Gingerloft Asian Blog hop

Welcome to the first Gingerloft Blog hop titled Asian Inspiration. Gingerloft has added many asian images for you to see and they are now available at the gingerloft website. The DT has worked hard to bring you inspiration for using these images. If you have found this blog hop by accident please go to the Gingerloft challenge website and start from there. There are many prizes to be had so keep hopping. There are also some freebie images at the Gingerloft challenge website so that you can play along with our asian inspired challenge. If you get lost here is a list of the blog hop participants.


Gingerloft challenge

Lynn

Gemma

Gale

Kobie

ET

Nikki You (are here)

Gaynor

Tami
 
The next stop on this hop is Gaynor She has made some great eye candy for you to look at.

Here are some samples of the creations I have made for the hop.  ENJOY!

i have used some old papers I have had in my stash for years and layered them onto gold card and red paper.  I have again used my trusty old fiskars boarder punch.

This image is Peacock.  It has been printed onto acetate and I have used glitter .Then I have cut it out and attatched it to the card.

This image is Geisha with flowers, I have printed her twice, once on card and once on acetate.  The kimono(acetate) has been glittered in the same way as the peacock.

This birthday sentiment is from the woodware oriental stamp collection, as is the dragonfly.

i will be entering this card into the following challenges

http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/ Things with tails

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/ Animals

http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/ Add some sparkle(glitter and gems)

http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.com/ Bird related

http://adayfordaisies.blogspot.com/ Try a new technique with digi's(acetate and glitter)

http://craftyannschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ More than one image

http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.com/  Happy Birthday

http://thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/ Exotic bird

http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Birds

This next card has been made with one of the freebies being given away for the hop

I have used the Woodware oriental stamps to stamp the background for this card, the applied lace across the centre of the card.

I have used the image and created a shaker card with punched flowers inside.  The image and frame have been coloured with pro markers.

Here is another sentiment stamp from the same woodware collection, it has been pucnhed out and attatched to a Nellie Snellen die cut and a charm has been hung from it.

I have punched out 2 flowers with an Xcut flower punch, then inked the edges, I have punched the centre( not sure where this punch is from) and added gems for decoration.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges

http://happichallenge.blogspot.com/ Flower show

http://creativecraftworld.blogspot.com/ Moveable parts(shaker card)

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/ Pink and brown

http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.com/  Branches

http://scrapbooksisters.blogspot.com/ English country garden

http://www.4craftychicks.blogspot.com/ Handmade flowers

http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/ No DP's

http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/ flower power

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Blooming charming

This final card has been made using the other freebie :o)

For this card I have used a screen template I have had in my drawer for years and have only ever used it once before! So I thought this would be the ideal opportunity to bring it out again!  The paper is another sheet I have had in my stash for years, but its all gone now!

For the front panel I have cut it twice and added acetate in between to make a window  I have added a sentiment, again from the woodware set and hung another charm off the nellie snellen die cut.

This is the back of the card (fairly plain) with a white panel to write your greeting.

This is the freebie image geisha and fan, I have coloured her with pro markers and cut her out.

This flower and swirls are marianne creatable die cuts, I have added a pearl gem to the centre of the flower.

here is the birthday sentiment that I used in the origional card.  I have also added some ribbon to each of the panels.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges

http://limitedrunsstamps.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://claudiaandcompany.blogspot.com/ Fancy folds

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ More than one fold

http://ynschallenges.blogspot.com/ Shaped cards

http://www.thepixiecottage.blogspot.com/ Shaped

http://scrapalicioususa.blogspot.com/ Accordian technique

http://doyoustackup.blogspot.com/ Birthday

http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://cardcreationsbyc.blogspot.com/p/saturday-challenges.html Shaped cards

Thanks for stopping and hopping.

Hugs

Nikki