Here’s a card that I made at the weekend when I was trying to make a card for the CAS Colours & Sketches Design Team for the upcoming challenge. It’s funny. It started off following the colour challenge but as I played more, things changed and it ended up somewhere completely different.

This is one of the plant stamps from Flowering Fields, stamped three times using stazon black on watercolour paper. I was trying another colour but it blurred when watercolouring but I liked the design of the card and started again using stazon. I then coloured in the flowers using so saffron and a fairly watered down rose red. The leaves are in pear pizzazz. I attached the watercolour paper to a skinny border of basic black using fast fuse (my favourite when using watercolour paper) and then onto a card base of rose red with the multipurpose glue. It doesn’t show in the photo but the flowers are also highlighted using my just received clear wink of Stella. It’s really fun in person. Just be careful when you first use the pen. You remove the black ring and then put the pen back together and squeeze the pen GENTLY so that the ink flows into the see through part of the pen by the nib. After that I haven’t had to squeeze at all so far. If you squeeze too hard, you get a nice puddle of ink on your (hopefully) scrap paper.

I lined my envelope using the retired backgrounds DSP in rose red and the envelope liners framelits.

By the way, there’s still time to play in the sketch challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches before it changes to a colour challenge on Thursday.

See you tomorrow,

Liz