It's time for the midweek challenge on daring cardmakers. The challenge is called Oh Sooo Juicy! and it calls for using lemon or orange toned colors. Here's my card...
The stamp image and sentiment are by Skipping Stones Designs. I colored the flowers with colored pencils. The background embossing was made with the Stylized Flowers Cuttlebug embossing folder. It's a very forgiving design and it's not difficult to emboss a longer piece of cardstock without a seam showing. I loved this theme. It made me think of spring. :-)
When the latest Cuttlebug A2 embossing folders were released, I ordered most of them. Just couldn't help myself. :-) One of the folders that I was a little iffy on was the Distressed Stripes. Well, I had fun using it on my "double Cuttle" cards yesterday. I used it again today, but in a slightly different way.
It's tough to see in that photo above, but I didn't just orient the folder differently. I ran it through twice, after stamping the sunflower image and coloring it, that is.
I think the close up shows the effect nicely, and it's a neat distressed look but doesn't overwhelm my sunflower, which is by Skipping Stones Design, by the way. I just ran the stamped cardstock through one way, then ran it through again after giving it a quarter turn inside the folder. Would probably look pretty neat with the stripes accented a bit, too. I didn't think of that until just now though. :-) Maybe next time. Oh, and the sentiment is by See D's.
