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This week the challenge at the Pals Paper Arts is a colour one, my favourite kind of challenge.

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired this card

I had the A Dozen Thoughts set out for the previous card that I was creating and noticed the Wish Big sentiment. I really love the typeface and decided to use it on this card. And then the whole Disney “wish upon a star” idea occurred to me and the card developed from there.

I stamped the middle sized star from the Bright and Beautiful set in versamark onto the garden green card stock before sprinkling over the gold embossing powder and heating it. I then did the same for the sentiment. I mounted this card onto a piece of basic black which is 3/16 inch larger in both dimensions thus giving a border of 3/32 inch around the green. I mounted this onto the garden green card base; there’s a border of half an inch of garden green around the basic black. I finished by lining the envelope using the Backgrounds DSP from the Regals family in garden green.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

My sister recently pointed me towards a new for us challenge site, CAS colours and sketches, which is all about clean and simple, my favourite type of cards. This week is a colour challenge (also my favourite) and the hostess has selected an awesome combination from Stampin’ Up!’s newest in colours. I don’t know why I haven’t been using them more often lately, they are gorgeous colours.

The challenge banner is These colours are totally luxurious and even better in person.

The flowers are from the Painted Petals set which I seem to be over using currently. I stamped the stems in mossy meadow and then the flowers in lost lagoon and blackberry bliss stamping off before some of the blackberry bliss flowers and doing a fair amount of masking since the flower stamp is three flowers together. The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts and is stamped in mossy meadow.

This is a deceptively simply looking card and this was actually my fourth attempt! I mixed up my ink pads on one occasion and stamped a mossy meadow flower. I ignored where I’d planned to stamp my lost lagoon flowers and I had blackberry bliss flowers half way across the card on another attempt. I was beginning to think that the card was doomed when finally it came out better than I had expected.

The envelope was lined with the backgrounds DSP in mossy meadow using the envelope framelits to cut out the liner. Since my stamps were inked up, I also stamped a trio of flowers on the front of the envelope.