Last week, I did a video showing how I break down an inspiration card and make it my own. I created an easy to remember acronym to help: LIMES
List: Deb has 3 pumpkins on white tag backgrounds, halloween theme, sentiment strip, embossed background
Include: Halloween theme, sentiment strip
Modify: Changed the layout from 3 horizontal elements to 4 in a grid (to better fit my card format), changed stamped pumpkins to die-cut skeletons, used the spider webs as the tag element, black background instead of white
Exclude: pumpkins, tags,
Spin: I spritzed the background with pewter distress spray and added the spider.
I cut 2 large and 2 small webs from Essentials by Ellen Spiderwebs (and the little spider - he's too cute to leave out!), and used Catherine Pooler inks direct to paper to colour them. I spritzed them and my black card base with Distress Spray in Pewter.
The 4 skulls are from the new Skellie-Add On die set that was released on Friday. I used small pieces of black cardstock on the back to fill in the eyes, noses, and mouths.
The sentiment is from last year's Good to the Last Bite.
Registered: January 19, 2007 Location: North Dakota Posts: 7721
Sat, Oct 10, 2020 @ 7:31 PM
Ardyth, I love your take on my Halloween card. The spritzed background and different colored spider webs are so cool. The black really makes your card pop. 😊
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Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83722
Sun, Oct 11, 2020 @ 5:14 AM
Very fun card, Ardyth - hard to make skellies look cute but you did! Love the splatter in the background too. Fun case.
Love your casing process! Mine it this - look at all the cards until one just grabs you and tells you something like "hey, you have a stamp that would be cool done like this." Your process is so much better!
Hugz
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
Ardyth, this is such a fun Halloween card. I love Ellen's new die release and you have certainly used them in such a creative way. Funny....we chose the same inspiration card and came up such different projects.