The Cutting Edge #2 + Virginia's View #5 Die Cuts + CASology 103: Glow

The card I am sharing today was inspired by Karolyn Loncon's fabulous inspiration for The Cutting Edge Challenge #2. The sentiment perfectly matches the dreamy quality of her watercolored cityscape.

I decided to cut a cityscape border die from black cardstock and ink a rising sun background.

None of my usual photo spots provided a great image, so I moved outside and still had problems. I want to get this in the mail, so don't have time to wait for the morning light.

These two photos give a truer view of the die cut sitting on the inked card base.

This card reminds me of a long ago art class, when we looked at similar images and were asked to identify whether we were looking at a sunrise or sunset. For my purposes, this is definitely the glow and hope of a new day and heading off to a friend needing to know things will get better.

I am also entering this card in Virginia's View Challenge #5 Die Cut and CASology Week 103: Glow.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

HB2U Darnell + The Cutting Edge Challenge #1 + The Curtain Call Birthday Bash + MFW

There is a birthday party happening out in cyber space for our wonderful, generous and funny blogging friend, Darnell, of djkardkreations. The party starts with Bev at Happy Dance (where you MUST check out the hamster wheel shoes) and ends with a Linky Party at Ardyth's blog home, Maskerade. Be sure to click through all the festivities and join in the fun!

I used a few speech bubbles, assorted "happy" stamps and a word die to make this bright and happy card. All the dies are inlaid, including the "birthday"word die, which has a few extra cuts layered on top.

A bit of Wink of Stella on the birthday sentiment adds just the right touch of glitter and shine.

This card was inspired by a brand new card challenge from Jackie Rockwell that is based on creating cards with die cut elements. You can find the details for The Cutting Edge Challenge #1 here.

The colors from The Curtain Call July 1 Birthday Bash Inspiration Photo steered me towards the Lawn Fawn patterned papers. You can see the details of this challenge here.

ETA I am also linking this card to the new Moxie Fab World Wonderful Words Challenge - head over here for the details.

Happy Birthday Darnell!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie