Constellations?

I am so thrilled to be designing for Michelle over at Stamper's Dream. She sent me some really fun stamps and other amazing goodies that I'm having so much fun playing with! Did you know Michelle has her own blog by the same name? Be sure to check it out to see some of her fabulous creations!

Today's card is using one of the stamps she carries in her store by Penny Black. The name of the stamp is called Constellations. I'm guessing it's called this because it's the name of the flower, but when I tried to do a little research on line to find out what colors Constellations were in real life (bet you didn't know research is part of the job description when you are invited to join a design team:)), but all Google came up with are websites about the constellations in our solar system!

So, I just threw caution to the wind and colored the flowers any darn color I wanted to! If one of you reading this knows what color these flowers should really be colored, will you drop me a comment? Thanks peeps-you're the best! This time, my mojo was taking me toward a green and blue palette, which is slowly becoming a favorite of mine this season. So long pink and green, HELLO blue and green!

Anyways, back to the card.......I colored each of the flowers using my Copic markers, and then used Liquid Embossing by All Night Media over each of the tiny pods to give it a sheen, dimensional finish! It's beautious, but you can't really see it in this pic.....

The sentiments come from SU's Birthday Whimsy set. A black and white gingham bow finishes the card off perfectly. Do you wonder why I used the color black on my card? I'm guessing many of you out there would have never done that, you probably would have left the green and blue alone, or at the very most, added some white. But you know me, I'm weird when it comes to adding black to my cards! I added the black mat around the lime green designer paper because black, by it's very nature, makes everything in it's presense pop, especially BRIGHT colors (except dark colors.....black does NOT make dark colors POP!). And it grounds all the colors around it because black is actually the absence of any color so it doesn't really compete with the colors it's near. It compliments them. Don't forget to add a bit of black to the rooms in your home, it adds contrast, visual punch and drama! And who doesn't love a bit of drama in their lives (actually, I hate drama in my life, I do my best to stay away from DRAMA!!!). Black can be added in small amounts to any room by way of picture frames, lamp bases, pillows and rugs.

I hope you like my card today made using the fun stamp from Penny Black called Constellations. If you haven't checked out Michelle's store Stamper's Dream yet, today's the day to do it. She gets in new goodies nearly every day, and she has an amazing selection for you to choose from. Michelle definitely has her pulse on what's happening in the world of stamping and makes it a point to have in stock what stampers are looking for!

On the personal front, the boys only have two more days of school left! As usual, I'm left with conflicting emotions on this. On one hand, it will be wonderful not to have to nag about homework for a solid three months, but on the other hand, my peace and quiet is soon to take a serious nosedive! It's hard to explain to teenagers WHY I need to be in my office stamping instead of driving them around to their various summer activities! LOL!

Tonight we've got baseball, hopefully the rain will stay away. It's been a dismal week weather-wise...gloomy and cold since Monday. Storms in the forcast for Thursday and Friday. I'm not sure it will ever get nice here again!

Gotta run--I've got bible study this morning!

Hugs,
Amy