Power Poppy Challenge: Feeling Sentimental

 Hello Crafty Friend,

    Today at Power Poppy, we're all feeling a bit sentimental as summer draws to a close, and fall and new school adventures beckon.  Our challenge this month is to make your Power Poppy sentiment the focal point of your card and build the other elements around that sentiment.

    My sentiment comes from the gorgeous (!!!) Peonies digital stamp set.  Using the Heart Abloom digital stamp set, I pasted the single anemone  images six times and rotated and flipped it, making a top and bottom border around the sentiment.  

Since I have a new computer and Microsoft Word is not yet installed), I built this design as a Google slide, which is something I've never done before. And yes, I used the free-ware version, because I prefer to save my crafty $$ for stamps, digital images, and every coloring medium I can get my mitts on!  It was ridiculously intuitive!  Here's the image I madethat took only 10 minutes:

 

The rest is equally easy:

1. Using a Laser Jet printer, print your image onto card stock.

2. Color the peonies using alcohol markers (I use Copics). 

3. Using a light blue (B000) Copic, make drop shawdows for the flowers AND the sentiment.

4. Cut out the A2 panel and trim 1/8 inch from the left and right sides (= 4 X 5 1/2).

5. Foil the entire panel.  I use a Heidi Swapp Minc machine and Thermoweb gold deco foil.

6. Mount on a peony pink, top-folding A2 card. 

7. Add a few pinkish gems for a little bit of bling.  

And...voila!

 

    Foiled cards are tricky to photograph, but let me just say that in real life (IRL, as my teen would write) it is just "wow."

    I hope you'll join our challenge, which runs through September 15--Marcella has great sentimental digis on sale to inspire you to try something new, and we'll have a $20 gift certificate for a lucky winner--just upload your Power Poppy "sentimental" project to the blog to play along!

Happy crafting!

Essie