Artistic Dies for International Friendship Day

Did you know that August 1 is International Friendship Day?  This is just one of the fun festivities that provides inspiration for the Festive Friday Challenge.  The Festive Friday Challenge is a bi-weekly challenge that is focused around an Inspo List inspired by the festivity.  The Inspo List has 10 items on it and all you have to do is use 3 of them on your project to play along with the challenge.  

What a fun list!  So many possibilities.  I have been wanting to use the Artistic Dies and thought this would be a great time to use them.

I cut the large bouquet from the Artistic Dies out of Black Glitter Paper.  This paper will be available in August when the new Mini Catalog goes live.  I adhered the sparkly bouquet on a piece of Pearlescent Specialty Paper that was cut using the Scalloped Contours Dies.  The black glitter against the pearlescent sheen is really lovely and I wish I could better capture it.

To finish the card I added a sentiment from the  Friends Are Like Seashells stamp set.  Isn't that a lovely sentiment?  I mounted it on a Blushing Bride card base.  So far i used pink and friendship sentiment from the Inspo List.  I decided that rhinestones would be another fun sparkly element and would also be my third  item from the Inspo List.   I am also counting the Black Glitter bouquet as the fourth item even though the Inspo List says glitter card.  

Thank you for stopping by!  Be sure to check out what the rest of the Festive Friday Design team created for the challenge

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Stephanie Lanzalotto

Melva Peters