Shaded Summer – Happy Birthday

A few challenges…It makes this this girl happy to create for challenges.  My husband jokes about the “Covid-Pile” of stacked cards.  Creating keeps me busy and engaged in my favorite hobby.

This week over at the Global Design Project (#308), the challenge is to CASE the Designer – Wilma De Korte.  I chose the Theme and Colors from the Seize the Birthday Challenge (#222) and the suggested Element from the Just Add Ink Challenge (#571).

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Here is the result:

Steps:

• For the element “Lines”, I selected one of the patterned papers from the Pattern Party Designer Series Paper (Hostess) pack for the background panel (4” x 5¼”).
• Casing Wilma’s stamped florals, I chose to stamp the Flowers from the Shaded Summer stamp set with Versamark ink directly to the patterned paper and heat-set the Flowers with White Embossing Powder.
• To further emphasize the “Lines”, I masked off the lines in the patterned paper with removable Painter’s Tape and sponged the pastel ink colors: Balmy Blue, So Saffron, Blushing Bride and Mint Macaron with Sponge Daubers.  The embossed Flowers were then polished clean of any residue ink with a tissue.
• The sentiment Cross Strip (4” x 1¼”) was set on the diagonal.  The sentiment, Happy Birthday, from the same stamp set was stamped with Basic Gray ink on to a scrap of Basic White cardstock (1”) and matted with a Mint Macaron scrap cardstock (1¼”).
• An additional embellishment was added.  I created the popped-up Bloom with the coordinating FREE Sale-a-bration Summer Shadow Dies.  Bloom Background – Blushing Bride, Bloom Detail – Basic White and I added a piece of Flirty Flamingo cardstock in behind the Blushing Bride to add color to the cut-outs.  I opted to add a So Saffron Bloom Center and selected a Floral die from the Pierced Blooms Dies set.
• A Blushing Bride card base (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) was chosen to complete the card.

Turned out to be a rather pretty birthday card.  Hope you like it, too!

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda!

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