Happy Saturday.
It’s my pleasure to Guest Design across at As You See It Challenge this week. I was thrilled to be invited to be the GD after my win with this card.
I was so happy when I saw the challenge from Heather as it forces me to use a color I so rarely use. TBH I have no idea why I don’t use it more often!
I decided my Alex Syberia Hugs in Bloom set would work for the floral elements and went looking for a bold sentiment and decided to use one from The Greetery called Scripted Sentiments. Here’s a sneak peek:
So, I’m guessing you saw that yellow is the main color :-). Here’s the challenge for this week:
For the shades of yellow I went from gold to pale yellow all the way through to a mid yellow. I was tempted to go as deep as an orange, but decided I liked the colors as they were.
I hot foiled and then colored my Hugs in Bloom image using the matching stencil. I die cut the image and added a couple of blank die cuts behind the main image. So that covered 1. florals, 2. shades of yellow and 3. die cuts!
It took me quite a while to get just the right sentiment and layout. I can’t tell you how many different background colors I tried before settling on a soft grey for the focal layer and then white for the card base. The black sentiment needed something to ground it, so I decided to use my Spellbinders Essential Arches to create an arched card and give me a black arch to create a mat between the fog layer and the card base. The addition of the black arch helped ground the black sentiment and not make it shout so loudly!
The last thing I had to do was add a couple of enamel dots and decided to stick with yellow so as not to detract too much from the focal image.
I played around with the layout and placement of the sentiment and then secured my die cut sentiment with some slivers of foam tape.
Here’s my full card:
In the end I was glad I had chosen the arched card as I think it works well with the arch of the florals and the sentiment.
As a reminder, the winner of the As You See It challenge this week will be invited to Guest Design with this very talented team for a future challenge. I can highly recommend it 🙂
I’ll be back tomorrow with another card. In the meantime warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.
Card recipe:
- Dies, stencil and dies: Hugs in Bloom – Alex Syberia
- Arches dies: Essential Arches – Spellbinders
- Sentiment: Scripted Sentiments – The Greetery
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6 Responses
Jaydee, I just love this floral image and the arch design it is displayed on! And that flowy sentiment is such a show stopper, too! Thanks so much for being our guest designer! It was a real pleasure working with you!
Stunning! From the beautiful colors, to the balance of blacks and the mimicking of the arches, this is one amazing card! I’m sure glad you persevered because this card is worthy
This is wonderful! The blooms are gorgeous, the use of the arch gives immediate wow and the black just makes everything sing! In fact, I wish I’d thought to use black as it would have made me much happier with my card. 🙂 Thanks so much for agreeing to be our Guest Designer for this challenge and I look forward to seeing many more of your creations in the gallery.
Jaydee this is just beautiful! Those florals suit the arch shape perfectly and I love that sentiment script. May yellow be your new pink I wonder?! We are so lucky to have you as our AYSI guest designer this week – thank you!
This is gorgeous Jaydee! We’re so happy to have you as a GD, especially when you create stunning cards like this one! I love the arches too, as well as that bold sentiment and the pretty hues on your florals!
Jaydee, I’m so glad you could guest with us, and what a stunning card! LOVE these gorgeous golden blooms, and what a fun shape! Thanks so much for guesting at As You See It!