fresh & fun

Saturday’s inspiration piece was a Shamrock Quilt.

I didn’t go quite that bold with my green, but only because I already had a scalloped Artichoke card base cut in my scrap pile.

I had made the card base with my largest Nestabilities square die.

Sharon Harnist showed a bunch of us some of the cool things you can do with these wonderful cutting templates (including cutting scallop circle and square cards) after the regional in Portland back in October. I knew right away that I needed them.

The card base measures 3 1/2″ x 3 5/8″.

For the center I cut a 2 3/4″ square out of Shimmery White cardstock. I added diagonal score lines with my Scor-Pal to form my grid and layered it on a 3″ square of Chocolate Chip cardstock.

I liked the idea, but thought a lot of people would do this for this challenge. So I went ahead and paper pierced along all the score lines.

I tied Moss Taffeta ribbon around it and added a sentiment scallop that I had made for another project over it.

For the sentiment, the small flower stamp from Carte Postale was inked with Always Artichoke and stamped in second generation on Shimmery cardstock. I punched it out with my  1 1/4″ circle punch and stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set by inking up one word at a time with my Chocolate Chip marker. This circle was layered first on a 1 3/8″ Artichoke circle, then on a Chocolate Chip Scallop circle.

 This was super fast since most everything was done beforehand. I think it took me 15 minutes! I love fast cards. Usually I am super slow.