Pen and Paperie: 148658 Climbing Roses

Sunday, 14 July 2019

…happiness doubled by wonder

Sharing a simple card featuring the very pretty Demure stamp from Penny Black and thank you sentiment from the Climbing Roses set by Stampin’ Up!.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. I added in the frame with a simple stitching die from Lawn Fawn that allowed me to create the perfectly sized frame.

I went with a stitched frame so I could play along at Aud Sentiments. My other two items from the middle column of their bingo board are embossing and a stamp. I embossed the flower and sentiment before adding a splash of watercolour to the petals.

My colour scheme is from the current Color Throwdown palette. Love the subtle pop of colour in the pink flowers and black, white and gold is just a classic and classy combination. I didn’t want to go too harsh with the black though so I’ve left it to just one of the mats.

I love how this card came out, just hope the recipient does too. I’ve never met her, she’s one of my colleague’s mum and makes the best dumplings you’ve ever eaten. So, this card is heading her way to say thanks for keeping us well fed at work!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Lawn Fawn Lawn cuts ~ LF913 Stitched Borders

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Spun Sugar & Worn Lipstick

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Piglet

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Raven

Ranger Inkssentials Cardstock ~ Watercolor

Stamps

Penny Black ~ 40-375 Demure

Stampin’ Up! ~ 148658 Climbing Roses

Challenges

https://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/231-bingo-sentiment_11.html

https://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/2019/07/color-throwdown-countdown-551.html

https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/2019/07/freshly-made-sketches-396-sketch-by.html

Thanks for stopping by!

Friday, 28 June 2019

…the fairest blossom which springs from the soul

Sharing a card I made with my new Climbing Roses stamp from Stampin’ Up!.

I needed to make some thank you cards and this new stamp set arrived just in time especially when it was the perfect one for the current challenge at AAA Cards. I’ve got the one corner and the optional twist of flowers covered off with this pretty little cluster of roses. I decided to use embossing powder for the stamp outline to add a little sparkle to the card, given it was going to be mostly white space and to match in with the embossed sentiment.

For my colours I’ve gone with pretty and bright summery ones playing along at As You Like It. When it comes to floral images, I prefer summer over winter colours, I just think they are so much happier, just like flowers make me feel. So I picked a really bright pink and green from my Distress Inks and also added a nice bright purple mat under the watercolour paper.

They’ve got an easy anything goes challenge running at Aud Sentiments, I’ve got the always required sentiment covered too, so am linking up there.