This weekend has absolutley flown by! I've spent the better part of it working on my course. Talk about time-consuming!! I so would rather be stamping!! I did manage to get a little inking in and worked on my card for this week's challenge over at
Friday Mash-up. Conveniently it also works for thee challenge over at
Just add Ink which is all about Fussy Cutting. Check it out:
Here is my card:
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| Card for MU8 and JAI69 using On the Grow stamp set from the Summer Mini. |
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| Close up of focal image |
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| Trying to show you the popped up flowers! |
I have to admit...I found this sketch tough to work with. I had a hard time getting all of the different elements to work together. In the end, I'm happy with the result, but it wasn't easy getting here! Here is what I did:
Starting with a Night of Navy card base, I adhered a piece of pear pizzazz DSP (from the level one hostess stack) as well as a strip of pear pizzazz cardstock I had embossed with my Finial Press embossing folder. I then wrapped a piece of pretty in pink taffeta ribbon around and tied a bow. I punched a narrow strip of pretty in pink DSP (from the Subtles Stack) with my eyelet border punch and adhered it along the bottom edge of the card. Setting this aside, I stamped the floral image from the On The Grow set in brown Staz-On in a piece of confetti white cardstock and then punched it out using my 2 1/2" circle punch. I coloured the image using a blender pen and my night of navy, pear pizzazz and pretty in pink ink pads. I then inked the glass bottle using my Versamarker and embossed it using clear embossing powder. On another scrap of confetti white cardstock, I then stamped the image a second time and coloured select blossoms which I fussy cut. I adhered the fussy-cut blossoms to the original stamped image using bits of dimensionals. I added tiny dots of Tombow liquid adhesive to the centres of each blossom and sprinkled them with Dazzling Diamonds glitter. To create the eyelet border around the circle I punched another strip of pretty in pink DSP with my eyelet border punch and then cut each scallop. I adhered each section individually around the circle using glue dots, ensuring each section was evenly spaced. I glued the focal image to my card using Tombow. The final touches were the sentiment (from Pocket Silhouettes set) which I stamped in night of navy ink on confetti white cardstock and punched out with my curly label punch. I tucked it underneath the embossed pear pizzazz strip and adhered it. I added a little string of pearls in the upper right corner, as per the sketch. I think they add a nice, feminine touch.
