I've always been inspired by sketches but seldom get to play with them anymore, but I found this sketch at the Flower Challenge #31, and wanted to play along since I have several birthday cards to send in May.
I used some SU! dsp and some Lawn Fawn pink card stock, adding a SU! Petal Burst embossed panel in white, along with a PoppyStamps Tulisa Corner Collage die to make the smaller vertical panel. The flowers were done with a Hero Arts stamp with black ink on pink, and enhanced with a SU! marker to add some color, then fussy cut and popped up for dimension. I used a retired SU! mini punch to cut the circles for the flower centers from matching dsp and shaped them by pushing a pencil eraser into the centers before adhering them. The sentiment is by SNSS.
I'm also entering this into the Happy Little Stampers "anything goes with dies" challenge for April.
Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a fantastic day!
Carol
24 comments:
This is very pretty in coral with the pop of black looks super. I really like how you've followed the sketch, combining embossing and die cuts. It looks so feminine x
Wow! Carol, this is stunning!!! Great take on the sketch and I love the flowers and colors. The embossed panel is great too. LOVE THIS CARD!
Lynn
Wow, such great take of the sketch, this colours combo is very elegant and feminine, and the diecut panel looks just perfect with the embossed one!! Love so much the flowers, their centres are very dimensional, thanks for sharing your tip!! So clever as you always are!! :D
Good luck in the challenges!
Hugs
Beautiful card and great take on the sketch. I love the black die cut panel with the Tulisa die, so pretty over the pink.
Oh Carol this card is gorgeous. You have nailed the sketch here. Love the pink and black. How clever to punch out the flower centres with the same dp. Perfect!
Oh this is a pretty one Carol! I love when black is used as a frame as it makes other colors just pop! I love your take on the sketch Carol and I love that black cut out frame. As well as your beautiful flowers! Loving the paper too, oh ok, dang it, I love the whole card!!! lol Hugs, Brenda
Gorgeous card Carol great design and love the embossing and layout-I so struggle with sketches!
carol x
Oh WOW, this is beautiful, Carol! Love the colors of this and your pretty flowers! Great job on the sketch, too! :)
Wowza! This is one of the prettiest cards I've ever seen! If this isn't a winner, I'll eat my hat! Those polka-dot centers are PERFECT with that background paper and your black and embossed panels are gorgeous!
This card is so so pretty, love the pink and black. Those flowers are just the best. Thank you so much for joining us at The Flower Challenge Aileen DT
This is so awesome. What a great sketch and I love the wonderful colors and layers you used for it. Love those flowers.
This looks like the winner to me, Carol! You ROCKED that sketch with this pretty coral and black birthday card! Love the polkie-dotty pp and the way you did the embossed bottom panel in white and the second panel in a black diecut over pink! Hugs, Darnell
Delightful and so pretty, thanks for commenting while I am away. We are having a lovely time away and it was nice to just have a play now and again to relax while having an extremely busy days...hugs..
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Not sure how I missed this... It is so pretty! Love the sketch you used!
This card is stunning as the placement, cardstock chosen and colors are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. Marlene
My favorite card of yours so far. I love the combination of pink, black and white, the polka dots and the dimension. Beautiful embossing folder and die that you used. The flowers are so pretty with their centers matching the dsp.
A pretty card Carol, great colour choices - the pink looks really nice with the black.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
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LOVE the colour combo, love the design, LOVE your card.
Faith x
I saw this yesterday but must not have commented yet. I love this. This sketch looks a touch hard to work with, but you have really pulled it off. Love the colors too!
Beautiful lay out I will be using that sketch soon...……...Lis
So pretty...love all the layers!Thanks for playing along with us at Happy Little Stampers,so glad you joined us!
Oh how pretty! One of the favorite cards I have seen you post!!! Really like the design, and Yes...all that PINK!!!
So impressed with how you used the sketch!! Your card is fantastic, especially with all the texture you created with the embossing and die-cutting. The colour combo is gorgeous and really like how you carried the patterned paper into the middle of the flowers. I'm so very glad you shared this with us at The Flower Challenge!!
Love your card. Pretty colors and I love the die cut panel
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