Love & Care

On Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition website, we are offering another Color Challenge (CCMC-SUM03) this week!  Our Saturday Challenges are the only things that are shared on our personal blogs.  All other projects and tutorials are exclusively for Create subscribers.  AND…our subscribers are the only ones who can win a chance of two $75 gift certificates or two FREE subscriptions to the next Edition.   That's even MORE reason to join!  With over 30 projects for $29.95, that is about $1 per project with instructions for using in your classes or for gifts!  What a DEAL!  But, you don't need to be a demonstrator to join…customers LOVE us, too!  The week we have been featuring Hope & Strength and Love & Care in our projects!

 

 

I love the bright summery colors of the color challenge today, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi just screams FLOWERS to me!  So, I used the Level 2 hostess set, Love & Care for my card today!

 

 

I must admit, this layout was a little challenging for me.  Not that I was going after any specific layout…just more of a look!  I wanted it to appear as if one of the flowers was "zoomed" in and close up!  I hope that is what I achieved somewhat abstractly!  lol!  I also had these scraps of the zig zag pattern from Tasteful Trim in my scrap bin…they looked like grass when stacked up on each other.  I added a little sponging to make them pop even more!

 

The base of the card is WIld Wasabi.  I layered on the yellow floral print from Beyond the Garden DSP.  The focal point, I inked up the image with Pacific Point and Wild Wasabi, stamping several times across the Whisper White.  I filled in some of the ends of the leaves with Daffodil Delight to make it look like there were more flowers.  Across the bottom, I stamped Thinking of You from Teeny Tiny Wishes in Wild Wasabi Ink.  I layered on the "grass" and then layered the Whisper White on Daffodil Delight.  I added an embossed butterfly from Beautiful Wings Embosslit and a pearl for the body.

 

I stamped the larger flower with Daffodil Delight and cut it out, along with a couple Wild Wasabi leaves.  I added small pearls in the center of the flower.  I popped it up with Stampin' Dimensionals on a 2 1/2 punched circle of Pacific Point and placed it partially under the focal element.  I added the trio of graduated sizes of Pearls along the top of the circle.

 

A pretty card to let someone know I'm thinking about them and want to cheer them up!  Make sure to check out what the rest of the Create with Connie and Mary Design Team did this week with the color challenge!  I'm sure they will be FABULOUS!

Wow…sorry I've been pretty much MIA this week!  The four hour time difference from Alaska to Ohio has really messed with my sleeping and creating!  I finally HAD to get motivated today to get some assignments done and am happy to say that once I got started, I seemed to get my rhythm back.  Now…if I can sleep tonight, that will be great!  It hasn't helped that my husband has a cold and is SNORING so loud that it wakes me up!  lol!  Can any of you relate?

 

I do want to THANK my customers and friends who ordered from me during the Cruise Special!  I certainly appreciate your business!  Every little bit is helping me earn the Incentive Trip this year to Disney World!  Now that I've done one…I'm anxious to earn another one!

 

Anyway…on to my card!  We have a fun sketch challenge for you to try over on Create with Connie and Mary!  Mine came together really quickly!  Of course, I was given the sketch to use…I knew I wanted to use Love & Care since we are featuring that set this week over on the Summer Edition of Create with Connie and Mary (along with Strength & Hope).  Once I picked the designer paper, I had my color scheme!  LOVE it when it comes together so quickly!

 

 

So, even though the sketch had a square orientation, I turned it into a regular sized card.

 

 

I took my colors from the fabulous Nursery Suite Designer Paper (do you have this yet???  Better hurry!  It is retiring!)  I started with a base of Pretty in Pink cardstock.  I layered on Baja Breeze cardstock that I ran thru the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder.  I cut three strips 1" x 3 3/4" of the DSP for the background.  I stamped on the 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 square of Whisper White, rounded the corners with the Corner Rounder Punch and layered it on 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 square of Pretty in Pink and rounded the corners of it, too.  I used my Stampin' Write Markers to color the stem from Love & Care in Old Olive and the blossom in Pretty in Pink.  The leaves were added with Old Olive.  I stamped "With Love" in Early Espresso along the side.  I added a trio of Rhinestone Jewels for some bling in the corner!  Finally, I wrapped the Old Olive Taffeta Ribbon around and tied a double bow on the front.

 

Make sure to check out what the rest of the Thursday Challenge Team did this week over on Create with Connie and Mary.  Then follow the sketch to make your own creation and upload it over there!  We love to see your work!

 

AND…while you are there, why not sign up for the Create with Connie and Mary Summer Edition?  It's not too late to join!  We are in Week 3, but you have access to all the past FABULOUS projects that our designers have done along with Mary and I!  The tutorials are easy to understand and make…great for gifts or using for your classes and stamp camps!  Sign up TODAY!