Thursday, March 12, 2009

Card Challenge--"Getting Sentimental"

Flourishes makes extraordinary clear acrylic stamps. Their artwork is of the highest quality, and goes beautifully with all the Stampin' Up! products that i've got like paper, ink, and ribbon. They periodically have challenges and i mostly am uninspired or too much of a beginning stamper to be able to settle on a design in response.

This time, though, the challenge was "Simply make a card with a sentiment, word or quote as the focal point for your card!" Flourishes has a lovely quote from Monet that i immediately decided had to be the center, and it called out for a spring green (SU's kiwi kiss), which i found on a Stampin' Up! designer series paper from the Bella Rose collection, and then perfect flourishes to complement it in Flourishes autumn set that i stamped in chocolate chip ink, adhered to kiwi kiss cardstock. The ribbon is SU!'s luscious kiwi kiss double-sided ribbon. The sentiment is stamped in kiwi kiss ink on whisper white, sponged with kiwi kiss around the edges. The little blingy flower embellishments are Queen & Company's "sassy sequins" from Joggles.com, my favorite source of all sorts of embellishments.


8 comments:

  1. Gosh, absoloutely beautiful! I can't believe you made that, it's amazing! How did you get the lettering like that, it looks kind of printed. I could really get in to this, as I love typography, there's a real art-form to letters, isn't there? And such power in what you can say....the Monet quote is lovely; especially as this morning I'm looking out over a silvery grey shimmering estuary - so much lovlier than yesterday! Nature is indeed an inspiration!

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  2. Oh Liz, thank you for your kind words but they're not really deserved...the lettering is on a rubber stamp from Flourishes http://www.flourishes.org/servlet/StoreFront -- the set is called Signs of Spring, so the designer (Marcella Hawley) is the one who selected the quote and chose the font, all i did was choose and apply ink!

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  3. That is a pretty card. You did a very nice job.

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  4. This is really lovely! I haven't done much stamping but this is a super example of what can be done with it! I actually have some wonderful stamped cards my sister-in-law made and may show them on my blog soon.
    Yours is very elegant!

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  5. Beautiful! Now the woman is getting the itch to skip cleaning the bathroom today to get out her stamps.

    Ms. P and Cinza

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  6. I love this card...you put it all together in a beautiful way...that sentiment is something I feel very much!

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  7. That is a lovely quote for a beautiful card!
    :o)

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  8. Pretty! I love how you "framed" the sentiment with those pretty flourishes!!!

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