Rustic Flowers Birthday for Outlawz Festive Fridays and Jan's Digi Stamps

 Happy Fri-Yay, Y'all!! Today's the start of a new Outlawz Festive Friday challenge! It begins today and runs through Thursday, 8/19. This challenge gives you themes to choose from and you can enter a different project as many times as you like. The themes this time are: Christmas, Summer, Food & Drink and Flowers. Our sponsor for the month of August is Jan's Digital Stamp Shop and I am using her digital set Rustic Flowers on my design team make today.

I really enjoyed making this card for 2 main reasons: I used Jan's pre-colored floral image as my focal, and I like combining a little shabby, (modern) vintage, and grunge in a clean and layered way. Ha! Got all that? When I say I'm eclectic, I'm not kidding! 😊 Anyway, when I can pull it off, it's a favorite style. And I feel like I approached success here. 

    

I've used Splitcoaststampers Sketch SC276 for the card front design, resizing it to 5x7" in PSE. 

All of the papers I used, including the card base was either Springhill Digital (what I printed or stamped on) and Prima's Melody A4 collection. On some layers I used Tim's distressing tool; on other layers I ink-edge-distressed with Brilliance Copper ink. I used some of my mom's beautiful pink lace and a Spellbinders flower die as a frame for the round Wild Rose Studio hand-stamped sentiment I cut with a Spellbinders Classic Circle die.

Woulda just look at the gorgeous coloring on the pre-colored image? No way could I ever do that, so I had to have the pre-colored beauty on my card! My neck pain's been high so not having to color was a Godsend...also now having an easy-to-use good quality inkjet printer is a blessing.

Inside of my card, I used mats of Prima pink and then layered on panels I arranged in PSE using more elements from the Jan's digital set. This time I used the flower stem drawing and colored them with my Promarkers.

The back of the card has more of the Prima papers and a hand-stamped Technique Tuesday siggie heat-embossed with Ranger Copper powder. I used a circle punch to cut it and on layered it on a scrap of the Prima cut with a Spellbinders Doilies Tear Drop die.

Here's a close-up of that gorgeous copper heat embossing. Yum!

 

More close-ups to try to capture the shine of the Brilliance copper ink on the layered paper edges and the copper heat-embossing on the sentiment. And I love the subtle texture of the lace .

And a final view. Thanks so much for visiting and until next time, Stay Well and Craft On!! XOX

MY CHALLENGES PLAYLIST:
1.   SplitCoastStampers Sketch SC276

2.   Pearly Sparkles #65: AAG

3.   The Creative Crafters #42: AAG

4.   APTS #8 August 2021: What's Your Style -- #2/8  As I described the style of this card in the post above, it's a real favorite!

5.   Stamping Sensations August: Any Celebration -- #2/3

6.   CD Sunday Plus #66: AG w/USB,CD,Digi -- #1/3  Used Jan's Digital Stamps Rustic Flowers Set

7.   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #163: AAG -- #1/3

8.   Penny's Paper Crafty #502: AAG w/Paper -- #1/3

9.   ABMTTC #143: AAG -- #5/xx

10. ABMTTCXtra August: AAG -- #2/xx

11.  The Crafter's Cafe' #271: AG -- #2/7   11 Challenges Max