VSN Paper Chef - Wilted Lettuce

Yesterday was VSN over on SCS. I actually participated in three of the four challenges. It felt great to create so much in one day. On one sample I even went above and beyond and used glitter and microbeads. I usually don’t use it much…..I don’t like messes. Then my hubby came by and commented on me being sparkly …..so I rubbed my hands all over his stubbly face. He is still sparkly this morning. What a great start of a weekend!!! 🙂

It’s cold and cloudy here. I was laying in bed reading the new Nora Roberts book until noon. I love reading in bed! That’s why my blog entry is a bit late. I love lazy Saturday mornings!

The first card I will share with you is for the Wilted Lettuce challenge.

You had to use only salad colors and had to incorporate crinkled cardstock and an italian sentiment.

I figured when lettuce goes bad, it turns brown and chose Rich Razzleberry, Chocolate Chip and Old Olive as my colors.

I knew I wanted to make a 3″ x 3″ card. I love this little size and hadn’t made one of those since coming out of my stamping hybernation. I started with a 3″ x 6″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock folded in half.  Next I distressed the edge of a 2 3/4″ square of Rich Razzleberry. The next layer is a 1/4″ smaller piece of Old Olive. The edges were stamped with the branch stamp from Great Friend, distressed with the cutter kit and sponged in Old Olive.

The designer paper is from the retired Hawaii Papaya paper pack. It was cut with Circle Nestabilities, crumpled and then taped on a slightly bigger scallop Chocolate Chip circle. I sanded over the paper to make the crinkles stand out more,  cut one side off and paper pierced the remaining round edge. Before adhering the round layers to the Razzleberry/Olive layers with dimensionals, I tied White Organza ribbon around the square layers.

I stamped the butterfly from Great Friend twice in Rich Razzleberry on Shimmery White cardstock, cut them out with the paper snips and adhered one on top of the other with Sticky Strip under it’s body and a stack of two dimensionals under each wing. Kaiser clear Rhinestones were added to the body of the butterfly to finish him off.

The sentiment was stamped with the retired Rough Edge Alphabet (I really need to get the current Calendar Alpha set) in Rich Razzleberry on Shimmery White cardstock. It was punched out with the Window Word punch. The branch stamp was stamped twice in second generation Old Olive and the edges were sponged. It was layered on a Rich Razzleberry Modern Label Punch-out. The right edge was cut off and it was taped the the card. Last I added another rhinestone to tie them in to the rest of the card.

The inside of the card is very simple.

I stamped a 2 1/2″ Old Olive square with the branch stamp from Great Friend in Old Olive, distressed  and sponged the edges.

That layer was adhered to a 2 3/4″ square of Rich Razzleberry with distressed edges. Easy Peasy.

Have a great Saturday afternoon. Hugs and smiles