Reflections Ooh La La DT inspiration

Hello again, well another Monday and this is the final inspiration card for 2012 as we launch the final challenge of the year at Ooh La La Creations.

Thanks to everyone who entered our previous challenge Spots and Dots, you can see the winners over on the Ooh La La Creations Challenge blog. Also thank you to all those who have participated in the various Challenges throughout the year and to my fellow DT members you have been a joy to work with and I am looking forward to working with you all during 2013.

Finally huge thanks to Wendi and Emma the owners of Ooh La La Creations for bringing us some wonderful CD's in 2012 long may it continue the images and papers are a true inspiration. If you are new to Ooh La La products take a look at the website to see all the CD's in the range and further inspiration in the gallery, by clicking on this link  http://www.ooh-la-la-creations.com/Pages/default.aspx.

Now onto my DT offering for this challenge

I decided that I wanted to create a double easel card and have used Kraft card as a base to keep the colour scheme of the beautiful image from the 'Watercolour Memories' CD the images are little works of art and when I saw this one I knew I had to use it (I have always had a passion for photographs and paintings of bridges reflected in water below).

Whilst looking for a suitable tag for the right hand side of the easel I found the text I eventually used in the tags and sentiments folder on the CD I felt the text captured the reflective nature of the card I wanted to create perfectly.

Unfortunately the image behind it didn't work with this gorgeous bridge so I used My Craft Studio and edited the image by reducing the opacity to 50% and then adding the text on top. I also did the same for the thinking of you tag on the left of the card but I only used a portion of the image this time to get the desired shape.

I printed off the tag the topper and the pyramage design onto white card. The pyramage is lovely to work with as it is so easy to cut out and line up. I used thin foam tape behind each layer as I didn't want too much height to the image. Once done the whole design was mounted on gold mirror card and trimmed to leave a fine gold edge I did the same with the topper and the tag.

I made the easel by cutting the front of a 8" square kraft card into two section the larger is 5" and the smaller is 3" I then folded the 5" square to make the larger easel and used a pale beige paper that has a slight quilted effect in the design and I emphasised this by scoring along the lines and adding card candi at the intersections. I then mounted the paper onto gold mirror card and trimmed it to leave a narrow edge. having made 2 panels

I covered both the front and the back of the easel so that the back wasn't just bare kraft card.  I then cut the pieces of paper for the smaller easel and mounted these onto gold mirror card trimming to leave a narrow border and mounted then onto the front and rear of the smaller easel. The text topper was then stuck to the smaller easel and a die cut flourish added to the top and bottom right hand corner. these were cut in white card and coloured using ranger distress ink in aged mahogany to match the colour in the backing paper.

The Pyramage panel was then stuck at an angle to the larger easel and the tag had a copper eyelet and copper organza ribbon added and was stuck at an angle at the bottom left of the easel.

The inside of the card was lined using a matching backing paper from the CD and two strips of a contrasting paper was edged using a Martha Stewart punch. The stopper is made from die cut flowers and leaves which again were cut from white card which has then been coloured using aged mahogany distress ink to match in with the colour scheme.

All that remains is for me to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and I hope to see you all in the New Year.

I am submitting this card for assessment for my Diploma in professional crafting and will also be entering it into the following challenges.

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/ - Anything Goes
http://simplycreatechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Goes
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Goes