Cup of Flowers

Power Poppy teamed with Page Maps for their challenge this month.  I thought I would give it a try.  Here's my card....

I used Power Poppy's Everything's Rosy digital stamp set for the image, and a stamp from the Dynamic Duos Peonies & Tulips clear stamp set for the verse.

I printed the image onto white card stock.  I used my Faber-
Castell Polychromos colored pencils to color the image, and added the yellow haze around it with colored pencil.  I did go over the lines of the drawing with a Micron pen afterwards, as the colored pencil tends to dull the lines.  Here is a close-up of the coloring....

I used a die from the Spellbinders A2 Valiant Honor Card Creator die set for the image.  For the accent pieces along the sides of the panel the image is on, I used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Scalloped Borders, and Die-namics Blueprints 5 for the purple one.  The verse is on a die I had in my stash, already cut.  I do not know what it is.

I layered patterned papers onto a 5 x 6 1/2" card base, then used foam tape to adhere the image panel. 

I am not a fan of patterned papers.  I rarely use them in my stamping.  I have tons of it, as I used it when I did a lot more scrapbooking.  For my cards, I really don't use it much.  So, I'm a little out of my comfort zone here.

The Power Poppy Challenge  (Power and Spark) is to use a Page Map with their stamps to create a card.  
Here is the Page Map I chose....

As you can see, I used the sketch vertically instead of horizontally.  Other than that, I pretty much followed it.

I am also using their Hues to Use inspiration photo for my card....

I really wasn't so sure about the color combo, but kind of like it now that I used it.  

That's what I love about challenges.  The challenge to try something you wouldn't probably do otherwise.  It's so easy to get stuck in a rut and do the same thing all the time.  Who knows, I may even start using some of my reams and reams of patterned paper more now!

I am also adding my card to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use patterned paper!

And, of course, I will send it along to The Daily Marker  for the 30 Day Color Challenge there.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you're having a great day.  

Be blessed,