This is another card that I made at the Winter crop weekend earlier this month and it was just after I’d been lucky enough to win a door prize. I’d made a banner card with my winnings and then decided to make the vases a bit more exciting. The Stampin’ Up! Banner Blast set has a couple of small stamps, a star and a flower and I decided to decorate the vases with those.

I started by stamping the image on a scrap piece of very vanilla. I then snipped around each vase with my paper snips – not a big deal at all. Then I took the flower, star and one of the banners and stamped the vases in rose red and so saffron. Next I stamped the image on a piece of very vanilla in the black memento ink ready to colour with the blendabilities. And that’s when I realised my mistake! I don’t have rose red and so saffron blendabilities. They don’t exist. So I used daffodil delight and melon mambo and I think it worked out fine. I admit I left it on my table overnight so that I could review it in the morning before continuing! The green is the wild wasabi blendabilities, a new colour in the Occasions 2015 catalogue.

I popped up a couple of the vases using stampin’ dimensionals to add some more interest. Then I glued the very vanilla onto a very vanilla base. The envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP in rose red.