Monday 14 March 2011

Yellow Rose - A card for 5 challenges.

Good evening. Here is a nice bright easel card which I am going to enter in 5 challenges:

Totally Papercrafts #57 - Shaped cards
Crafty Catz Weekly challenge - Colour Combo, Yellow and Green
The Stamp Man #18 - Mother's Day - Floral Theme
Sentimental Sundays #46 - Let's go Green (Colour or Recycled) + a sentiment
Diecut Dreams Challenge #85 Mothers Day or Special Friend

To create the shape I used Grand Nesties in both Scalloped Ovals and Ovals on both pale yellow hammered card and plain green card. Many of these were cut, matted and layered to give the final look. The largest plain oval was stamped with a flourish stamp (Creative Expressions) using Shabby Shutters Distress Ink.

The large central rose, the leaves, the smaller rose on the base of the easel and the sentiment  are all stamps by Creative Expressions. They were stamped on white card, coloured with Distress inks and Aquamarkers.

The double bow incorporates both pale yellow organza ribbon with satin edges and pale green satin ribbon.

The sentiment says: "If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a life time." My Mum passed away nearly 3 years ago so I don't have one to give the card to but I do think of her a lot.

7 comments:

  1. oh wow fab creation, thanks for playing along with CraftyCatz this week, x carol

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  2. Fabulous card, love the easel design, and the colour choice is gorgeous. with hugs Shirleyxxxx

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  3. Such a lovely card. Nice colors & sentiment. I am sure your mum would love this card. Thanks for joining us at SS this week!

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  4. Gorgeous card, and what a lovely sentiment! Thanks for joining us at The Stamp Man challenge.

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  5. truly stunning card! The easel card is supberb! Thanks for joining us at Sentimental Sundays for our green challenge. Good luck! :-) Amy

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  6. beautiful card Shirl, love the colour combo. Thank you for playing at Die Cut Dreams.

    Hugs Ali x

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  7. How very elegant this is
    Thanks for joining us @ the DCD challenge this time please come back tomorrow for our new challenge
    Hugs Susie Sugar xx

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