There is a new challenge starting today over at CAS Colours & Sketches and it’s a fun colour one. I had the Pedal Pushers stamp set from Sale-a-bration to play with and I decided to use that for the challenge.

And here’s the banner for the challenge:

I started with a fairly wet wash of cucumber crush and mint macaron on a piece of watercolour paper. I love the watery look of the diluted wash with the two greens next to each other. Then I stamped the bicycle in the archival basic black and added the basket and the flowers. I coloured the bike with the Stampin’ Write mint macaron marker and the leaves of the flowers in cucumber crush. The flowers are coloured using real red and the aquapainter so that I have flowers coloured in varying strengths. I then realised that I should’ve stamped the sentiment before doing all my colouring, but fortunately I stamped it okay! It’s a sentiment from this month’s Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine.

I then matted this with a piece of basic black which is just 1/8 inch larger than the watercolour paper and mounted that onto a real red card base. I was tempted to add the butterfly from Flowering Fields but when I tested it out, realised that the butterfly was much much larger and was about the size of all the flowers put together. It would’ve looked like an alien!

I lined the envelope with the cucumber crush flower pattern from the 2015-2017 in color DSP stack and the envelope liners framelits dies. It’s yet another beautiful colour that I need to use more.

I hope that you’ll hop over to the CC&S challenge log to see the inspiration from the rest of the team and to enter a card of your own into the challenge.

See you tomorrow,

Liz