Good Things for FMS211

In a world that’s filled with negative news and badly-behaved people, it’s nice to remember that good things are still happening every day.  With today’s project, I throw my hands in the air and dance away the negative.  So, maybe this doesn’t represent ME dancing, but you get the idea.  🙂

Karren Johnson is hosting a fun sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches this week.  I’m not very skilled the the collage style of design – layering items on top of each other in a beautiful clump.  My attempts at a beautiful clump always end up looking like a ridiculous glob of things.  This sketch makes it easier for me – two objects, a banner and an accent.  That certainly narrows things down a bit for me.  Here’s the card I made for Karren’s challenge:

Sparkly Season, You've Got This, Stampin' Up!, Brian King, FMS211

And here’s the banner for the challenge that inspired my card:FMS211Tips, Tricks and Reminders

  • Texture without Watercoloring.  I used the watercolored Soft Suede stripes from English Garden Designer Series Paper to create a textured background for this card.  The textured circle and the ballerina’s dress are created from another patterned page from English Garden.  I cropped one of the large flowers with Circles Collection Framelits and stamped the ballerina on another flower.  I sniped out her dress and glued it right on top of the image I had stamped and snipped on Thick Whisper White.  The flowers gave me a wonderful texture without a lot of work.Create texture on a stamped image by stamping on a printed paper and snipping out, Stampin' Up!, Brian King
  • A Perfect Fit.  I wanted a sentiment that would perfectly house my sweet ballerina.  Instinctively, I went right to You’ve Got This – she nestles perfectly inside the font, don’t you think?  Not only did that help me to keep with the elements of the sketch challenge, but it allowed the images to work seamlessly together.  The ballerina, by the way, is from Sparkly Season, a stamp set in the 2015 Holiday Catalog – I pulled her right out of the nutcracker to make this for-all-seasons card.

    Sparkly Season stamp set, Stampin' Up!

    Sparkly Season stamp set, Stampin’ Up!

  • Such Sweet Colors.  You might already know that I’m a big fan of pairing Blushing Bride with any shade of brown.  The pink shade has so much brown in it already, so it’s a match made in heaven.  For today’s card, I paired Blushing Bride with Soft Suede and Whisper White.  The brown enriches the pink, and the pink lightens the brown.  So Sweet!Stampin' Up! Color Inspiration: Soft Suede, Blushing Bride, Whisper White

Stamp Sets:  Sparkly Season, You’ve Got This  Papers:  English Garden Designer Series Paper, Blushing Bride, Thick Whisper White, Soft Sueded  Inks: Archival Basic Black, Crumb Cake (ballerina’s hair and shoes)  Accessories:  Extra-Large Oval punch, Circles Collection Framelits, Pearl Basic Jewels, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Sparkly Season, You've Got This, Stampin' Up!, Brian King, FMS211I hope you’ll pop over to Freshly Made Sketches to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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39 Comments

  1. Is there no end to that brilliant creative mind of yours?! This card is STUNNING! Simply stunning.

  2. Very clever Brian! Have a great weekend.

  3. Beautiful, Brian! Nothing sweeter than the Sugar Plum Fairy! And the color combination is perfect.

  4. This card is so beautiful! I can’t believe how you come up with the ideas you do! You are so creative. Love it!

  5. One of your best. Stunning!

  6. Beautiful!!!

  7. Oh my goodness Brian, this card is just amazingly beautiful, any young (or slightly older ;)) girl would love to receive it. Brilliant idea to stamp the image on that pretty paper and then snip her dress and the addition of the pearls makes this card so feminine and elegant.
    Thank you for sharing.

  8. This is simply beautiful! I love everything about it!

  9. Love,love, love this card!

  10. Brian your use of the dsp is the idea I could not “finalize” in my head. This dsp is put to its best use with your technique here. I am amazed at all you can do…did I mention I went to college with aspirations of getting my CPA?

  11. I simply love the pearls “dancing” above her!

  12. I have been looking for a card to inspire me for my granddaughters birthday and you nailed it Brian. I have looked at that stamp set about 5-6 times and never saw the ballerina. Too focused on the snow globe. Also the creative use of patterned paper. Way to go Brian!

  13. Doggone, you’re clever!!!!! This card is stunningly lovely!! Will you share your brain with me????? Just an itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeny, tiny bit of it???? You make my heart smile!!!!!???

  14. You have certainly out done yourself with this one Brian!! LOVE IT!

  15. Love this! The papers, the ballerina, the pearls… Perfect.

  16. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS CARD!!!!!!!

    PEGGY

  17. Oh Brian! This card is so pretty! (It definitely negates the bad things in the world, if even briefly.) Your paper snips got a serious workout with that ballerina, TFS!

  18. Elton would love this TINY DANCER ! I have her also and plan to use her after Xmas. I agree with Mary about the pearls ….they add a touch of magic to the scene drifting around above her !
    Pretty !

  19. this is such a pretty card

  20. Oh, my, Brian! This card is absolutely stunning! And to think, I didn’t even see that pretty ballerina in this set! I love the way you snipped her on the PP…perfection, my friend!
    Big hugs!

  21. I love how your mind works; the painstaking snip of those scissors; and your “eye” for color combinations. This is such a stunning card–whomever receives it will feel caressed!

  22. There are very few things more beautiful in this world than a ballerina performing en pointe on stage. The music and movement combination is just enchanting as is your card today.

  23. Sweet card! Love the colors and the pearls.

  24. Omg , Brian lovely , so special!!!!
    Hugs frenchie,

  25. Great use of the DSP! I love the way you sprinkled the pearls too!

  26. Just beautiful. You need to frame this!

  27. This is so pretty! Love the dsp circle and the pearls above her head.

  28. Such a sweet card. I needed to hear your sentiment.
    I agree Blushing Bride and Soft Suede , make a good match!

  29. Love this card Brian! Pink and pearls ~ my favorites! Great job.

  30. One of my fave Brian cards EVER! Love “clump” and “glob” – that’s how I always feel – I’m so not good at collage and envy people who are – this is perfection.

  31. Brian your ideas are amazing. Never would have thought to do this. Another home-run!

  32. What a beautiful card! TFS

  33. I am speechless as well. Where’s my Kleenex? It’s THAT perfect! ?

  34. This is stunning, Brian! I love the way you used the DSP for the background circle and paper-piecing her dress. The pearls are a fabulous accent, too! Thanks for sharing with us at Freshly Made Sketches!

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