush, using two NBUS flowers from Verve's "Great Friend" set. I'm not sure, but I think my style might be 'clean and graphic' for this card, she says, cocking her head to the side, bewildered.

Don't look too closely at my white liquid pearl dots, please. I was afraid to use the actual bottle applicator for fear it would spurt out all over my card like a gas bubble, so I inconsistently used a pin point to apply them. A for effort, though, eh? In the interest of full disclosure, Hammy did half of them when my hand cramped up. I need to get one of those fine-line applicators.

The diagonal stitched banner is from Lil' Inker. The "celebrate" is from Winnie & Walter, die cut three times from a watercolored background I had in my snippets. I offset the three stacks, which sadly makes the word look a bit blurry in the photo. It's totally nonblurry IRL, honest, and makes for cool dementia.

DJKASE OF KELLY

Some of you know that I have a little series of cards which I have CASEd (copied and shared everywhere) from other blog card artists which I call "DJKASEs." There is a tab of them at the top of my blog. As soon as I saw the beautiful and bright TCC photo inspiration, I was immediately reminded of my friend Kelly Latevola of You and Your Big Dreams. Kelly makes THE most vibrant and colorful cards with her mega talent!

So I went looking in my "Kelly ~ to CASE" folder and it didn't take me long to find one of her cards that is similar to the TCC photo:

Kelly's card

Darnell's card

Thank you, Kelly, for all the brilliant inspiration you provide to us via your blog and thank you for the pleasure of DJKASEing you! Those of you who don't know Kelly will thank me for cluing you in on her sensational, very real, and very funny blog filled with stunning works of art! You're welcome!

Other Challenges

• Just Us Girls Trend Week: Stacked Die Cuts.
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use your snippets (scraps).
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Use your favorite technique and/or product. Right now, that would have to be watercoloring.
• Stamp, Ink, Paper: Getting to Know You. (Hey, new challenge!)

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