Papertrey Card Update

Well I took some time this morning and finished up the card I started and asked for help on last week.

The first thing I did was take apart the old card front and flip the verse over. I played around trying to color some of the dots and decided that was a frustrating task and thought better of it. I also tried cutting the stamped piece thinner removing the sentiment. Nothing was working the way I invisioned it. Finally I added some trim on the sides of the verse using Ruby Red and Pumpkin Pie cardstock. I liked this, but it needed something else.

I then stamped and punched out the large orange flowers planning to just add one. Then the imagination kicked in and I stamped the three differnt flowers sizes in the three Color choices. Using various sizes of circle punches ranging from 1/2" to 1-1/4" I punched them out, and some Chocolate Chip cardstock for matting out. I raised the flower images on dimesionals, except the yellow one by the sentiment. I sponged them with Chocolate Chip mostly because the small yellow flower was too big to punch with the 1/4" circle and left too much white when being punched with 1/2". After I sponged them I had to remove the orange and red trim of card stock and sponge the Ribbon Sentiment strip, I had hoped for a more clean crisp card but I am happy with how this turned out. I think if I knew I was going to sponge it from the beginning I would have used a vanilla or off white cardstock for the stamping and embossing.

I used Papertrey's Little Lady for the Flower images and Faux Ribbon for the Ribbon/Sentiment. The ink colors and cardstock are all Stampin Up. Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, Ruby Red and Pumpkin Pie.

Until later... Happy Stamping!