Bright & Fresh

#stampinup   I love the sketches on the Freshly Made Sketches challenge blog. They really are “fresh!” Playing along with these challenges has helped me design clean and simple cards. I still have a bit of trouble embracing the space–so I almost always add some embossing. Your design elements have to be almost perfectly placed for them to work. I’m still getting the hang of that. It’s a work in progress.

For today’s card, I started with a Pacific Point card base. Next, I added a Whisper White mat that I embossed with the Large Polka Dot Embossing Folder. Then, I stamped the pansies from “Birthday Blossoms” stamp set in Pacific Point on some Whisper White scraps. I punched them out with the matching Pansy Punch.


I used a Blender Pen to pick up some Daffodil Delight ink from the lid of the ink box and colored the centers of the flowers and added some shadows. I stamped the “celebrate you” sentiment in Pacific Point onto another Whisper White scrap and cut it with one of the Chalk Talk Framelits. I backed this with a Daffodil Delight oval cut from one of the Ovals Framelits.


Finally, I adhered the flowers and the sentiment to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals for a little depth.

Birthday Blossoms Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139167] $27.00	Pacific Point Classic Stampin’ Pad [126951] $6.50	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Pad [126944] $6.50	Pacific Point 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [111350] $7.00
Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [100730] $8.50	Daffodil Delight 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [119683] $7.00	Pansy Punch [130698] $16.00	Polka Dot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [133739] $7.50
Chalk Talk Framelits Die [129983] $25.00	Ovals Collection Framelits Die [129381] $27.00	Blender Pens [102845] $10.00