Hello papercrafters!
I spent yesterday re-organizing my stamp shelves and cleaning well, actually, playing with the new Country Floral Embossing Folder and then just plain experimenting with ink and the Flowering Desert stamp set. And then one thing kept leading to another and my desk still needs to be cleaned. Let's just say I have a LOT of new ideas that need to turn into finished projects so that I can share them with you.
Edited to add: The Country Floral Embossing Folder is a new addition to Stampin' Up!'s Sale-A-Bration lineup. You can get it for free with a $50 order through the rest of Sale-A-Bration which goes through March 31, 2019 OR until it runs out. While I don't have a crystal ball, from the response this folder is getting, I would not be surprised if the supply is depleted prior to the end of March. The links at this end of this post will bring you to my store so you can see more information about this exciting folder.
Anyway, when I saw today's color challenge at Splitcoaststampers (Pear Pizzazz + Daffodil Delight + White) I new exactly what I would finish first. Besides, as we stare down another winter storm warning something summery is called for.
I had almost the exact card I would need laid out ready to assemble except I needed to switch up the yellows to Daffodil Delight instead of Crushed Curry. (Once it is watered down, Crushed Curry would still easily work with the Daffodil Gingham. It just wouldn't have been true to the challenge.) Now I still have an embossed piece that will become something else.
- I colored right onto the inner embossing folder (Stampin' Up! logo side) with my Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzazz markers, boosting the color in the center of the flowers with a tiny bit of Daffodil Delight ink refill. If I was to do it again I would use Old Olive or even a little Mossy Meadow. The Pear Pizzazz got a little lost with the water.
- Once I thought I had enough color I spritzed it and ran it through the Big Shot with a piece of watercolor paper.
- This is a 4 1/2" x 6" card - I didn't want to trim any more of the embossed layer than I had to.
- The edge is from the Gingham Gala Designer Series Paper 6" x 6" stack along with a Whisper White die cut lace edge - Delicate Lace Edgelits.
- I tied some Pear Pizzazz Shimmer ribbon over the "seam".
- The message and it's embellishments are from the Wonderful Romance Bundle. I thought the delicate oval would be just right and the little flowers echo the 4 petaled flowers in the embossing folder. A bonus with this set of thinlets is that there are of the little flower dies so that you don't have to make so many passes through the Big Shot. I used Pear Pizzazz and Daffodil Delight to stay with the color challenge.
- There's not a lot of white space with this one but maybe that isn't Country Floral's style.
Here is a close up of the greeting piece.
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