Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Flirty Flowers - Stampin' Up! Pretty Perennials

   After what seemed like several weeks it was finally sunny when I had a card finished and ready to be photographed.  The cloudy weather has been testing my photography and editing skills lately.    I always feel like my blog posts should have a disclaimer like *projects shown here are much nicer in person.  

  I was on hold for a customer service issue for quite a while yesterday so I took that time and used it wisely by making this card to play along with the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge which is to use Flirty Flamingo, Misty Moonlight and Gray Granite.  These colors are so pretty together!

 

  I started out with a Whisper White card base and then a layer of Gray Granite that was embossed with the Tasteful Textile embossing folder and then stitched with the Stitched with Whimsy dies.

  I stamped, cut and layered various images and die cuts from the Pretty Perennial set and tucked them all together in the corner over a length of polka dot tulle ribbon.  I liked the sheer look but the dots gave it a bit of interested without being bold; the flowers are the loud ones here. 

  The sentiment is from Many Messages and is stamped in Misty Moonlight on a long length of Whisper White scrap and is then popped on dimensionals.

  For the last few touches I added some white enamel dots, iridescent sequins and a Misty Moonlight dot to the smaller Flirty Flamingo flower.  

  I had a bit of an oops just when I was finishing this card and stamping the inside sentiment.  I dropped the Misty Moonlight ink pad face down--yikes!  There was no saving the card base by layering some Whisper White over the top as some of the ink got on the front edge of the card.  Luckily I hadn't burnished the Gray Granite layer enough the the textured helped so I was able to pull that whole panel off and attached it to a new base.  Stamping is fraught with ink accidents lol!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Pretty Perennials, Many Messages

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Misty Moonlight

Paper: Whisper White thick, Whisper White, Gray Granite, Misty Moonlight

Accessories: Tasteful Textiles embossing folder, Perennial Petals dies, Stitched with Whimsy dies, polka dot tulle ribbon, dimensionals, enamel dots, sequins



 

4 comments:

  1. Love this card Amanda. Always love your creativity.

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  2. oooh! This is so pretty! Love the florals but I'm loving that background texture and piercing so much too. Thanks so much for playing along with us at the CC&S challenge blog!

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  3. Such a pretty card, great use of this week's colors. Thanks for playing along with us at CC&S.

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  4. Absolutely beautiful card, Amanda. Love the stitched frame around the flowers. Thank you for playing along with CC&S challenge.

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