Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Shades of Purple

Our January Stampin’ Fancy Friday theme is “Shades of Purple.” How fun! I love purple, but it’s not typically the focus of my attention, so I have to say that I really enjoyed this challenge. It also helps that an idea immediately popped into my head! (I LOVE that when that happens!)

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My card features the Happy Place Stamp Set and some retired products that were just too perfect for this challenge. When I looked through my stash of designer series papers, I remembered the beautiful Celebratory Sips Designer Series Papers (DSP). It has a sheet of gorgeous watercolored rectangle shapes, many of which include shades of purple! So that got me thinking whether the rectangles were large enough to die-cut the palm trees from the Beach Day Dies? And yes, they were!!! Wahoo my idea was going to work!

So I proceeded to die-cut five palm tree tops (with two die-cuts each) from various purple, Strawberry Slush, and Timid Tiger rectangles of the DSP. I also die-cut the trunks from the same paper. The trunks were a little too long, but that’s ok because most of them are hidden behind the sentiment.

After die-cutting the tree top pieces, I added a little ink blending in the centers with Blackberry Bliss and Berry Burst ink. I also added a bit of shading to the trunks with the same colors.

For the big Happy Place stamp, I did a few things to get the multi-colored image. First, I used Sponge Daubers to ink up the stamp with Blackberry Bliss, Berry Burst, Strawberry Slush, and Timid Tiger ink. After stamping the image on Basic White Cardstock, I colored the image with Fresh Freesia and Gorgeous Grape watercolor pencils. That really helped to fill in the image and give the letters shading. I could also darken a few sections that didn’t stamp too well.

Behind the palm trees, I blended a layer of Basic White Cardstock with Fresh Freesia ink and layered that over a card base of the same color.

Here’s the inside of the card. I gave it to a dear friend that I’ve known for over forty years. She loved it!

Have a wonderful and creative day!

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