Make Your Own Designer Paper Challenge

Today's project started with a Make Your Own Designer Paper Challenge.  We were to design 3 papers - at least 5" x 7" in size - and then use them in a project.  You can see my 3 papers above.  First I'll discuss how I made each, then show the card I made using them.

Corner Design: Silver & Pearl Mixative Alcohol Inks combine to create the background on glossy card stock.  Next I stamped the image using several stamps my mother had from Stampin' Up - using Black StazOn ink.  I felt challenged for a minute about how to color them since the background was glossy card stock,  Then I thought of my Smooch inks.  Unfortunately, they were starting to get dried up and didn't work as well as I had hoped, but they DID work.  I used two colors of green for the leaves.  Had hoped to use two colors for the flowers, but one was completely dried up.  Anyway, after using a yellow Smooch ink to color the centers of the flowers & the smaller weed?, I covered them in Frosted Lace Stickles (a see through color) and then added light yellow FlowerSoft to the centers.

Pink: I had in mind to ink the background & then stamp white dots all over, but the paper wouldn't cooperate (it was too thin for that application).  It kept wrinkling and then I couldn't get a clean all-over color.  So, I decided to go with the flow, wrinkle it all up, smooth it out, and then ink it.  No dots, that gave it a neat texture.

Green: I inked the background (on card stock this time so it wouldn't wrinkle).  I found I had to use 4 different colors of ink to get it the color that would coordinate with the Smooch inks in the corner design!  Then I stamped all over with a Stampin' Up leaf design stamp (Mom's) in grey ink.

Here's the card I made:

As you can see, I cut the corner design paper down a bit so it could be matted with silver poster board as you see here.  Then I die cut a label shape from the green using a die from a  HOTP set called 9 Tiny Tags and Little Labels.  The sentiment was die cut twice - once from the pink and once from the silver poster board using a Creative Expressions die called Stacked Happy Birthday.  As you can see, I glued them offset one another with the pink on top.

Inside:

Inside I simply took strips of the green, pink, and silver to create a border at the bottom and then stamped a greeting in pink. (stamp was one of Mom's - not sure where it came from)