Happy Tuesday, stampers!
Do you like to color? Or even want a little practice or time to experiment? This is a great card for any of those things. I did it for today's color challenge at Splitcoaststampers: Pool Party + Real Red + Garden Green with your favorite yellow for dessert. Mango Melody is easily my favorite. I love a bright, warm yellow!
So here is what I came up with:
Things to note:
- I knew the best way to add the Pool Party was going to be to have a layer behind my sunflowers. I cut mine with one of the rectangle dies from the Stitched So Sweetly dies and then embossed it with the Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder. You could easily substitute another die and folder or just cut a 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" piece of Pool Party for a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (A2) card. The actual size doesn't have to be fussy - I just like a good amount of white space on my cards.
- The greeting was stamped in Basic Gray and cut out with the long stitched rectangle die from Ornate Layers. This too could simply be done with a trimmer or fussy cut if you are ambitious. I've seen some fussy cut greetings on cards that I really like but haven't gotten brave enough to try it yet.
- I die cut a bunch of the Celebrate Sunflowers with the dies - without stamping first. Then I positioned grid paper in my Stamparatus and stamped a sunflower in the middle of the paper. After this I position one of the negative sunflowers over the stamped grid paper so the white space around the image looks even to my eye. Finally, I put one of the die cut flower shapes into that space and stamp my image. If you are doing lots of images this saves so much time and each one is perfectly cut!
- I added the light Mango Melody first and then added dark Real Red around the middle and on the detail lines of the petals. Add a little Light Real red over this and then blended as needed with more light and dark Mango Melody. Soft Suede for the centers. Darkened Mint Macaron does pretty nicely for the Garden Green since there is no combo for that color.
- Having the flowers go off the edge wasn't part of my original plan but since I thought there should be at least three to make "a bunch" I decided that's what I needed to do to keep them from totally overwhelming the card. In some of my photos it looks a little unbalanced but in real life it just feels like a really fun twist!
- I love how the clear gems from the Flowers for Every Season Gems look like water droplets. I end up wanting to add them to everything!
- This is such a fun set to work with and I have several more completed cards that I'm holding back to possible do a class or PDF...
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