Make Today Beautiful - a card for the Spring Bliss challenge at The Shabby Tea Room....

Hello All,
Last night I whipped up this sweet little ray of sunshine card for this week's Shabby Tea Room "Spring Bliss" challenge.   Here is this week's graphic:

Debbie has asked that we create a card or project inspired by the INSPIRATION PHOTO USING YELLOW, GREEN, WHITE (OR CREAM) AND INCLUDE FLOWERS AND POLKA DOTS!


I had just received the "Make Today Beautiful" stamp set in the mail from Paper Sweeties and decided that this was the perfect challenge to initiate it - ie: get it all inky!!!!

 

 I stamped the rose flower several times on patterned papers and hand cut them and then distressed them with some water and crinkling.  I then threaded some small paper roses through the centers of 2 of the blossoms to create my flowers for the pot.  I twirled the stems around my stylus to add dimension to them.  I stamped the flower pot on designer paper too and then glued everything down and added a few baby die cut leaves.  A portion of a border die cut adds decoration to the pot along with a small twine bow. 

Some polka dot die cut mats using paper from Amuse Art Stamps help to ground the pretty pot of flowers and a few yellow pearls finish it off.  The white mat is embossed with a burlap impression plate from Cheery Lynn Designs -my polka dot embossing folder is too small for square cards - boo hoo!!!   

Thanks for taking a look at my card!  I sure love my sweet little pot of flowers....and speaking of flowers I am off to my garden to plant some that I picked up this morning at the nursery near my home.  It is a sunny day in Seattle and that means I am outside as long as I can be soaking up some much needed vitamin D!
As Debbie's sweet stamp set says - "Make Today Beautiful!"!
Hugs,
Jill

Supplies:
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink and Michael's
Stamps:  Make Today Beautiful set - Paper Sweeties
Dies: Cheery Lynn Designs, Papertrey Ink
Other: pearls, flowers, twine, stickles, glue, score tape

Entered into the following challenges:

Challenge: The Shabby Tea Room #163 - Spring Bliss - linked above
Challenge:  Paper Sweeties  Sketch Inspiration #6  
(Note: Edited this post on 4-26-13 to add entry to the Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration Challenge #6.)