I found a few pieces of this retired SU! designer paper and thought I'd make a card to play along with a challenge asking for stripes. I used a dotted scalloped border punch to put a narrow edge mat on the stripes panel on one side, and left it straight on the other. The background was embossed with a matching embossing folder to the SU! Fifth Avenue Floral rose, which I stamped with Versamark and embossed with gold ep on some SU! dsp. I added a little shading with Copics, then clear embossed the whole piece. Next I fussy cut it and popped it up on foam dots, adding some tiny gold gemstones to the center and randomly on the card. The leaves were done with a retired SU! Blossom punch and the sentiment is by SSS, heat embossed on black. The photo just doesn't capture the glow on the flower but it looks much better than my photo shows. After 3 attempts, this is the best picture I could get while the sun makes a rare appearance here in PA this morning :)
I'm sharing this with the Just Us Girls Challenge challenge #522 - which is "stripes."
Thanks for the visit, and I hope your day has a little sunshine too!
Carol
22 comments:
What a stunning card, I like the orange dotted paper and the matching die embossing on your background.
I like how you use this stamp in so many different ways and incorporating the embossed rose. The orange with the gold certainly packs a punch and the stripes bring everything together nicely x
There are so many wonderful details on your lovely card, Carol. The embossed texture, the layers and the layout make for a beautifully designed card. Thanks for sharing it with us at Just Us Girls.
A beautiful card Carol, such a pretty rose and lovely colour combination.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
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What a great find with the retired SU paper Carol. I have the embossing fold and the stamp you used and they work so well together. Lovely layout and colours.
Wow!! That rose with the design paper and the gold outlines looks wonderful!!! And it perfectly matches with the embossed background! Love the contrast of the stripes and that tiny scallop border adds sweetness! Fab details too!
Hugs!
Your card is so very beautiful. Wonderful layout and gorgeous flower in that color.
OH! This is lovely Carol, love the embossed rose beneath the cut one and the gorgeous papers and colours. The B&W sentiment is a perfect finish for the card.
Faith x
Love the beautiful embossed flower-took me three attempts for a pic this morning either the sun came out and it was too pale or went in and it was too dark!
Carol x
What a lovely card! Love the beautiful flower and the striped panel! Wonderful color and great design!
Oh Carol, this is a gem! I haven't seen Fifth Avenue Floral for a good while - it's so nice to see this SU! set! Your striped card is perfection! xx
Gorgeous color to choose for the lovely flower.........Lis
Wow Carol, this card is just stunning! I love color combo and those stripes. I also love how you used that rose embossing folder, I never know what to do with it so don't use it much. Did you change your blog background to black? Or is my computer doing something weird??? Yes, not much sun here in PA is it?! I'm sick of all this rain....again. I know it could be snow, but at this point, I'm ready to take the snow over the rain. At least then things would be white and not muddy. lol Oh bring back the sunshine!!! Thank you for the Valentine card my friend. I haven't even mailed any out!!! Yikes! Time gets away from me so fast. Hugs, Brenda
The flower is gorgeous and so is your card! Love the subtle embossing behind the flower too. I think I have some of that DP left from SU too!
Lynn
A real stunner with the gorgeous stamp and embossing Carol, love the stripe papers..xx
Don't you wish that roses grew with polka dots? I had a purple rose once that had splashes of white, but no dots. It only bloomed for a year. Anyway, very pretty.... looks like you were having great fun with this one. Getting quite tired of all this rain. How about you?
Such a pretty flower over that great embossing folder. The stripes and scalloped edge just blended together so great.
Oh wow this is so gorgeous Carol! I just love that flower with the papers and the striped pattern along the edge! So beautifully done! HUGS
Oh wow Carol!! This is absolutely GORGEOUS!! I need to try this with that rose stamp now!! Such pretty color combo too. Yeah I am SOOoooooooo over all the GLOMMY days!! I need sunshine!! Thanks for the beautiful Valentine card!! Hopefully mine makes it on time? Didn't get them mailed till Tuesday.
Beautiful! I love that flower color! Thanks so much for sharing with JUGS this week!
Gorgeous card, Carol! Love that beautiful flower with your pretty strip of DSP! It all came together nicely! TFS and stay warm!!! Hugs~
Absolutely beautiful, love the striped paper!
Debxx
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