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Happy Saturday!  Love that you stopped by!  Meihsia, @ Our Creative Corner has given us a color challenge with an inspiration photo.  She is one clever girl!  Meihsia, wants you to use orange, blue, white, cream, and brown.  And here is her inspiration photo:

The thing that attracted me to this photo, was the clean lines.  Not overly embellished or cluttered.  So, here is what I came up with.  Warning: not my usual card.

So, here is what I created!  Not my usual work.  I kept the card un-cluttered, just like the card.  I used pattern paper from the same collection: Gathering from Authentique.  I used some retired vanilla velvet ribbon.  I thought it added a softness and elegance to the card.  I cut the leaves from a scrap piece of Bermuda Bay card stock.  I thought it was the closest in matching the 'blue'.  I punched the flowers out of a piece of Tangerine Tango card stock.  I inserted a brown brad in the center of each flower to hold them together.  I 'label' was cut with a die, and the stamped sentiment was actually created with two stamps.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you get a chance to play along with us @ Our Creative Corner.

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Wow! this week is flying by!  But, I hope you have a chance to join us @ Sketch Frenzy Friday, for another creative blog hop!  The talented, Tammy F. has a fabulous sketch for you to try, so won't you play along?

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

This card was actually quite fun to create.  I really needed to isolate myself in my craft room, and just play with different items and various products.

I started with a plain, blank piece of very vanilla cardstock.  I stamped the two smallest doilies in pool party and pear pizzazz.  Then I stamped the Hello, Dolly doily stamp in Versa Mark and added white embossing powder.  I wanted a simple, yet feminine design on part of the card.

I made my blossoms from different papers: pattern, tetured, stamped, and plain solid.  I created the middle blossom larger, and the two supporting blossoms a bit smaller.  I sponged frost white shimmer paint on all the edges of the different layers of petals and then dunked them into some dazzling diamond glitter.  I thought the added shimmer would give them a 'candied' look.   I added a scrap piece of vanilla velvet ribbon to help keep this card soft and feminine.

I stamped the sentiment in Basic Grey classic ink.  I thought black was too harsh, and a beige was too blah.

After the card was assembled, I sprayed it with vanilla smooch, then I used the spritzer with first a crumb cake marker and then the pool party marker. 

Thank you for stopping by, I do appreciate the company, and your comments really do make my day.  But, before you leave, don't forget to stop by Tammy F.'s blog, to continue on with this blog hop!