Asian Artistry – Inspiration Challenge

Hi Everyone.  Happy Monday and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space!

Today's card was for an SCS inspiration challenge IC200.  The website that was featured was Kir deVries.  I'd never heard of the site before – but was very pleased to find it :-)  I saw this picture and was very inspired.

I loved the soft colors and the strong clean lines – along with the organic feel.  So, it was out with my favorite leaf set – Asian Artistry – the level 2 hostess set from Stampin Up.  I love this set and you can see more of my Asian Artistry cards here

For the card today, I decided to use vellum as well as card stock – and my trusty texturz plates.

1. I used a mixture of Old Olive and a little Kiwi Kiss for the greens and Whisper White for the remaining card stock.  I wanted to soften the whisper white – but didn't want to go to Very Vanilla, so decided to overlay the WW card stock with a piece of Vellum. 
2. I ran the Vellum through my big shot on top of a texturz plate, to create the embossing on the vellum. 
3. I also used a piece of Vellum over the Old Olive matt behind the image, again to soften the overall feel.
4. I stamped the image in Old Olive, but then used my Frost White shimmer paint and painted over the original image with the thin point of my stylus.
5. When you see it in normal light, the shimmer paint gives a soft ethereal feel – but in the light, it really comes to life. 

Here's a closeup for you. 

To add a little more detail – you can see that I wrapped a piece of the Gold Cord (from the new mini catalog) around matt and backed it with the Mistletoe satin ribbon around the horizontal piece.  It's just a little hint of the cord.  Jaydee tip:  I tried it with the silver cord…. but because the shimmer paint tends to feel "warm", I decided the silver was too cold by contrast.  Also the gold seemed to fit better with the softer feel of the card.   Also…. the stripe on the Kiwi Kiss paper tends to show more yellow – so the gold cord was the right fit and blended in with the white of the satin ribbon and didn't compete with it.

Overall, I was very pleased with the card.  Once again quite a lot going on when you look carefully, but it still retains those clean lines that I like so much.

Even though we are still traveling, today is a work day.  Yesterday we drove from Cape Town to Stellenbosch.  We were literally chasing rainbows.  Seriously!  I've never gotten so excited about seeing a rainbow before.  I shot about 40 pictures trying to find the ideal one.  The rainbow stretched from one side of the bay to the other and was still in front of us 40 minutes later when we got into Stellenbosch.  I decided I really wanted to share one picture with you at least.  

Here's the road that leads to the end of the rainbow as we were coming into Stellenbosch – with it's fainter mirror image. 

and then another one…. as we got closer to the mountain on our approach into Stellenbosch, the rainbow intensified in color

Mother nature never, ever, ever ceases to amaze me.  Does anyone else get so excited about rainbows????

I hope a rainbow moment touches your life today.  Thank you for visiting – your visit is always appreciated – and don't forget blog candy!

Peace

Jaydee