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Sharing a quick CAS card I did up for a friend’s birthday featuring stamps from the Lemon Zest set by Stampin’ Up! and the matching punch.

I went with my zesty theme after seeing the colour palette at Color Throwdown.  Stampin’ Up! had the perfect colours in their cardstock and I triple matted in the three palette colours and cut thin strips to create my stripy borders.  These follow the current sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch.

I bought the Lemon Zest bundle so I used the matching Lemon Builder punch to cut out my lemon and the leaves and used clear embossing powder over the coloured ink to give them a lovely, lemon rindy texture.  I masked off part of the sentiment from the Lemon Zest set to add the ‘with zest’ to the lemon.  The ‘birthday’ of my sentiment came from a retired Stampin’ Up! set and I hand wrote the rest of the sentiment with a Distress marker.

I popped the lemon and leaves up with foam dots to add dimension.  Once I was done I thought it still needed something and the current challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks provided the answer in the way of sequins.  I have some lovely yellow sequins that would have been perfect for this but my craft room is literally on the floor of the room (I’ve just moved) so finding them proved impossible and I had to go with these metallic ones instead that I did manage to find.  Working with limited supplies (basically stuff I’ve ordered since I moved so not in the craft room pile up) does test the creativity but I am still pretty happy with how this card came out.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Stampin’ Up! Punch ~ Lemon Builder

Embellishments

Craft Medley Cup Sequins Pailettes~ Dazzling Metallics

Inks & Paints etc

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing, Squeezed Lemon & Twisted Citron

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Twisted Citron

Papers

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Poppy Smooth Cardstock ~ White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Crushed Curry, Lemon Lime Twist & Melon Mambo

Stamps

Stampin’ Up! ~ Happiest Birthday Wishes (retired) & Lemon Zest

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #364 ~ Sequins

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #235

Color Throwdown #456 ~ Hot Pink, Lime Green & Yellow

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