At the weekend I was working on a card for this week’s challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches which was a colour challenge incorporating watermelon wonder, lost lagoon and metallic silver. I was playing with the embellished ornaments stamp set and a water spritzer and made a number of ornaments with this colour combination. Or so I thought!

I used sponges and dabbed the watermelon wonder and lost lagoon randomly around the stamp and then spritzed once with my water spritzer before stamping onto a piece of very vanilla. Each ornament came out differently and, unless I spritzed too much water, beautifully. I added a sentiment to this card, using this month’s Paper Pumpkin set, Mistletoe and Holly in watermelon wonder and mounted my piece of very vanilla onto a base of watermelon wonder. I was just about to declare it ready for entry into the challenge when I realized that I was missing the metallic silver. Oops. For my challenge card, I added some silver but on this one I decided to add a few rhinestones. I wasn’t certain if rhinestones meet the metallic silver criteria and so this card was a nice side benefit of the challenge but wasn’t entered. I added a liner using the new designer series paper stack in watercolour wonder.

I made some more ornaments in the same way but dabbed on metallic silver also – totally different effect. I’ll share some of them soon.

See you tomorrow,

Liz