Club Scrap Lavender Fields Linky Party

Some days life is not a bowl of cherries!  It is a bouquet of lavender! The month of May was quite hectic for me but I was able to create this pretty awesome card (IMHO) to celebrate one of my favorite herbs and essential oils. 

I was also able to create a wreath of lavender following the technique featured by Jennifer McGuire here. I made my template from stencil plastic using my Pazzles digital cutter. It was a 4 inch square and then a copy of a 4 inch square rotated 45 degrees. I then welded the designs into one.  This is an easy design to create in any digital cutter program.  Why not give it a try?

Next I positioned it onto my Stampin' Up Stamparatus but a Misti will work as 

well.

I wanted it to be straight so I added the grid paper from the Misti to make sure it was straight.

I then cut a 4 x 4 inch piece of paper and started stamping my design into a wreath using Club Scrap Amethyst ink pads - the perfect color for this design.

Notice my paper is rotated at 45 degrees. The idea is to rotate the paper by the shape of the template.  I hope that makes sense!  It does look weird at first but when you have rotated all of the paper it does create a circle.  I then cut the square down to 3 inches and added the purple mat to accent the digital background of the lavender fields paper pack. I added 'Congrats' and some twine and bling and viola! it was done.

The lavender background is the perfect setting for this card, but step back and a host of others are there to welcome this design.

This was actually a challenging technique but I was up for it! After multiple attempts, I will call this a success

Stop back soon for additional inspiration but more importantly - enjoy SPRING!