fresh & fun

Today’s Color challenge was to use Groovy Guava and Soft Sky together. Good thing Chocolate chip counts as a neutral color and I can throw it in there. LOL

I haven’t made a card with a sketch from Di Hickman in a while and picked this one for my card today.

I really liked the look of this layout.

 I started with a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece Groovy Guava Cardstock folded in half.

Next I cut a 4″ square from Soft Sky Prints Designer paper and used the corner rounder on one corner. After I placed it on the card base, my card still looked too dull. I needed a way to step it up a bit. And since I was going for soft and elegant, my sweet All in a Row wouldn’t do.

So I stamped the swirl from Priceless in Soft Sky on the Designer paper and in Groovy Guava on the card base.

Next I cut a 4 1/4″ piece of Shimmery White cardstock and added scallops on two sides with the corner rounder.  The corner was a bit tricky, but I worked it out after a small string of not so kid friendly words.

I taped my Soft sky paper on the scalloped white layer, cut down the white layer a bit more and taped it on the card.

I sponged Groovy Guava with a sponge dauber in the center of the big flower in the Pretties kit, topped it with another smaller flower from the same kit, that I had sponged in chocolate chip first, and topped it off with a large Ice Circle Jewel brad.

I added 5/8″ chocolate chip grosgrain on the upper part of the card and placed a small flower over that.

The saying is from the set Holidays & Wishes and is stamped in Chocolate Chip.

The card still needed some umpf….preferably in chocolate. I wish we had some nice Chocolate Chip Brads. I would buy lots and lots of those. Since we don’t, I punched a bunch of circles out of Chocolate Chip cardstock with my Crop-a-dile and taped it on.

Done! It looks real pretty and soft IRL. At least it does to me.

My downline Stephanie is coming over again! I can’t wait to stamp with her. It’s so much more fun to stamp with friends! We will meet a What-a-burger for a nice juicy burger and fries…..HMMMMMM I LOVE burgers.