Card Patterns Sketch 98

This is my second post today and it will be a quick one before I head out for the rest of the day.  I am sharing a card I made for two challenges - Sketch Challenge #98 on the Card Patterns blog and this week's Color Spotlight Challenge on StampTV (stvcsp9).

Here is the Card Patterns sketch:

Here are the Color Spotlight challenge colors:

And finally, here is my card:

I started with a base card of Turquoise Sea and added a layer of Layering Weight White.  The two patterned paper panels are from Webster's Pages Home For The Holidays/Winter's Wings Petite Papers pack.  I created a simple sentiment tag from Heavy Base Weight White with one of the Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio 2 and stamped the sentiment from the Gina K. Designs set, Arranged With Love (by Melanie Muenchinger), with Vivid Aqua.  I added some chocolate satin ribbon, chocolate pearls and a beautiful layered flower that I got from Pixie Petals Etsy store.  I added a little brown satin embellishment (Offray) to the flower center and that was it.

Have a wonderful weekend!  See you tomorrow for this week's Just Us Girls Challenge!



Gina K. Designs CSS Alumni Blog Hop

It's time for another Center Stage Spotlight Alumni Blog Hop!  This time we are playing along with Gina's Color Spotlight Challenge for this week (STVCSP8).  If you arrived here from Betty's blog, then you are in the right place. If not, you will want to start over in the StampTV Forum so you won't miss anything!
You may have seen that this week's Color Challenge had two sets of colors. You could use either or both (on separate cards). 

Here are the two sets of colors for the challenge:

I chose to work with the Version 1 colors.  Here is my card:



I stamped lots of the flowers and leaves from Melanie's set, Bud and Vases with Memento Rich Cocoa onto Pure Luxury Red Hot (for the flowers) and Fresh Asparagus (for the leaves).  I highlighted the centers with an Inkssentials White Opaque Pen then cut out all the flowers and leaves to assemble later.  The card base is Heavy Base Weight Ivory and the Swiss Dots layer is Sweet Corn.  I cut out the mat for the image panel with Spellbinders Lacey Circles.  I punched a trellis out of Layering Weight Ivory and adhered the flowers and leaves to it.  I added one more spray of flowers for my main image.  I added small pearls to all the flower centers. I finished it with a couple of bright red pearls and a double-loop bow made of red wrinkled silk with my Bow Easy.

Thanks for stopping by!  Now hop on over to Carolina's blog where she has some awesome creations for you to be inspired by!

Hope you'll play along!  See the STVCSP8 post for details on how you could win a free stamp set if you do!