I saw so many possibilities with this week's Paper Players' Sketch Challenge.
One was to use some of the lovely foliage elements in the Wonderful Romance Bundle.
- Papers include Blushing Bride, Gray Granite, Vellum, Whisper White and some scraps of Grapefruit Grove Foil.
- I used the 2 1/4" circle punch to make a circle in the lower right portion of a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Blushing Bride and then added some texture to this layer with the Subtle embossing folder.
- I embossed the leaves/ branch from Wonderful Romance in white on vellum and die cut with the corresponding die.
- One of the other dies is a more textured leaf though it doesn't correspond to any of the stamps in the set. I cut that one out of Whisper White card stock.
- The foil is part of the Sale-A-Bration promotion and Stampin' Up! is telling us that the foil is going over so well that they think it won't last through March 31 when Sale-A-Bration ends. I saved all the scraps after making my partial butterfly card for a swap last week. They are perfect for making little embellishments like the sprig and butterfly that I used on this card. Though the butterfly card used Petal Pink, I think I like Blushing Bride just as well with the foil.
- I embossed "sending prayers" in white on Gray Granite card stock and cut it out with the smallest of the Rectangle Stitched framelits. I saw Su Mohr do this with the sympathy message from Itty Bitty Greetings and have since found that quite a few of the messages in that set fit into that framelit. Wouldn't it be great to have a stash of these ready to go?
- This greeting wasn't centered since I knew I wanted room to add a little butterfly. I used the Butterfly Beauty dies to cut this out of a scrap of foil. The set of dies has multiples of the small butterfly dies so it is easy to create a little stash of these with just a few passes through the Big Shot.
- I didn't have my so called ducks in a row in order to link my card over on the Paper Players site before leaving on a trip this weekend but it certainly is an inspiring sketch. You might just see me use it again soon.
I was just playing around taking pictures of this card when I thought I'd like to see what the metallic sequins looked like. Though I didn't use them on this card, they certainly do look like they fit right in with this color combination. Keep that idea for another time...
One more... a close up of the card:
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