Monday, October 01, 2012

Beautiful World Tour - Imitation

Welcome to the October Beautiful World Tour, brought to you by Flourishes! Each month the team presents a themed blog hop, hosted by our team of international designers.  At the heart of our projects is the idea of truly showcasing beauty in card making – whether it just be in a beautifully colored image, a fabulous way to incorporate an embellishment or a new twist on a card layout. If you just happened on the blog hop today because you're a regular reader of my blog, and you'd like to view the entire hop, you can start back at the Flourishes Blog - you'll find a full list of participants there, and all the details you need. If you're already hopping and you arrived here from Betty's blog, you're doing just fine.

It's my turn to host the challenge this month, which you know if you started at the Flourishes blog! This month we are celebrating the Beauty of Imitation - they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Each of the designers has chosen another team member's card for inspiration.  So much fun!

I chose this card by Sasha - I was intrigued by the layered diecuts, since I've been wanting to try a tutorial from Splitcoaststampers on telescoping layers.  I love the way white-on-white cards really make colored images pop, too.

Here's my card:

I used Polychromos pencils to color the Magnolia image (twice), then followed the tutorial instructions for die-cutting the layers with Spellbinders dies.


I used the same Spellbinders die for my sentiment tag, and one of their embossing folders for the hexagon texture.

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29 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card, Dina! Love the layers, the beautifully colored magnolias and the white embossed background! Fabulous work! Hugs

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  2. WOW. That is incredible! The magnolia is just STUNNING. You constantly amaze me, Dina!!

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  3. Lovely, lovely, lovely!! Your work truly leaves me so very inspired!

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  4. Hi Dina,
    Your card is stunning! I love the fabulous way you created your layers!! So beautifully coloured, too…so soft!
    Thank you for choosing my my card as your inspiration…I am honoured!! xx

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  5. oh just gorgeous dina! love all the layers and that image worked so well for that technique but wow what patience you have for cutting all that out!

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  6. So technically perfect and the coloring is just beautiful!

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  7. These are gorgeous. Love the layers.

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  8. Wow, layers make it somunique

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  9. Stunning! I love your take on Sasha's card. Those Magnolias are colored so pretty. :)

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  10. So gorgeous, Dina! Love the layering and beautiful coloring! Stunning!

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  11. Beautiful work Dina, I love all the layers and the image really pops.

    Liza x

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  12. Beautiful card, Dina. So very unique.

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  13. Francie (Montreal)10/02/2012 7:54 AM

    Beautiful. Pure and simply beautiful.

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  14. Oh So beautiful and heartfelt

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  15. Love this card the embossed background sets off the layers perfectly.

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  16. Love your cards and all the layers!!

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  17. This is so beautiful! Clearly, much time and care went into this gorgeous creation!

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  18. Lovely. Flourishes have the most beautiful flower stamps

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  19. Stunning cards! Love the layers and embossing. Thanks for sharing.

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  20. Stunning layers, love the coloring

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  21. This is such a fun hop! Each of the cards are just beautiful! I just love the layering on this one!

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  22. I left a comment on the Flourish blog - but just to reiterate - I love the effect of the white on white layers.

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  23. Love, Love, Love your card Dina!!! The colouring and telescoping and texture are gorgeous!!!!

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  24. Seriously, Dina, this is a total JAW-DROPPER! The white on white, the embossing, the gorgeous telescoping image...all these things add up to one ELEGANT and STUNNING card!

    Naomi
    xoxo

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  25. I adore this card. Layers, layers, layers, and gorgeous flowers. Wonderfully done.

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  26. Such stunning layers! I am saving this to my "inspiration" bookmarks!

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