You Are the Best for The Flower Challenge

Hello friends and Happy Independence Day to everyone in the US!  It's time for a new challenge at The Flower Challenge, and this month we're focusing on creating CAS cards using flowers.  AND we are so fortunate to have the amazing Therese Calvird as our Guest Designer this month!

The Flower Challenge

I used some cute flowers that had previously been stenciled and die cut but were left unused, so I thought they'd work well for a small grouping on a CAS card.

The flowers are from the Pinkfresh Studio Rainbow Floral set, stenciled in various Altenew pastel colors then die cut with the matching dies.  I decided to carry on the pastel look by ink blending the same pink on a panel cut with the largest Altenew Ornate Nesting rectangle die.  In hindsight, I wish I'd used the yellow in the background to better highlight the pink flowers in the back of the grouping, but I didn't think of it until the card was complete.

After the ink dried on the die cut panel, the sentiment was gold heat embossed.  The flowers were added but things seemed just a wee bit to plain (this is always my challenge with CAS cards lol!) so I did add a few gold glimmer crystals to finish things off before adding the panel to the card base.

Come show us your version of CAS - the challenge is open until the 25th of the month. In the meantime, some beautiful inspiration awaits you at the challenge blog, so be sure to pop over to see what the DT and our special guest Therese have created for you!

Take care!

Stef

Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Friend (sentiment)

Paper:  Neenah Solar White

Ink:  Versamark; Altenew Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart, Lemon Ice, Warm Sunshine, Lime, Fresh Leaf and Wisteria

Dies:  PFS Rainbow Floral, Altenew Ornate Nesting die

Stencil:  Rainbow Floral

Other:  Altenew Antique Gold embossing powder, Studio Katia Gold Glimmer Crystals