Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday night.
Tonight's card was one of three.. yes… three… cards I made using the color combination for the APP challenge number 2. Tonight's card features one of my all time favorite stamp sets – Asian Artistry. This hostess set retires on June 31, but it is one that I will not be donating to Ronald McDonald House, as I really love using it.
Today's challenge is a really interesting combination, and one that took me out of my comfort zone! I did change it up just a fraction. I used Marina Mist instead of Bashful Blue. Lesley was gracious enough to let me change it out. 🙂
Of course, I absolutely HAD to use Pacific Point. I know I have said this before, but I am SOOOO enjoying this color renovation. I have been really inspired by the new colors and combinations I have been able to put together.
I will post the other two cards that I made for you later this week. They both use the same stamp set – but are entirely different. Really different!
When I looked at this pic that Lesley provided, it was obvious that blues were the predominant color, with a touch of green. I kept that same theme on the card. The inspiration has lots of petal shapes, but I decided to change it up and was inspired to go with a strong shape, but a more angular shape. The argyle print texturz plate really seems to fit with this image for me.
I added the pearls to echo the dots in the inspiration pic. The ribbon was perfect for this. When I first got this thin ribbon in my pre-order, I really didn't think I would find many uses for it… Well… you know what thought did!!! Cos, I have certainly managed to find a few uses for it in the last week.
So, here's my card for APP#2
You can check out the other great inspiration cards at the following DT's sites
Remember, you have until Saturday to play along with us. We really look forward to seeing your creations and thank you to all of you who played along last week in the masculine challenge.
I love the combination of Pacific Point and Marina Mist. You can see that on the flower on the left I used Pacific Point. The flower on the right is Marina Mist. The flower in the middle – is both 🙂
Card recipe:
- Card stock: Pacific Point (card base), Old Olive (layer 1), Marina Mist (layer 2), Whisper White (focal layer)
- Inks: Old Olive, Pacific Point, Marina Mist
- Stamps: Asian Artistry. Sentiment: Because I Care – new level 1 hostess set
- Accessories: Marina Mist 1/8th" inch ribbon, Modern Label Punch (for sentiment), half pearls, stampin dimensionals for top two layers. Texturz plate for background. Sanding block.
Instructions:
- Cut card to A2 – vertical
- Cut layer 1 – Old Olive 3" W x 3 3/4"H
- Cut layer 2 – Marina Mist 2 3/4"W x 3 5/8"H
- Cut layer 3 – Whisper White 2 5/8"W x 3 1/2"H
- Run card base through Big Shot. TIP: Take sanding block and lightly sand top layer of embossed image. This really brings out the embossing as you can see in the pic.
- Ink stamp using markers. TIP: This is a great way to get multiple colors on a stamp and add interest to the focal image
- Layer the Whisper White to the Marina Mist using stampin dimensionals.
- Layer Marina Mist to Old Olive using stampin dimensionals
- Wrap Marina Mist ribbon around front and underneath the sides of the 3 layers. Adhere using snail or other adhesive
- Adhere stamped sentiment over ribbon and place two half pearls on either end of the stamped sentiment. TIP: Using a stamp-a-ma-jig is the best way to get perfect alignment.
On a personal note. Well. It rained again today. So no eating out for breakfast, or for dinner. Adelle… I think this has something to do with you :-) I know that you tried to clean out your garage for quite a while, but couldn't due to the rain. Well, you obviously sent it our way!
We drove to the Twin Cities today to do a little shopping for our new deck. We couldn't get everything we needed, but at least it was a start. Hopefully, we will get to eat out tomorrow.
We are currently watching the recorded England vs USA match played in Rustenburg, South Africa earlier today. A 1:1 draw was the result.
Cherie, I hope Chloe's 5K went really well today – good luck for tomorrow.
As always, thank you to all of you for spending a little time in my area of the stamping blogosphere. I know that there are many of you who visit very regularly but don't comment….. your visits are appreciated:-)
Thoughts and prayers to Trish, Germaine, Lynn and Beth again tonight. I hope you all have a fabulous Sunday, filled with love, laughter and time to do the things you love – with those you love.
Hugs
Jaydee
hugs
jaydee
10 Responses
Wow Jaydee! I love that blue & green combo! This card is so pretty! But wait- all your cards are PRETTY! I love that texture plate! I have that one and I need to use it more often! I don’t have Asian Artistry but I do think it is a pretty stamp set. Thanks for sharing another awesome card! Can’t wait to see the other 2 cards!!!
Hugs & prayers to Trish, Germaine, Beth & Lynn! Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday!
Great job using the challenge colors! These colors really do work well together!As always,your work is very pretty!
Very pretty! I’m hoping to find some time to do some of these challenges.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!
Beautiful card, love the embossing on this card.
I love this color combo! I’m going to have to try it out! AND I have Asian Artistry and I’m not sure it’s ever seen ink – how sad!! Maybe I’ll fix that problem today!
Thanks, as always, for your inspiration!
I have Asian Artistry so I will be anxious to see how you use it this week. I think today’s card is simply stunning! You make such nice cards all the time and they are so refreshing to see! The colors flow so nicely in today’s card. Thanks for sharing!
WOW — this is so beautiful — I love it!!
So lovely!! This stamp set is one of my favorites! Great color combo too!!!
What a beautiful card, Jaydee! I love the colors and the overall simplicity! Love how you attached the sentiment with the ribbons and buttons, too! Another great job! Thanks for sharing!
Was just passing through looking for some inspiration, and noticed that I hadn’t seen this one before. How could I have possibly missed such a wonderful card. I’m absolutely in love with the color combo, now neat to put both blues in the middle flower. I have never used this Stamp Set, but I think I just may have found my inspiration…so clean and beautiful looking. Love the texture plate on the background, something that I don’t tend to do nearly enough of. Thanks for the tip on the sanding too. Will have to give that one a try. I really like how you let the sentiment fall into the main image and not use a background color on it. Very, very unique. That Ribbon is just adorable, now I could just kick myself for not getting any. Oh well, live and learn. On an off note, if you received any weird emails yesterday, please disregard them. Seems like I sent out more than one. I must have been having a really bad, bad day, and been in a nasty place. So sorry about that. Prayers for everyone, even if you don’t need them they are good to pile up. I do hope that Germaine is feeling better. Please pop in when you can and say “hi”.
Off to see some other work that I must have missed along the way. Cyber hugs, Trish in Wisconsin