Parisian Breeze Pair

These are from a couple of Splitcoast challenges I did over the weekend while playing with a few things from the new Stampin' Up! catalog.

This first card was one that incorporates last Thursday's Ways to Use It Challenge: Pattern Pizzazz and Saturday's Inspiration Challenge: Lang Calendars. One of the calendars posted on the challenge involved the colors from my new Parisian Breeze Specialty paper and I needed to stamp some swirls on it to approximate the look of the calendar and meet the challenge to do something to my patterned paper.

As you can see stamping on the textured papers doesn't give the crispest image though I think the image (Stampin' Up!'s Baroque Motifs) I got works for the look I was trying to achieve.  I had tried stamping some words too but didn't like the appearance. So, I tried rub-ons and they were perfect.

The partially completed card sat on my desk until this morning because I couldn't figure out what to do about the bird element from the calendar and the corresponding empty space on my card. A new day brings new answers and I dropped the bird idea and added dressed up wide oval. I got the scallops around the wide oval with my retired Stampin' Up! scallop scissors - much easier than I thought. Boy, do I wish those were still available! The ribbon is from the Valet Ribbon Originals, buckle from Hodgepodge Hardware, and the flowers from the Pretties Kit. Oh yes, the background is three papers pieced together. This mimics the look of the original calendar. 

Parisian Breeze Card #2   Featured Stamper Challenge 103: Vicky Gould  based on this card

I used her color scheme but with a finer pattern. Actually, I meant to use this challenge for a bold pattern but got sidetracked. I really liked Vicki's idea to wrap ribbon through the punch edge opening but decided to do a little overkill by adding more ribbon. I added my pearls to flowers instead of putting them on the scallop edges. With such a small background pattern it didn't work for me to embellish the scallops. Like the first car this features the Parisian Breeze Specialty paper, Valet ribbon originals and the Pretties Kit. I was also able to try out my new jumbo wheel, Friendly Words and the White organza Ribbon. The slots are made with the scallop edge punch.

Thanks for looking!

Chris

Comments

[Debby]

I absolutely love that color combo. Gorgeous cards.