Happy Sunday, friends. If you celebrate Easter--happy egg hunting! If you're hunting up a lovely color challenge, look no further than LeAnne's gorgeous choices for this week's color challenge at The Paper Players:
Blues and greens are always a favorite and so easy to mix together. I recently acquired a large background stamp called Sweet Floral and decided to use that as the focal point for today's card:
Pretty dramatic, eh?! Stamping the darker color, Not Quite Navy, onto the lighter Pool Party is an easy way to incorporate two of the challenge colors. For a little pop, I stamped the floral image again and fussy-cut a few of the flowers:
Now, to incorporate Certainly Celery, I layered striped grosgrain ribbon, a label stamped with a Four Frames image and an itty bit of Pool Party ruffled ribbon:
I made my sentiment from the mix-and-match set, Fabulous Phrases in Not Quite Navy with a little background stamping in Pool Party. I had so much fun playing with these colors and I know that you will too! Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team for their amazing inspiration. I hope you will join in the fun over at The Paper Players. Remember, this challenge will close on Friday, April 13th at Noon (PST). Hope to see you there!
The Paper Players Design Team
Shirley Pumpkin (April GD)
Supplies
Stamps: Sweet Floral, Fabulous Phrases, Fresh Vintage (retired)
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Pool Party, Certainly Celery
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Pool Party, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla CS
Extras: Decorative Label punch, Large Oval punch; Certainly Celery 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon; Pool Party ruffled ribbon.
Your fussy cutting looks incredible with this beautiful stamp! Love your unique ribbon and label treatment, too. Hope you get lots of goodies in your Easter basket!
ReplyDeleteI like your treatment of the background stamp. Great colors, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's even prettier in real-life! Love the colors and the flower stamp, so pretty, nice ribbon & label treatment as well.
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous! You always find interesting ways to use ordinary things like punchouts and RIBBONS! Very cool creation---thanks for using my colors so well!
ReplyDeletePretty Card! My favorite part is the flowers you cut out to give it a 3D pop!! I also like how you stamped on pool party with the Navy ink.
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Shirley
Oooh, love the 3D flower and great placement of the sentiment panel. Happy Easter to you and your family ((hugs))
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Nance! I LOVE the unique and creative ribbon treatment!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card Nance, love the way you used the ribbon.
ReplyDeleteNance so pretty and you're right about a large stamp! I saw this when Margaret used and loved it then, but I love it this blue. I also really love the fussy cut blooms, adds so much dimension. Your ribbon sentiment is too cute. Hugs.
ReplyDeleteYour card in just gorgeous. tfs :)
ReplyDeletejust lovely!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! I love the flowers! They really add great dimension to the card!
ReplyDeletevery pretty Nance!
ReplyDeleteOh. My. WORD!!! Nance, this is dramatic in all the right places and has fabby details to boot! Loving that embellished sentiment! SO creative! You rocked these colors, my friend! Hope you had a great Easter weekend! Big hugs! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful use of these wonderful colors! Love how you used the large image and the ribbons layered with the sentiment look fantastic! Wonderful card!!
ReplyDeleteGreat use of the background flower stamp and I really like how you popped up some of the flowers to give the card depth. The way you used the ribbon is such a fun touch. Sometimes I don't think outside of the box with ribbon often enough...such a great idea! Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh you really made these colours sing! Love that background stamp and those layered fussy cut flowers are amazing!The way you layered the sentiment and ribbons just finishes it off to create one amazing fantastic card.
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