Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack for FMS292

I often hear from other card makers that they struggle with finding color combinations for their projects.  While I love to play with color and love trial new combinations, I often times reach for Designer Series Paper as a guide for the colors I use in my projects.  I reached for the sweet pages of the Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack to layer circles for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  Here’s my card:

And here’s the banner for Cecil Ribon’s challenge that inspired my card:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack.  Don’t look at it all at once!  This is a gorgeous stack of floral 6″ x 6″ designs – they are all so soft and delicate – but it may be difficult to take them all in at once.  As a collection, the floral patterns clash with one another.  Individually, they are amazing!  I chose three of the pages from this stack and mixed them between floral and monochromatic to create the trio of circles on my card.  Here’s a peek at the papers – again, please hold your hands over the pages so you can take them in one-by-one.  🙂
• Layering Fun.  Not only do these circles stack wonderfully on top of each other (thanks to this super-fun sketch), but I added extra dimension to the two top circles and popped them up from the circle beneath.  In order to add support to the thin Designer Series Paper (it would definitely bend when mailed if left alone), I cropped an additional circle in Thick Whisper White with the same dies and glued to the Designer Series Paper on top of the Whisper White circles.  The added dimension gives these circles a fun pop.  Here’s a side-view of these layers:
• Sweet, Retro Colors.  I adore Cecil’s sketch – the stacking of the circles has such a retro vibe to it, so I wanted to create my project with equally retro colors.  Glad this paper stack offered me these colors.  Pool Party, Calypso Coral and Old Olive seem like colors you’d find in a 1960’s kitchen – or in a super-cool, modern kitchen that has a nod to the ’60’s.  If you like these colors as much as I do, please save this:

Stamp Sets:  Banners for You  Papers:  Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack, Pool Party, Thick Whisper White, Old Olive  Inks:  Archival Basic Black  Accessories:  Layering Circles Framelits Dies, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack – 144168

Price: $10.00

Banners For You Photopolymer Stamp Set – 141710

Price: $27.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies – 141705

Price: $35.00

Old Olive 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 100702

Price: $8.00

Pool Party 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 122924

Price: $8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock – 140272

Price: $7.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.00

Supply List

I hope you’ll pop over to the Freshly Made Sketches site 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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