Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Sneak Peek Day 1: Easter Blessings


Today's peek uses Rupa's newest set from Gina K Designs, "Easter Blessings". This card uses one of my favorite images from it.

I colored the cross and vine with Copics. The white layers you see are White Diamond CS from Paper Temptress, the shimmer is amazing! I used my Scor-Pal to score a "cross" behind the cross image and then scored diagonals out to the corners and edges that appear to be radiating out from the cross's center, this little detail really adds to the beauty and symbolism of the card (click the pic to see the closeup). The rich, purple patterned paper you see is from Emily's new "Rich and Shabby" Digital paper pack, available for purchase this Thursday. To recreate the flowering vine, I wound the SU! 1/4" celery grosgrain over and around the mats, tacking it down in a few spots with glue dots and then adhered a few white sateen flowers I accented with a little yellow Copic and some tiny adhesive halfback pearls to the centers. Wish you could see it in real life, it just looks alive!




You can find more peeks of the set from the rest of our design team here:
Carolyn King
Cindy Lawrence
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Gina Krupsky
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Theresa Momber



and from this month's "In the Spotlight" Designer, Sherrie Seffens!

Another preview here at midnight!:)

31 comments:

  1. Wow! Your card is amazing! I love how you put the ribbon.

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  2. OH MY WORD! This is awesome. Love everything about this card. Gorgeous colors...so perfect for the image and theme. Love the scoring...sets off the cross so beautifully! Love, love, love how you've woven the ribbon around the card and embellished with the flowers! This is a real inspiration!!!

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  3. Wow, Mel, this is gorgeous. I love the colors!

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  4. This is just absolutely, gob-smackingly, stunningly beautiful.
    Thank you for sharing.

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  5. What a lovely card...so Spring! And the ribbon...unique!Thanks for the inspiration!!!
    Jan Castle

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  6. It is gorgeous, love the way how you put the ribbon! Hugs, Moni

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  7. Beautiful again Mel. You're definitely back :). I love the rays coming out of the image too, via te ScorePal.

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  8. very pretty! love the little flower accents! looks great!

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  9. this is so pretty love that ribbon & the image
    Hugs
    Norine

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  10. Wow, Mel...your ribbon treatment is awesome!

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  11. Wow! Melanie, this is GORGEOUS!!! Love the way you did the ribbon, and added those fabulous flowers!

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  12. Such a stunning card. It is amazing how the shimmer from the cardstock show throught the cross!!!

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  13. Oh wow Mel! How stunning! Those score lines are just such an awesome idea, they really do add so much to the card! LOVE it with the purple too!

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  14. Mel,
    This is beautiful. Love the ribbon accents.. simply GORGEOUS!

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  15. Melanie this is gorgeous! The score lines add so much! And the ribbon vine is beautiful!

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  16. Your card is Gorgeous Melanie!

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  17. Amazing!!! I love the ribbon with the flowers on it!!!

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  18. Great idea for the ribbon, Mel! Your card is just perfect!

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  19. Love the ribbon. Your the bomb!!! Great card

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  20. What a beautiful card! I love what you did with the ribbon!

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  21. This is truly stunning! Fabulous!

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  22. Oh my - **Swoon** this is sensational! I can't begin to understand how you come up with these incredible ideas but I'm loving them.

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  23. WOW! This is just beautiful and I just love how you did the ribbon on this card. Are you sure this isn't a Hallmark card? LOL

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  24. Wow this is simple elegance at it's best! Just love the way you wove the ribbon and added the flowers.

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  25. Oooooo........just sooo fantastic with the swirled ribbon and the flowers framing the image!!

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  26. Melanie, This card us stunning and what a tribute to the Lord Jesus! Good for you, my friend. Thanks for sharing.

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  27. the trailing ribbon is such a wonderful idea! Beautiful.

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  28. I love your colour combination on this one!

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  29. This is totally gorgeous!! I love that image, and your ribbon treatment and little flowers are so pretty!!

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  30. Hi Melanie! I love that card! The cross is beautiful and so is the ribbon "wink" :)

    Hugs
    Donna

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