CASEing Therese.....

                                                                         

Hello everyone and welcome to THE FLOWER CHALLENGE #5.  This month, we have the fabulous and talented THERESE from LOST IN PAPER as our Guest Designer and, to make things even more awesome, Therese has a video tutorial on her blog where she will show you how she made the gorgeous card we are CASEing.  So, I hope you come along and play with us, we can't wait to see how Therese's card inspired you.

Here is a picture of her beautiful card, followed by mine.

Isn't it awesome?

Here is my card.

 

When I saw Therese's card I was so happy because I had just gotten a couple of dies that totally would work perfectly to create my card. The dies are from Memory Box and this one is called Chrysanthemum Corner, it's so delicate and just beautiful.

I die cut a panel of Whisper White card stock and carefully removed the die, then I placed it on top of my card base and lightly traced each petal with pencil, I colored the petals with my Prismacolor pencils and paper stumps dipped in baby oil, then glue the die back in it's negative corner using a two way glue pen, making sure each flower was exactly where it should be. Once the panel was secured, I  lightly colored the leaves using a sponge dauber and distress ink.

I needed the sentiment to be colored with an Ombre effect so, I grabbed a scrap of white paper and using my Prismacolors I went across the paper from dark to light, trying to blend each color as I start with the next, then using a paper stump, blended the colors even more. 

The word Love was die cut with a Penny Black die set called Love and Joy.

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Here is a picture of the finish inside of my card.

The pretty flower border is stamped with a retired SU set called "Bordering Blooms", the sentiment is from a retired Flourishes set called "Tulips for Friends".

Ok, so now, it's your turn to give this fabulous challenge a try, for more details and inspiration, hop over to THE FLOWER CHALLENGE to check out my teammates awesome cards and then, join us in the gallery, we can't wait to see how Therese's card inspires you. 

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Until next time, happy stamping.

Hugs from Maria.