For our JUGS Color Week Challenge #654 Lisa K. has chosen light blue, orange and brown. I thought this was going to be a hard color combo for me until I looked around Pinterest and saw floral ideas galore! Look at all the variety of ideas the design team came up with too!
My Favorite Things: Harmonious Hibiscus Background stamp, Well, Hello stamp set
Gina K: Charcoal Brown ink pad
Pink Fresh Studio: Diagonal Stitched Rectangle dies
Pink and Main: Enamel dots
Prismacolor pencils
Archival Ink: Cobalt ink pad
Ranger Distress Ink: Carved pumpkin ink pad
Blending brushes
I sat this huge stamp down on my desk facing up and pounced my ink pad on it to ink it well. I placed my white card stock panel face down and rubbed it well all over while carefully holding it in place. I gingerly lifted it off the stamped panel and stopped holding my breath when I saw that I hadn't smeared or moved it while rubbing. I ink blended orange and blue inks in the middle of the flowers, then added pencil for shading. I decided to color in the background (wouldn't do that again) and I shaded areas to try to get some shadow effect.
I matted the completed panel with dark brown card stock, then mounted it onto a blue A2 card base. I added enamel dots and a double matted die cut banner with the sentiment stamped on top.
We hope you will play along with us this week with this fall color combo!
-Carol
13 comments:
This is stunning! I love that background stamp and how you used this week's colors to make a gorgeous card! The sentiment on the layered banner strips is perfect to not take away from that background.
Carol... one word, gorgeous! I think the effort you put into coloring the background was soooo worth it!
Thanks ladies! Coloring like a child was cathartic! LOL!
Excellent use of the colors! That blue background looks amazing with your dye cut images
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL, Carol!! And very inspirational for your use of colors and technique.
Oh WOW Carol, what a stunner!! Definitely well worth all your colouring work!
Thank you ladies! I appreciate your kind words! Sorry I can't reply individually. Blogger issue for commenting.
Carol, your card took my breath away! This stamp was a brilliant choice for this color combo and your delicate coloring of the flowers is remarkable. While it may have been a pain to do lol, I think coloring the background gave so much depth overall. Well done, my friend!
So worth the effort as this is one beautiful card! I was in awe when I saw it! Well done!
So incredibly beautiful, Carol!!
This card is a stunner and how you have blended the colours is beautiful. Loved the matting on your sentiment too.
Wow! This is a stunner! I’m glad you found a way to use the colors so well.
Thank you girls! I appreciate your comments!
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