Grateful Bunch for Global Design Project

Wow! I was on the look-out for a new design challenge blog and I hit the jackpot! The Global Design Project has a group of my favourite designers as the Design Team and they had one of my favourite colour palettes as their challenge this week!

I just think those colours make a card that is sweet and fresh and perfect for spring and summer, so I decided to make a thank you card for the challenge. I've been meaning to ink up the Grateful Bunch stamp set, and I could just picture the images in these colours.

For the layout, I used the sketch from this week's Mojo Monday:

Mix them all together and give a tap of the magic wand, "Abracadabra!" and I have a card to share with you:

• I just love the winsome images in this Grateful Bunch stamp set! The blossom was really easy to colour up. I stamped it in Basic Gray Archival ink and then used a Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Marker to draw over the hatch lines on the image with a little extra around the edges of the petals! Easy peasy!
• The lace trim image is so much fun to stamp and the dotted sprig of leaves makes a great background for the sentiment. And the little butterfly is so much fun, I made two, both fussy cut because the image doesn't really coordinate with the Bitty Butterfly Punch.
• The background DSP is from the Brights Designer Series Paper Stack. I had four designs to choose from and this worked the best with my stamped images.
• I just realized the other day that I had not yet purchased the Natural Chevron Ribbon in Smoky Slate and this seemed like the perfect occasion. The jury is still out, but it works with this colour scheme.

Well, that's all for today. I'll be back tomorrow with a new As You See It Challenge sample for you.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Grateful Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set [140691]	Grateful Bunch Photopolymer Bundle [140801]	Brights Designer Series Paper Stack [138434]	Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121044]	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131202]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad [140932]	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [131179]	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [131259]	Smoky Slate 5/8" Chevron Ribbon [138403]
2-1/2" Circle Punch [120906]	Circles Collection Framelits Die [130911]	Big Shot [113439]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]
Glue Dots [103683]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

From Land to Sea for As You See It Challenges

I loved The Paper Players sketch challenge this week, and it just so happens that As You See It Challenges has a colour challenge, and when that happens I can do two challenges in one! JOY!

I love the inspiration photo for the As You See It Colour Challenge! It's terribly nautical, so I had to get out my new From Land To Sea stamp set to take it on. We don't have Not Quite Navy anymore so I substituted Night of Navy instead.

And this sketch from The Paper Players has so many great design elements! I think I might have chosen flowers and pastels if I was going to do it on its own, but it was either combine with As You See It, or not do it at all and I didn't want to miss it!

Here's how I combined the two:

• I don't know much about jellyfish, except to be leary of them when you're swimming in the ocean, but their undulating ethereal quality is very eye-pleasing and I thought I could best capture that using an emboss resist. I sponged the Daffodil Delight and Night of Navy on the die-cut circle of Whisper White, then stamped the image of the jellyfish, along with some of the "bubbles" from Awesomely Artistic, in Versamark and covered it with Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder. I used the Heat Tool to set it and then sponged on more Night of Navy ink all over, rubbing it into the image to make it visible by contrast. The yellow that I first sponged on shows through where the clear embossing powder covers it. 
• One of the elements of the sketch that I like so much are the loops of twine beside the circle. They add a muted touch here which keeps the jellyfish front and center, but soften the crisp, nautical colour a bit. I wanted to use something stiffer than Baker's Twine and that's when my eyes fell on my White Jute Ribbon. "I wonder...." and yes, you can unravel it and you get individual pieces of white jute - a little hairy, but trimmed up they work wonderfully as twine!

• The banner is made from one of the Daffodil Delight Designs in the Brights Collection Designer Series Paper Stack. You have to cut the banner in the proper direction to get it to trim with the angle going the right way. The Night of Navy Seam Binding Ribbon looks almost like denim in this photo, but it really is shiny, but a little loosely woven which lets in those pinpricks of light in the picture.
• The sentiment is from "And Many More", a must have stamp set with sentiments for every occasion you could imagine. I have it in wood mount, because I don't want to be forever trying to decipher all those little backwards sentiments, which is how they look when I open the stamp case. 

And that's a wrap! I hope you'll pop on over to As You See It Challenges to check out the other Design Team Samples, and also to The Paper Players to enjoy all the projects on display there! Have a great weekend, and I'll see you again on Monday!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

From Land To Sea Wood-Mount Stamp Set [138720]	From Land To Sea Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139361]	Awesomely Artistic Wood-Mount Stamp Set [138694]	Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139950]	And Many More Clear-Mount Stamp Set [134276]
And Many More Wood-Mount Stamp Set [134273]	Brights Designer Series Paper Stack [138434]	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100867]	Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119683]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [126970]	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]	Stamping Sponges [101610]
Night Of Navy 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon [134571]	White 1-1/4" (3.2 Cm) Jute Ribbon [137904]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130]	Heat Tool [129053]
Circles Collection Framelits Die [130911]	Big Shot [113439]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Glue Dots [103683]