Here is the sketch that we had to work with.

I picked the colors because I had some ribbon that was sitting together in my craft room – Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery – I like how they looked together so I decided to use that for my color scheme.  Based on the sketch I decided to get out the Sweet Pea Designer Paper Pack and I chose papers that had those colors and cut them into 1/4″ strips to layer on my card.

As I was creating the card I didn’t like the sentiment coming off the top of the image so I decided to flip the sketch upside down.

The image is stamped on Watercolor paper and I used my Classic ink and an Aqua Painter to do the watercoloring.  I added some linen thread at the top.

I also wanted to decorate the inside of the card.  So I used the same image and added a “hanger” for the bird cage by tracing around a punched circle.  I really like how it turned out.  I actually made a full set of cards using all the images in the happy Moments stamp set.  I will show that later – it will be one of my new Quick Cards classes – I’m just trying to choose the date and then I’ll let everyone know.

Here is a full list of Stampin’ Up! supplies for this card:

• Chocolate card stock and ink and Stampin’ Write marker
• Bashful Blue card stock and ink
• Certainly Celery ink
• Old Olive ink
• Sahara Sand ink
• Black StazOn ink
• Whisper White card stock
• Watercolor paper
• Sweet Pea Designer Paper pack
• Whimsical Words stamp set (SAB)
• Happy Moments stamp set (SAB)
• 1-3/4″ Circle Punch
• 1″ Circle Punch
• Aqua Painter
• Bashful Blue Satin Ribbon
• Linen Thread
• Paper Piercer and Mat Pack
• Stampin’ Sponge
• Stampin’ Dimensionals

And here is a look at the rest of the Create team:

Connie

Julie

Mary

Kerin

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