Saturday, August 20, 2011

Determined to Persevere

Okay, so as I showed yesterday, that big Hero Arts sentiment was a challenge. I knew I had to make a decent card with it or how else could I look at myself in the mirror?

Yeah. I'm weird that way.

I realized that outline flower stamps wouldn't work (at least for me...feel free to prove me wrong), so I started looking at my block flower stamps. My favorite flower stamp set ever is Papertrey's Beautiful Blooms. If I could only have one flower set, this would be it. Maybe. Well. Sort of. Wouldn't it be horrible if we could only have one? What would be the point?

Where was I?

Oh, yes. I pulled out Beautiful Blooms and made this:


That's much better than yesterday's painful-to-look-at efforts. I tried to mount the stamped panel on an apricot appeal base, but it just didn't work. Tomorrow, I'll show you a similar card with a colored card base that works beautifully because it's a complementary color scheme.

Awww, I'm such a tease.

Happy Sunday.

Supplies
stamps: Hero Arts, Papertrey
ink: Memento
paper: white
accessories: dimensionals, button, DMC floss, glue dot

21 comments:

  1. This is so beautiful, Susan!! I love the images, colors, and crisp white!!

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  2. Oh I bet you are smiling! NOW this one ROCKS!

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  3. Oh yes! This is it! I did appreciate the showing of the not so successful attempts using this large sentiment. I learned from you sharing. Plus, it made me feel better, knowing that not I'm not alone in "it seemed like a good idea in my head"!!

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  4. I'm so glad you did this! You'd left me hanging thinking, "Yes, but I just KNOW that sentiment can work with a flower!", and it does. :-) Can't wait to see what colour base you use. . . pale blue? I'm hopeless at guessing colours, LOL!
    Michelle.

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  5. OOh, I love it Susan, it works beautifully! And you've inspired me to pull out my Beautiful Blooms set that I'm embarrassed to say hasn't seen ink in a very long time! Kate x

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  6. Awesome card. You did a wonderful job on this design. Beautiful Blooms, huh. Don't have that one. Are you sure it's totally worth it?

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  7. Much, MUCH better and beautifully designed. My type of card - gorgeous!

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  8. Yes, it works perfectly! Susan, I love your cards...but I also have to tell you that I love your sense of humor. Each time I see one of your posts pop up in my email, yours is the first email I open!

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  9. I can't believe the difference between yesterday's wrong card and today's oh-so-right card! You're amazing at putting the right stuff together. Today's card is so gorgeous, and so perfect!

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  10. Lovely! I really like seeing and reading about your creative process.

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  11. What a PERFECTLY cheery -- and BALANCED -- card!!

    Receiving it would make ANYONE'S day brighter!!

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  12. yup, now that is perfection!! you really are amazing at this stuff called stamping :-)

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  13. Beautiful - I can't wait to see the next one!

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  14. Your cards make me so happy! And this one is just so bright and cheerful!!! Come stamp with me!!!???

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  15. Yep, pull a good-sized solid flower, pair it with the sentiment... and Bob's your uncle.

    FYI, Susan: "Bob's your uncle" is an Aussie slang term meaning "and there you go."

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  16. Yup, this one works just fine :)

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  17. I LOVE this! So bright and cheery! This is my kind of card!

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  18. LOVE this! The flower makes me happy! Great design!

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  19. The solid flower balances that sentiment so nicely! This works! (I find my husb often thinks one of any type of image should be enough. So wrong.)

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