Today I’m sharing a card made with one of the Sale-a-bration sets, Avant Garden. I really love this set and it was one of the first free products that I ordered in January but for some reason it didn’t get inked up until this past weekend.

I took inspiration from Eimear, my sister’s upline in the UK – she posted a video earlier this week and I really loved how a dab of a sponge dauber in the middle of the flower looked so beautiful. I had to have a go myself. If you want to check out Eimear’s video (which includes showing how to extend the stitched shapes square framelit into a rectangle so I really recommend you do view it) click here.

I’ve got a bit of a sweet sugarplum thing going at the moment, so decided to use that for my flowers with a little dab of perfect plum into the centre of the stamp before I stamped onto the whisper white card. Incidentally, I found it easier from a placement perspective to do the stalks (pear pizzazz) first and then the flowers. The sentiment is also from Avant Garden and is in perfect plum as are the stamens. I need to play with some other colour combinations too.

I really like the sponge dauber effect – here’s a close up. The whole thing really looks like a watercolor painting! I cannot imagine why this set sat uninked for so long.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz