Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

Hi

Welcome to this week's Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge.

So I don’t usually do ‘shabby chic’ but I stepped outside my comfort zone thanks to the Fusion Card Challenge inspiration image. These flowers took forever!!! I experimented for a while with different layers and combinations. :)

Here are the essentials:

• The background is tone-on-tone stamping with the Hardwood stamp using Crumb Cake ink on Crumb Cake card stock. I sponged around the edges with Crumb Cake ink and even did direct ink pad to paper to get a stronger depth of colour on the corners. 
• The DSP is from the Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper pack. This paper is thinner than most card stock and is very pliable for 3D features like flowers etc. There’s some lovely patterns - newsprint, diagonal strips, number typography and a gorgeous flourish print. 
• Die Cuts! I trotted out the sadly now forgotten Flower Fair Framelit Dies - yes, they are still current and still fabulous! 
• The sentiment is a lovely wooden element from the Expressions Natural Elements pack. It complements the Hardwood background and neutral tones. 
• It is difficult to see in the image but I went to town with my clear Wink of Stella pen. I painted the wooden sentiment so it is lovely and shimmery. I also ran it around the edge of the Crumb Cake base so there is a gorgeous glint of shimmer under that Hardwood layer. I dabbed it onto the largest flower too onto the black petals and the newsprint. 
• Embellish! Embellish! The centre of my flowers looked a bit bare, so I got a black sequin from the Metallics Sequins Assortment and adhered them to the centres with the Fine Tip Glue Pen. To finish off I added the tiniest Pearl to the middle of the sequins. I wrapped some Linen Thread around the layer three times before tying off.
• No shabby chic card is complete without the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set. I stamped the ‘splatters’ onto the base after I stamped with Hardwood to give a slightly weathered look. I also used the same stamp inked in Crumb Cake and then Basic Black onto the Very Vanilla layer of the smaller flower (punched with the Pansy Punch).  

Here is the sketch for this week:

Here’s the inspiration image from Fusion:

Card recipe

Stamp - Hardwood, Gorgeous Grunge

Ink - Crumb Cake, Basic Black

Cardstock - Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Pansy Punch, Big Shot, 
Flower Fair Framelit Dies, Fine Tip Glue Pen
Accessories - Pearls, Wink of Stella Clear, Metallic Sequin Assortment, Expressions Natural Elements

I hope you will join in and create a card with us.....and please feel free to leave me and the other CCMC participants some comments! :)

Cheers

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