Picture Perfect Challenge

Another weekend flashed by us and we're almost half way through August already!  I've had a slightly ill little girl for the last few days, so we have been relaxing at home, keeping warm and dry, which has given me a bit of a chance to do a bit more card making.

I decided to enter the Paper Smooches Stamps SPARKS Challenge this week, which was a picture perfect challenge.  I love the Paper Smooches cute designs and so I really enjoyed participating in this challenge.

         

This is the inspiration photo...

Here is the card I created...

I stamped and cut a selection of flowers and leaves from the Paper Smooches Reflections stamp set and coordinating dies.  I also used the pocket shape from the Paper Smooches Pocket Dies set and cut it from Ranger Sticky Back Canvas.  Using washi tape for masking, I ink blended random stripes on the canvas and frayed the edges out a little.  I then adhered the canvas and all the die cuts to some kraft cardstock using different thicknesses of glue dots and foam dots on the flowers to get a layered look.  I added the Paper Smooches Thanks word die cut from black cardstock, adhering with some Multi Medium Matte.  I stamped "a bunch" in Versafine black and finished off the edges by drawing the stitching with a white gel pen.

Well, that's all for now.  Time to go and clean up my craft desk!