GEISHA & BAMBOO
It seems the longer I make my cards, I see my "style" emerging. In my own personal life I have always leaned towards things that are more "tailored" and have simple clean lines. I do cards that have a lot of fancy flowers, embellishments, etc., but I always seem to prefer the cards that are more simple. This one is a perfect example. It was inspired from a sweet blogger friend, Cheryl, whose cards I adore. It was from a layout she did at Splitcoast Stampers. As I have said before, I love the simplistic Asian designs, and I find myself returning to them again, and again. Like they used to say in design class, "less is more", and for me it's so true! I still like to go beyond my comfort zone and experiment, but here I am again back where I like to be.
The background paper is from a beautiful stack called "Far East" by Premium Stacks. I gold heat embossed the stamped areas that are from a set by All Night Media. Also I inked the edges with Distress ink, "frayed burlap". Simple, clean lines and no embellishments and I love it! MAHALO Cheryl for the great inspiration!
What a gorgeous card, beautiful colours :o)
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Awwww Joanne, I am truly HONORED that you were inspired by something I created!!! That is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about your personal-style. And I can see yours shining here! I find myself trying to step things up a notch, but when am done with a creation...it looks like my others....like I already have a certain 'style' KWIM?
Anyway Joanne....this one is just so pretty! I love your clean lines, beautiful bg papers too!
I agree..I have found the same thing. My personal-style does come thru in my cards. I like the clean simple line look..not too fancy! This card you have done is beautifully done!
ReplyDeleteI love what you said about your personal style. I like the clean line look too. The fancy ones seem to garner a lot of attention, but the clean lines always attract me! I love what you did here.
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