Flower Friends

This is just a quick posting before I head to bed for the evening - I have been burning the candle at both ends and now it's starting to catch up to me! I made this card using the Dirty Girls challenges over at Splitcoast stampers and this one combined Julia's (sewing) and Joan's (silhouettes) challenges in one card.

I used one of the July Artful INKable's releases called Pressed Petals and it worked out perfectly for the challenge and also worked very nicely with my designer paper - bonus! I actually used the sentiment from this set and made a ribbon slide with shrink plastic. I bought the shrink plastic 2 days ago and I can't seem to get enough of it! It's just too darn fun to play with :)...ok, where was I? Oh yeah, the quote actually says "If friends were flowers I'd pick you".


I bought the frosted shrinky dink from Michaels and stamped the quote with black stazon on the rough side. I then used one of my label nestabilities to cut out the shape. This stuff is so much fun because after shrinking it in my toaster oven it is less that a quarter of the original size and hard as plastic! Like I said, soooo much fun and it's great entertainment for little ones to watch all curl up in the shrinking process! Cheap entertainment at that! lol

I am newly addicted to this stuff so stay tuned and you will see some other creations closer to the end of the month ;)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Artful INKables - Pressed Petals
Paper: Papertrey White, Creamy Caramel, Baha Breeze, K&Co DP
Ink: Kiwi, Baha Breeze, Creamy Caramel, Stazon
Accessories: Glitter, Quickie Glue Pen, Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Shrinky Dink, Ribbon, Brads, Dimensionals, Dew Drops, Corner Rounder Punch