I found a new challenge blog – A La Card Monkey – the other day, as I had a heap of “stuff” on my desk & had not yet cleaned up, thought I would play along.  The blog has been going for some time, but new to me.  This is the card I created & suprise, suprise, I ended up being “The Princess” for the challenge.  How great is that.

As part of being selected “Princess“, I, in turn am a Guest Deisgner for one of their upcoming challenges & it just happens to be this week.

This is the sketch we had to use.  Part of the challenge is we had to use something which represented “Memories“.  To me, happiness always brings back happy memories!

I had only just received a new stamp set the morning I was asked, so of course I had to use it.

Measurements –
Base Card – Wisteria Wonder – 8 1/4″ x 5 7/8″ or 21cm x 15cm
Layer 1 – Whisper White – 5 3/8″ x 3 3/8″ or 14cm x 9,5cm
Layer 2 – Wisteria Wonder – 3″ x 2 1/4″ or 7.5cm x 8cm
Layer 3 – Whisper White – 2 7/8″ x 2 1/8″ or 7cm x 7.5cm
Layer 4 – Lucky Limeade – 3 5/8″ x 1″ or 9.5cm x 2.5cm
Layer 5 – Whisper White – 4″ x 1/2″ or 10cm x 2cm

Supplies –
Stamp Set – Fabulous Florets, Heard from the Heart
Ink – Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder
Cardstock – Whisper White, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade
Punches – Scallop Trim Border
Embossing Folder – Perfect Polka Dots
Accessories – Snail Adhesive, Bigshot, Basic Jewels – Pearls, SU Marker – Basic Black, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Multipurpose Glue

Envelope & Inside Card…

Using Border Punch, punch along one long side of Lucky Limeade & trim back to about 1/2″ on opposite side of punched side
Run the larger piece of Whisper White through the Bigshot using Embossing Folder – Perfect Polka Dots
Adhere to Base Card – Wisteria Wonder with Multipurpose Glue
With Lucky Limeade Ink, stamp images onto small piece of Whisper White Cardstock.  With a coupl eof images, I stamped off a couple of times prior to stamping
Adhere this piece to the piece of Wisteria Wonder Cardstock with Snail Adhesive & then to the Base Card with Mutlipurpose Glue
Adhere the punched border piece of Lucky Limeade to the card as per the sketch using Multipurpose Glue
Ink your sentiment with SU! Marker – Basic Black & stamp direct onto the smaller piece of Whisper White
Adhere to card using Snail Adhesive
Adhere 3 Pearls to the card
Stamp 3 flower images onto a scrap of Whisper White Cardstock with Wisteria Wonder Ink, cut around images & adhere to card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  I adhered one to the card with Snail Adhesive & then the other 2 were placed around this one

Why not head over to A La Card Monkey & have a go at the challenge yourself

Until next time, Enjoy!