Thankful Garden Blended Purple Hydrangea AYSI367

Today I'm sharing my design team card for our new challenge over at As you See It where it's time for a colourful speed stamping challenge:

I love purple so this was a fun week for me! But it's speed stamping - so there are some very important considerations before we start to craft as we are against the clock!  I decided to use the sketch layout over at Sunday Stamps as it was perfect for what I had in mind. Take a look at my card and then I'll explain:

 Here's the low-down on today's card:

Thankful Garden - I had lots of floral options that would work well with purple and settled on Thankful Garden, which I haven't played with for a while and is now on the last-chance list. First I stamped my flower and sentiment using my stamping platform. 10 minutes wouldn't be long enough to colour my card with Blends, or complete the stencilling of each layer, so I decided to mask an area and blend a selection of purples in a vertical column. I actually masked two columns, for a unique take on Claire's Sunday Stamps layout (tweaking the width of each of her columns for more visual interest on my one layer card). A smattering of purple gems following the shades of purple to highlight the detail on the inked panels were the finishing touch to my card:

Keep It Simple - Keeping my design simple - minimal stamping/colouring and a straightforward layout meant I finished my card well within the 10 minute time limit:

Super speedy!

An Added Extra - Since I still had extra time, I took another minute to reposition the flower stamp and add a sentiment to the inside of my card, along with a little extra colour using my blending brush:

And that really is my card finished - and well under the 10 minute deadline - yay!

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Here's a summary of our challenge rules:

• Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D or packaging project that fits the challenge.
• For a Speed Stamping Challenge you must tell us the time it took to make your project and it must be finished in under 10 min.
• Please include the challenge graphic and link back to the challenge in your post.
• Make sure you link the specific post and not the whole blog to the Linky. Use AYSI#(insert challenge number) when uploading to a public gallery
• Please turn off word verification so that we can send you lots of feedback.
• You can combine our challenge with up to 3 other compatible challenges. 
• We do reserve the right to delete, or not consider for Top Pick and Featured Artist, entries that do not comply with these guidelines.

Enjoy your day and I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

THANKFUL GARDEN PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET (ENGLISH) (£13.80)	BASIC WHITE A4 THICK CARDSTOCK (£16.00)	BLENDING BRUSHES (£14.00)	PURPLE FINE SHIMMER GEMS (£7.50)	FRESH FREESIA CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)	HIGHLAND HEATHER CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)
GORGEOUS GRAPE CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)	BLACKBERRY BLISS CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD (£8.50)	TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO INK PAD (£7.50)