Country Flowers Birthday for JAI #716

 

Happy Friday and welcome! It's officially almost the last week of Winter here in Australia and down in Melbourne it has been particularly chilly. The coldest winter in 24 or 28 years! But we seem to be enjoying the early signs of Spring this week with warmer and longer days but still crisp overnight. It has been lovely to see the flowers start to bloom and some bird calls we haven't heard in a while. Hopefully you can spend some time in the garden in between your craft room as I'm sure you might like to join in this challenge!

This week at Just Add Ink we have this pretty Inspiration Photo for you from Kim.  You can take as much or as little as you choose from photo challenges and there is lots to love about this one. There are the beautiful colours, the textures and of course the beautiful image itself - the gorgeous steps and those cute little flower pots. 

So I hope that you can pop on over to the JAI blog and see all the cards from the design team and other entrants and we'd love you to join us!

For my card I just couldn't go past those gorgeous little flower pots of roses on all the steps. So I finally broke open the pretty Country Flowers bundle. Truth be told, when I saw this Challenge I knew that I wanted to use this set and for me, the start of every card is which stamp set so that was the hardest part decided. 

The flowers were coloured using a mixture of Blends and Copics and the flower pot too. Then the pretty and die cut leaves were added. 

The Country Lace DSP has beautiful patterns and these sheets are in similar tones to the Challenge photo and they fit in well here. I was a little tired by the time of stamping the sentiment and it is a touch lower than I wanted. But it was too late to move the DSP by then...one day I will learn to stop sooner and come back the next day. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope that you can pop on over to Just Add Ink and I look forward to seeing what you create for this pretty challenge.

Card stock: Basic White Thick and standard, Pool Party.

DSP: Country Lace

Inks: Tuxedo Momento Black, Blends and Copics

Stamps: Country Flowers, Friends for Life

Accessories: Die cutting Machine, Country Flowers dies, Basic Rhinestones

'Til next time,

Jan