Howdy! I got a chance to head back into my craft room, again. And that makes my heart happy {smile}. I stumbled upon a challenge site, that I haven't seen before. And thought, I should give it a try. It's called: cure for the monday blues. How fitting, huh? The theme was 'golden gathering'. Very classy, and chic.
*when I went to upload my card into this challenge, it had already closed. {frown} I missed my upload time by just a few hours. But, I still urge you to check them out.
I visit retro sketches constantly. However, I mostly don't play along. Not that they don't have great sketches, or inspiring design team member... I don't really have an excuse {frown}. Their sketch:
So, please don't let my absence influence you. Play along with either or both of these challenge sites! here is what I created:
Recipe: I used white card stock by Paper Trey Ink, for the card base. It's a nice heavy weight card stock. For the main matt, I used basic black by Stampin' Up!. Love the true black color of this card stock. The text pattern paper is actually a retired DSP from Stampin' Up!. It's a newsprint pattern.
For my decorative corner, I added a 4" circle doily. I purposefully allowed it to hang over the side and top. I added a 2 1/2" circle of a yellow, glitter, text pattern paper, from My Mind's Eye 2.
For my sentiment block, I used the Hello There stamp set, by Stampin' Up! I stamped the sentiment in Versa Mark, and added gold embossing powder. Then heated it with my heat gun, and viola! Beautiful gold raised lettering! I used a scallop rectangle die, retired from Stampin' Up! to create the beautiful shape. I layered it onto gold glitter paper, and then a scrap piece of the newspaper text DSP. I took a fabric daisy and folded it into quarters, then tucked it under the sentiment stacked rectangle. I also added a white button, by Bo Bunny, Enchanted collection. I swiped some glue to the edge of the button, and then added gold glitter to its edge. I tied a piece of white and black baker's twine to the button, and into a simple bow, and adhered it to the center of the quartered fabric daisy.
The card remains blank on the inside. And will soon appear in my Etsy shop.
