This week it’s a double challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches – both a sketch and a colour palette. Sketches are definitely more of a stretch. My Paper Pumpkin set for October, Blissful Bouquet, was still out on my desk so I decided to try to use some of the stamps that haven’t been inked up yet.
Here’s the banner of the challenge that was my inspiration
I started off by sponging the three colours onto a piece of cardstock, but I didn’t like how it looked and decided instead to drop ink onto a clear block, spray it with water and then press it onto card. My first attempt created a very dark – and wet – result and I then wondered how it would work on water colour paper. This was rather interesting too and the texture of the paper added interest. My next experiment was to wet the water colour paper rather than the block, this left the block still covered in ink and so I stamped the block onto ordinary card stock. And it’s this last experiment that made it onto this card. I really liked some of the earlier ones too, but they were very slow to dry and I wanted to get on with my card.
I decided to flip the sketch and, because the DSP that I’d created was going to dominate the card, I went with clear embossing on the tiny flowers so that they wouldn’t try to compete. The sentiment is from the Paper Pumpkin kit and it’s stamped in rose red. As I was about to glue everything down, I decided that the DSP panel was a little too wide and trimmed it slightly on both sides. I loved the coloured thin strips that were left over and quickly realized that adding one of them to the base of the card really improved it. It wasn’t on the sketch but, as my sister who is visiting pointed out, my card was very much inspired by the sketch.
See you tomorrow,
Liz
Another lovely card Liz. It’s lovely to experiment with inky techniques when you have the time! Thanks for joining us at CC&S this week. Stef x
Thanks Stef – yes, it’s so much fun to play. Amazingly I think that my piece of watercolour paper is still a trifle damp!
Fabulous inky backgound on your horizontal strip. And you can never have too many thanks cards can you? And I’m loving the font on your thanks stamp. Thanks for joining in at CC&S this week.
Thanks Jane – I had loads of fun making that one. I’ve almost got all the ink off my hands too!
great job on combining the colours and the sketch, well done!
Thanks Maaike – my heart sank a bit when I saw your card since I’d planned to make an inky strip. Happy when mine came out quite different to yours! Yours really is beautiful.
I really like your bold inky strip! Thanks so much for giving our double challenge a go! I always enjoy seeing what you create for our CC&S challenges.
Patricia – that is such a nice thing to say. I’m slowly getting into sketch challenges – I find them, dare I say it?, a challenge. Liz xx
Your card is just lovely, the bold colours on your panel are striking and the font of your sentiment is great. Nice design!
Thanks Di, I’m glad you like it. Thanks also for taking the time to comment – hope to see you visit again.