Focus On Six Sides & More

Hello, sweet friends! Today at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration, the designers are focusing on the Six-Sided Sampler stamp set. I've only played with this set a few times, but every time I do; I love it. Guess I should use it more!
I found this great color challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments; which I felt went really well with this set. As you can see, the colors in the challenge are Marina Mist, Night of Navy and Hello Honey.

•  Hello Honey card base - 4-1/4" x 11", scored at 5-1/2"
• Marina Mist layer - 4" x 5-1/4", scored at 1/4" on all four sides with Simply Scored
• Gingham pattern from Six-Sided Sampler, stamped in Night of Navy on Whisper White
• "Hello Sweet Friend" from Six-Sided Sampler, stamped in Marina Mist
• All images punched with coordinating Hexagon Punch
• Flower image from Six-Sided Sampler stamped in Hello Honey and Marina Mist (after being stamped off once). Punched out using Bitty Butterfly Punch
• Night of Navy cardstock punched with Bitty Butterfly Punch
• Hello Honey 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon

*PRIZE PATROL* Today is my 250th post! To celebrate, all comments made on today's post will be entered in to a drawing for an assortment of cards I've featured on the blog! Thanks to each of you for helping me reach this milestone!

Six-Sided Sampler Clear Stamp Set

$18.95

Hexagon Punch

$15.95

Hello Honey 3/8" Satin Stitched Ribbon

$8.95

Bitty Butterfly Punch

$15.95

Simply Scored

$29.95

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Hexagons!

Today's theme over at Stylin' Stampin' Inkspiration is hexagons. I think just about everyone I know is in love with the new hexagon punch and coordinating stamp set, Six-sided Sampler.

I had many ideas floating around for using the hexagons today. This is the end result of one of those ideas and the other you'll see very soon when we feature the September card sketch.

I grabbed the Season of Style Designer Series Paper stack to punch out my hexagons. I glued them onto a sheet of Whisper White cardstock to create a flower of sorts. I knew I wanted to use the Floral Frames Collection of framelits to create the card base, and had decided at this point I didn't want a Christmas-y feel to my card. So I turned to my Color Coach for inspiration for the card base. Calypso Coral is one of the color recommendations for Cherry Cobbler.

While I've been very drawn to making simple cards lately, I felt it needed a little something extra, so I inked the edges with Cherry Cobbler. I added a Cherry Cobbler Designer Button to the middle to add to the flower theme of my card. It was important to me that the greeting not overpower the "flower" since I was featuring the hexagons. Pairing Fabulous Phrases with the Word Window punch allowed my hexagons to still be predominant.

Thanks for stopping by! I'd love to hear what you think of today's card. Please visit the other SSInkspiration Design Team ladies' blogs to see their creative hexagon uses as well!