Hi Everyone. Happy Tuesday night.
I hope you all had a fabulous day. Tonight's card is something different. I told you last night that I was finding was to actually use DSP because I love it so much :-) Tonight's card is a result of that.
I managed to combine two challenges. The PlayDateCafe color challenge, which was to combine Pale Peach, Peach and lemon. Of course, I absolutely had to use the new In Color - Peach Parfait! The sketch si from a really interesting - and very different sketch from the Get Sketchy team. I decided this sketch, and this color scheme, would push me way outside of my comfort zone, but I was really excited to try something new. I made a change to the sketch, in that the item required at the top of the large focal circle was placed at the bottom of the circle. I needed something to balance out the butterflies and having the element at the top for this particular use of the sketch wasn't working. You really need to go check the links for the fabulous inspiration and submission cards.
I got out my Greenhouse Gala DSP, cut out one of the fabulous Daffodil Delight and Peach Parfait flowers, mixed it with some of the new 1/8" ribbon and 3 butterflies cut from Daffodil Delight and Vellum paper using my Beautiful Wings embosslit and my Big Shot.
I needed a card for a fabulous young lady who loves butterflies. This just seemed the ideal sketch to have some fun. Both the design and the color scheme felt young and fresh - ideal for a teenage lady who has a lot of style!
Here's what I came up with.
I stamped the wonderful sentiment "dream a little" from the dream a little set.
Card recipe:
- Card stock: Peach Parfait, Daffodil Delight
- Stamps: Dream a Little (retired)
- Accessories: Beautiful Wings embosslit, Vellum Paper, Daffodil Delight and White 1/8" ribbon, half pearls, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder
Instructions:
- Run the A2 card base through your Big Shot with the Perfect Polka dots embossing folder - turn card to debossed side
- Run the Beautiful Wings embosslit through the Big Shot twice - once with a scrap of Daffodil Delight and then again with a scrap of vellum
- Cut out the flower - or stamp a flower stamp that you are using and cut around with paper snips
- Do the same with the leaves
- To assemble, cut three strips of ribbon and wrap them separately around the card and secure with snail.
- Adhere the two butterfly layers together using snail down the middle of the butterflies.
- Accent each butterfly with a small half pearl
- Adhere the flower to the card base over the point that the ribbons join using dimensionals
- Adhere the leaves underneath the flower with snail.
- Place butterflies, using mini glue dots in position
Tips:
- I used two layers of dimensionals on the middle of the outer edges of the flower and snail on the middle of the flower. The snail allowed the flower middle to adhere to the point where the ribbons joined. I cut the ribbon ends to make sure I had little spare ribbon.
- Adhering the middle of the outer layer allows the middle of the outer edges and edges to be on the same plane as the middle of the flower. Don't forget there's a bump underneath it.
- As the dimensionals are fairly thin, I used two of them on top of each other.
- I stamped the sentiment after I had run it through the embossing folder, because most of it would fit between the debossed dots. You may want to do it first if the sentiment is larger - or do it on a separate piece of card stock and adhere. I did it on the same plane as the card base, because I didn't want it to become a focal point and take away from the montage of the flower and butterflies.
- I love the fact the ribbons look like rays of sunshine.
- I turned the larger butterfly over to have the debossed side up - to match the card base :-)
- I cut another piece of cardstock and backed the front piece, because I didn't want the ribbons to show on the inside. You could leave them as they are beautiful looking ribbons.
On the personal front: oh, now y'all did go and make me cry this morning:-) Thank you Brenda, Cherie Kelli, Kadie and Sue for saying such nice things about me. (blush)
Cherie... you know... you kind of recovered from the problem of the June Bug... I give you credit for trying :-) Now don't forget to say sorry to the other June Bugs you see... Which reminds me of a Garfield cartoon I saw years ago.... I love Garfield BTW.... Garfield was staring at a spider on the floor (you know that Garfield hates spiders, right?) Well, the little itsy spider was saying to Garfield. "Please don't hurt me. You killed all my family and now I am an orphan." Garfield looked at the spider, hesitated for a moment, reached out, squished the spider and said; "Not anymore you aren't!" So, I wonder why Garfield reminded me of Cherie :-)
Dee, we all want to know... did the Bear find a way to get around your DH's deterrent? :-)
It has rained all day today - so the deck wasn't finished off. We have been promised that they will be back to finish off tomorrow. We really can't wait to get it finished. The worst part about the rain today, is that we won't be able to sit outside and have dinner tonight!
Well, I am off to give a little love to my new playthings to see if I can get a card made before supper. I do hope you all have a fabulous Wednesday - hump day - and thank you all for your comments and your support. Oh.... don't forget - the challenge across at the Paper Players - we are still looking for masculine cards.
As always, thank you for stopping by my little area of the stamping blogosphere. Hugs to all of you. Trish, I was thinking about what hat you were wearing today. Being English and all that? We poms are a little addicted to our hats!
Big hugs to you all
Jaydee
