Monday, June 03, 2013

Beautful World Tour - Neutrals/Texture

Welcome to the June Beautiful World Tour, brought to you by Flourishes! Each month the team presents a themed blog hop, hosted by our group of international designers... we are literally spread out all over the globe!  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 Iwona's blog, you're doing just fine.

The team is working with neutral colors and textures today. I pulled out an older set, Seaside Life - this was one of the first Flourishes sets I ever owned, won in a pre-release challenge. I love the detail in these shells!


I started by embossing the Antique Lace background with clear embossing paper on tan paper, then inking over the design with darker chalk ink. I used the same technique on the shells, but added some shading to them with an Inktense pencil.



Leave comments for all our designers and you could WIN A FREE FLOURISHES STAMP SET!! Comments will be accepted until the end of the month, and a random comment will be chosen by one of our designers - but we're not telling which one! The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning will be.

From here you'll be traveling on to.........


 Thanks for hopping with us today! Don't forget to leave a comment!

Thanks for stopping by!





If you happen to be delayed somewhere along today’s world tour, you can find all the destinations below!
Bridget
Naomi
Aleksandra
Anne-Elise
Iwona
Dina
Meredith
Kathy
Sasha

21 comments:

  1. Beautiful, Dina! Your shells look like you just picked them up off the beach!

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  2. Every single month you blow me away. Your shells look three dimensional! I love that you used them with lace, what a great combination!

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  3. Wow! Talk about great coloring! Wonderful job on this.

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  4. Oh the shell looks so real! Your card is so pretty!

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  5. Very pretty in neutrals!

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  6. Wow Dina! Your shells are just wonderful! Love the richness of their colour. Gorgeous layered beauty this month!

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  7. Beautiful textures and colour, amazing how real they look!

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  8. Beautiful - love the seashells!!

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  9. Those shells are absolutely incredible...I want to reach out and touch them. Amazing!

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  10. Love the neutrals. Your colouring is so professional. As always, you never disappoint.

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  11. Love the Antique Lace background!! and the shells look so real it's like you gathered them from a beach!! The richness of the colors you picked fits perfectly on this gorgeous Summer card!

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  12. This is beautiful Dina! The sheer mesh adds great texture and your shells look so darn real. Awesome! :)

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  13. Dina, this is most amazing work!

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  14. Whoa Dina! Your pencils over the sponging makes your shells look like they are carved from wood!!!! Amazing++++++

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  15. Awesome card, love the detail on the shells

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  16. Love those shells! Love the background you chose, too.

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  17. Beautiful! Love the shells.

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  18. Dina, your card is gorgeous! I love how you've colored those seashells, they look so real! I love it! And I love the shape of the card, it makes everything so much more special!!! Gorgeous!

    have a great day,
    Aleksandra

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  19. Dina, your work never ceases to take my breath away!! Love how you did the background and your shells are amazing!! Stunning card!!

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