Thursday, June 3, 2010

Bejeweled and Bedazzled


Welcome to the Farm Fresh Friday with Glitz and lots of Bling! Today's challenge over at The Greeting Farm is to create a card that draws inspiration from your favorite piece of jewelry, a piece you're dreaming of having or simply something beautiful, glitzy or fabulous that has caught your eye---and to include a picture of that inspiration along with the post of your card.

My favorite piece of jewelry is my wedding ring, but I hope you don't mind, I decided not to use it because I didn't really feel comfortable posting a picture of it. Instead, I was truly inspired by this beautiful necklace I spied on Etsy. I love love love leaves and fronds and small flowers, so this piece really caught my eye.

I decide to use Cheeky Nurse for this card and bring in the flower and frond elements. I also really wanted to draw attention to the hint of red/orange on the necklace, so I used black and white and then added just a little bit of the color. Then I heat embossed the fronds with shimmer and tried my very best to show a few pictures of that sparkle! And last, I really wanted to have this card look aged/distressed and that's why I also stamped Cheeky Nurse on the patterned paper (it's not dirt!). LOL.
And that's my bewjeweled and bedazzled jewelry inspired card!
I hope you will join in on the fun over at the Farm too! Have a great weekend!

15 comments:

Jessica Diedrich said...

this is SO elegant and beautiful, Kadie! What a pretty necklace, too! This is just gorgeous!

Sparkplug17 said...

This is just darling!

Anonymous said...

Card beautiful! The nurse cheerful! And a necklace a charm!)

♥Rach♥ said...

Wow, your take on that inspiration piece is wonderful! Awesome job Kadie :0)

Cindy Haffner said...

BEAUTIFUL Katie, I love this.

Judy McMullen said...

Wow! Beautiful card, Kadie, and you captured the spirit and look of the inspiration jewelry perfectly!! Hope you're having better weather. I'd love to send you some of my hot sunny weather here. LOL

Jeanette (Forest Ranger) said...

Your card is so pretty! I love the many gorgeous details! It is AWESOME!

karen said...

this is gorgeous kadie!

Mary Giles said...

Va-va-va-voom! Love the vintage feel to your card! The nurse is colored gorgeously Miss Kadie!

Sandra MacLean said...

OOooooo! I love this piece too Kadie! I'm a bit partial to silver jewelry. :) You always surprise me with what you add to your cards Kadie. It's just so inspiring! Have a good weekend my friend!

Cheryl Walker said...

Ooooo Soooo very pretty Kadie! I love the look of your card you did a Beautiful job hun!!!! Love the new stamps they are way tooo SWEEET!!!!!

Hope you have a lovely weekend hun!
Hugs,
Cheryl

Jen Shults said...

Oh this is sooo lovely. I adore that necklace!! Wow and your card is just a perfect match!

Kim said...

Love your inspiration piece and how you used the leaves around the card, so beautiful!

Tasha said...

This is super sexy and sassy. Loving the colour combo and fabulous embellishments. Awesome sentiment
love tasha xx

Heather Schlatter said...

Kadie,

I can not tell you how much I love this creation as a RN myself I adore this image it is so so creative and so so cool!!! I love the colors and the vintage distressed
look you gave to it as well!!! Totally loving it in every way!!!!!!

Sorry I am so late getting around from last week. This Baby Growing in my Belly has gotten big enough it is hard to sit and leave comments cause I can’t breath very well when I have to sit in that position LOL!!!

Heather