Guest Designer for Time Out Challenge

Thanks to a win in February, I’m delighted to be the Guest Designer for the new Time Out Challenge: Pick Two. It’s interesting that the challenge I won was also a Pick Two. 

My card uses just two of the prompts: pastel and bloom. I was hoping to add a sentiment for hope, but I don’t have many and the ones I had were too large for the design of my card.

I started with a silver hot foiled image from Pinkfresh Studio, Folk Floral Stem. Although it’s long been a favorite, I haven’t used it in quite a while. There are two stencils for both the florals and the leaves. The second stencil for the florals was too stark for what I wanted so I added the pale pink to the bottom of the yellow florals to create some soft blending. It’s harder to see on the pink portion of the main floral but I did add more pink to the bottom of that as well. It does show up a bit better IRL. I used both of the stencils for the leaves, but tried to use a very light hand with the darker green ink. 

Once the floral was colored, I did cut it with the accompanying die. To create the white-on-white background. I ran a panel of white paper through the die cutter with the Penny Black, Texture, embossing folder. I cut that down to fit behind two of the Penny Black Elegant Frames that I glued together. I added the frame to the card front, then tucked the floral design in on top, adding dimensional tape under parts of the floral. I didn’t want to cover the design so found a simple sentiment in The Greetery’s All Occasion Script Sentiments. I embossed it in silver and die cut it. I love the script font, and it fits in beautifully with the curve of the floral design. The final touch was to add a few Pinkfresh Clear Iridescent Drops which add a bit of sparkle.

Many thanks to the Design Team at Time Out for the opportunity to play along with them for this challenge.