CR84FN #58

 Morning all, well we are almost in the middle of July, unbelievable for us here in the U.K as we have had such grim weather! My welly boots and rain macs (yes I have two!) have never had so much use.
Now I know as a nation us Brits are consumed with thoughts of the weather, but compared to the rest of my family, it has never really bothered me..until this past 6 weeks!! I'm so glad we booked two weeks in the south of France at the start of the school holidays, we all need some warmth and sunshine.

Well what better to boost our rain sodden mood than with a bright and cheery colour challenge from this week's CR84FN. Nothing says summer to me more than a bright bunch of flowers, and Gerbera daisies are one of my favourites.

This week's colour challenge is to use Yellow, Red and a neutral, and as soon as I saw the fab graphic, with pictures from Style Me Pretty.com, I knew exactly which stamp set to use. My Flourishes Gerbera Daisies set, with the beautiful bunch of flowering gerberas was the perfect image for these warm colours.

I used some red gingham papers from stash, and some lovely patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket's Baby Jane stack to create the backing panel. I cut these to size, and used a Fiskars edger punch along one side, then layered these papers onto some bazzill kraft card.

I coloured the beautiful bunch of gerberas with Promarkers, cut out and layered onto a piece of cream card cut with a Spellbinders Rectangle.

I then cut a smaller rectangle, and stamped a greeting from Waltzingmouse Stamps Rescue Remedies Additions, in Tuxedo Black.

I added two flourish accents to the back of this using some kraft card and the little label motif in Spellbinders Persian Accents. I then topped off each flourish with a yellow or neutral rose.

I ran a length of satin pale gold ribbon and some red ric rac over the join of the two DPs, added a little layered butterfly and finished off with a little gold gem in the middle of each gerbera.

Do stop by the rest of the Design Team for some more beautiful inspiration.

Mona

Sue

Andrea

Heather

                  Pauline - that's me!
Shannon

Deborah

And joining us this month as our Guest Designer, Monika Davies!                                                          

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Summer
Tuesday Throwdown - Summer

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline