Thinking of You – Spring Floral

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Facebook’s Stampin’ Through The Catalog (a share only Stampin’ Up! inspiration site) featured Lara Moss @scrappykea as their Guest Designer this week, and we are invited to CASE (copy and selectively edit) her project.  I rarely do any scrapbooking, so I translated her inspiration into a card.

My takeaways: Patterned Papers including Florals and Gingham; Ephemera; Framed Image; two principal Colors; and a vertical orientation.

My design was influenced by: Color Hues (#106) featuring Lemon and Lime and Ann’s Paper Players (#730) Sketch.

For Retro Rubber (#251), I selected the retired stamp set On The Grow (circa 2011) for their Anything Goes theme and am sharing with Addicted To Stamps & More (#489) for their Any Occasion theme.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Daffodil Delight cardstock.
• Background Panel: (5¼” x 4”) Daffodil Delight and Basic White Diagonal patterned piece of paper from the Floral Delight Designer Series Paper pack.
• Block: (1½” x 4½”) Daffodil Delight Gingham patterned piece of paper, also from the Floral Designs Designer Series Paper pack, and Daffodil Delight Floral patterned piece of paper from the retired Brights Designer Series Paper Stack (still in my stash).
• Accent Mat (Frame): (2⅜: x 3⅛”) Granny Apple Green cardstock.
• Focal Panel: (2¼” x 3″) Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.
  • The Flowers in Jar image was stamped with Lemon Lime Twist ink.
  • Using the Fine-Tipped Water Painter Brush, the Leaves and the Jar were blurred by pulling in the ink.  Accents were added with Granny Apple Green ink.
  • The Flowers were painted with Daffodil Delight ink and accents were added with Crushed Curry ink.
  • Once dry, the image was over-stamped with Smoky Slate ink to get the fine detail lines.
• Shape – Sunburst and Butterfly: The pieces were selected from the Something For Everyone Ephemera Pack.  The Butterfly was colored with both the Dark Daffodil Delight and Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Write Markers.
• Sentiment Label: (1¾” x ⅜”) Granny Apple Green cardstock scrap.
  • The sentiment, thinking of you, was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder.  

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Ephemera Elements and the Sentiment were popped up with Dimensionals.

This image from the On The Grow stamp set is one of my favorites and it looks delightful in the spring yellow and green coloring. 

I hope you see how I was inspired by Lara’s beautiful scrapbook page.

Thanks for spending a little bit more of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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