For Mandy...Fifth Avenue Floral

Recently, I had a question from a gal who is a fantastic stamper as I expected -- her Mother-In-Law, Francie, is a phenomenal stamper and quite creative herself!  It just must run in families, which would explain why I didn't get "it".  My mom is one of the best cooks ever, but she doesn't craft at all.  At any rate, as she was looking at the catalog, Mandy said, "I really like the Fifth Avenue Floral Set, but what would you do with it?"  I promised to show her and here is one really fabulous technique that looks incredible when using this set.  Of course, this is only one idea and as we master this technique, I'll share more idea.

Now, here is the disclaimer:  I am not crazy about this card, but check out the rose -- focus on the rose.  That said, here's the card:

This rose shimmers so much in real life and is gorgeous in its own right.  The card is questionable, but I've been so busy lately that I didn't really have time to do the rose justice.  We are going to learn this technique in our July Techniques class.

I started with a base of Summer Suede (hooked on this color!) and I used a sketch challenge from a couple of weeks ago, but again, I'm not sure which challenge or where I got the sketch.  I used some leftover polished vellum from some practice I had been doing and I adhered this to Crushed Curry cardstock mats, color side up.  I liked that the combination of Crushed Curry and Dusty Durango was more vibrant on the color side up, so I just decided to go with it.  I adhered the vellum to the mats with regular adhesive because the polished vellum hides the adhesive very well.

Next, I used a mat of Crushed Curry with Whisper White on top and adhered this to the basecard.  I used Old Olive cardstock and the Little Leaves die through the Big Shot for my leaves, adhering these to the card with dimensionals.  I had created the rose earlier (this one takes time!) and cut it out.  I popped it up with dimensionals as well, and adhered it to the basecard over the Whisper White square, hoping it would pop even more.  To balance everything, I punched three 1/4" circles from Dusty Durango and adhered these to the basecard with glue dots.

Here's a hint to tuck away:  When you want to add green, but aren't sure WHICH green, use Old Olive.  It really works in most any application.  It's my "goto" green when I'm not certain which green to use when I'm creating. 

Still working diligently on my Catalog Debut.  I want so badly to have something to give everyone and I'm just not finding all the time I need to get it all done, so I'm really going to have to use my time wisely.  You'd know that this also coincides with our year end at work -- not really great planning on my part, eh?  I'm thinking positive and I'm going to get as much as I possibly can done.  Hope to see you there!

Thanks for making my blog a part of your day -- God's blessings to your and yours!  Have a terrific, God-filled day!

Comments

[Jean Fitch]

I really enjoyed this one Tami. Something about the layout and the colors reminded me of a small Catholic chapel in Sedona Arizona that I've visited a few times. Reminded me too of the Old Mission Santa Ynez parish I used to belong to in California. So while the rose alone is gorgeous I found God calling out to me in the complete card itself. Thanks for sparking those memories.

Hugs and blessings - Jean