Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Creative Design Boutique Blog Hop

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, our Creative Design Boutique Blog Hop is a little late this month., But , as they say, “better late than never.” This month we are spotlighting the set Floral Breeze by Rita Marie and Company. And BLOG CANDY is involved!!!

In looking for a layout, I went back to PageMaps and found this one, which was a little unusual – I liked the little “belt” across the main panel. I stamped one of the swirly flower images on a tag of SU River Rock, colored it with Prismacolor and Copic markers, and matted it with Always Artichoke. I stamped and colored a second image, cut out the flower, and popped it up on top of the first. I made my own DP for the horizontal panel using several of the smaller flowers in the set, stamping in both River Rock and Groovy Guava. I love these two SU In Colors from last year. The edges are cut with an EK Success border punch. For the background I chose Groovy Guava DSP, and the belt is held down with two small brads. The sentiment is a rub-on.

All images may be found at Creative Design Boutique.

Make sure you visit ALL of the blogs of the Creative Boutique design team, leave comments on ALL 6 of the Blog Posts; and a winner's name will be chosen from those posts on Thursday, September 17, and posted at 6 PM. You have to leave a comment on each blog to be eligible to win. Here are the links for the rest of the team! Good Luck!

Vicky Gould
Nancyruth
Joanne (jojot)
Nicole (ButterflyEars)
Faith (markie's mom)

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Stamps - Floral Breeze by Rita Marie and Company
Paper - River Rock, Always Artichoke, GP White, Groovy Guava DSP
Ink - Palette Noir Black, River Rock, Groovy Guava
Accessories - SU Ticket Corner punch, SU Word Window punch, EK Success Border punch, Prismacolor and Copic markers, Ribbon, White gel pen, Pop dots

20 comments:

Joanne (jojot) said...

wow....wonderful use of that image, Lois...and great layout as well..

Carol L said...

I just love the dsp you created to go with this great card! The popped up flower is so pretty, and I love that little diagonal band across the tag. Great card!!

Ruthieann said...

Your card is gorgeous.

Trina Parsons said...

I really like this one.

ButterflyEars said...

Lois my girl, this is FANTASTIC.
I love the green and the pink together, the pretty flower, the sketch is terrific and I love your use of a tag.

Southern Chic Vintage said...

Your card is really pretty. I love the way the center looks with the wavy offset. You are very talented.

Totty Teabag said...

I love your use of colour, and thank you for the link to Page Maps; it is new to me.

Kristina said...

Love your work!

mary puskar said...

Very unusual color and I love the design.

Mary
www.primitiveseasons.blogspot.com

Vicky Gould said...

What a beauty, Lois. I love the layout and colors!!

Judy Rozema said...

Great layout choice and such a pretty card!

Joan Ervin said...

What a pretty design, Lois....I love the new stamps and you have showcased the flower soo beautifully!!!!

Mark's Finest Papers said...

Lois, I love it!!!

Carol Southern said...

Like that design you used it's great and the colours are awesome together.

margaret said...

Lovely job of color and design. I like it.

Carol Dee said...

Pretty, pretty, pretty, need I say more! Love it.

Unknown said...

Very fun design, Lois--great colors. Didn't know you were on a CT! That's awesome!

Robbie said...

I like the touch of the "belt", too. Very pretty! For some reason I receive my Feedblitz subs a day late. Sure hope this will count toward the blog hop!!

Chrisd said...

Lovely card and details. My Feedblitz sub came late so I just got the Bloghop information now.Hope I can be counted in the hop!

StampinCathy said...

Beautiful card and love the colors and layout.