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 Hello!  Hope all is well in your part of the world.  I'm popping in with a card the current Paper Players challenge.  It is a color challenge and I love me a good color challenge!  Plus, I haven't had the chance to participate in their challenge for a very long time.  I'm also going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.   ETA:  Realized that my card also works for the current JUGS challenge.  Take a look at what I made.

I recently made several mini slimline cards for my mom.  She likes the size because they are perfect size for a birthday check.  Since I had some premade mini slimline card bases on my desk, I decided to make one for the PP challenge.  I went through all my Simon Says Stamp dies until I found the Etched Layered Daisy Stem die set and pulled it out.  I did direct to paper inking to get the colors I wanted for the flower and the stem.  I used Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Inks in Citrine and Ocean.  Once the cardstock was fairly dry, I die cut out the stem and the flowers.  There are two flowers to layer together to make the full flower.   The center of the flower is part of the top layer die so I simply inked up some white cardstock with black ink, positioned the die so I would just get mostly the center cut and die cut it.  The bits of the petals that were still attached were trimmed out and I adhered that layer to the center of the flower.  I added Nuvo drops in Morning Dew for some shine.  The sentiment is from Memory Box and I die cut the shadow layer from heavy weight vellum and the sentiment from Memory Box glossy black cardstock twice.   Then I adhered everything together.  I cut Memory Box cream woodgrain cardstock to fit the front of my mini slimline cardbase, adhered it and then layered on all my elements.   My colors are a little bit darker than those in the inspiration photo, but hopefully that is okay.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!