Clearly Besotted Pretty Petals Archives

I sat down to create tonight and chose to join in some challenges: CAS(E) this Sketch! with their awesome sketch, a format that I L-O-V-E; and the “Less is More” Challenge to “Jingle All the Way”!

With those decisions out of the way, I picked out the Rustic Wreath stamp set from Papertrey Ink and just set my imagination free!

I love all things Christmas-y but decided to step out of my box a bit for this one. This stamp set doesn’t actually have a leaf stamp to fill in the leaf outlines, so I pulled out a set I recently used from Clearly Besotted as IT had a leaf petal! I stamped the single leaf petal over and over in Lost Lagoon and Pear Pizzazz. I love that the stamping is outside of the lines. I think it’s charming. I added in some dots stamped in Real Red and die cut my wreath out. So, so cool!

Once I was done I decided it needed a little something so I pulled out some linen thread and separated it into a one ply thread which I then wound through the wreath. I popped the whole thing up on VERY small pieces of Stampin’ Dimensionals and added my bow.

I’m so pleased with how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Products Used:

Cardstock: White Papertrey Ink Stamper’s Select

Pattern Paper: Peace Joy Love by Lawn Fawn

Ink: Lost Lagoon, Pear Pizzazz and Real Red by Stampin’ Up!

Stamps: Rustic Wreath by Papertrey Ink; Pretty Petals by Clearly Besotted Stamps

Dies: Rustic Wreath by Papertrey Ink

Embellishments: Linen Thread by Stampin’ Up!

Other: Envelope and Envelope Liner Die by Stampin’ Up!

I took a break this evening to play along with the 100th sketch challenge over at CAS(E) this Sketch. 100 challenges, that’s A LOT!! I puzzled for a bit over the sketch:

But then I realized that I happen to own a stamp set that would be PERFECT!!!

Was I right or what?!?

It’s like the designer had this stamp set, Pretty Petals by Clearly Besotted Stamps, in mind when they created the sketch!

Aren’t the flowers A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E?? It’s a very easy builder set, you can stamp the leaves, and then the flowers, SO EASY!!

Choosing my colors was also easy, once I had selected my background paper. This Lawn Fawn 6 x 6 paper pack actually has a fall theme so my choices were somewhat limited, but this paper that I chose to line the envelope is super sweet and gave me lots of colors to work with.

Isn’t this sentiment, and the font, perfect? I can’t wait to use it again!!

I put a layer of Wink of Stella on the leaves and it is soooo pretty in person. I need to figure out how to get the sparkle to come through in my photographs!!

I am so glad to be able to participate in CAS(E) this Sketch’s 100th challenge and I hope to play along lots more in the future!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Update: the card shoppe is coming along very well, though it’s a bit more time intensive than I had counted on, but if everything goes as planned, I will announce the date it will go live very soon! I’m excited and working hard!! (Though it’s so fun I’m not sure it qualifies as “work”!!)

Clearly Besotted Pretty Petals

Peace, Joy, Love

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