Encore Challenge #2

 

Today I am posting my card for the newer The Encore Challenge!  This is a monthly challenge to be posted on the 25th with a group of friends, also from the April Retreat.  Some may post on their blog and I will note those with blogs at the end of this post.  And, some might post on other social media. Darlene came up with this challenge and these are her words:  Go and grab a stamp set, stencil or dies--your choice, that you have used once before and have always wanted to revisit it and use it again.  However, despite your best intentions, you have yet to use it!  Now's your chance! Go dig it out and have fun with it once again.  Create anything you like, a card, gift card holder, decorate a gift bag, make a refrigerator magnet...whatever lights up your creative juices! So--Encore Challenge! 

My plan is to pick a different company each month to highlight and maybe even a different product than the month before.  For February, I picked a Stampin' Up set that includes a stamp set, matching die set and a 5 piece stencil set too. It has a sweet large rose image, additional smaller images and some sweet sentiments.

For my card, I stamped the image and sentiment in Hero Arts Intense Black ink on a panel.  I then ink blended the image with my Pinkfresh Studio ink cubes an die cut the image.  I then used a Stampin' Up cover plate called Stitched Greenery for the back panel.  I then die cut the leafy panel with a die from My Favorite Things called Blueprints 20, which added the scallop and stitched edge. I die cut the sentiment with a Taylored Expressions label die.  I added some Pinkfresh Studio Ballet Slipper Jewels around the image.

 

I am not sure who will post each month on their blog, but this is a list of the other ladies who do have blogs.  Jeanette, Carol, Terry, Darlene and Rebekah.  Be sure to come back on March 25th  to see another fun card for The Encore Challenge!


Image/Sentiment:  Stampin' Up Layers of Beauty-stamps, dies and stencil set

Cardstock:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White

Ink: Hero Arts Intense Black;  Pinkfresh Studio Ink Cubes

Accessories:  Pinkfresh Studio Ballet Slipper Jewels; My Favorite Things-MFT-Blueprints 20 die; Stampin' Up Stitched Greenery Cover Plate; Taylored Expressions Sentiment Label Die