And The Day Came. . .

I made this card for myself.  I love quotes, as most of you who read my blog know, and this one is just so fitting for me right now.  So, when I saw it, I decided to make myself a card - I deserve one! Plus, with spring here I wanted be colorful and use some flowers - Globecraft & Piccolo's products are perfect for both!

What I used to make the card:

• Square white card base, 5 ¼” x 5 ¼”
• LA106 Stacey’s Stacking Flowers
• Ruby Red Slippers, Royal Sterling, Cranberry Wine, Deep Blue Sky and Girls Night Out Embossing Enamel
• Embossing Fluid
• Wendy Vecchi’s Blooming Art stamp set, SCS119
• Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black
• Wendy Vecchi’s Archival Ink in Fern Green
• Scrap of White Cardstock for the sentiment
• Crafters Pick Glue

The first step in making this card was stamping the leafy branch for the background.  I used the stamp in the Blooming Arts set and stamped it four times, kind of in each corner, but I wasn’t so exact about it.  I thought the Fern Green ink would be perfect for all my colorful flowers.

Then I stamped the sentiment on the scrap white cardstock, trimmed it and placed it in the middle of the card.  I didn’t glue anything down at this point.

I set about embossing my flowers from Stacey’s Stacking Flowers set.  I love how the flowers have the grooves cut deep into the chipboard – you can see them even when the flowers have been embossed. Also, you can turn the flowers around and while the grooves are slightly visible, the flowers are smoother.  In the picture, I used the flowers with the full grooves, on the top. 

I just choose a bunch of the flowers, (there are 24 in the pack!) before I embossed them, and placed them around the card, getting a feel for what size flower I wanted where.  Then I embossed them with the Embossing Enamel – one time each.  If I had spots where I didn’t fully ink the flower with the Embossing Fluid, I used a paintbrush to fill in the spot and embossed that spot only. 

Lastly, I glued the sentiment in place first and then adhered the flowers.  It really is a lovely card – I love the sparkles and the blended colors in the Embossing Enamel. I realize the quote may be difficult to read due to the type face it is in, so this is the quote: "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom." 

Another view

Thank you for stopping by and I hope your week is going well! Christi

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges: 
The Artistic Stamper - April, Embossing & Texture

Crafting By Designs - April, Anything Goes Challenge
Simon Monday Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
DRS Designs Rubber Stamps Challenge - Who's the (em)boss? 
Red Rubber Designs - Inspirational #114, Spring

I was selected as a Top Ten Card for DCWV!

I am beyond words! This was my first time playing at DCWV Diary Stackaholic Challenge.  They use 2 sketches for inspiration, one is for layouts and one is for cards.  As some of you may know I entered 3 cards into the March challenge and I honestly didn't think I'd get chosen - but my "Happy Birthday" card, using the Tattered Time stack, got chosen as one of the Top Ten Cards! What a great way to start out the month!!

 

This is the sketch for March

 

Here is the card that was selected and here is the blog post explaining how I made the card.  Yippee!!

Thank you for joining me in my celebration!