Blooms and Wishes

I set myself a challenge to use a retiring stamp set but also to use only retiring colours. I chose the Blooms and Wishes stamp set and managed to use 4 retiring colours – I was pretty impressed with that. Perfect plum, wisteria wonder, rose red and always artichoke.

I started with the biggest blooms on wisteria wonder and then did the centres of the flower in perfect plum. It’s not visible but I added wink of Stella (not retiring, thank goodness) over the perfect plum. Then I added in the sentiment in always artichoke to be sure that I had room for it. I’m not really going to miss always artichoke; it’s a nice colour but mossy meadow is coming back and it’s close and, in my opinion, nicer. I never once used always artichoke when I had the option of mossy meadow.

Next I added the rose red flowers and some sprigs of always artichoke. Attaching this to a wisteria wonder card base finished off a simple card perfectly. My class attendees enjoyed making this one.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

The ink pads and coloured card stock shown today are as supplies last. The stamp set is guaranteed until May 25th but don’t delay. Also yesterday Stampin’ Up! reduced some prices on the retiring list. Check out my shop to see what’s still available and what’s at a reduced price.