Shabby Rose Card and tutorial

Hey everyone! Today I created a card for the Authentique Paper challenge. Here is a photo of the sketch for the card.

I decided that I wanted to use my Blissful stack again! I just love the yellows right now, I think it is because we are aproaching Spring so fast! I have a small photo tutorial for you all. I wanted to create a shabby rose for this card so I cut out four 2.5" circles on my 6x6 paper using the basic shapes from SCAL!

First I distressed the edges of my paper using my Tim Holtz Paper Distress.

Next I began tearing in a spiral until I reached the end of the paper.

I inked the edges with pink ink on the torn spiral.

Start rolling the spiral from the center tightly, pinch slightly when all is wound together. Release the spiral and glue the outer end down to create your rose and hold it's shape.

Here is the card I created. I used Shabby Chic Stamp Set from Shabby Chic Stamp Co., burlap ribbon, pink pleated ribbon, green grossgrain ribbon, paper from DCWV Coral Couture Cardstock Stack, Authentique Paper Blissfull paper, and Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad.

I enjoyed creating this card and love working with all of these products!

Shabby Chic Stamp Set	Authentique Paper Blissful	DCWV Coral Couture Cardstock Stack	Tim Holtz Paper Distresser	ColorBox Cats Eye Queue Jelly Beans
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad

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Authentique Paper January Sketch Challenge

I decided to enter the Authentique Paper sketch challenge for January. This company is great! I love their paper and their DT has some great inspiration. I have been holding onto my Blissful and Journey 6x6 paper pads for sometime now. Cassie over at Paper Issues was so kind to make a special order for me! <3!!!

Authentique Paper provided a sketch for a layout and a card. I decided to go with a card since I did not have enough time to plan a layout and decide what photos to use. Once I saw the sketch for the card I knew exactly what I wanted to do and every element I was going to add to it.

Here is the sketch....

I think its perfect! I did not follow the sketch exactly but I think it is close enough!

Here is my A2 size card. I used plain white cardstock for the card, then layered a 4" x 5.25" layer of cardstock, I scored each side at 1/4" with my score board.

I then layered strips from the Blissful collection, then poped up the yellow/gray panel and wrapped with Lemon twine from Divine Twine that I purchased from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

I stamped my sentiment "Simple Joy" from Market Street Stamps Simple Joys stamp set using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Poped up that panel with foam adehisive tape and called it a day!

I hope you like my card. Go checkout Authentique Paper and join their challenge! It runs til January 31st and you can enter as many times as you like with different projects! So cool!

LOVE this stamp set! It's my fav! Go get it on sale now!