Monday, May 14, 2012

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge-Designer Drafts

                     Hello! Welcome to the first Paper Smooches Sparks Designer Drafts challenge!
Here is the sketch we are working with this week:

As soon as I saw this sketch, I had an idea to make a Hawaiian lei card.  First, I wrapped twine around my card base in the same pattern as the sketch.


Then I stamped, cut and colored about 15 flowers using the Get Outta Town stamp set by Paper Smooches (only after all that did I decide that I only wanted to use 8 of them!).  I added some liquid pearls to the flowers and then punched a tiny hole in the center of each flower.  I then cut between two of the petals (on each flower) up to the center hole so I could string the flowers on my twine.  To help fill in the area between the flowers, I added some adhesive pearls to the twine. I did have to put a mini glue dot on each of the pearls to make them stick to the twine-they weren't quite sticky enough on their own.  The Aloha sentiment was made using Alphadot.   I was going to stamp the sentiment directly on the card, but instead I stamped it on another piece of paper, trimmed it, and popped it up with some dimensional adhesive so it would stand out a little more.  Here is my finished card:
I am so glad you stopped by today!  Be sure to check out the other Sparks desingers' blogs to see what they did with this sketch and don't forget to play along with us!

9 comments:

Jackie Rockwell said...

WOW, WOW, WOW I'm LOVING those STUNNING flowers! Beautiful card Emm!

Tenia Nelson said...

Awesomesauce!!!

Kimberly said...

Awesome card, Erica! I love those flowers made into a lei, and those little pearls are just perfect. Great take on the sketch!

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

LOOOOOOVE this! I LOVE the idea of using a lei as your inspiration! FAB take on this sketch:) Beautiful coloring on your flowers!

kasia c. said...

What an absolutely fabulous take on the sketch Erica!! Those flowers are stunning. :)

Denise Marzec said...

Gorgeous blooms! Love the color!

Glenda J said...

Your flowers are absolutely amazing! Great work.

maddymuscles said...

This is very cute! Love the hawaiian theme :)

Cassie said...

This is just gorgeous, Emm! I love how you colored the pretty flowers. Thanks for your sweet comment on my blog :)