Extraordinary Flora – With Love – The Inque Spot Studio

Welcome back! Hoping you are having a wonderful Friday.

Play time! The challenges: Double Trouble (#199) and the 3-2-1 game (Layers, Images, Aperture) with a twist to add an image to the Aperture Opening and use the Try a Sketch on Tuesday (#678) layout.

Additionally, I was influenced by Stampin’ Up! Only (#384) for the colors and Double D (#090325) to add a Musical element.

Here is the result:

EXTRAORDINARY FLORA – DT199 – TSOT678 – SUOC384 – DD090325

Steps:

Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Smoky Slate cardstock.
Background Panel – Layer #2: (4” x 5¼”) Black & White Swirl patterned piece of paper from the retired Merry Musical Specialty Designer Series Paper.
- Using the (2⅛”) Stitched Circle die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set, an Aperture was die-cut.
Image #1 – Floral Medallion – Layer #1: (2¾” x 3”) Black, White & Smoky Slate Medallions piece of patterned paper from the retired Night & Day Designer Series Paper was colored with the Light Strawberry Slush Stampin’ Blends Marker and using a Blending Brush, Timid Tiger ink was added on top.
- The Medallion was fitted under the aperture.
Aperture Frame – Layer #3: (3” x 3”’) Basic White cardstock die-cut with both the (2⅛”) and (2½”) Stitched Circle dies, from the same Dies set.
- Using another Blending Brush, Smoky Slate ink was added to the Frame, toning down the brightness of the white color.
Image #2 – Musical Banner – Layer #4: (2½” x 1”) Musical Notes / Sheet Music patterned piece of paper, again from the Merry Musical Specialty Designer Series Paper pack, brushed with Smoky Slate ink using the Blending Brush, toning down the brightness.
- The Banner was trimmed to (2” x ⅞”) and hand-flagged with Paper Snips.
- The sentiment, With Love, from the Extraordinary Flora stamp set, was stamped with Strawberry Slush ink.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch, and the Sentiment Banner was popped up with Dimensionals.

A nice little note card…

My favorite donut…Double Trouble request…No filling…Bear Claw…

I appreciate that you spent some of your time with me today. Cheers, Jolanda!

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19 thoughts on “Extraordinary Flora – With Love”

The black patterned paper is so pretty and perfect for your pop of color image in your aperture and like how you used you music note stamp with your sentiment. Excellent combination of the variety of challenges. Thanks for sharing your enhanced 3-2-1 recipe with us at Double Trouble and use of our TSOT sketch… beautiful card. Don’t forget to comment in our challenge post your favorite donut and/or filling to be eligible for an additional randomly draw prize.

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