Flowering Meadow Sympathy JAI #789

Happy Friday everyone and welcome back! Here in Melbourne this week we've had a number of cold, wet and grey days that make photographing cards very difficult. So I apologise in advance for my card looking different as you go through my photos. It has been a dark, wet and miserable few days outside and a very busy week for us.

This week at Just Add Ink we have a beautiful Sketch for you from Tristan. You can keep this sketch in portrait of flip it to landscape, use strips of DSP, card stock or create your own stripes...as long as the sketch is recognisable. Our design team used this sketch with a number of different themes and colours and we look forward to seeing what you create! You have until Wednesday July 15 to enter your card in at the JAI blog.

I am sorry this first photo is so dark...Melbourne's dark grey skies and heavy rain was not helping me today...
You can see that I flipped the Sketch to Landscape. I thought it fitted with the upright stems of these pretty flowers from Flowering Meadow. I also tried a new technique for me that I've seen a little of online of raising the strips alternately. I didn't look into the workings of how others did this. But did make an attempt using dimensionals and I don't recommend as my version looked very uneven.

The beautiful Flowering Meadow DSP is first die cut using the now retired Stitched Rectangles and then I also die cut a layer of a different green paper from the pack and a piece of Peaceful Pine card stock to use underneath both papers.

This means that when looking at the different paper heights, you may see a little bit of green but not the open space that a dimensional might give and the paper layer is strong and stable to easily carry this little posy and sentiment.

These flowers are fussy cut from the DSP. I forgot I could've die cut them but you won't now!!

 I did die cut a stem for them and some leaves and then also fussy cut the two little leaf sprays to layer with them. This is a very pretty and elegant bundle and the DSP is stunning!!

This DSP is so soft to the touch  - Velvet Meadow is the perfect name as all the white in it is flocked, like soft velvet. And there is lots of it in this particular piece which is all white and green. It is super elegant and sadly I needed a sympathy card for a friend so it seemed perfect. 

 I find being able to create a card for a friend is an honour and especially in times like these, when we want to be supportive, the card carries more than the card and paper used to create it.

Thanks for popping by today and I hope that you might like to join us for this challenge at Just Add Ink.
You have until Wednesday 15 July so I look forward to seeing what you will create!

Card stock: Peaceful Pine, Basic White

DSP: Velvet Meadow
Inks: Versamark
Stamps: Flowering Meadow, Rose Wonder (retired).
Accessories: Die cutting machine, Stitched Rectangles, Flowering Meadow dies, Metallic Pearls, Gold EP, Gold twine.

'Til next time

Jan