SNS Design Team Round-up

It is fun to find inspiration from different places...for today's card I was entirely inspired by a floral print from the Basic Grey’s Sugared 6 x 6 designer paper. When I looked at it, it made me think of bright yellow annuals and the chocolate bunnies that line the shelves of every store! I decided to go with the flow and allow it to dictate which colors and images to use.

First I stamped these adorable animals from I'd Pick You in brown ink, then colored them with prismas and baby oil. I layered some designer papers (solids and prints), using my sewing machine to zig-zag around the edges. I added a piece of lace (left over from a Prima paper pack from a previous SNS project) because I really love how it brings out the golds in the paper. I punched a flower with a scallop-edged circle punch, then snipped it not quite to center to make petals. A sentiment, stamped on a piece of gold designer paper textured with a cuttlebug dots embossing folder and sculpted over a pop dot, makes the flower’s center. I used some scraps of Basic Grey's polka dot paper to cut some oval shapes to make leaves, snipping them about half way along an imaginary vein and overlapping the ends to give the leaf some dimension. A Martha Stewart fern punch adds some texture and softness to the arrangement. A little piercing gives a bit of interest to the opposite side of the image for balance.