Good morning!
It's the first Friday in a new month, so we've got a brand-new elemental inspiration challenge to enjoy over on the Daring Cardmakers blog!
This one was picked by Rizwana:
The elements I went with were a striped background inspired by the beach huts and wooden boardwalk, the florals, and the flying seagulls (transformed into friendlier bees on my card!):
Paper: Carta Bella - Summer Market (r)
Stamps: The Greetery - Container Garden, The Greetery - Sentiment Suite: Birthday, The Stamp Market - Happiest of Birthdays
Dies: The Greetery - Container Garden, The Greetery - Sentiment Suite Basics, The Stamp Market - Happiest of Birthdays, Pinkfresh Studio - Diagonal Stitched Rectangles, The Greetery - Jumbo Jar
Other: Distress Oxides
This past week, I've had chance to play with some "new" additions to my ink line up and recent-ish purchases from The Greetery. :D
I started out by creating the Container Garden scene with muted tones from The Stamp Market Color Crush ink range. I die-cut the Jumbo Jar from a subtle blue ombré patterned paper in my stash, but to add a bit more blue to the jar frame, I went over it with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide, gave it a spritz with water here and there, and also added splatters of sage ink (which is also splattered on the shiplap background paper). This made the frame stand out that much better from the background and from the blue inside the jar.
I then die-cut the jar aperture from the background paper, which was already cut with the largest Diagonal Stitched Rectangle in the die set from Pinkfresh Studio.
It was then just a matter of assembling the jar elements on the card, finishing off with a Sentiment Suite tag and Birthday sentiment attached under the champagne glitter lid, complete with a small stamped bow from The Stamp Market Happiest of Birthdays set.
Those small sentiments and elements in your stash can really come in handy when you don't want to hide all your multistep stamping with an oversized sentiment strip. :)
Make sure you check out the wonderful projects from the rest of the design team here, and play along if you can!
Happy crafting!
 The Greetery - Container Garden stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery - Sentiment Suite: Birthday stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Stamp Market - Happiest of Birthdays stamps Shop at: MISC |
 The Greetery - Container Garden dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery - Sentiment Suite Basics dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Stamp Market - Happiest of Birthdays dies Shop at: MISC |
 Pinkfresh Studio - Diagonal Stitched Rectangles dies Shop at: MISC | SBC |
 The Greetery - Jumbo Jar dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Distress Oxide ink pad - Speckled Egg Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn - Black Licorice ink pad Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn - Kiddie Pool ink pad Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Lawn Fawn - Sage Leaf ink pad Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 The Stamp Market - Blush Pink ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market - Curry ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market - Fern ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market - Forest ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market - Golden ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market - Matcha ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market - Mossy ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market - Umber ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: EH | MISC |
 Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH |
 Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC |
 Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Taylored Expressions - Blender Brushes Shop at: MISC |
 Tim Holtz - Distress Sprayer Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 Tim Holtz - Stampers Anonymous Splat Box Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Waffle Flower - Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Ranger - Artist brush set Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix - Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Thermoweb iCraft - Purple tape for die-cutting - 1 1/2" Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
 Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC |
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