Trigger Tuesday- And a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Hi friends-

I took some time out for Mom last night and created a card for Cath's Trigger Tuesday Challenge over at Moxie Fab World. This week's challenge was to create a card based on the following trigger photo:

Here is my card:

I created a card base of white cardstock and a panel in light grey and embossed the gray cardstock with a canvas impressions plate.  I cut a curved piece of white cardstock and topped it with glitter to give the feeling of a glittery snowdrift. I die-cut the tree from gray cardstock and stamped the tree image in Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder.  I added to glue to the front of the tree and coated it in some tinsel glitter before adhering the tree to the card.  I added pearls to the tree and stamped the sentiment before attaching the the completed the panel to the card base.

I was inspired by the trigger in the following ways:

• Theme: Christmas 
• Colors:  The lovely grays, creams and tans- who says that you need bright colors to make a striking card?
• Embellishments:  I added glitter and pearls to mimic the adornment on the bird's breast and wing
• The bird: I curved the snowdrift to reflect the curves of the bird and its feathers.
• The trigger item itself:  The trigger is a pillow, I embossed the gray cardstock with a canvas impression plate to reflect the fabrc and adhered the stamped panel to a card base with some cushy pop dots.

Hope you like my take on the trigger.  Thanks for stopping by!

Katie

Tuesday Trigger: Girly and Gutsy

Hello friends!

(This is my second post for the day- scroll down if you would like to see my contribution to the August Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.)

It's another Tuesday Trigger project based on a lovely photo that Cath found and posted on the Moxie Fab World Blog.  (Click the link for details and to play along!)

And here is my card:

I decided to use the leaf motif in the black and white rug as the focal point for my card.  I stamped the ginko leaves from PTI's Harvest Berries set in black ink and added some bling in the place of berries- ala the chandelier and wall sconces.

(By the way, can I just say, Harvest Berries....I love this stamp set!  You may be seeing it quite a bit in coming posts.)

I also tied in the chartreuse green chairs and pink walls into the card as well through cardstock and ribbon.  By the time I added the ribbon and rhinestone buckle to the card, it was feeling pretty formal, so I used a beautiful, scripty congrats sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Well, there you have it!  I hope you find some inspiration in my take on the trigger. Thank you so much for stopping by!

Take care,
Katie

Supplies:

• Cardstock: Stampin' Up! and Papertrey Ink
• Clear stamps: Harvest Berries from Papertrey Ink and Big Day Additions from Waltzingmouse Stamps
• Rhinestones: The Paper Studio
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento
• Border punch: EK Success
• Ribbon: Stampin' Up!
• Gem ribbon slide: Making Memories
• Corner punch: Stampin' Up!