As you know, my cards are clean and simple almost exclusively so Gorgeous Grunge is not a set that I use much. But for my first card for the colour challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week, I decided that I needed it to add in the third colour and to add a little something to the background. In the end, it was not the card that I chose for the Design Team, but it’s still a fun card. And still clean and simple!

I stamped the starfish in blushing bride and rose red – it looks so three dimensional it’s incredible! I snipped it out and then the matter of how to add the so saffron loomed. Some sort of sand made sense and I first tried the lines from Gorgeous Grunge which I’ve never used before but it looked as if the starfish was trying to run which didn’t really make sense! So I used the dots, stamped a couple of times as my background. The sentiment comes from the bonus set in April’s Paper Pumpkin, All About Everything. I love the Paper Pumpkin kits – even if I don’t love the project, there’s always a stamp set and other items to play with. It’s definitely worth the money. I popped the starfish up with dimensionals to give it even more 3D effect. I even added tiny little snippets of dimensionals at the end of the arms. I like the white on white look, it’s very clean but slightly more interesting than a one layer card.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz