You make things groovy

I decided I would complete all four Viva La Verve sketches this month, and here I am with my contribution to the last one (the three others are here, here and here). I'm very proud to say the first even got mentioned on the week 2 Recap and Viewfinder post on the Viva La Verve blog! This is my contribution to the last sketch of September. I can't believe it's October already, I am in utter disbelief at the speed the days are just disappearing. I know everyone says time just seems to speed up all the time, but this is just getting ridiculous. I really feel like I need a time machine to take me back to the spring and to review everything that happened this summer as I feel like I barely have any memories at all as time just disappeared. One thing I do know, is that I have spent a huge amount of time in the craft room lately. Maybe that's why time just seems to fly, because I'm having such a good time. Today's card is also inspired by the Just Us Girls photo inspiration. I'm also entering the card in the Make My Monday challenge where this week's theme is Die cuts and/or punches as I used a die to cut the scalloped circle.

For today's card I used some leftover papers in colours matching the photo. I used the lovely bloom from the Verve Surely Goodness stamp set and coloured using Stampin' Up markers. I stamped one of the sentiments from the same set onto vellum to let as much as possible of the lovely papers show through and added a smaller flower to mask where I adhered the vellum onto the card. To finish, I added just a little bit of stickles in the centre of the flowers.

Card: Leonardo Stationery 300 gsm white card, Stampin' Up Summer Starfruit card, Hobbycraft 160 gsm white card, Dovecraft Premium 110 gsm vellum

Paper: Stampin' Up International Bazaar and Comfort Cafe

Stamps: Verve Surely Goodness

Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Real Red, Stampin' Write markes in Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red and Wild Wasabi

Other: Ranger Ice Stickles Crystal Ice, doily from my stash, Xcut Scalloped Circle dies

Really tough colour combo

I received my wonderful Verve stamp set (called Surely Goodness) on the post the other day, the one I won at Mojo Monday challenges. I chose this set with the pretty flowers because I thought they would be really fun to colour in. And because you can never have too many flower stamps. When in doubt, always go for flowers. I couldn't wait to play with it, and thought the only right place to start was with the wonderful Viva La Verve challenge (by the way, you don't have to use Verve stamps to join in the fun). I really like their sketch over there this week, you can see it below.

Then the only decision was what colours to use. I thought I would really challenge myself and use this week's Colour Me... colours, which frankly is a combo I would never have put together on my own. I really didn't think I would be able to make anything useful out of it, but after many trials and errors I did manage to put together a more or less bearable card after all. But it's worth pushing your boundaries a bit from time to time and create something you never thought you would. 

I stamped the flower with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with Stampin' Write markers. I fussycut the background for the flower from a Stampin' Up DSP using a printout of a scalloped rectangle as a template. I stamped some of the flowers in Pink Pirouette onto cream cardstock, and stamped one of the sentiments from the stamp set in Marina mist onto the background. For the lower part of the card I used another Stampin' Up DSP and added some ribbon in Tangerine Tango (I don't have Tangelo Twist, so I substituted with the closest colour I had in my stash). Finally I die cut the scalloped borders using a Tim Holtz die. I also stamped inside the card and on the envelope, just because I had so much fun colouring in the flower. 

   

Cardstock: Stampin' Up Tangerine Tango card, Hobbycraft 160 gsm cream card

Paper: Stampin' Up DSPs Sycamore Street, Polka Dot Parade, Fan Fair

Stamps: Verve Surely Goodness

Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Marina Mist and Pink Pirouette, Stampin' Write markers in Marina Mist, Tangerine Tango and Pink Pirouette

Other: Tim Holts alterations Vintage Lace dies, Stampin' Up Tangerine Tango ribbon