Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Painted Coral Petals

It feels so good to be back in the swing of doing challenges and I find them quite addicting :)  I love how they give me a bit of inspiration to get my creative juices flowing.  They also get me creating some fun samples to share using my Stampin' Up! collection.  Today I combined a couple of challenges: a sketch challenge from The Challenge and a color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments.

I stamped my flowers from the Painted Petals set using Calypso Coral and Mossy Meadow.  I stamped the greeting from the Crazy About You set (such a great set for greetings) in Bermuda Bay.  To tie in the color of the greeting, I added a small butterfly from the Papillon Potpourri set and punched it with the coordinating butterfly punch.  I always love to add some texture and patterns to my cards,  so I used the Spring Flowers embossing folder and some Calypso Coral Backgrounds DSP for the base of my card.  I hand-cut the greeting pennant and layered it onto Calypso Coral so that it stands out a bit.

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8 comments:

  1. This is beautiful, Shauna! I love the pretty use of colour and those blooms are lovely! Thank you for joining us at The Challenge.

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  2. What a pretty spring design! Thanks for joining us at The Challenge!

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  3. Great card! Love how you used just a pop of the Bermuda Bay. Really draws the eye to the card. Thanks for playing with at HSS.

    Robbie

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  4. Gorgeous! Love the bright orange background, partially embossed, partially pattern paper and that blue butterfly! Thanks for playing The Challenge!

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  5. STUNNING!!! LOVE the bright colors you close, and the sweet little butterfly!!!!!
    So glad that you joined us at the challenge!

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  6. Beautiful card, Shauna! The colors are just wonderful! Love the name of your blog, too! :) Thanks so much for sharing with us at The Challenge!

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  7. What a fabulous way to combine the two challenges. I love your mix of pattern, texture, and stampin'. So happy you joined along in our color challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments. Smiles, Elizabeth

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  8. What a pretty card and fabulous use of the colors!! Thanks for playing along at HSS!

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