blog posts! The other 50 won’t happen until next year. Not something I’m looking forward to. I wanted to do something special but I was fixated on another challenge. A colour one, of course. This one is at the Paper Players. I am really finding that the challenges stretch me. This one wants mossy meadow, tangelo twist and hello honey. I let this percolate for a few days until whilst driving to work today, I realised what I wanted to do.
I decided to take a real leaf and do some sponging. Of course, driving home it was a monsoon but I grabbed a perfect looking leaf and dried it out so that I could make my card.
The challenge was:
Details:
One perfect leaf
Base: 5.5″ by 8.5″ mossy meadow
5.25″ by 4″ basic black
5″ by 3.75″ very vanilla
Stamp set: Stampin’ Up! Lots of thanks
Inks: mossy meadow, hello honey, tangelo twist, memento black
I took my leaf and holding it still on the very vanilla paper, sponged the mossy meadow around the edges. I sponged off the paper first so as not to get sponge texture. Then I sponged hello honey over the entire leaf and then some tangelo twist for contrast. Finally I took my sentiment and stamped it in memento black (using the stampamajig of course). I’ve made three of these cards this evening and they’re all different and all fun. I think I’ll add this card to an upcoming card class – it’s a lot of fun to make.
Congrats on a number of things, Liz: your 50th post, taking part in another challenge and coming up with such a creative and unique way of using the required colours!
The background gives it a real sense of movement and the placement of the leaf adds to this. You’ve done a great job on this!
This is so creative, and sounds so fun. Very pretty card,Liz. Thanks for joining us this week at The paper Players!
Thanks Laurie. I really had fun making it (them, actually). I found that when I was out running yesterday, I was looking for more leaves!
What a clever and creative idea, Liz! Lovely when life can imitate nature, right? Great use of our colors and congratulations on your 50th post–woohoo! Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players!
How wonderful that you used a real leaf as your mask here, Liz. The sponging is lovely, perfect use of the colors. Thanks so much for joining us this week at The Paper Players! Congrats on 50 blog posts, too!
The shape of the leaf is just perfect. Great use of the challenge colors. So glad you shared your creation at The Paper Players and congrats on your 50th blog post.
Thanks very much Andrea.
This is so innovative – a great card, Liz!