Blogger's Challenge - week 62

Hey stampers! I hope you all have been enjoying the new In Colors this year...I sure have! When this week's Blogger's Challenge was a color challenge to use tangerine tango, pacific point, kiwi kiss and riding hood red.....a retro feel jumped out at me. I knew right away that I wanted to use Wow Flowers. I really love this 4 stamp set....now if Stampin' Up! would give us a matching punch to the retro flower image....ah...a girl can dream, right?

I stamped the flower in all four colors onto very vanilla in a random pattern and mounted that onto kiwi kiss. Then a simple knot was tied around those layers with the new riding hood red 5/8th inch striped ribbon. {luv this new ribbon!!!!} I mounted that panel with stampin dimensionals onto my tangerine tango card base.

The sentiment stack was fun to layer, that's for sure....you know how I love my punches and now my Big Shot.....Yep...you read right, my Big Shot. Didn't you see where I used my Big Shot in the stack? Well, let's look closer.....

See the pacific point embossed scalloped circle??? That is a new limited edition sizzix embosslit available for Stampin' Up's 20th anniversary. It has 20 Years embossed in the center. Here is what it looks like...before you stack it up.....

I'm not sure if this will be available for customers to purchase or not, but I just got mine yesterday...so I had to play. I had to use my Big Shot, right??? I am telling you....I can't stop. You will see.....when you get yours...you won't be able to either. Anyway....it cuts and embosses in one pass through the Big Shot!!! How great is this?????? Ok....Stampin' Up!, here is your opportunity to listen to little 'ol me....we want more of these!!! How awesome would it be to get an oval embosslit that coordinates with our oval punches??? ah....me still dreaming.....

Oh...you came here to read about the card...not listen to me dream out loud....It's 5:30 in the morning...bear with me ;)

The center sentiment was stamped twice, once in tangerine tango and once in riding hood red. I punched the tangerine one with a 1" circle punch and then the flower center with the boho blossom punch....that is right....the flower is a perfect fit to the boho blossom punch....don't believe me...scroll back up and see. I'm sure Stampin' Up! has noooo idea that the flower and punch coordinate.....I'm sure that was "my" finding.....LOL!!!! But I was impressed to "figure" it out, none the less... :)

I adhered those two layers together with a clear rhinestone brad from the pretties kit. That layer was adhered with stampin dimensionals onto a 1 1/4 circle of kiwi kiss and a 1 3/8 circle of red riding hood red and then onto that gorgeous pacific point scalloped, embossed circle. I Mounted that entire stack onto stampin' dimensionals and called it a day!

This layout came together so quickly....I made another card with it...but that will be another day :)