Stampin' Up Australia - Color Coach Card #127 - Stampin' Up! Blended Bloom

Very Vanilla #1

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Hi

Welcome to this week's Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge.

The Color Coach pairs Perfect Plum and Rose Red with the base colour of Very Vanilla....I found the only way I could make this combination work was to use watercolouring and some layering with gold. Rose Red and Perfect Plum are quite strong colours so you will notice that I used muted tones of both on my card.

I stamped Blended Bloom in Perfect Plum rather than Black Stazon to give a softness to the flower image. As I watercoloured with Rose Red, the Perfect Plum ink also moved around a little bit which blended quite beautifully. I used Perfect Plum for the stamen and centre details of the flower.

I used some vintage Perfect Plum DSP for the banner and used Gold Bakers Twine, Metallic Gold Twine and Gold Sequin Trim to add some luxe elements. The sentiment is from the Expressions Natural Elements pack. I LOVE these SO much! I'm buying two packs next order. :)

I finished the card (and to adhere to the sketch) with a punched piece of vellum using the Itty Bitty Butterfly punch. Every butterfly needs pearls. :)

Here's our sketch....

Card recipe

Stamp - Blended Bloom

Ink - Perfect Plum, Rose Red

Cardstock- Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper, Perfect Plum DSP (vintage), Vellum

Tools - Big Shot, Boho Chic Embossing Folder, Stampin' Trimmer, Itty Bitty Butterfly Punch, 
Glue Dots, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, 
Paper Snips, Aquapainter, Dimensionals
Accessories - Pearls, Expressions Natural Elements, Gold Metallic Thread, 
Gold Sequin Trim, Gold Bakers Twine

I hope you will join in and create a card with us.....and please feel free to leave me and the other CCMC participants some comments! :)

Cheers

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