Peaceful Petals with a retro spin

I had a lovely day yesterday and had some exciting news - but more about that later. First I want to show you a card I had great fun making! Come and see:

The Soft Sky chevron background is one of the beautiful papers from Stampin' Up's Designer Paper Stacks. These contain a selection of tone-on-tone papers and are available in all the colour families including the in colours - SO useful!  I topped this with a panel featuring a curved edge...

... which revealed the perfect space on the designer paper for me to stamp my sentiment from Peaceful Petals. You can see that I wrapped some of the gorgeous twine from the free Sale-a-bration Accessories Pack around the panel. I 'nibbled' bits from the edge of the panel with the pointy bit of my Mosaic punch so that the twine would sit neatly and then mounted the panel onto the DSP using dimensionals.

The circle was sponged on through a mask made with my 2 1/2" circle punch and the line art flower , also from Peaceful Petals, was stamped over the top in black stazon ink and left uncoloured for a retro look.

This card was inspired by this week's fabulous Fusion challenge. The colours and the black line art on a coloured block background were taken from the inspiration photo, and I also used the amazing sketch.

I shall also be linking this card up with the Paper Players where the lovely ladies are looking for spring thank you cards.

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO MAKE THIS CARD
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Stamps: Peaceful Petals wood or cling

Ink: Summer Starfruit classic ink, stazon black

Card stock: Whisper White

Other: Designer Series Stack in Subtles, 2 1/2" circle punch, paper snips, twine from Sweet Sorbet accessory pack (free with Sale-a-bration), stamp-a-majig

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Yesterday, my eldest son left school at lunchtime as he had an interview at our local college where he has applied to do a Graphic Design course after completing his GCSEs. I could tell he was a little nervous as he isn't taking art at GCSE which is the usual entry requirement; instead he had taken along a portfolio of his work all of which he has created on the computer, coming up with ideas and teaching himself techniques as he's gone along. When he came out of the interview he told me he thought the interview had gone well. Apparently he had shown each piece of artwork and talked about it and after that the interviewer said: "Okay - I'm telling you right now that you're definitely getting a place on my course!"

I'm so excited for him and very, very proud. Of course it was far too late to return him to school, so I took him for a slap up meal instead!

Talking of which, I suppose I better go off and make some pancakes! See you tomorrow,