A Valentine--#tgifc249

This week's TGIF Challenges theme challenge is Valentines.   I remember spending hours in the card shop looking for just the right cards to send to my Great Aunts Hattie and Lucile.  I always think of them as Valentine's Day approaches and wish they had lived long enough to get some of the Valentines I've made since joining Stampin' Up! In their honor, I have added a vintage touch to my Valentine with Pressed Petals specialty designer series paper (#149500).

The hearts were all die cut using the Stitched Be Mine dies (#148527) dies.  They are Pressed Petals paper, Rose Glimmer Paper (#146960), and Mossy Meadow and Rococo Rose card stock.  The large Mossy Meadow heart was embossed with the Coastal Weave 3D embossing folder (#151503).

The dotted background was stamped in second generation Mossy Meadow ink using a stamp from the Artisan Textures stamp set (#151278).  The greeting is from Parisian Beauty stamp set (#151466) and was stamped in Rococo Rose.  Sequins from the Woven Threads sequin Assortment (#149498) and a bow out Mossy Meadow twine from the Magnolia Lane ribbon combo pack (#149485) complete the card.

Card stock layers are Very Vanilla, Rococo Rose and Mossy Meadow.

For lots of great Valentine ideas, head over to the TGIF Challenges Blog here.

Wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day!

--Sara Nell

Always Finding Joy--#tgifc224

The Pressed Petals Suite is one of my favorites in the new Annual Catalog.  I've used the Pressed Petals designer series paper on several projects, but not the pretty floral images from the Path of Petals stamp set.  For this week's TGIF Challenges sketch challenge, I decided it was finally time to stamp those images:

I started with a Crumb Cake card stock base and covered it with a piece of what I call the meadow design from the Pressed Petals designer series paper pack.  I picked colors from the paper design for stamping the three images:  Mossy Meadow, Rococo Rose and Night of Navy.  I stamped these on Very Vanilla card stock and offset the image piece on a piece of Rococo Rose card stock.  I masked off a part of one of the greetings in the Path of Petals stamp set for my card sentiment (I have used various parts of the greetings in this set on other projects--love that I can do that). I added linen thread and gold metallic pearls to complete my card.

Check out the TGIF Challenges Blog and be inspired by what the design team and challengers have done with this sketch:

Thanks for stopping by today. I'd love to hear what you think in the comments!--Sara Nell

Pressed Petals Best Wishes--#tgifc216

The Pressed Petals Suite in the new Annual Catalog is one of my favorites.  I've always loved the vintage look of pressed flowers, and this suite carries that vintage look throughout each of the products in the suite.  I decided it was the perfect suite of products to pull out for this week's TGIF Challenges sketch challenge.

I started with a Crumb Cake card base and added a layer of Rococo Rose card stock that I embossed with the Scripty 3D embossing folder.  I added a strip of one of the wood grain patterns in the Pressed Petals specialty designer series paper pack. I sponged around the card base and the wood grain strip with Soft Suede ink and around the Rococo Rose layer with Rococo Rose ink.  I added a piece of the Rococo Rose gathered ribbon down the center of the wood grain strip. 

Next I added a floral piece which I fussy cut from another pattern in the Pressed Petals paper pack.  I sponged around the edges of this piece with Mossy Meadow ink.  Sponging the edges of fussy cut paper like this not only gives the piece a bit of dimension, but it also hides small errors in your fussy cutting.

I stamped the greeting from the Path of Petals stamp set, die cut it out with the smallest oval die in the Petal Labels dies, and then adhered it to the center of a frame die cut with another die from this set.  I sponged the edge of the petals on the frame with Soft Suede ink and then sponged the petals with Champagne Mist shimmer paint.  I wanted to recreate the shimmer from the gold metallic center of the ribbon.

There are some beautiful projects using this sketch over at the TGIF Challenges Blog here.

Thanks for stopping by!--Sara Nell