Sometimes I know the general direction that a card is going in, sometimes I have no idea. This is one of the latter occasions. I saw that the Global Design Project had a colour challenge this week and decided to have a go.

Here’s the colour banner which inspired the card:

I decided that the pear pizzazz and the soft sky could be sky and grass and that I’d do some watercolouring. I had pieces of card of each of the colours out on my desk whilst I was thinking about what to do and the soft sky happened to have a circle cut out of it. So I used it as my template. I wet the piece of watercolor paper with water before adding colour – I messed up at one point and the aquapainter pushed under the card template and my circle wasn’t perfect. I was about to redo it, when I thought that the whole point of watercoloring is that is ISN’T perfect and added more colour around the circle to soften all the edges of the circle. Then I went on a search for an appropriate image to add. After discarding various flowers, I settled on the butterfly from the hostess set Best Thoughts which I stamped in archival basic black. I added full strength daffodil delight to the spots on the butterfly and a paler strength for the rest of the butterfly.  After framing the watercolor paper with a little pear pizzazz I added it to a soft sky card base. I had thoughts to pull out my greetings dies (again) but it was too heavy; Cottage Greetings was out (I’d been looking at the flowers) and I realised that the thanks would work well. It’s also stamped in my favourite archival basic black. There was a bit of a risk taken with this card – for some reason, I stamped the thanks last. It would have been much safer to have done that before adhering the pear pizzazz to the card base – there’s no way it will ever come off, it’s stuck on there with the mighty fast fuse! Apparently I’m taking risks today.

See you tomorrow,

Liz