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Crafty Daisies

I took the design of the dress literally and used it as the layout and color inspiration of my card.

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My card base is a Saffron Long Note from last year’s catalog.

I added a 2 1/2″ x 3 1/4″ piece of Pumpkin Pie to the bottom part. First I only taped that on with a tad of adhesive.

I stamped the flower cluster from Spring Solitude in Brown Palette Ink and drew stems with my brown Micron Pen.

Next I colored the images with Whisper White, Lavendar Lace (I used PURPLE….just a bit, but I did!!!), Ballet Blue and Close to Cocoa craft ink and Blender Pen. At first I was concerned about my blender pen. I used my oldest one. But it works like a charm. Over the dried white flowers, I added white gel pen highlights.

 The edges of the card were sponged with So Saffron, the Pumpkin layer with Pumkin Pie. I also stamped the berry flower in Pumpkin on the bottom. I taped the Pumpkin layer on the card base and used the corner rounder to match the corners. Black grosgrain ribbon was tied around the card where the Pumpkin layer ends.

I stamped the image again on a scrap of So Saffron cardstock, Colored it in with Ballet Blue, cut it out and sponged the edges with Pumpkin Pie classic ink. 1/2″ circle of Close to Cocoa was stamped with the berry flower in Close to Cocoa and sponged  in the same color. That circle was adhered to a Pewter Build a Brad and placed in the center of the cut out flower. That was adhered with dimensionals over the matching flower that was covered by the ribbon.

Last I stamped the Thank you from Spring Silhouette in Black Palette ink on Shimmery White cardstock, punched it out with my large oval punch, clipped the oval a little bit on the right and sponged the edges first with So Saffron, then with Pumpkin Pie. That was taped on the lower right hand side.

Filed under : Challenge, Stampin' Up!
By beate
On April 8, 2008
At 8:31 am
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41 Comments for this post

 
Charmaine Says:

WOW, GORGEOUS! I absolutely LOVE this Beate! Awesome!

 
 
Charmaine Says:

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . .Lavender Lace? Are you feeling okay today? LOL

 
 
Karen Says:

Beautiful card–the colors are very striking together!

 
 
Savitri Says:

Wow, this is beautiful!!! I’ve never done your inspiration challenge… might be a good week to start :D

 
 
Libby Says:

Very pretty! Love the inspiration piece - what a fun dress! And love what you did with it!

 
 
Tiffany Says:

Gorgeous card Beate! I love the way you coordinated all the colors.

 
 
Kar Says:

Love this Beate!!!

 
 
Shelly Kettell Says:

Love your card! I love seeing all the different cards from one inspiration piece!! Thanks for sharing with us all.

 
 
 
Keri Says:

Your card (as always) is AMAZING! I love it!

 
 
Corinne Says:

Beate !!! This is completely stunning !!! Oh my gosh….I LOVE IT !!!! It’s a wowza of a card :) !!

Dance on….go hug Rick…

 
 
antje Says:

Great….love the colors and your LO with the flowers!!

 
 
Steph (sluman) Says:

Absolutely Beautiful!

 
 
Laura Canale Says:

WOW, this is just gorgeous! Well done!

 
 
Deanna Says:

The sponge-ing is perfection!

 
 
Patti Gingrich Says:

You’ve done it again! It’s a perfect take on the dress! Beautiful! :)

 
 
Jennifer Buck Says:

Just love this! It’s beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing, Beate! What a great inspiration piece as well! Hmmm….I just got the new Jcrew catty…I guess I might want to check it out! I love the dress…of course, I really will have no place to wear it anytime soon! Hope you are doing well! :)

 
 
denise/geekgirl415 Says:

Gorgeous… the shading of the base and bottom part add a nice depth- and of course, that Spring Solitude rocks…

 
 
Deborah Golan Says:

You really out did yourself on this one Beate! Hugs, Deb

 
 
Alexandra Hobson Says:

This is totally stunning Beate - you nailed that inspiration sketch! Beautiful card!! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

 
 
Joan Jeffery Says:

That dress and your card are fantastic. I must try out this challenge after school today. Joan

 
 
Nancy Grant Says:

Oh, wow-wee!!! This is jaw dropping gorgeous!!! Your art is always gorgeous but this style is a little different than what you normal make. I love it too.

:-)

 
 
Nancy Riley Says:

Just stunning! … a work of art!

 
 
Danielle Says:

Gorgeous! I love the colors and the design! Great card! I might need to case this one ;)

 
 
Jackie W. Says:

This is awesome! I love it because you used the flowers from that adorable stamp set in a way I haven’t seen used before! I’ll have to try it! I LOVE the colors, too! Great sponging!!

 
 
laurie Serino Says:

I just wanted to say hello, i’m sorry I haven’t particapated in a while, I just got out of the hospital and i’m trying to get back into the swing of things, I did the sketch challenge, but I guess i’m too late ! Here it is if you wanna take a look ! http://stampingforgodsglory.blogspot.com/
Laurie

 
 
Dawn E. Says:

Oh my word Beate! This is GORGEOUS! Love what you did with the inspiration piece!!!

 
 
Joanne B. Says:

Oh wow, this is stunning Beate! Love this color combo, hopefully I can squeak in a card this week!

 
 
Bethany Paull Says:

Amazing Beate. What a unique style, which I love.

 
 
Silke Ledlow Says:

Beate - your card is absolutely *FANTASTIC*!!! I love everything about it!!! Thank you for always inspiring us!!!

 
 
Rose Ann Says:

This is a perfect match…and so beautiful!!

 
 
Becky G Says:

Absolutely wonderful! I love the fun spring flowers!

 
 
Angie Tieman Says:

Awesome card!! You totally captured that fabulous inspiration sweater dress! I need to go and get some work done so I can try to stamp something for the challenge during Idol! ;-)

 
 
Debbie G Says:

Tis a winner Beate!! Love it and the colors are perfect!!

 
 
Trudy Says:

This card is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

 
 
Brandi Says:

WOW! I adore this card!! On thursday evening, I have a gang of friends coming over to stamp and I can’t wait to try this out! LOVE IT!!!

 
 
Samantha Esqueda Says:

Ok- well here is mine- I worked soooo hard on it (lol) Does it look familiar?- I loved her card!

 
 
cwilliams Says:

This is beautiful Beate!!

 
 
lisa henke Says:

I am always blown away with your work. this is so knock-you-socks off, cool! Hoping to play this week, guess that means I should get off the computer and go stamp!

 
 
rainy Says:

I was so sure I had already commented on this gorgeous card but I don’t see it. Must have just done it in my head and forgot to actually type it. D’oh. I hate it when that happens!

Love it, Beate!!

 
 
candi Says:

I have to tell you I LOVE this so much, I have cased it 4 times to 4 different people! I love the white flowers on the colored paper, completely genius! Thanks for your wonderful ideas!

 

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