One Recipe, Two Cards

I had a team meeting this past week and challenged them with a card recipe.  I also challenged them to make a horizontal and vertical layout with the pieces.  I played along with them and although I got a bit frustrated with having only two squares to work with, managed to figure out two cards using retiring DSP.

The recipe included : Card Base 8 1/2" X 5 1/2",  a mat 4" X 5 1/4", two squares measuring 2" X 2", a greeting, and some sort of embellishment.

For my first card I've used the True Love DSP.  I fussy cut the flowers out of the DSP and coloured them with the new Pale Papaya and Soft Succulent and the centre is coloured with Daffodil Delight.  I don't have the Stampin' Blends in these colours yet, so I've just used my Stampin' Markers.  The greeting from this card is from the new  Hand-Penned Petals.  I love the handwriting in this set.  I've actually added another piece to this card - The black mat is what I specified in the recipe, but the DSP measures 3 3/4" X 5". The flowers and the greeting have both been raised with dimensionals.

I went a bit overboard with the gold accents on this card but I like it.  Again I've added an extra mat so the Gold Foil measures 4" X 5 1/4" and the DSP measures 3 3/4" X 5".  Because I also matted the squares, the Gold Foil pieces for them measure 2 1/8" X 2 1/8" - I didn't want them to add a lot of extra size to the pieces.  The squares have been distressed around the edges using sponge daubers and Garden Green ink.  The little gold sprigs come from the Forever Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper.  Finally, the greeting comes from the Forever Fern stamp set, has been embossed in gold and is on one of the Rectangle Stitched Framelits

The Designer Series Paper for both of these cards (including the Forever Gold Specialty Paper) is retiring at the end of the month.  So get them before they run out.  Also, remember that the Clearance Rack was refreshed with products.  

I've been working on refinishing a coffee table with my daughter.  We sanded it down yesterday in the sunshine and are going to continue working on staining it today  - in the sunshine.  Temperatures drop again tomorrow, so we take the heat and sun while we can.

Hope things are sunny in your corner of the world.  Thanks for dropping by!

Joan

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