find joy...

Hello friends!!  Another rainy day here in the PacNW... the perfect day to make cards and so I did, lol!  And after I finish this blog post I will mostly be making at least one more!  My card today is for the new challenge blog, Fusion.  My super sweet bloggy friend (and one I have actually met in real life), Lisa Lara, is a guest designer for the first challenge, as is my fellow CASology teamie, Tracey so I just had to play along. 

For my card I decided to use both the sketch and the beautiful inspiration photo. (Who wouldn't love to have a cake like that for their birthday???)  I stamped the chevron image in VersaMark ink on white cardstock, applied white embossing powder and then heat set it.  The white on white embossing is just barely visible so I have included a detail shot which shows the detail a little bit better .  The flowers were stamped in dark pink, orange and yellow inks and then die cut using the matching dies.  A black sequin was added to the center of each flower and then they were layered as you see.  The sentiment finished things off and the piece adhered to a bright green card base.  Not a super clever take on the challenge, but I really like how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplied:  Cardstock:  PTI white & Ripe Avocado; Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Dandelion & Tangelo, VersaMark watermark ink; Stamps:  Hero Arts Bold Pop Designs, Find Joy and Zig Zag Thanks; Dies:  Sizzix/Hero Arts Bold Pop Designs; Embossing powder:  Judikins; Sequins:  Ellen Hutson