*Brushed* Blog Hop!

Welcome to our BLOG HOP!

Today, my creative Close to my Heart

 consultant friends and I

are sharing what we've created

using the "Bring Back my Pack"

BRUSHED special paper

collection and stamp sets!

If you just arrived here from

ALYSON's BLOG,

then you are on the right track.

I absolutely LOVE the beautifully vibrant color

combination options afforded by this updated paper collection!

To make these five standard-sized cards,

I used Archival Black, Canary, Green Apple, Lagoon, 

Pixie, and Smoothie ink pads. If you look closely, you might

notice that I included a little bit of (black) heat embossing

on the "Dream Big" card. I also "stamped on vellum" 

the large black butterfly on the "Life is Beautiful" card.

I used the instruction sheet from the Aurora Cardmaking

Workshop Kit (G1205) as my design inspiration for four of

the cards (as you can see from the images shown below).

I really love that our workshop kit instructions can be

utilized so easily with other papers and stamp sets. I love the creative process of tweaking the designs a little, so they can work with other materials, as I have demonstrated below.

The 5th and final card design (shown above) was inspired

by a square-shaped card I found on Pinterest that was

designed by Jody Gustafson back in August of 2014.

(cre8nmemories.blogspot.com)

Thank you Jody for the creative inspiration!

Now you can continue on with the blog hop

and be inspired by more creativity using this 

collection by visiting BRENDA's BLOG next!