Today I am back where I left off a few days ago with Vibrant Vases. Same vase. Same flowers. And more Night of Navy. In fact, you could almost call this a celebration of Night of Navy. I've used it in all three cards I'm sharing today, some for a few challenges. Here's the first:
So this challenge calls for a clean and simple card with a bouquet.
- This Vibrant Vases bouquet is done much the same as Tuesday's card but it is monochromatic, in other words all in one color, Night of Navy. I still used my "faux watercolor" technique of stamping light shades of the bouquet flowers to look a little like a light watercolor background.
- I was actually using up a scrap which wasn't big enough for the whole front. So...
- ...I layered it and added a piece of trim I've had hanging on my "odds and ends" board. It was made with the Delicate Lace Edgelits die and I only let a portion of it show. I thought it kind of mimicked the design in the vase.
The Global Design Project is the challenge I drew upon my next card.
Once again, I used Vibrant vases and pulled something else from my odd's and ends board: an "L" shaped piece I had previously cut from a lovely Garden Impressions piece of paper.
- I've made several cards with this layout with the "L" shaped border. Maybe it would even seem a little like a "garden path".
- This time I thought the border would look good with the stitched tiny scallop edge from the Be Mine framelits. This set of framelits is getting a lot of attention during February with its variety of heart shapes. This little border shows that the set will have a lot of use even after the Valentine season is over.
- The stamps in this set have two parts: outline and solid to fill in the outline. At first I tried just the solid in Crushed Curry. It was OK but I think it does look better with the Night of Navy outline.
- The vase is stamped on a white scrap, punched out and popped up with a Stampin' Dimensional. The vase also has two parts the outline and the "solid" stamp. I used Night of Navy for both but stamped off the solid stamp so that I could get a lighter look.
- The line under the vase is also a stamp in the Vibrant Vases set. It is great to keep your vase from seeming to float on your card.
After using this trio of flowers in a vase for a few cards I started to wonder what they would look like without the vase. I guess you could say this was my self imposed challenge. I practiced on a piece of scratch paper and determined that they would fit in the corners of the largest Stitched Shapes square.
- The only way I could get a greeting from the Vibrant Vases set inside the bouquets was to turn the square so it had a diamond orientation.
- The "roses" are stamped with Night of Navy and colored with the light Night of Navy and Balmy Blue Blends markers, along with the light Granny Apple Green on the leaves.
- I added a little more texture with a piece of Whisper White embossed with Tin Tile.
- Using Night of Navy means it's an opportunity to use some of my favorite ribbon: the 1/2" Night of Navy Gingham. My desire to incorporate the ribbon led me to trim off one corner of the floral piece. I just had to make room for the bow!
Do you like to use challenges when creating your cards? There are a lot of them out there. It can be hard to keep track of all of them so I track the challenges I enjoy using on a Pinterest Board: Current Challenges. I try to update it every day or two. Those pins near the top are the most recent, though you can be inspired by the older challenges too. Check it out and play along with some of them!
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