Prized Peony - GDP 285

 Well hello and welcome crafters! It is time for yet another Global Design Project card, and this week is a colour challenge. We are going to be playing with these colours for today’s project...

. These three colours are so soft looking, I wasn’t quite sure what to create with these at first. I thought about creating a seascape at first for the very obvious reasons...yellow for the sun, blue for the water and gray for the sand. But for my project I decided to go with floral instead...just because why not!? And this is what I came up with...

To create this card I stamped the large peony stamp from the Prized Peony set twice...once in So Saffron and once more in Versamark then copper heat-embossed. I used my aquapainter to spread the So Saffron ink on the flowers, then die cut them using the coordinating dies from the Peony Dies. I then trimmed the yellow flowers and adhered them on top of the copper embossed stem.

Next I stamped the background diamond stamp randomly onto a piece of white cardstock using Seaside Spray, then used my ink blending brush to blend some ink onto the edges as well. I wanted a distressed look so I ran my scissors along the edges of my cardstock to ‘roughen up’ my edges. I then adhered this to a mat piece of Seaside Spray cardstock before adding my flower stem onto it and adding a linen thread bow.

For the background piece I used white cardstock and my Painted Texture embossing folder, then softly inked it with Sahara Sand using my ink blending brush again. This piece was then added to a mat piece of Sahara Sand cardstock. I also used half of a square vellum doily which I inked with Sahara Sand and then clear heat-embossed so that the ink won’t smear, and added this onto the side of my art panel. I added my sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings and some champagne rhinestones and Wink of Stella onto the flowers since I can’t make a card with no bling!

And that is my card for today as inspired by this week’s GDP challenge. These weekly challenges are a great exercise for ones creativity and is a great source of inspiration! Looking forward to the next one. Anyway thank you again for stopping by and hope to see you next time! Happy crafting!