CASE IT IG Hop - May 26

Hello again friends. I hope you've had a great start to your weekend.  I'm here to share this month's card for the CASE IT Instagram Hop where we find a project on Instagram that inspires us and we will share that project as well as the project we’ve created. There are so many beautiful creations on Instagram the only difficult part is narrowing down which one to CASE (which means Copy And Share Everything).

This month I was inspired by Tina (@cardsandcoffeetime over on IG); as soon as I saw her card I was in love. I'm a big fan of Tina's and watch nearly all her videos over on YouTube.  Her pretty birthday card is just gorgeous and I love all the different textures and dies that she uses. I decided to make my card masculine but you can definitely see that my card was inspired by hers! Here is her card for my inspiration:

Isn't her card just beautiful? Using Ardyth's LIMES process (you can watch her video here) we list what we see - Tina has used white, teal and a hint of purple as her main colours, an embossing folder in the background, heart dies, some floral die cuts, a simple black sentiment and some sparkly embellishments. So I followed the layout but switched the embossing to the bottom instead of the top, I used a monochrome teal colour combo and used gold instead of the black sentiment.  I decided to use stars instead of hearts and balloons in place of the flowers.  I didn't really omit anything this time and my spin is that my card is masculine instead of feminine and also it's 5 1/4" x 7 1/4" in size. I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by embossing the teal panel using a candle embossing folder.  I die cut the two stars from white card and the balloons from three shades of teal card; the strings were cut from gold mirror card.  I stamped and gold heat embossed the sentiment onto one of the stars and added foam squares behind the balloons.  I adhered the stars overlapping the embossed panel by about half with liquid glue and added foam squares behind the whole piece before adding it to a 5" x 7" white panel. I added the balloons over the left hand star and finished off with some gold sequins.  I adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel 5" x 7" and added a strip of the candle embossed card (it is the darker teal as I originally cut them from both to see which one I preferred for the front and I thought why waste it so I used it on the inside instead).  I die cut a small white star and one more balloon and adhered them to the bottom right corner with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre of the panel with black ink and then adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - monochromatic

Alphabet challenge - A is for air

Aud Sentiments challenge - embossing and/or flowers + sentiment

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - use an EF optional theme balloons

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - use die cuts (entry 3 of 3)

Just Add Ink challenge - dies-stencils or both

We hope you will be inspired by our CASE IT Instagram Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous cards along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #caseithop and we will find you.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Lots of love

card supplies:

Spellbinders - balloons and birthday wishes die set (for the balloons) (DOML May-23)

Spellbinders - candles for every birthday embossing folder (EOM May-23)

Spellbinders - nestabilities stars die set

Spellbinders - color essentials gold smooth discs sequins

Uniko - floral vines and everyday family stamps (for outside sentiment)

*Gina K Designs - birthday cheer stamp (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

Versamark - embossing and watermark ink pad

Sakura - white no.10 gelly roll pen

card from scraps bin

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Thank you x