colour challenges – Page 2 – A Stamping Journey

This weekend I have had a play at this week’s Colour Inkspirations Challenge #05. The colours we had were Blushing Bride, Soft Sky and Sahara Sand.

They are such pretty soft colours and lend themselves to cute baby cards or soft floral or even butterflies??

Recently I shared a card with you of a different way to use the Falling Petal Embossing Folder. You can see that post HERE if you missed it. I have wanted to play with this idea since then and thought I would try it out with this challenge. This is the card I ended up with.

The lighting is not very good today. It is wet and overcast so not the best. Actually it has been torrential rain for the past week!

To the card: The base card is Blushing Bride and the mat is Sahara Sand. I embossed a Whisper White card mat with the Falling Petals Embossing Folder. Tied around some White Baker’s Twine before adhering it to the Sahara Sand card mat and card base. I cut a piece of Thick Whisper White with one of the larger Layering Circles Framelits Dies and embossed it with the Falling Petals Embossing Folder.

On this circle piece I created some little flowers with the embossed hearts/petals. I used the Sahara Sand Marker to first draw some lines from each petal to create the flower stems. Then coloured each flower with the Blushing Bride inkpad and Blender Pen. Then with the Aquapainter I added a light wash with the Soft Sky inkpad around the flowers. Just a note: After giving it a light wash with the Soft Sky it did wash out the Sahara Sand stems so I went over that lightly again. I went over the petals with the clear Wink of Stella pen too to add some sparkle but it is hard to tell in the photo.

This coloured piece was then adhered on to a Blushing Bride circle a bit larger. I then adhered it to the white card mat lining it up roughly in the same place. This created a type of spotlighting of the petals at the top of the card.

The sentiment is from Birthday Blossoms and cut with the Project Life Framelits. I added some small adhesive pearls to the sentiment piece. A small dragonfly was cut from the Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper to add some extra sparkle.

What do you think of this card?? I felt it was missing something?? Not sure.

Anyway, I think these challenges are good. It makes you think a lot about your creating. It’s nice to steal away a little “me” time stamping too.

I hope you have a lot of creating opportunities this coming week.

Jenny

I had a little play yesterday. I was supposed to do so many other things but really ……. 🙂 I wanted to have a try at the new Colour challenge at Colour INKspirations. I wasn’t sure if I would get a chance later this week and I missed last week. This is the colours for this week.

I had been contemplating these colours all weekend and really wasn’t sure what to do with them. I haven’t used Elegant Eggplant in YEARS!! It was one of my “go-to” colours a long time ago. So I dusted that off and then looked at my stamp shelf to see what I could use. The Definitely Dahlia stamp was one I hadn’t used in ages either. After looking through Pinterest for a few minutes. (Really only a few minutes. You have to control yourself there!). I was inspired to create a multi coloured flower. So here is my resulting card. I am still not sure of it but here it is!

TO RECREATE THIS.

The Dahlia – For the ‘Definitely Dahlia’ stamp I first inked it with the Crushed Curry, then sponged some Delightful Dijon in the centre. The idea then was to sponge the Elegant Eggplant on the edges. When I first did this and stamped the Dahlia the purple went a brown colour. That was not what I wanted! So after cleaning the stamp I repeated with the Crushed Curry and Delightful Dijon, then with a tissue I wiped off some of the Crushed Curry on the edges. Then with a sponge I went over the edges with the Elegant Eggplant.

After stamping it, some of the colour was a bit faint to what I would have liked (it’s an old inkpad) so I went over the image with the Elegant Eggplant Marker to touch it up. I then went over it with the Aquapainter just to smooth it over.

The Dragonfly – The patterned Dragonfly from ‘Dragonfly Dreams’ set was stamped with Black Stazon onto clear Acetate and then cut using the Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits. I adhered that on to the card with Glue Dots.

To Finish – Stamp over some “dots” from ‘Gorgeous Grunge’ with the Crushed Curry. I tied around some Crushed Curry Baker’s Twine a few times around the card. The sentiment is from the ‘Dragonfly Dreams’ set. The card is layered on to the Elegant Eggplant card mat and then on to a Thick Whisper White card base. Always bling to finish with the Rhinestones right. 🙂

So what are your thoughts?? Certainly not as good as some of the stunning cards entered for this challenge BUT you just have to have a go. Check out the amazing cards and you can join in yourself if you like. Head over HERE to join on Facebook.

Get your Dragonfly Dreams Bundle or the Definitely Dahlia at my store HERE now.

Jenny