Worldly Flowers - Stampin' Up! Jar of Flowers

    I'm playing along with the Card Concept challenge today.  They have a great inspiration photo and if only I had ordered the World of Good suite I would have been all set for this challenge.  Since I don't have any of the products from this suite so I had to go at it from a different direction. 

  I decided to use the little vase of flowers as my inspiration instead of the more prominent globe.  I went with a clean and layered look.  

  The card base is Very Vanilla thick, then a layer of Mossy Meadow.  The Basic Black panel is embossed with the Old World Paper embossing folder and I thought it went well with the theme.  Next, I found in my scrap DSP stash a piece of long retired Going Places DSP in a map pattern that went with the theme.

  I used the jar punch and some gold foil and I wanted to make the jar look more worn and vintage so I sponged some gold ink onto the gold foil.  Doing that didn't give me the look I was going for and the ink was smudging everywhere.  I tried drying it with my heat gun and that didn't work either.  I wiped off the ink with a tissue and it took a bit of the gold foil with it so after all those steps I ended up with a vintage look!  It doesn't hurt to experiment; you never know what you might come up with!

  I stamped the flowers in Memento black and then colored with my Stampin' Blends (colors listed below). I tried to stick to the shades of colors in the inspiration photo which I thought looked a bit fallish.  After coloring I fussy cut the bouquet with my trusty paper snips.  The flowers and jar are both popped on dimensionals.

  The finishing touches are the black embossed sentiment from Banner Year and a black bow on the side of the jar.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Jar of Flowers, Banner Year

Ink: Memento Black, Versamark

Blends: Cherry Cobbler dark, Old Olive light, Mossy Meadow light & dark, Calypso Coral light & dark, Cajun Craze light & dark, Pumpkin Pie light & dark, Mango Melody light & dark

Paper: Very Vanilla thick, Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Basic Black, gold foil, Going Places DSP (retired)

Accessories: Old World Paper embossing folder, Jar punch, black embossing powder, dimensionals, 1/8" black taffeta ribbon (retired)