I was away at a crop retreat this past weekend with my best friend Julia and we had loads of fun. Julia ran a production line and made 20 anniversary and birthday cards and had another dozen almost completed in between talking, laughing, meeting new and old friends, and just relaxing (the margaritas may have helped). I had a list of current card challenges to help in case I was feeling creativity free and I did struggle on Saturday. It took a while for things to gel – which was when I really appreciated having people to talk and laugh with. I finally started playing with Tuscan Vineyards and in between, my subconscious figured where I was really going with Penned and Painted which I was trying to use for Pootles’ fourth colour challenge.

The challenge this week is to use any or all of sweet sugarplum, so saffron and soft sky. All double S names – fun! I used sweet sugarplum for the sentiment, from the Watercolor Wishes kit and also for the outlines of the flowers from Penned and Painted. Next I filled in the flower with the second stamp from the set using sweet sugarplum stamped off once. The centre is the third part of the flower and is stamped in so saffron. I adjusted the orientation of the flowers but did one at a time. I once did some triple stamping where I thought it would be a great idea to stamp all of the outlines first, then all the next layers and finally all the centres and it did not go well. It was hard to figure out the orientation. So now I do one at a time!

I glued this piece of whisper white to a sweet sugarplum base to complete the card. I’ll start sharing what I did with Tuscan Vineyards as well as boxes I made for the cards starting later this week.

See you tomorrow,

Liz