Wonderful Scraps

Another day, another challenge!  Today I decided to try a one I've never participated in before.  The inspiration photo is easy enough, flowers, I can do flowers!  I wasn't too sure about the color combo, though!  It looks tropical to me...I was a little worried!

 

Create with Connie & Mary 

Once again I started in my scrap file.  Guess what?  I only cut ONE of these pieces of cardstock!  I used everything else EXACTLY as it came out of my scrap file.  The exception?  The So Saffron circle I cut and embossed it.  Otherwise I used the pieces as they were! Kinda fun!  Even the image was in my scrap file.  It's a piece I was playing with last night.  I stamped the foliage from Wonderful You in black Stazon.  I went back with my Certainly Celery and Wild Wasabi marker to fill in and shadow my leaves.  My last step was to spray the image with Champaign Mist shimmer paint mixed with rubbing alcohol.  Not only did it give my cardstock shimmer but it blurred my markers some...just enough.  I like it.

Wonderful Mother - Curtain Call Act #29

Even though this week's color combo is totally out of my element, it really worked in my favor.  My mother loves yellow flowers.  So, all along I had planned to use yellow to make her Mother's Day card.

Last year Mom commented on some big yellow zinnias I had started from seed.  Immediately the light bulb went off, to start some of these next year for her Mother's Day present.  The cultivar is Dreamland and I've never seen in them greenhouses, so really the only way to get them is from seed.  This is a stock photo because mine don't look like this yet!

So, my gift and card coordinate!  Yipee!

Make sure to check out the rest of the Curtain Call Crew....

Amy White @ Devlinwhite Designs
Andrea Roose @ Andrea's Scrap - und Stempel-Blog
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa) @ Random Acts of Creativity
Julie Smith @ Paper and Such
Lea Lawson @ Lea's Cupcakes & Sunshine
Marisa Ritzen @ Rosemary Reflections
Melissa Hubert@ My Paper Obsession
Sue Kohler@ My Inner Reflection

And our leader, of course....Stacey @ Stacey's Stamping Stage

Please join us and post your creation over at Stacey's using Mr. Linky.