Hydrangea Haven
February 19, 2021
The 2021 Stampin' Up!® January-June Mini catalog is full of so many beautiful stamp set, dies, Designer Series Paper (DSP) and embellishments. For the Festive Friday challenge I pulled out the Hydrangea Haven bundle. This was my first real play with the products and I am hooked. Before I get started telling you about the Hydrangea Hill Suite let's talk about the Challenge.
The Festive Friday Challenge is a bi-weekly challenge and each challenge lasts 10 days. The challenge is inspired by a festivity and based on that festivity an inspiration list is created aka Inspo List. There are always 10 items on the list and to play in the challenge you need to use at least 3 items from the list on your project. You post your project on the Festive Friday blog gallery. There are just a few rules and you can find them here
This challenge #FF78 ends on March 1 at 4 pm CST. I hope you will join in the fun. I would love to see what you create.
As I mentioned I used the Hydrangea Haven bundle, Hydrangea Hill DSP, and the Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon on my card. The 3 items from the Inspo list on my card: fun fold, flowers, and female sentiment.
The beautiful flower was cut using a die from the DSP. I wish i could claim that I colored it but it is the paper. The die is pretty special, it partially cuts out little flower petals which i pushed out so it looks dimensional. I may have gone a little rhinestone crazy but sometimes you just gotta do it. The rhinestones were colored using the Dark Highland Heather Stampin' Blends. All the patterned paper is from the Hydrangea Hill DSP pack.
The lovely sentiments are from the Hydrangea Haven stamp set and they are powerful words. I am sure we all know someone or many someone's we could send this card to. The larger label was cut using the Stitched Nested dies and the smaller stitched rounded rectangle is from the Hydrangea dies.
For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design team.
What a wonderful card, Sharon. I love the fold. Those papers are delicious, and I love purples and greens together. That ribbon is gorgeous. Thanks for making me giggle with your comment about going rhinestone crazy. You are right. Sometimes you just have to!
Posted by: Stephanie Lanzalotto | February 19, 2021 at 10:55 AM
Absolutely stunning, Sharon! What an awesome fold! How clever to cut the flower from the paper. And you can never have too many rhinestones, can you???
Posted by: Ann Wilcox Schach | February 20, 2021 at 10:15 AM
It sounds as if you've fallen in love with this suite Sharon! I love those dreamy colours and papers and the flower die is so effective and makes the hydrangea look beautifully dimensional. Like you, I love those heartfelt sentiments and I love the way you've embellished with those individual flowers. I had to smile too when I read what you said about the rhinestones. The thing is, if you send it too a fellow crafter, you can be pretty sure they'll be used again LOL! Vicky x
Posted by: Vicky | March 02, 2021 at 08:58 AM