Yesterday I said that I was challenging myself to make three alternative cards with the October 2015 Paper Pumpkin Blissful Bouquet stamp set. Here’s the second – if you’ve been following my blog (and I hope you have!), you’ll have seen a similar card made a few days ago for the CAS Colours & Sketches current challenge. I decided to do another sponged panel and looked through the colour coach for inspiration but I kept coming back to the colours that Stef selected for this week’s challenge.

This is a smaller sponged panel than the earlier card, but it is again in pumpkin pie, tangerine tango and real red on very vanilla. I then stamped the flowers from the October 2015 Paper Pumpkin Blissful Bouquet set in the archival basic black. I wanted three flowers and I decided to have them falling off the sponged colour. Probably mostly because the card from earlier in the week had the image entirely contained within the colour. I liked Martin’s comment which was that the card has a Japanese vibe – a good thing since he loves Japanese cards. The sentiment is also from the Paper Pumpkin set – rather a fun typeface and a stamp which will be rather useful. I tried using all three of the sponged colours as mats, I also tried them as card bases but in the end, it was basic black which really worked.

Stop back to see the third alternative card sometime in the next couple of days.

See you tomorrow,

Liz