The Everything But the Kitchen Sink Challenges have moved to their own blog, and to celebrate they're hosting their first ever sketch challenge, which was inspired by Courtney's fireplace mantel. The prize is a $25 gift card to Two Peas in a Bucket.
I had scraps of Basic Grey Marrakech paper and navy cardstock left over from my card this morning, so that is what I started with for my design. The squares are punched with a 1 1/4" square and the card is slightly smaller than 4 1/4".
I tried different stamps for my focal image, but couldn't seem to find one that worked. When I started rummaging through my embellishments I found this lone Prima flower from the Hey Girlfriend, Spring Has Spring! card kit, and loved how it looked with these patterns. I sprayed the flower with one of my new favorite crafting finds …Pearl Glimmer Mist … it gives a perfect subtle all-over sparkle. I finished with a tiny Hero Arts sentiment from Bird Greetings (punched with word window & heart punches).
PS – I was very excited to see my cards made the Fab Five at 2 Sketches 4 You this week … woot woot!
Ooh, I love it!! Those colors are obnoxiously lovely 🙂 and I love the way you combined the punches for your little message flag
This is so pretty! What a great find to find that flower. It does work perfectly with those papers. Thanks so much for playing along!
So pretty! I LOVE that flower! Thanks for playing with us in the challenge! 🙂
Very colorful. Nice!
This is great! I love that flower and those papers are among my BG favs! So glad that you played along with our challenge!
HELLO, beautiful! This is a rather GORGEOUS card, begging to be noticed with it’s beautiful color and spectacular BLING! Fabulous work, Steph! Looks like you REALLY had fun with this baby! Wahoo!
Excellent use of a miriad of colors! This works!
Oh my word, this is bright and beautiful Steph, and I love your combination of papers!! That prima is awesome! Thanks for sharing the new blog info! Headed there next!
Hey Steph, great take on the challenge. I, being a card carrying member of the “Addicted to Basic Grey and Proud Of It” fan club, love this collection. Your find of the prima flower must have been fate, they go so well together. Oz
what can i say about this MAG-NI-flippin-NIFICENT card??!?!? i was going to ask *HOW* did you do the flower…but ok, it’s a prima…i’m pretty sure i could swing that, lol! 😉
i ♥loooooooooooove♥ the combination of the super-bright graphic patterns with
the super-bright colorful flower: it reminds me of a bollywood film or a morroccan mosaic or a dina wakley art journal…your brain wants to tell you that really…it *SHOULD* be “too much”…but your eyes just tell your brain to SHUT UP!!! ♥♥♥♥♥
ps: there’s a *PEARL* shade of glimmer mist??! ok, gonna NEED THAT! (going to lss tomorrow anyway…sweet…)
Wow, such a gorgeous card. Love the bright colors
Gorgeous Stef, love the colors!
OH MY how stunning! Look at all those cheery bright colors~and that gorgeous flower!
Absolutely beautiful! I love all the vibrant colors!
Thank you so much for playing along with us at EbtKS!