New Trend: Doilies and Lace!

If you read the Moxie Fab World blog, you will know that Doilies and Lace are an upcoming trend! :-) They had a great post about it on March 4, 2010. If you've never checked their blog out, I highly recommend it. They have such wonderful art and inspiration galore!

In fact I was so inspired by this post, that I decided to try to enter their Moxie Fab World Challenge - Diggin' on Doilies and Lace. Here's my card:



Most every part of the design -- minus the sentiment, cardstock, ribbon and sparkles -- is ALL LACE! I have the background piece stamped with a tone-on-tone lace design. Then I have a large border of lace stamped towards the bottom of the card, with a small lace corner accent and a small lace flower by the sentiment. But my most fun addition is my "lace flower" that I created out of a small little curved lace stamp and attached with 3-D Foam Tape for some dimension. (I built it up around a circle punch and kept layering it on top of each other to create the flower.)

I knew just what stamp set I wanted to use for the lace accents for this challenge, a beautiful stamp set by Close To My Heart: C1297 Lovely Lace. No brainer there, huh? Then I was browsing through my other sets to find the right sentiment, and "True happiness is drawn from the heart" just seemed to be it from D1365 True Happiness.



For my colors, I found my inspiration from a Spring 2010 Pantone Color report:

See my sad little circle on the top right there? I was matching their turquoise and tomato puree color with CTMH colors. I decided on Ocean and Tulip with White Daisy for the final color scheme. I can honestly say that I don't know if I would have chosen those colors on my own -- but they worked so well! It's fun sometimes to stretch your boundaries and try new color schemes. I always seem to be naturally drawn to earth tones, so those brighter colors are exciting to mess around with.

With my relatively recent diagnosis, most of you know that my whole life has had to adjust to my chronic health issues. I've been struggling a lot with finding time to create, since I used to just craft away at night after the kiddos went to bed and stay up until the wee morning hours with no worries on my end. Now, I know I need to listen to my body (which always seems to be tired way too early) and get to bed at a decent time. So.... finding creative time has been a continual struggle.

I'm making a point to try to give myself permission to create during the day sometimes, instead of just always doing the never-ending house chores, because I miss it so much! I made a couple of Baby's First Calendars for the kids' teachers just recently, which really brought how much I missed creating to my attention. I have a huge list of "wants" to accomplish, and the first one on the list was create a card for the Moxie Fab World Challenge - Diggin' on Doilies and Lace. Check... first item accomplished! Woo-hoo!

Moving on to my next project...

Dani