Today sees the start of a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges chosen by fellow fashionette, Esther, and it's Sentimental so there must be a sentiment on your creation. We are sponsored as always by the lovely Leo of Flonzcraft who will be giving a $20 voucher to his online shop for the randomly drawn winner - so what are you waiting for - you have to be in it to win it!
I've made a fairly clean and simple card (well, for me anyway lol) as I wanted to show the gorgeous sentiment by Lindsay Mason to its best advantage.
I made the background paper with some tiny flowers from the Prima mini Meadowlark stamp set, layer stamping 2 of the flowers with Tattered Rose, Wild Honey, Stormy Sky and Shaded Lilac Distress inks on cream card and covered my card blank with this.
I stamped the bird (Kaisercraft Bonjour stamp set) with Archival Coffee ink on the right side of a strip of thick cartridge paper and stamped the sentiment (Lindsay Mason Messages 1 by Personal Impressions) with the same ink. I then painted the bird with Distress Stains (Spun Sugar, Dried Marigold, Picked Raspberry, Tea Dye, Rusty Hinge, Pumice Stone and Crushed Olive) - I can't get enough of these at the moment as they're so easy to paint with.
I added the painted panel to the card and then added scalloped borders on either side, die cut from hyacinth blue card with a Sizzix die (658954 Borders). Done!
My fellow fashionettes have an amazing array of creations lined up for you on the catwalk so dop pop on over for a look and hope you can enter as we'd love to see you there.
We also have a fabulous guest designer with us this time and it's none other than my former fellow Make My Monday design team mate, Suzanne of Suzanne's Papercrafting. She's made a really gorgeous project for us too.
Have a great Sunday.
Hugs, Fliss xx
A very pretty card Fliss with lovely summer colours and images.
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday.
hugs {brenda} x0x
Beautiful card, Fliss! Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteHi Fliss...this is just so super summery!!! This is a wonderful sentiment and really stands out and is the main point! Love it!
ReplyDeleteDot x
Beautiful spring/summer feel to this card and I like the way that the bird draws the eye to the sentiment.
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Lynne
really beautiful, Fliss! Love it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful summery card, its a great sentiment.
ReplyDeleteYvonne x
Hi Fliss, such a pretty card and a lovely sentiment and as Dot said, has a lovely summery look to it.
ReplyDeleteAvril xx
A beautiful card in great colors. Fabulous spring feeling.
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card, Fliss - I love the delicate floral stamping for the background, and the sentiment is so sweet!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
Hi Fliss, what a gorgeous card. That sentiment is fab and the background is so pretty. Hope you've had a good weekend
ReplyDeleteClaire xx
Hi Fliss, very pretty card with your great stamping on the background. Thanks for stopping in at my blog. Cheers, Shirleyx
ReplyDeleteGORGEOUS! LOVE your sentiment!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card, Fliss! I love the border edging and what an adorable bird! Enjoy the week!
ReplyDeleteHi Fliss, so late in commenting, I am a bad blogger ATM. This is a gorgeous card, beautiful floral background and I adore the cornflower blue colour, and such a great sentiment too. Have a lovely day. xx
ReplyDeleteHi Fliss - love your stamped background, gorgeous colour mix, and the sentiment is lovely..Esther xx
ReplyDeleteFliss such a wowser of a background and amazing colour combinations. The sentiment and image look gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteHugs Shirley x x