Graceful

It's time for a midway reminder for the June challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge where the theme is, as always, Anything Goes with the optional theme of Masculine.

For my card, I used a new Penny Black stamp called Graceful and the exact matching die, Graceful Cut Out. I coloured the flowers with my Copics, added a touch of white gel pen to the flowers and did a bit of paper piecing for the vase. The patterned paper I used is from the paper pad Coco Style (now discontinued), after cutting it with scissors according to the stamped lines, I slightly sponged it with some Distress Oxide ink to better match it with the other colours I chose for this card. The circle in the background is done by using a mask die cut with the Jumbo Bauble die and sponging some Distress Oxide inks and stamping the circle with Refined stamp. After adhering the stamped image to the panel (I adhered the vase with glue and the flowers themselves with foam adhesives to make them stand out a bit), I stamped the sentiment from the same Graceful stamp set. Then I simply adhered my panel onto some purple cardstock before adhering it all to my cardbase.

All stamps and dies used are by Penny Black and available in their online shop:

* Graceful (30-963)

* Graceful Cut Out (51-770)

* Jumbo Bauble (51-743)

* Refined (40-758)

* Coco Style (discontinued)