Soft Sky friend
I hadn’t as much time this week participate in the challenges and only yesterday got to try out the Color challenge. Unlike the week before, this one was a JOY to work with. No eyeblinding, gag evoking colors involved. The color combo for this week was Soft Sky, Whisper White and Basic Gray. I love it and I am sure I will use it often.
My card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Basic Gray cardstock folded in half.
Next is a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Soft Sky cardstock followed by a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. I ran it through my cuttlebug with the Embossing folder Swiss Dots and ticket corner punched the left corners of that layer.
The patterned paper measures 2 3/4″ x 3 3/4″ and is from the Afternoon Tea Designer paper pack. It was layered on a slightly bigger piece of Basic Gray, that was cut with a rectangle scallop Nestabilities die. I paper pierced three of the edges and tied white Taffeta ribbon around the top half. On the bottom left I adhered two ribbon sliders from the Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware with mini glue dots with a brad from the same hardware pack in between. On top of those sliders I added half Pearls from the Pretties kit with Crystal effect.
For the main image I cut three ovals with the Oval Nestabilities. On the top layer I stamped a sentiment from the set Full of Life in Basic Gray. It looked super boring and I was tossing ideas around for a while. I paper pierced the soft sky layer, but that didn’t help much. I was thinking about paper piercing a row underneath the saying. That might have worked. But I inked up the flower from Live your Dreams in Soft Sky, stamped it off once and then stamped it over the white layer. Since I already had taped all three layers together, I used the leftover from the white cardstock that I ran through the cuttlebug to get the oval as my mask.
For the final touch I inked up the butterfly from Live your Dreams in Soft Sky, rocked the edges with Basic Gray and stamped it on Whisper White. I cut it out and attached it with dimensionals.
Today is the first day of spring break for my kids. So when this post goes live, I might still be in my bed! Ah….sleeping in. You got to love that! Only two more days and I get to see my husband! I am so excited! Even if he drags me to the Smokey Mountains next week. I am sure it’s cold there. Me and cold…don’t go together so well. Rick will be home for 12 days. I can’t wait!!!
