Kwernerdesign.com - Colour Inspiration #49

Here is my entry for Kristina's Colour Inspiration challenge. As soon as I saw this fabric I knew I had to give it a go!
When the other entries started popping up around the place I was wishing I'd bought Petal Pizzazz (a set I didn't really look at twice but now have to have thanks to that damn internet!!!) but then I figured, how many times can Kristina look at the same set without going insane? So I decided to pull out a set that I thought still felt like the fabric and used "Enjoy Every Moment" I stamped the big flower in a rough pattern over the base cardstock and clear embossed it and built the card up from there.
I kept with a fabric-y kind of feel and used the eyelet border and gingham ribbon even though they didn't relate exactly to the material in the inspiration photo.
The finished product is something that is probably a bit 'busy' for my normal style but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Stamps: Enjoy Every Moment
Ink: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red
Cardstock: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, Raspberry Tart DSP
Accessories: Trio Flower, Designer Label, Large Oval, 1" Circle & Eyelet Border Punches, Build a Brad, Black Gingham ribbon, Rich Regals Brads, Clear EDP

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould

Hope your day is as happy as happy gets!

Another card using some of my new goodies! I used the new Tea Party DSP, Flight of the Butterfly stamp set & Build a Brad for the middle of the flower.
Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Almost Amethyst, Basic Grey
Cardstock: Almost Amethyst, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Tea Party DSP
Accessories: Build a Brad, Scallop Edge & 5 Petal punches, Basic Grey Taffeta

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould

Zarna Gould Designs on etsy.com

I'm excited to announce that I have opened my own etsy shop. I am selling some of the cards that I have shown here on my blog, I will also take custom orders and all the special order info is on my etsy shop under "alchemy". There isn't much there at the moment but I have about another half dozen to upload this weekend so make sure you check it out, you can find me at http://zjgould.etsy.com

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Happy Easter!

Just want to jump on and wish everyone an early happy Easter! For all of you that were lucky enough to receive your orders in time, Happy stamping, and to those who are travelling, please stay safe!


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New Goodies to play with!!!!

I got my new goodies to play with!! This was the first card I made and I'm so happy with how it turned out!
I love this Crazy for Cupcakes set!! The sentiment is a bit hard to see in the photo (having glitter on a card makes it really difficult to photograph) but it reads "Hope your day is the sweetest ever". How cute is that??
I have also been working on a scrapbook layout but you'll have to wait to see that one as it's for the May reveal over at "Just My Sketches" I will tell you that I'm loving the Raspberry Tart DSP and the Sticky Cuts Letters!
My order turned up just in time to round out my week of cards celebrating the new catalogue, and I'll go back to scheduling my posts for every few days again.
Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes
Ink: Basic Black, Baja Breeze, Pretty in Pink, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery & Pretty in Pink SW Markers
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Aquapainter, Baja Breeze 1" DS Ribbon, Pink Taffeta, Eyelet Border Punch, 2-way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould

Strawberry Thank You

Another card using a resurrected stamp set (Hopefully I'll have new catalogue cards to show you soon). I love Tart & Tangy and was so happy to see it make the new catalogue! I was sad however to lose the Summer Picnic DSP that matched :( ... But I decided to make the best of a sad situation and use it as an opportunity to try out new colour combinations with the set. Before I had always just stuck with the DSP combo's of Bashful Blue, Real Red, Old Olive & Pumpkin Pie, so I thought with this card that I would soften it up and use Pretty and Pink with Certainly Celery for the strawberry and the rest just came from there.
To keep with the soft feel when I stamped the sentiment in Close to Cocoa I stamped off onto scratch paper first so that the colour wasn't as dark.
Stamps: Tart & Tangy, Think Happy Thoughts
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Close to Cocoa
Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, Whisper White
Accessories: 1 1/4", 1 3/8" and Scallop Circles & Scallop Edge Punches, Certainly Celery and Pretty in Pink 1/4" Grosgrain, Certainly Celery 5/8" Grosgrain

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Friend-Ship

While I was still waiting for my new catalogue goodies to arrive I decided to pull out Boatloads of Love and have a play, I love colouring with this set but I don't use it very often. This time I decided to use it for a girly card and I kept it really simple to keep focus on the main image but it was a challenge not to add a bit of ribbon or hodgepodge...
The card is slightly shorter than a regular card to make the watercolour paper fit just right.
Stamps: Boatloads of Love, Loads of Love
Ink: Stazon, Lavender Lace
Cardstock: Lavender Lace, Pretty in Pink, Watercolour Paper
Watercolouring: Aquapainter with Watercolour Wonder Crayons

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould