Bloom Where You Are Planted – Birthday

I have been invited to be the guest designer for this week’s Tic Tac Toe Challenge (#116).  So exciting!  Thanks to the Design Team for giving me this opportunity.   Tic Tac Toe is always fun…eight different ways to inspire your creativity.

You may remember that I have mentioned GREEN is my very most favorite color, so the top right was a no-brainer.  I am totally in love with the Bloom Where You’re Planted Suite and thought I could make it work for the FLORAL image.  So that left me with only a RIBBON to choose.  I needed a Birthday Card but if I had wanted to, this card would work equally well with the top row by choosing a Friendship Sentiment instead as I used the Plentiful Plants Dies to die-cut the focal image.

And this is the result:

Steps:

• I stamped the Greenery and the Pot with a variety of green inks.  Left Leaf (Garden Green), Right Leaf (Soft Succulent), Hanging Blooms (2^nd Generation Just Jade) and the Pot (2^nd Generation Evening Evergreen).  All of these stamped images from the Plentiful Plants stamp set were die-cut with the coordinating Perfect Plants Dies.
• Tag: (2” x 3½”) The corners were snipped to create the tag shape.  The sentiment, Happy Birthday, from the Enjoy The Moment stamp set was stamped in Versamark ink and heat-set with Silver Embossing Powder.  I decided to sponge the edges of the Tag with Soft Succulent ink and a Sponge Dauber to define the shape against the white-on-white clean and simple design.
• Cross Strip: (1¼” x 4⅛”) Leafy pattern from the Bloom Where You Are Planted Designer Series Paper to introduce more of the green color.
• Background Panel: (4⅛” x 5⅜”) Introducing another element to the card, I added the Medallion from the Treasured Medallion stamp set also stamped in Versamark and heat-set with Silver Embossing Powder.  This is a little nod to a Macrame element picking up some of the gray tones in the patterned paper.  I chose to add texture to the panel.  The lower part was dry-embossed with the Tasteful Textiles 3D Embossing Folder and the top part with the retired (but oh so loved) Subtle 3D Embossing Folder.

I opted for a Basic White card base (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) to let the green focal image pop.  For the last element in the Tic Tac Toe row, I created a little bow with the retired Smoky Slate (1/8”) Stitched Ribbon and added to the top of the Tag.

Do you count a plant lover among your family or friends?  This is an ideal card for them!

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  I had a lot of fun creating this card as a guest designer.  I hope you like it!  Cheers,  Jolanda!

I also drew inspiration from the following challenges:

Last weeks sketch just because I liked the layout: The Spot Challenge (#163) and these three current challenges: CAS on Friday (#206) for the color, As You See It (#251) for the materials and theme and Just Add Ink (#557) for the neutral palette, metals and plants.

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