Starting From Scratch!

This week it is Tracie's (Bondgirl) turn to dare us...

'For this weeks dare, I dare you to "start from scratch" I want to you design a card with NO purchased/pre-assembled embellishments - that means no blooms unless you cut them yourself, no buttons, brads etc etc. I guess how easy this is depends on your usual style'

**insert evil laugh here**

Arrrrrrrrgh was my first thought - a card with no pre bought embellishments!!! Then I decided that is was not so bad... there are loads of digi bits around that look like real embellishments and I came up with this;

All the papers - were not made from scratch by me, they were made by the wonderful Kirsty Wiseman. the flowery one started out with a blue background but I managed to hit a button on photoshop and it came out like this lol.

The flowers are hand cut from a template that Kirsty made for card makers, I resized it to make the different flowers...

Printed sentiment, using the colour taken from the paper to match, using SP Kimaro font.

Inking, Doodling and Hand Stitching to finish.

The papers and templates can be found on Kirsty's blog

For the next couple of weeks, we have the privilege of the oh so talented Bety joining us as a guest designer which is pretty fantastic.

Have a go making a card from scratch and don't forget to leave a post on the DCM blog when you have finished!! All the cards from the DCM team are awesome so pop over and have a look :)

TFL!