Hydrangea for Susan

Hi everyone.  Today's card is to honor Susan Bridgman ... she is the Queen For the Day over at SCS ... actually, it's a weekly honor, so she will be wearing her crown for several days :)

Susan is a very talented crafter and she also leaves wonderfully, support comments for so many on SCS.  She is also a fellow Canadian ... and lives not too far from me.  I'm hoping that some day we'll be able to meet up and make cards together.

I chose this card of Susan's to CASE in her honor.  I have admired Susan's hydrangea card for a long time and today was the perfect opportunity to CASE it.  I love the dimension Susan has on her card by adding punches on top of her stamped image ... so I did the same, just changing to the colours of the CAS - Colours & Sketches challenge blog for this week (Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Perfect Plum).

Stamps:  Because I Care, A Word for You (SU!)
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Perfect Plum (SU!)
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Perfect Plum (SU!)
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, Rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Hydrangea punch (Martha Stewart), white gel pen, glue, adhesives, and dimensionals

I colored the stamp with my Stampin' Write markers and stamped onto the Very Vanilla cardstock.  I used my blender pen to soften the ink colours a little.  I then punched out several small hydrangea blooms, sponged around the edges, shaped them and then glued on top of the stamped image.  I stamped a second set of leaves, cut them out and adhered them on top of my stamped image using rolled glue dots (paper tole technique) ... this gives them more dimension to balance out all the dimension from the blooms.  Once everything was dry, I added white dots to the center of each bloom with my white gel pen.


Here's a close-up of the hydrangea:

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I couple of other things to share with you.  First, thanks to Mynnette of Inkspirational for picking this card as the winner for Challenge #2 of her new challenge blog.  I'm so honored!!

And also I wanted to thank all of you for taking the time to look at my blog and a special thank you to everyone that takes the time to leave comments.  I so love hearing from you!  The past six months has been a very trying time for our family with many serious and devastating health issues.  I have been absent for the past several weeks from my blog with the exception of my Design Team commitments.  I have realized that I must make it a priority for me to have some "down" time from all the stresses, and for me that is creating and posting cards, and having time to look at other crafter's blogs (which I love to do!).  So hopefully you'll see regular postings from me again soon. Thanks for all your support!