Pearly Sparkles Guest

Clean and Simple, flowers, Ocassions, Seasons, Shopping My Stash, Spring, Taylored Expressions, Thinking of You/Miss You

Hello friends again!  I have two posts going up for today, so please see my post for the Mix It Up Challenge details in the above post when it goes live or click HERE.

I’m so excited to have been asked to be a guest for this month’s Pearly Sparkles Challenge!  I always love playing along in challenges and supporting them when I can as I always find inspiration in using my supplies when I play!

So for May’s Challenge, they would like to see:  BLACK, WHITE PLUS ONE OTHER COLOR in your project(s).  Here’s the card I made for this theme to inspire you:

I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for this, but I thought you couldn’t go wrong with some flowers.  I pulled out a long forgotten stamp set from Taylored Expressions called “Picked Posies” (no longer available) and black heat embossed the images over watercolor paper and used one pink watercolor brushed over the petals.  I die cut each flower with the coordinating die.

I made the rest of the card layout with all black and white elements.  I stamped the TE Checking In Background stamp in black ink over a white panel, placed this over an A2 sized top folding black card base.  I also used the TE More Easy Edgers die to cut an additional piece of white cardstock and placed it over the stamped checkered background.  I also used some more of the elements from the flower stamp set and stamped some more black images on that background before I attached the watercolor flowers on it.  I centered each flower with a black rhinestone.

For the sentiment, I white heat embossed over black cardstock using the TE Hello Friend Stamp & Die set.

  • Thanks so much for stopping in today and I hope you’ll check out this challenge to see what the rest of the team has to inspire you with so you can play along too!

See you again tomorrow!

Challenges:

  1. Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
  2. 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes with optional: splash of color
  3. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  4. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  5. Crafter’s Cafe – Anything Goes optional: Female
  6. Double D – Springtime Flowers
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23 thoughts on “Pearly Sparkles Guest”

  1. This is such a pretty mix of colors, flowers and fun paper. I love the delicate lacy border that beautifully coordinates with the stamped and cut flowers too. Simply beautiful and a great card for the challenge!

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  8. Hello my friend! WOW this is so so pretty! Love your choice of color & design! Great job (as always). Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Double D challenge!  Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often. 

    Darlene<a href=http://www.darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/>DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS</a>Double D Co-Owner

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  11. So very pretty Vicki, love the gingham and white panel with its fancy edging and the flowers are beautiful, love the water colouring, gorgeous card..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  12. Congratulations on your Guest Designer spot! Loving your colourful flowers with your black and white design – so beautiful ❤️. Thanks for the inspiration and wishing you a happy May! Hugs, Jo x

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  13. Such a stunning card! The black-and-white design makes the soft pink flowers really stand out beautifully. The embossed details and elegant layout create such a sophisticated and eye-catching piece. A perfect choice for the challenge!

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  14. That pink and grey look fantastic together. The grey is a great anchor color, and it makes the pink really pop. It makes a beautiful card, perfect for spring. Have a super weekend. hugs-Erika

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  16. Hi Vicki, a beautiful card, love the lacy border with the colour combination. Thank you for joining us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, apologies as I am running late this week… Megan DT LPoCF

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  17. Hi Vicki, a beautiful card, love the lacy border with the colour combination. Thank you for joining us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, apologies as I am running late this week… Megan DT LPoCF

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  18. Gorgeous card, Vicki – such a pretty design and card layout.

    Thanks so much for being our Guest Designer at Pearly Sparkles this month.

    Helen x

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  19. OMGoodness, this is gorgeous! Congrats on your guest gig – they are lucky to have you! I am a huge fan of florals for any occasion, and these really pop with the black and white! I’m waaaay behind on my commenting because of our move but I plan to get caught up within the next few days! 😉

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  20. Beautiful card Vicki, I am so happy you joined us this month as our Guestie at Pearly Sparkles!! xoxoxo

    Lori – DT Member

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