Monday, March 21, 2016

The Challenge 65

Hello! It's a brand new week which means there's a fun new challenge up on The Challenge blog! This week is picture inspiration.


Those beautiful peonies immediately caught my eye. My mom used to have 3 peony bushes outside our house when I was growing up and those beautiful pink ones were always my favorites!


I stamped several peonies and then used my Brother Scan N Cut 2 to cut them out. I arranged them the way that I liked them and then (quick tip!) I used Washi tape to pick them up from the card base. This keeps the arrangement the way I like it without having to try to recreate it later and the low-tack tape doesn't leave any marks! I used liquid adhesive to adhere them together, but left the top flower free (I attached that with foam tape for dimension).

The black and white stripes are from a pattern paper pack and I simply adhered it to the side of my card base. I adhered my "clump" of flowers with liquid adhesive and then adhered that last flower on top with foam tape. I finished it off by using my Misti to stamp the label sentiment. I love my Misti because I never get an uneven sentiment. Before I got it, I used to ruin cards by stamping wonky sentiments at the very end! Now I never have to throw away an almost completed card or redo an element because of my own error! I finished everything off with a few clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh.



8 comments:

  1. SO pretty Rachel!! Love the pink flowers with the black and white stripes! Lovely!!

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  2. Rachel, this is beautiful! I love peonies! The black and white stripes just make them pop! XX

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  3. Gorgeous, perfectly arranged, love everything about this card!

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  4. So pretty Rachel, I love your layout.

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  5. I really love how you focused on the beautiful peonies! The pinks are my favorites too! Such a great card, Rachel!

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  6. Beautiful! Love the bright pink peonies against the bold black and white strip. And that washi tape tip is just genius!

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  7. Oh, so pretty, Rachel! Really adore those bold, black stripes! So striking!

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  8. Those beautiful pink peonies are gorgeous with the bold black and white stripes, Rachel ... so deliciously striking and CAS! Anita :)

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