Blossom Party Originals Melon Mambo Flower

Today I'm sharing a card I made with Jen Brum's great sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches - I combined it with the colours over at The Colour Throwdown, where one of my favourite colour combinations - Basic Grey and Melon Mambo - is trio'd with Garden Green:

A great combination - here is my card:

I used Basic Grey for my base and matted this with a piece of Melon Mambo to create a narrow border between my base and my central panel of High Tide DSP. I decided to use a flower as my focal point, but instead of stamping I decided to die cut two flowers with my Blossoms Originals die and layer them together, finishing with a small grey circle and pink candy dot centre. I tucked a Gumball Green leaf behind (cut with the Secret Garden framelits) and stamped my sentiment in Versamark onto Basic Grey and heat embossed with Melon Mambo embossing powder. The green leaf provides a lovely 'pop' of colour behind the flower and lifts the whole card, I think. Gumball Green has to be my favourite of the soon-to-be retiring In-Colours - I will so miss it when it's gone!

As I stepped back to admire my card, I realised that I had adhered my mat panels upside down in relation to Jen's sketch - and by this point, my Tombo was well and truly stuck fast - oops! I am hoping the team at FMS will forgive me this oversight ;-)

Back tomorrow with another card; until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock	Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock	Gumball Green A4 Card Stock	High Tide Designer Series Paper	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
Magnetic Platform	Blossom Party Stampin' Up! Originals Die	Secret Garden Framelits Dies	Brights Candy Dots	Express Yourself
Envelope Punch Board	Versamark Pad	Embossing Buddy	Melon Mambo Stampin' Emboss Powder	Heat Tool - Uk Plug