Pinkfresh Studio February Challenge {Hi Beautiful}

Well friends, it's a new month and that means there's a new challenge for Pinkfresh Studio! The inspiration photo is fabulous and I had so much fun picking the different elements for my card! Now, we DO have a new release blog hop tomorrow, so I thought I would hurry and use one of the stencils from LAST release that I didn't get a chance to use! Sometimes when there's new goodies, I tend to neglect older favorites....and this Mirrored Triangles Stencil will definitely be headed to the "favorites" category!

You can read all about the challenge HERE. This is a challenge tailor-made for me since I LOVE alphas/words so much!

Each month when my new release package arrives, there's always one or two products that I mentally label "for Laura", meaning, I know that Laura Bassen will most likely be using them and therefore, rocking them! ha ha! This stencil is one of those "Laura" products and yep....this is what she used for our last release blog hop! LOL! With that being said, I don't always get around to using the "Laura" products, so I was super excited to use it for today's card! I've seen so many beautiful projects made using it and it is so fun and versatile. 

I had a lot of fun using different shades of each color to create this fun rainbow pattern! You can rotate the stencil to get all kinds of different combinations, and for today's card, I ended up with this fun pattern. I chose to orient it with the points facing down, which reminded me of a banner. I knew that the Essentials: Shaker Tags dies had the perfect piece to anchor my letters and my foliage!

After the panel was stenciled, I used the Essentials: Stitched Rectangles to die cut around it to give it that polished edge. It matches the banner piece as well, so it was the perfect choice! I die cut the letters three times each and glued them together using liquid glue. I added some Aquamarine ink over the top using a blender brush. I carefully added the white border around each letter and added them to the banner piece using small foam squares.

You can see in this photo that I added some Nuvo Crystal Glaze over the top of each letter with a sprinkling of glitter to the tops as well to enhance the ombre feel. I die cut a Leafy Branch from white cardstock and inked it up using residual ink from my blender brushes. I added it to the top of the banner piece using liquid glue and then added some leftover flowers from THIS project for extra detail and interest! I added a bit more glitter to the leaves and flowers and a few JEWELS. Now...I didn't plan out the "beautiful" portion of the sentiment, so if I were to recreate this card, I would stamp it before you add the banner. I did it AFTER so I had to be careful that the door of my MISTI wouldn't leave any ink. I made certain to wipe off any black ink that got on the door BEFORE I made the impression. This particular sentiment is from the Simply Sentiments: Hello stamp set and has quite a few that would work well on this particular design. I was lucky that the lines from the stencil made a perfectly straight edge to line in up with! This card was a lot of fun to make and I hope you get a chance to play along in the challenge this month! Thanks for fluttering by!