On Sunday I sat down to have some fun with my crafting supplies and had one of those days where nothing looked right. But I did use a sponge dauber and rose red ink on a piece of the Irresistibly Yours specialty designer series paper. I don’t know why I haven’t used this before, it’s really fun and I have several packs of it! It’s one of the items you can get for free during Sale-a-bration – you select a free item for every $50 you spend (not including tax and shipping). So on Monday, the piece of coloured DSP was screaming to be used. And this card slowly evolved.

I originally was going for a monochromatic look and had stamped the sentiment in rose red on whisper white – the sentiment is from a new hostess set, the Stampin’ Up! Because You Care set. I then matted the whisper white with more rose red card stock. The issue was that my sponging didn’t precisely match the card stock, I’d got a deeper depth of colour. Whilst I thought about that, I realised that the card needed something more and introduced the spring flowers DSP to the party. I then glued the DSP and the dry embossed piece of whisper white onto my card front. As soon as I’d done this, I decided that I didn’t like where the DSP joined the dry embossed piece of whisper white and started looking at ribbon to improve the look. No rose red ribbon. Naturally.

I recalled that Jen had emailed me a colour wheel and I’d been intending to play with it. According to the wheel, the complimentary colour was a yellow green. Sounds like pear pizzazz. And lo and behold, I have ribbon in pear pizzazz. So I stamped the sentiment again in rose red and cut it out with the circles framelits and also a circle of pear pizzazz for matting. I don’t like the ribbon to show in the inside so I cut my DSP and embossed piece down to 5.25″ by 4″ which had the advantage of trimming the edges where they weren’t quite matched up. Then I wrapped the ribbon over the join and secured it with tape. I then glued this panel to a pear pizzazz card base. Finally I used stampin’ dimensionals to pop up the sentiment.

Since I still had the rose red ink out and a dirty stamp, I decorated the envelope as well. I also lined the outside flap with pear pizzazz.