Week 2 of Summer Card Camp 2 brings us a new color scheme and some fun new sketches, so I got busy with some more Verve goodies. These stamps and dies are from their Joyful Blooms collection.

I used the technique that Jennifer McGuire showed us in her video, which involved using a craft knife to make slits in your watercolor paper before adding your distress inks. I used Broken China on the flowers and then spritzed them with water to blend the color some more, but after they dried, I stamped the flower images in turquoise on top. I used my Signo white gel pen to add the dots:

I scored the card base using my Scor-Pal, and the white strip is embossed using a text impression plate from Papertrey Ink - sorry, I think it’s hard to see that in the photos.

I think this is the first time that I managed to squeeze in all the colors from a challenge at once! YAY! Have a great day!

Suzanne

Hope you’re having a fun day! I just wanted to post another card that I made for Summer Card Camp 2, this time using some stamps and dies from Verve; here I am using their Shining Star stamp set along with their Scallop Trim Trio and Starry dies. I was so lucky to win a generous Verve prize in a recent Mojo Monday challenge, and I couldn’t wait for these goodies to arrive in the mail! I was inspired by the Day 4 challenge to make a card in 10 minutes, though I admit that I came in at 11:27. I really loved how Jennifer Rzasa positioned her sentiment to that the “y” was fitted around the arrow; using a similar concept, I placed my sentiment so that it hangs over the edge of the stacked diecuts. I also covered the stars in vellum to soften the look of them just a little bit. I am nearly caught up at this point - there are some fun color combos added for Day 5, so maybe I will do some more crafting tonight!

XO,
Suzanne