Glazed Flowers and Sparkly Bird
I played mostly with my Level 1 Hostess set Punches Three for the last two days, but the card I made for the sketch challenge was with Best Wishes & More. Originally I had planned to have three birds in the main panel, but I changed it to three flowers.
I started out with a 8 1/2″ Whisper White square that I folded in half.
On the bottom of the card front I adhered a 2″ x 8 1/2″ strip of Hawaii Papaya Designer Paper and scalloped the bottom with the Scallop Edge Punch (I am telling you, you NEED it!!!).
I tied Tangerine Tango grosgrain ribbon around the card, placing it on the top of the designer paper.
For the main panel I stamped three flowers from Best Wishes & More on a 1 7/8″ x 4 5/8″ piece of White cardstock, the two outer onces in Baja Breeze, the one in the center in Tangerine Tango.
I stamped the same flower three more times in Chocolate Chip and punched their center out with my 3/4″ circle punch. Those punchouts were layered on the colored flowers. The center flower was topped with a new Designer Circle Brad. Well….I took the brad and tried to add it and the back part came off. So I adhered the top piece with Crystal Effect. I hope the other brads won’t fall apart like that!
The white layer was adhered to a 1/4″ bigger piece of Baja Breeze and on a scalloped Chocolate Chip rectangle, that was cut with the Long Rectangle Nestabilities. None of the Nestablities sizes fit perfectly, so I cut out the one that fit height wise twice and pieced it together to fit my layers.
I paper pierced a border around the edges of the White cardstock. It still looked a little blahhhh…so I added two vertical paper pierced lines to divided up the space. Last I added Crystal Effect over all three flowers and set that panel aside.
I inked up a bird in Tangerine Tango and outlined it with Chocolate Chip Marker before stamping it on Whisper White cardstock. The bird was cut out and the eye and wing was highlighted with the Chocolate Marker. Next I added sparkles with my Gelly Roll pen from Sakura and a Crystal Effect layer.
I stamped the sentiment “Couldn’t do without you” on the bottom right in Chocolate Chip.
I cut two 1″ x 8 1/2″ strips of Chocolate Chip and two 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ strips of Kiwi Kiss. The Kiwi Kiss strip was taped on the top of the Chocolate Chip strip and paper pierced. I taped on of those strips to the bottom of the inside of the card, another on the back of the card front.
I am in love with the new in colors, punches and stamps. I am having so much fun! Have a wonderful weekend! Hugs and smiles
