My sister recently pointed me towards a new for us challenge site, CAS colours and sketches, which is all about clean and simple, my favourite type of cards. This week is a colour challenge (also my favourite) and the hostess has selected an awesome combination from Stampin’ Up!’s newest in colours. I don’t know why I haven’t been using them more often lately, they are gorgeous colours.
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These colours are totally luxurious and even better in person.
The flowers are from the Painted Petals set which I seem to be over using currently. I stamped the stems in mossy meadow and then the flowers in lost lagoon and blackberry bliss stamping off before some of the blackberry bliss flowers and doing a fair amount of masking since the flower stamp is three flowers together. The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts and is stamped in mossy meadow.
This is a deceptively simply looking card and this was actually my fourth attempt! I mixed up my ink pads on one occasion and stamped a mossy meadow flower. I ignored where I’d planned to stamp my lost lagoon flowers and I had blackberry bliss flowers half way across the card on another attempt. I was beginning to think that the card was doomed when finally it came out better than I had expected.
The envelope was lined with the backgrounds DSP in mossy meadow using the envelope framelits to cut out the liner. Since my stamps were inked up, I also stamped a trio of flowers on the front of the envelope.
See you tomorrow,
Liz
The end result is lovely, and the colour variations really are beautiful. Nice job!
Liz, I’m so glad you (and your sister) discovered our challenge blog! I love the delicate little border of flowers you’ve created. They look great in our challenge colors and paired with the scripty sentiment. Thanks so much for joining us at CAS Colours & Sketches! I hope you’ll come back again next week for another challenge.
Thanks Patricia. I’ll definitely be back since pretty much all my cards are CAS. Somehow being given the colour palette to work with often produces cards that I would not have created otherwise.
YAY! You’re the first one to enter using the colours from my first ever hostess gig. And what a beautiful job you did too! Loving that simple line of flowers and so clever of you to use a second stamping to get tones of the same colour. Thanks so much for joining in at CC&S, hope to see you again next week.
Thanks Jane – thanks for the fabulous choice of colours. I may leave those inks out on my table for a few days and see what else happens!
Love it! And I fully intend to enter as well, if I’m not too late
I love what you’ve done with Jane’s colours Liz and the generational stamping adds further interest. Thanks so much for joining us at CC&S this week. Hope to see you again. Stef x
Thanks Stef! You’ll definitely see me again, CAS is absolutely my favourite. I struggle a bit with sketches (and thus they are good for me) but sometimes I just can’t get it to work. So I’ll be back, but not always every week!!
So happy that you found our challenge. Love your CAS style and you really rocked the colours with your pretty row of flowers. Thanks for playing at CC&S
Louise xx
Thanks Louise. I’m happy that I, well my sister, found your challenge. I just wish we’d found your challenge blog earlier. 🙂