Sweet Floral {PP90}

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

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile

LeAnne Pugliese

Lesley Croghan

Nance Leedy
Jenn Picard
Heidi Boos

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.

Just the Way You Are {CCMC188}

Happy Thursday, friends, and welcome to another week at Create with Connie and Mary!   This week we've got a great sketch for you, check it out:

Lots of possibilities with this one--you can even make it into a standard A2 size as I have done here:

This sweet little girl from Greeting Card Kids always melts my heart...probably because she reminds me of my daughter.  I have so much fun coloring her dress and all the little extras like her bow and heart valentine:

I was channeling my friend Ann by adding a little pearl to her bow.  I colored her dress with a Blender Pen and a Baja Breeze ink pad while her hair, skin, bow and heart were all colored directly with So Saffron, Blush Blossom and Poppy Parade Stampin' Write markers.  Did you notice the little white spot on the heart?  That was completely by accident as I was coloring the heart but it adds some dimension so I will make sure to do it on purpose next time!

To the background So Saffron designer paper, I added the floral image from Fresh Vintage to coordinate with the images in the Everyday Enchantment DSP used on the focal heart and flagged banner.  And isn't the Baja Breeze Pleated Satin Ribbon delicious?  Just a ring of sticky strip around the back of the heart and it sticks on easy-peasy!

I had fun mixing images from P.S. I Love You to create the sentiment on the outside...

while Sprinkled Expressions, another Sale-a-Bration set, provided the perfect sentiment to make this my daughter's Valentine card....just the way you are!

I hope I've inspired you to play along with our sketch at Create with Connie & Mary this week!  We would love to have you join in the fun.  Just make sure to do so by Wednesday, February 15th by Noon (EST).  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies 

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, P.S. I Love You, Fresh Vintage, Sprinkled Expressions

Ink: Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Early Espresso, Jet Black Stazon, Crumb Cake

Paper:  Very Vanilla, So Saffron, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake CS; Everyday Enchantment DSP

Xtras: Hearts Framelits; Ovals die; Baja Breeze Seam Binding Ribbon; Baja Breeze Pleated Satin Ribbon; Scallop Ribbon Border Punch; 1 1/4" Square Punch (to flag the banner end); So Saffron, Blush Blossom and Poppy Parade Stampin' Write markers;