I remember when A Flower for All Seasons came out. SU! was unveiling the new catalogue at Leadership and we were sitting at a Meeting Place table looking excitedly at the new book. This set was one of the first that caught my eye and made me think, "This is going on my very first order." Sure enough, it did, and I think it's one of the cutest line art set we have. It's super cute and small enough that watercoloring it isn,t too time-consuming.
Now that I know it'll be retiring come June 30th, I knew I wanted to use it at least a couple of times this month so I pulled it out as soon as I saw the Mojo Monday sketch. The sketch also had a scallop circle on it, so I looked at my retiring chipboard hoping to find a scallop circle and got lucky. The color combo is an older Colour Queen challenge I hadn't done yet. Those colours just scream summer and sunny weather, so I paired them with the sunflower pot image.
I looked through my paper scraps to find strips that matched my colour combo, so the designer papers come from three different paper packs. I covered the chipboard with Pumpkin Pie Craft ink, embossed it with three layers of clear embossing powder and then stamped the Dot, Dot, Dot image in the hot powder before it cooled down to add a pattern in the embossing. That was before I decided that a row of Daffodil pompoms would look really cool around the main image, therefore hiding most of the polka dot detail on the chipboard piece.
I really liked how the band on the sketch have a round edge at the bottom and wanted to play on that, so I punched circles out of matching cardstock and glued those at the bottom of the paper strips, hiding the seam with a band of Basic Black cardstock punched with the Pinking Hearts border punch. Then, I added a piece of Pumpkin Pie satin ribbon and layered an additional piece of Daffodil Delight taffeta ribbon, then added a brad from the Silver Hodgepodge Hardware kit. I added a piece of satin ribbon folded in half under the scallop circle to make it look like a prize ribbon (and also to mirror the sketch). Since the Hodgepodge Hardware was out, I used an additonal piece to add the sentiment. Since the main image reminded me of a prize ribbon, I decided to pull out the "No. 1" sentiment from the Grunge Rock set. I stamped it in Versamark on Cool Carribean cardstock, embossed it in white and punched it out using the Small Oval punch.
Retiring items featured:
- Small Oval punch
- Silver Hodgepodge Hardware
- Perfect Pair On Board chipboard
- Greenhouse Gala Designer Papers
- Pumpkin Pie satin ribbon
- A Flower for All Seasons set
Stampin' Up! Supplies
Stamps: Grunge Rock, A Flower for All Seasons, Dot Dot Dot
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Cool Carribean, watercolor paper
Designer papers: Greenhouse Gala, Ghostly Greetings, Petals and Polka Dots
Inks: Versamark, Black StazOn, Cool Carribean,
Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Always Artichoke
Punches: Pinking Hearts border, Small Oval, 1-3/4-in. Circle, 1-in. Circle
Accessories: Perfect Pair On Board chipboard, Silver Hodgepodge Hardware,
Daffodil Delight pompom trim, Embossing powders (Clear, White),
Pumpkin Pie satin ribbon, Daffodil Delight taffeta ribbon, White envelope,
Brads, white gel pen, Stampin' Dimensionals, Arabesque embossing folder
Oh, I just love that pop pom trim around your circle! Fabulous card. Thanks for playing Mojo Monday!
Posted by: Julee | June 13, 2011 at 18:10