It is so fun to stamp a challenge again! I had all this new stuff, and I hadn't made time to play with it yet. So when I saw Susan Liles, AKA SusieStampsAlot, a fellow Verve Diva, was the Featured Stamper yesterday, I decided I had shown enough reserve, and broke into my new stamps!
Susan has an amazing gallery, and it took me quite a while to choose just one card, but I finally decided on this one! I already knew I wanted to use my new Dreams du Jour stamp set, and my Bella Rose paper, and whadya know...I got to use my new scallop border punch too! As per the rules of the challenge, I kept the layout the same and changed the colours and stamps.
I started with 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" base of Riding Hood Red. I used the floral print from Bella Rose, along with it's alternate side the Kiwi Kiss polka dots, along with the gingham print (scalloped with the border punch!). I lined the papers up as Susan did on her layout, and I tied a length of Old Olive poly twill ribbon around it with a wisp of pink gingham at the knot.
I stamped the focal image in Versafine Onyx Black on whisper white and coloured it in with re-inkers and aqua painter. The corners were punched with the ticket corner punch and adhered it to Pirouette Pink and Riding Hood Red. The Pretties along the bottom were died with an old blender pen and reinkers, and secured with crystal circle brads from the Pretties kit. The only non-SU items were the gems in the corner, because the stems of the brads were so long I couldn't get them to work in the corners. The focal piece is adhered with dimensionals, and the card was done!
I'm quite happy with the way it turned out, and I will send this off to Susan to celebrate her being selected as Featured Stamper!
It's the start of the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges today, and I have my first challenge card done! Stick around because it's up next!
