Summer Card Camp: Thursday Challenge Week 2

Today’s challenge was to use the week’s color combination and a holiday stamp to create a non-holiday card. To qualify for the color challenges, you need to use four of the five colors.

We’ve been invited to a lovely celebration this weekend, so it seemed like a perfect opportunity to get a card made. I used two flourish stamps from Papertrey’s Holiday Photo Finishers to create a “frame” for the sentiment.

I was quite surprised to discover I didn’t have any holiday stamp with the word “celebrate” that fit into the frame, so I ended up using Papertrey’s Celebrations stamp set. Both the frame and sentiment were embossed onto Vintage Cream Shimmer cardstock. I matted that with a piece of Hawaiian Shores shimmer paper. The card was created with my favorite brown shimmer paper that I believe is by Bazzill. I added four pretty pearls in blue. Here’s a closer look at the pretty shimmer paper.

This is a design I’m quite sure I’ll use again, and I would never have come up with it without today’s challenge—one of several reasons I enjoy these online card classes.