Global Design Project Entry

GDP#300 Case the Designer Challenge using Celebrate Sunflowers

(Edited with result)

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and my entry into the Global Design Project - Case the Designer Challenge #300.

In preparing for a Colour Creations Blog I had water-coloured a couple of pieces of card-stock, but was unsure if I was going to be able to create a second card by blog launch. Then I saw the GDP launch of the new GDP#300 challenge and loving Steffi's layout, I changed my prior design concepts and squeezed in creating this project using the preprepared water-coloured panels and the Celebrate Sunflowers bundle.

I was surprised and really delighted that I was given a Special Mention. There were so many lovely entries that I wasn’t expecting to be mentioned. 

#GDPspecialmention   #GDP300

Here are some details of how the card came together:

I had water-coloured a piece of Fluid 100 Paper in stripes using the wide Water Painter and Bumblebee Classic re-inker, as well as on off-cut of Shimmery White card-stock in a lighter Bumblebee wash and another off-cut in a Soft Succulent wash. 

A light wash of Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' ink was added to the front panel of Shimmery White card-stock. When dry it was die embossed with the Stitched Greenery die, that added a gorgeous tone on tone texture of stitched leaves. This was mounted on the Bumblebee striped panel, which in turn was mounted on the Thick Basic White card base.

Using the Sunflowers dies, the open sunflower die cut the sunflower shape from the light Bumblebee coloured Shimmery White piece and the detailed sunflower and flower centre dies were used on Basic White card-stock. The detailed leaves were cut from the Soft Succulent water-coloured panel. These pieces were arranged and positioned with liquid glue or Dimensionals.

The sentiment (from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set) was stamped in Versamark on Bumblebee card-stock and heat embossed with White Emboss Powder. It was fussy cut and part of the sentiment was added to the centre of the flower together with a cute Bumblebee Trinket. Clear droplet shaped Epoxy Essential embellishments also were scattered giving a sense of raindrops over the flower and backdrop.

An off-cut from the water-coloured stripes was added to a Basic White panel, as was the word "you" (the previously unused part fo the sentiment) and a spray of Soft Succulent water-coloured leaves. A C6 Basic White envelope was partially stamped with the sunflower stamp in Bumblebee ink to coordinate with the card.  

Thank you for visiting Valley Inspirations with Andrea. I did have fun playing with water-colouring in Bumblebee to create this project to share and appreciate the inspiration of Steffi Helmschrott's delightful Global Design Project #GDP300 card. 

Stay safe and stay well.

Andrea xxx