Hello crafty friends. I’ve had a great afternoon at a craft class with Marion Emberson from Sugar & Spice – you’ll be seeing evidence of that class over the coming days, I’m sure, but in the meantime I went back to Stampin’ Up!’s ‘pansy’ dies for today’s card. I’ve taken the sketch from Atlantic Hearts and the current palette from Colour INKspiration as the basis for my card. I’ve also picked up the left hand column of friendship, any colour & any shape die from TicTacToe‘s grid and am going to share it as a second offering at can you handle the pressure – this time without their optional twist of wings.
I started by die cutting the pansies in ‘tahitian tide’ & ‘night of navy’ card, the centres in ‘daffodil delight’ & the leaves in ‘parakeet party’. I added a little shade to the leaves by brushing ‘parakeet party’ ink across them with a waterbrush, and then glued everything together.
I embossed a square of white card with SU’s ‘pinewood planks’ and attached it to a 6×6 card blank. I grouped the pansies and leaves together and attached them to the card following Atlantic Hearts’ layout.
I stamped the sentiment from the ‘pansy patch’ stamps onto a strip of card and rounded two of the corners before sticking it in place. I added a few yellow Glossies and thought I was done, but the flowers didn’t look quite right. I realised that I’d attached the central parts too high up – fortunately, I was able to peel them off gently and glue them back into place in a better position!
Thanks for dropping in. Hope your weekend is going well – I’m sitting here in front of the TV enjoying more of the tennis at Wimbledon!
Deborah's Crafty Blog 
Love this! Great background for those pansies!
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That’s gorgeous Deborah, love how you used that color palette and how it looks so clean and vibrant with the white embossed background. Thank you for joining in at Can You Handle the Pressure!
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Thanks so much Melanie x
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A gorgeous pansy card! Thank you for joining our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure!
Diane CYHTP DT {Nellies Nest}
{Can You Handle The Pressure}
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What a pretty card. I love the whole card–the wood grain background, the beautiful flowers and the super sweet enamel dots. Thank you for joining us at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and hope to see you again soon!
Anna, Design Team
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I think your blue pansies are perfect!! Great job on the sketch & all the challenges. Thanks so much for playing along with us at AHSC this week.
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I love how you used the pansies as the circles in the sketch! The colours are great, love this! Thanks for playing along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (AHSC).
Brandi R.
DT member AHSC
crzy4scrapbooking.blogspot.ca
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your pansies are so pretty, Deborah – and the wood embossed background sets them off perfectly – thanks for playing with us at the TicTacToe Challenge this week!
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The joy of making paper flowers Deborah – they can be any colour that you like! These pansies really pop against the textured white background. Lovely! Thanks for playing along over at Tic Tac Toe this week!
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Love this. Reminds me of the article I wrote about pansies. So cool!
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Thank you!
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Your welcome. Pansies are one of my favorite flowers! 😀
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