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Just for You

Happy Thursday! Today I'm sharing a card I made for the February Week 3 Viva la Verve challenge. The deadline is tonight to get all your February VLV cards in to be entered for a chance to win our March release. And might I just add that this release is going to shine! ;)

Anyhow, here's the inspiration photo I chose to start from. I'm kind of proud of myself for not being so obvious for once! LOL I'm usually so literal when I do inspiration sketches, but in this photo I was really drawn to the repeated circle patterns, specifically the dotted ones on the chairs, which made me think of the Just for You set.

My papers are from a pad of paper I recently got at Hobby Lobby. It's absolutely gorgeous, but the packaging just says My Mind's Eye Glittered Paper Pad, with no collection name. Anyhow, it's all sorts of gorgeousness with aqua, brown and creamish glittered papers and totally up my alley. I KNOW you'll be seeing more of it. ;) I chose the dotted circular patterned paper to emboss the flower from Love's Flower and paper piece in layers as my focal image.

Next I stamped the circle frame from Just For You onto the aqua paper and cut out with Nestabilities. The cream square is dry embossed with a small Cuttlebug folder that looks really similar to the knotted pattern on the side table in the photo, however my flower completely covered it up! I lightly sponged the edges with Antique Linen, then embossed the Just for You sentiment on a square of cream, sponging the edges of that panel too. I added a little punched border on the designer paper panel and then tied my ribbon on. I was doing the sketch from memory and for some reason I thought the sketch didn't have the ribbon all the way across the main panel, so I worked hard at figuring out a way to accomplish this. I ended up using the SU! slot punch to punch a hole in the brown layer, then slid the ribbon through and glued to the back, then tied a separate bow and added with a glue dot to cover the hole. But this morning as I'm looking at the sketch I see that the ribbon should have gone all the way to the bottom. Doh! :)

What's In It?
Stamps: Just for You, Love's Flower (Verve)
Paper: Cream (Paper Accents), Glittered Paper Pad (My Mind's Eye)
Ink: Chocolate Chip Craft (SU!), VersaMark, Antique Linen (Ranger Distress)
Accessories: Ivory satin ribbon (RibbonFX), Clear embossing powder, slot punch, border punch (SU!), Classic Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Cuttlebug embossing folder, chocolate pearl (Kaiser Craft)

16 comments

Laural-Lee said...

Love the circles and dots! Great place to put the sentiment as well.

Nikki Schmaltz said...

I love this Julee! It's just so sweet. Love those dots:)

Basement Stamper said...

very pretty Julee!!! Love the colors together.

Allison said...

This is beautiful! Love the colours and the little flower on top!

Sarah Gough said...

Totally gorgeous! Those papers are SO you!

Regina Mangum said...

Julee, you always amaze me. This is lovely!

Christi Flores said...

I am the exact same way with inspiration challenges! You ROCKED this!! Love all of those circles!! I hope you're feeling better!!!

Karen said...

Great sketch! Isn't it fun to see where inspiration can take us??!! And even better when it translates into a card! :>

Bev J. said...

Beautiful and I really like those colors!

Miss Vink said...

very sweet, love the secret and colors

Deborah Young said...

This is striking! I too am usually way too literal. Your interpretation is beautiful And I can see the little cuttlebug embossing peeking through ;-) And these papers are yummy!

Amy Sheffer said...

I love your non-literal interpretation of the inspiration photo, Julee! And ITA - that MME paper is gorgeous! Beautiful job with the sketch!

Kerri said...

So gorgeous, Julee! I love the dp and colors, and yes, I am always very literal with my inspiration challenges : ) Way to think outside the box!

Maureen said...

love this colour combo and how you got inspired from the photo...not literal at all!! Fabulous :)

Betty Wright said...

This is fabulous, Julee! Great colors and patterns. Love how you made that flower even bigger. May have to give that look a try! Lovely card!

Bethany Paull said...

Outstanding job using your inspiration Julee. This is a really beautiful card.