Pootles is starting a weekly colour challenge and I thought that it would be fun to enter the inaugural one and to take the opportunity to use my last so far unused set, Weather Together. It’s the issue (ha!) with getting such a large first order, it takes a while to use everything!

The colour challenge is to use any or all of smoky slate, so saffron, pool party and pink pirouette. I’m really not a grey person (too much grey school uniform and I’m still not over it although it’s over 30 years ago!) but I like how smoky slate goes with pink pirouette. I started by stamping the umbrella handle in smoky slate on smoky slate cardstock and then cut it out with the matching dies, Umbrella Weather Framelits Dies – how easy is that? And actually they aren’t just matching, they come in a bundle saving you an instant 10%. I stamped the outline of the umbrella in smoky slate on pink pirouette and then added the pink pirouette dots. I built the card by gluing the umbrella handle onto a piece of whisper white and then popping up the umbrella itself with dimensionals. The sentiment is also from the Weather Together set. I made a little border to pull everything together with a slim smoky slate mat and left a good frame of the pink pirouette. It’s fun to play with different size borders, tiny changes make a big change to a card. Once I had the card all together, it felt as if there was something missing, so I cut out some of the little hearts using the Umbrella Weather framelits and stuck three of them onto the middle panel of the umbrella. There. That’s what was missing.

See you tomorrow,

Liz