Pumpkin Flowers
Okay…I was a slacker yesterday. After my Monday chores (dusting, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms, mopping floors, big laundry load and baking cookies), I did my SCS work and then crashed in the backyard. I was pooped and didn’t even touch a stamp! I also didn’t announce a winner for the last sketch challenge. I will do that today, I promise.
So this morning, I got up early to make my sample for the inspiration challenge. For this card I used the top plate in the photo as my inspiration. I love how the Pumpkin flowers looked on the olive plate. I have a serious addiction. I can’t help myself. I have to have scallops on every card! It’s bad! I can’t stop!
I started creating the main image by stamping the branch from Embrace Life in Black Stazon on a 2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Old Olive cardstock.
I colored the leaves in with a black journaling marker, went over the entire branch with VersaMarker and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then used the VersaMarker to add shadow under the branch.
Next the En Francaisbackground was stamped over the cardstock with VersaMark ink and the layer was sponged with Old Olive ink.
I love the long rectangle scallop Megabilities. I used the largest template from the small long rectangles to cut my black cardstock. I cut it apart between two scallops and taped it together again to fit behind my Olive layer. Then I paper pierced a border on that layer.
The flowers were punched out of Pumpkin Pie cardstock with the Three for You punch, sponged with Pumpkin pie and adhered over the branch. I added black brads to three of the flowers and one half Pearl from the Pretties kit on the top flower.
The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Basic Black cardstock folded in half. It is layered with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Old Olive cardstock. Each corner was punched with the ticket corner punch. On top of that are two 3 3/4″ wide pieces of Bali Breeze Designer paper . The corners were punched with the ticket corner punch as well. A paper pierced border was added to the pumpkin paper and 5/8″ Olive Grosgrain ribbon was tied around the Olive and Designer Paper layers. Over the ribbon knot a flower from the Pretties kit was added.
Since I made my one flower stand out so much, I thought the sentiment One of a Kind would be perfect for this card. I already had it stamped on Shimmery White and punched out with the large oval punch in my scrap pile. I layered it on a sponged Pumpkin Designer Label punchout that was layered first with a 1″ black circle. I paper pierced a border on the large oval and attached it to the card with dimensionals.
