Dark Blue and Green Scalloped Florals

Here is an anniversary card that I made for a couple of pals over on the docrafts forum, both of whom celebrated their anniversaries on Valentine's Day. This is something a little different for me and was inspired by the very talented Ikki. The inspiration for this card is here.

I have just noticed that I managed to choose exactly the same papers as Ikki, which wasn't my intention, it's just that those two seemed to go together best when I looked through all the papers. Just goes to show we both have a great eye for co-ordination!

A square was die cut using a Nestabilities die and the image, from the Papermania Jesse Edwards Memories stamp set, was stamped in the centre and the sentiment, from the same stamp set, along the edge using a combination of Charcoal and Blue Iris ColorBox Fluid Chalk inks.

This was then matted onto a die cut panel of dark blue and green paisley paper from the Laura Ashley Traditional paper pack and a panel of dark blue shimmer card, die cut with a scalloped square Nestabilities die.

A panel of the green and dark blue etched botanicals paper, from the same paper pack, was matted onto a panel of the shimmer card and onto the card blank, from Craftwork Cards. I bought these last year at the Make It show at Farnborough, and this is the first time I've used them!

The flourish, cut using the Vine #2 Sizzix Sizzlits die from cream card, was coloured using the blue and grey chalk inks and adhered over the corner of the image panel. It was then highlighted with Craft Planet Iridescent Sparkle glitter glue.

Here are the challenges that I am entering this card into:

• Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
• Little Claire's - #2 - Flowers
• Send A Smile 4 Kids - #5 - Anything Goes
• The Stamp Man - #17 - Curls & Swirls
• CCEE Stampers - #1109 - Swirls
• Little Miss Muffet - #4 - Designer Papers
• Moving Along With The Times - #88 - Anniversary
• PaperPlay - #11/09 - Shabby Chic/Vintage
• Shelly's Images - Layers, Layers, Lots of Layers
• Desert Island Crafters - #3 - Recipe (Make it square, 2+ patterned papers, No sentiment on the front
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes/Neglected Stash
• Top Tip Tuesday - Favourite Embellishment or Technique (STAMPING)
• Craft Cardmakers Spotlight - Silhouettes
• Card Cupids - Anything Goes
• Gingerloft - #13 - Use Those Flowers