April Leading Lady Rubeena Naz | Take Four

Our April Leading Lady, Rubeena Naz, is back for her fantastic fourth performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her sensational second performance of bright and bold watercolor wonders CLICK HERE or her triumphant third performance of dazzling My Precious projects CLICK HERE!  Rubeena is nothing if not fabulous and fashionable and today she will show you how you can be too! 

And now we present Rubeena!

Good morning! I am back with my fourth post as Leading Lady for Winnie & Walter! Thanks so much for all your comments on my last three posts. If you missed them, you can find them here.

   

As usual, I'm excited to continue and share my creative process with you! Shay is offering my blog followers a $30 Winnie & Walter gift card as a giveaway. You can see the details of the giveaway at the end of this post.

The cards I share today are inspired by fashion. One of my favorite challenges used to be the Runway Inspired Challenge, which is currently on a hiatus. Even before I discovered the challenge, I used to look up photos of dresses for design or color inspiration. I will share a few dresses I found online and the cards that were inspired as a result. 

 PHOTO INSPIRATION #1: 

 

(source: Vogue) 

To begin, I created a clean and simple card.

This is generally not my style, but I am comfortable with it. It is tolerated by the perfectionist in me. I focused on the color combination of white, blue, and black so I started by stamping the large flower and some ferns from In Bloom: Addie's Garden with a waterproof black ink. I fussy cut the images and colored a few petals. On my A2 white card base, I added some black and blue splatters and arranged the images over it with foam tape. Finally, I fussy cut 'prayers' from The Big, the Bold, and Comfort Cutaways using white card stock and added it over the images with foam tape.

 

PHOTO INSPIRATION #2:

(source: EOnline) 

For the next card, I focused on a few different elements.

 

I stamped two of the images from In Bloom: Addie's Garden with VersaMark Ink onto watercolor card stock and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I colored with Mission Gold watercolors. Once it dried, I die-cut the word 'hi' from In a Word: Hi Cutaway from the colored panel. In the dress, the colors blue and gray stand out most so I added them as card stock layers. I die-cut light gray card stock using the large scallop die from Essentials: Audrey Cutaways and glued it to my A2 white card base. I die-cut some rounded card stock in blue and black and added white pigment splatters. Once it dried, I scored some lines across the center -- inspired by the dress's band. I added twine around the blue piece and glued both pieces over the gray one. Finally, I added the 'hi' cutaway with foam tape.

 

PHOTO INSPIRATION #3:

(source: Wedding Gown) 

 The next card definitely looks like it was inspired by fashion. :)

 

I started by stamping the expressive florals from In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya with distress inks using second-generation stamping, which basically means the first stamp is done on scrap paper and then stamped on the main card panel. This way, my card results in some light shades as you can see on the dress. I fussy cut around the top border of the pattern. I stamped 'with love' from Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Inspired by the top part of her dress, I used gold glitter tulle. I added foam tape to the stamped panel first so I could glue the gold tulle behind it and have it peeking from behind. I added some tape behind the gold tulle and glued it to my white A2 card base. I added some multi medium on my card base so the tulle could stick to it, but I also added gold thread over it to secure it. The thread was similar to the lines in her dress. For the final touch, I added gold and pink sequin strands.

 

PHOTO INSPIRATION #4:

(source: Dillards) 

I totally fell in love with the pattern from this dress. I knew I would be using watercolors so I started with a watercolor panel. I stamped some of the images from In Bloom: Addie's Garden using Antique Linen Distress Ink and then used my Mission Gold watercolors. I added some black splatters once it dried. Inspired by the floral border and the pleats in her dress, I fussy cut around the stems and flowers at the bottom and then cut the panel vertically into 6 parts. I rounded off the corners and placed the panel over blue card stock. I alternated some of the pieces with foam tape. Separately, I stamped 'hello' from The Big, the Bold, and Happy with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I fussy cut it and added it to the center with foam tape.

 

I hope you have felt inspired by all the tips I've shared in my Leading Lady posts! Winnie & Walter is generously offering a $30 gift card to my readers so be sure to visit me at A Rare Ruby to enter to win! :)

In Bloom: Addie's Garden	In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya	Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs	The Big, the Bold, and the Happy	Scenery: Pattern of the Rings Creative Screenings	Essentials: Audrey Cutaways
In a Word: Hi Cutaway	The Big, the Bold and Comfort Cutaways

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