Best Wishes

 It's my turn to share my Pick of the Week with you on the House That Stamps Built blog.  I'm continuing in my Pinspired series--taking cards I find on Pinterest and recreating them with Repeat Impressions stamps.  A while ago I found this beautiful card by Jennifer McQuire and knew I had to try my hand at making one:

I just love the bold flowers on the vellum, the outside the box cutting and how the flowers move around the sentiment.  So, I set out to give it a try.  Since I wanted to work with the "Flower Power Separates" images, I had to do a bunch of masking.  So, I started out by creating my layout on a piece of scrap white card stock just to see how the images would look.

The panel was cut to 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 and I cut a vellum panel to the same measurements, just a little bit taller so I had some room to work with.  I placed my stamped layout into my Mini MISTI so I could use it for stamp placement.

As you can see, I have a transparent grid sheet that I use in my MISTI and that helps with getting sentiments straight.  I started with the sentiment since the stems were going to be stamped around it.  I stamped and heat embossed each element one at a time (or sometimes two at a time if they weren't really close to each other) so I wouldn't mess up an area already stamped.

I used stamped and cut out masks for the flowers and used a couple pieces of washi tape to mask off the sentiment.  The tape has nice straight edges and just happened to be slightly wider than my sentiment is tall making it perfect for masking!  You can see in the photo above that my small flower on the left is already heat embossed and I have a mask on my large flower as it too has already been heat embossed.

     After all the elements had been heat embossed, I flipped the vellum panel over and colored the images on the back side.  Since I hadn't been extremely precise with my embossing powder and had a few "extra" white spots, I decided to sprinkle on some loose powder in a few other places and make it look like it had been done on purpose--a little artsy addition.

After letting the panel sit under some heavy objects for a while, I attached it to the gray card base with some liquid adhesive, hiding it behind the embossed lines.  Then I finished it off with some pearls. 

And here is the finished result:

 Thanks for stopping by!

Repeat Impressions stamps I used are: "Daisy Outline, large", "Daisy Outline, small", "Leaf Outline, small", "Stem Outline" and "Best Wishes"

Challenges:

Penny's Challenges #503--anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #506--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

The Paper Shelter #450--colour it

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

Creative Moments #221--anything goes

Dare 2B Artzy--anything goes

Cute Card Thursday--anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage #143--no patterned paper

Time Out Challenge #195--colored card base with the optional twist: use embellishments

Krafty Chicks #574--all occasions

Cardz TV #148--anything goes