Today I pulled out a set that I got recently but haven’t yet used – Stampin’ Up! Bordering Blooms. Since I’m still somewhat stumped on the 5 colour challenge for Fab Friday, I went to the colour coach for inspiration instead. The coach suggested old olive, elegant eggplant and melon mambo. I played around with a few layouts and thought that I was going to drop the melon mambo but then decided to have just a couple of pops of the pink.

I started by stamping the thanks sentiment in old olive in the lower half of the very vanilla card. Not recognising the sentiment? It’s from the Fabulous Four set but I cut off the “very very very much” part so that I can use them separately or together easily without having to bother with masking. Then I stamped one of the borders three times in old olive. The middles were done in the elegant eggplant leaving a couple of gaps – I merely inked up the border and put the edge next to where I wanted the gap. Then I cleaned the stamp REALLY well, tested that it was perfectly clean by stamping on scrap paper and then inked up a single blossom in melon mambo and stamped in the two spaces that I’d left. I matted the very vanilla on elegant eggplant.