Purple Rose of Sympathy

Good evening!  At least where I am it is evening.  I am squeaking in at the last minute with a card for JustRite Stampers' Challenge.  This time it is a sketch challenge.  You can find out all of the details by going to their site here.  I decided to make a sympathy card using my With Sympathy clear stamp set from JustRite.  I  love that beautiful frame and the rose is also a personal favorite.  I recently had made it a goal to use some colors that I don't usually use, so I chose purple.  I wasn't sure how I was going to color that rose purple, but I really like the way it turned out.  Now, on the screen it may have more of a blue appearance, but it is actually violet.  I colored it using Copic colors V20,22,25,28 and a bit of V17.  For the leaves I used G40, and BG93,96,99.  Part of the challenge was to use one of JustRite's background stamps, if you have one....which  I don't...yet.  So, in the meantime, I made my own background by stamping the roses as my background.  I matted that with some purple cardstock, inked and stitched it, then wrapped some ribbon around it.  This is not your ordinary ribbon, and I am wondering if my friend Kush is going to recognize it...lol.  It is recycled from when I went shopping and the retailer tied a ribbon on my bag.  It just so happened to be the perfect color for my card!  :)  The rose was trimmed down from it's original 2 bloom size to fit this frame edge.  I pulled out my new find....my Krylon Gold Leafing pen and went to work on most of the edges.  I tell you, I want to gold leaf everything now...lol...my dachshund is getting nervous!  Nah, I wouldn't gold leaf him....hmmm.  Anyways, I finished it off by adding some pearls.  Thank you to JRS for a really great sketch to play with this week!  And thank you for stopping by!  See you soon!

Katie

Supplies:  With Sympathy stamp set, Nested Oval Medallion Label dies-JRS; Small Oval die-Spellbinders; Classic White, Classic Ivory cardstock-Flourishes; Elegant Eggplant ink and cardstock, Crumb Cake ink, pearls, foam dimensionals-SU!; Ribbon-stash; Krylon 18KT Gold Leafing Pen; Chamomile and Chai inks-PTI; Peeled Paint Distress Ink-Tim Holtz; Singer sewing machine

Sweet Friend for JustRite Stampers

Happy Easter!  I hope everyone had a wonderful day with family and friends.  I have a little card to share today.  This is for the JustRite Stampers' Friday challenge # 093 to make a card celebrating Spring and tell what Spring means to you.  When I think of Spring I think of blue skies, fresh green leaves, and brightly colored flowers.  You can check out the challenge details here.  So, I picked a blue green color and a red.  The colors felt a little vintage-y to me so I played that up a bit.  I used the beautiful Resplendent Rectangles dies and also Labels Four and  Wonderful Wings dies from Spellbinders. I did very little stamping on this card... just the sentiment and the label.  The label was colored with Copics.  I glittered up the butterfly with Crystal Snow from Stampendous and embossed one of my layers with the Petals-a-Plenty folder from Stampin' Up!  I used ALOT of Chamomile ink from PTI to distress everything, added some twine, a button, and some pearls to finish it off.  This is a little outside my "normal" for cards but I really wanted to play around with these gorgeous dies that I recently purchased.  I really do think Resplendent Rectangles is my new favorite.....have I said that before?  Lol....I believe I have!  Anyways, hope you have a great rest of the day (or evening) and I'll be checking in soon!

Katie

Supplies used:  Classic White cardstock-Flourishes; DP-My Mind's Eye; Grand Sentiments stamp set-JustRite Stampers; Tuxedo Black Memento ink; Copic markers; Island Indigo and Ruby Red inks, Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder, seam binding ribbon, pearls, foam dimensionals-SU!; Labels Four, Resplendent Rectangles, Wonderful Wings dies-Spellbinders; Chamomile, Chai inks, twine and button-PTI