Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Play Date Cafe Challenge #81



Mojo, where are you?! Seriously, I've been occupying myself with organizational tasks lately because my creative mojo is apparently on vacation, without me. Sheesh. I haven't been on a vacation in 2 years, 3 months. (Not that I'm counting.) You'd think my mojo would invite me, but NO. ;-D

However, today I am happy to have a card to blog! I was looking through challenge sites over the weekend and saw the color combo that the Play Date Cafe is using this week--I LOVE purple and green together and really wanted to make something for this challenge, even if my mojo is in Cabo without me. I scored a card base of Royal Velvet about 1/2 inch apart in two columns on either side of a central area. I used Scor-Tape to add a line of glittery goodness to the center of each scored area. Next, I die cut the flowers from PTI's Delightful Dahlia in Soft Stone, stamped them with a background stamp, and then with the Dahlia stamps. I glittered the centers and added rhinestones, and popped them up in the center area, with the leaves framing them. Lastly, I combined white embossing powder and glitter and embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment and added tiny rhinestones under it.

{I apologize for the picture--I went to use my "good" camera, only to find that its batteries need recharging and I have no replacements for the meantime! So, I had to use my point-and-shoot and I don't feel that the colors are quite true. Also, the flash kept flashing in the center tiny rhinestone, making the trio look uneven--they are even IRL, I swear, LOL!}

Supplies
Stamps: PTI--Delightful Dahlia; Stampendous--Pattern Trio
Paper: PTI--Royal Velvet, Simply Chartreuse, Soft Stone
Ink: Versamark; Versacolor--Hyacinth; Memento--Grape Jelly; PTI--Ripe Avocado
Misc.: Dies--PTI Delightful Dahlia; Glitter--Palette Prisma; Scor-Tape 1/4"; Embossing Powder--Stamp Diego Ultra Detail White; Rhinestones--Recollections

15 comments:

Monica K. said...

So pretty, Jill! Love all the sparkles with the purple! Lovely card!

Carol's Ink Spot said...

Beautiful! I love all the sparkle and royal velvet is one of my favorite colors right now.

Tracey said...

BEAUTIFUL!!!! THanks so much for joining us at The Play Date Cafe :)

Andrea Ewen said...

Beautiful! Those dahlia stamps are gorgeous and the way you've arranged the colors is just perfect! Thanks for joining us at the Play Date Cafe!

Anne B said...

Love those colours and what you did with them - and all that sparkle just adds the perfect touch!

Stephanie said...

So pretty, Jill! I just love this color challenge and you did fantastic with it. Great idea with stamping a background stamp before the flower......I'm going to have to try that!

Chris said...

Very elegant, Jill! I love the sparkles with that deep purple!

Jaclyn Miller said...

So glittery and so pretty! Thanks so much for playing along at The Play Date Cafe.

Ruby said...

This is really pretty. I love that you've used the dark purple as a contrast with the flower, gorgeous! Your flower centres look lovely too. Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe this week!

Colleen Dietrich said...

I'm lovin' the intensity of the purple base of the card. Gorgeous drama! THanks for sharing it with us at The Cafe.

Trees said...

What a gorgeous card Jill! I love the glitter strips and the glittered flowers- soo pretty!!

Lindsay said...

Love the glitter strips Jill! Great use of the colors!

Lorraine said...

Wow, wow, wow, girlfriend! Love your card design and you rocked that color challenge. I didn't think it looked like a doable color combo, but you definitely rocked it. Beautiful and I love your glittery-ness!

DF said...

Oooh, I like this! Great placement of leaves, and the colours and sparkle are perfect!

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