Hello everyone and Happy Tuesday morning to you! The weather is warming up and I'm just itching to get out and dig in the dirt! Perhaps it's a little early for planting your garden but in our virtual stamping universe, the time is just right! And here's a great new Color Challenge from Utah Divas International to help stir your creative juices as you dream of your summer garden!
This week's color combination is inspired by this beautiful sweater in hues of Bashful Blue, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Night of Navy and Basic Black -- delightful, isn't it?
And here's the card I created with this beautiful combination! I'm giving you a Sneak Peek into some of the wonderful new products you will find in the Summer Mini Catalog beginning May 1st! This stamp set is Fabulous Florets. It's perfect for overstamping and layering colors and images and so soft and beautiful for Spring. Off to the side, you'll see the wonderful embossed image that you will get with the new Flower Garden Embossing Folder (used with the Big Shot). Now won't this be a fun new look in your garden of card-making supplies!
Additional tools and supplies that I used for this card include the Scallop Border Punch, 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Daffodil Delight and 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Night of Navy, and Stampin' Dimensionals to pop the image up.
And, not to ignore the inside of the card, I went crazy with the flower -- I love this look!
That will do it for today! I hope you've enjoyed a Sneak Peek into the Stampin' Up! Summer garden! For more wonderful inspiration using this week's color challenge, visit the Utah Divas International blog and check out the rest of the Design Team Projects. It will be time well spent!
I hope you stop back soon! Until then ...
This is a beautiful card! I can't wait to order the embossing folder and the stamp set. It is one of the prettiest sets I've seen for a while. But I'm a sucker for flowers! You put these colors together beautifully!
Posted by: Pat | April 12, 2011 at 07:49 PM
Now THIS is "Inspiration in Action"!!! This is stunning Gretchen. These colors are wonderful together, the new stuff looks fabulous, and your design is outstanding! Thank you for inspiring me today. What an awesome sneak peek. : )
Posted by: Kelly Wentling | April 12, 2011 at 08:27 PM
Gretchen, OMG..I am just loving all your clean, crisp and creative cards using all the new toys from the Summer Mini and the preview stamp set and DSP from the 2011-2012 catty. Don't we Demo's have fun?!? TFS
Posted by: nancy littrell | April 16, 2011 at 03:55 PM
This card finally made me love this new stamp set. It's gorgeous! Beautiful job.
Posted by: ErikaC | April 20, 2011 at 04:29 PM
Thanks so much for this one, Gretchen! I had saved it and will CASE for my stamp camp introducing this set. You will get full credit (although I'm going to use White Textured CS for the focal). Thanks goodness for those of you who come up with these color challenges and think outside the box for flowers! My first thoughts are always, pink, red, maybe yellow - and I do love blue and yellow.
Posted by: Sue Duffy | July 03, 2011 at 04:25 PM