Belli Challege (CBC8) and Sketch Card

Happy Wednesday!! You know what that means - time for another Belli Challenge over at Creating with Chrissy! This week's (CBC8) was to use flowers as embellishments. Fun fun fun - maybe this will help speed spring along toward Wisconsin because we're still knee-deep in snow up here.

This card uses Prima flowers (bottom) and those AWESOME shimmery paper flowers from Michael's bridal section that Lauren told us about a couple weeks ago. The ones on this card are from the Ivory bucket.

The Deets: Very little stamping on this one - wow! I cut my Elegant Eggplant cardstock to 7" by 8" and scored the long side at 4" to fold. Scuffed the edges with Eggplant ink and a sponge. Then I ran the River Rock cardstock through the Cuttlebug with one of my new folders, then rubbed Palette Haystack ink over the raised parts - just a little. Went around the edge with the gold end of my Zig Painty. Then I dyed a large white Prima flower with Elegant Eggplant ink. The River Rock-ish layered flower came out of the Got Flowers jar that color. I added a pearl brad (also from the Michael's bridal section) to finish it off. The Eggplant grosgrain is from Stampin' Up, so is the retired metallic gold grosgrain. I used Holly's Easy Peasy Ribbon Tying on the cross ribbon. The ribbon goes around both layers.

The flowers are out of the can that way, but I took some gold brads and added a mini glue dot to each one then dipped them into Eggplant-ish glitter that I just happened to have, LOL. They are all attached to the card with mini glue dots.

Again, I didn't have the right color Hodgepodge Hardware frame (this is from a pack I got at Hobby Lobby) so I colored it with my Zig Painty also. Stamped the sentiment (from Stamping Bella) onto a scrap of River Rock cardstock with Elegant Eggplant ink and placed it onto the card.

The sketch for this card came from Lucy at My Sketch World. I had fun making this one, and it is going out in today's mail to a VERY special birthday girl on Splitcoast Stampers!! She is in Wish RAK (as I am a birthday fairy) and her birthday is this weekend! Can you believe I am actually mailing a card I made instead of hoarding it in a box in my stamp room?! I just hope it brings her an extra smile on her big day.

This one works for Bela's flower challenge too - bring on Spring!!