Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Best of Flowers Watercolour - Color Coach Card #27

Elegant Eggplant Card #2

Hi

This card was inspired by a technique tutorial and card that the incredibly talented Iwona Palamountain (aka Chupa) shared at StampNation.

For my card, my colour palette was taken from my Color Coach for my Color Coach Card Challenge. The colours are Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke and Sahara Sand.

The tag is actually a Labels Collection Framelit with the sides cropped and a hole made using the Chalk Talk Framelit aperture piece. The flower stamp from Best of Flowers was stamped in Versamark onto Naturals White and embossed in white. The ink was then applied and splattered with an aqua painter. 

My 'love' sentiment was cut using the Expressions Thinlit Die from Elegant Eggplant card stock. 

I really like the way this turned out. Chupa said that the technique is a lot of fun and produces some interesting and pleasing effects from the splattering and she is absolutely right! :)

If you like this card, then you can buy all the supplies to make it from my online store. Please support my business and have a browse. :)

Cheers

Alison xx

Materials used:

Stamp - Best of Flowers

Ink - Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke, Sahara Sand

Cardstock - Naturals White, Elegant Eggplant

Accessories - Organza White Ribbon, Bakers Twine White

Tools - Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits, Chalk Talk Framelits, Stampin' Trimmer, Two Way Glue Pen, Aquapainter 

Stampin' Up! Australia - Dynamic Duos #63 - Best of Flowers

Dear Stampin' friends,

Do you think this card is very 'me'?.....I'm not sure that it is clean & simple enough, but I really loved this sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and it seemed to call for a few layers.

At Dynamic Duos this week, we are playing with these colours....

 



So I did this..... 



 

 



 

 

It gave me the opportunity to use the hydrangea image from  Stampin' Up!'s 'Best of Flowers'...it is so pretty when it is watercoloured. I used my Pear Pizzazz marker to deepen the colour in the middle of the flowers.

Let me know what you think....are layers my thing!?

Be sure to visit the Dynamic Duos Design Team for colour inspiration.....

Alison Barclay

Anne Marie Hile

Debbie Henderson

Hayley Kew

Janet Bagnall

Janet Zeppa

Lori Turner

Michelle Folland

Susie Wittwer

Tara Bourgoin

Tracey McNeely

 

 

RememberYou may order all your Stampin' Up! supplies through me at my my online store  - pop on over and have a browse! :)

Happy Stampin'
Cheers
Alison  

 

Materials used:
Stamps - Best of Flowers
Ink - Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz (inkpad and marker), Black Stazon
Cardstock - Garden Green, Very Vanilla textured CS, Twitterpated DSP, Watercolour Paper
Accessories - SU Pearls, Antique Brad
Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, SNAIL, Corner Rounder Punch, Aquapainter, Paper Piercer, Big Shot, Little Leaves Sizzlit.

   

Stampin' Up Australia - Color Coach Card #7 - Soft Sky

Soft Sky Card #1

Dear Stampin' friends

It is Mojo Monday's 300th blog challenge this week....which is a fairly big deal so I thought I would play along with them and use their sketch. This is also Card #7 on my self-imposed Color Coach Challenge! Today's colours are Soft Sky, Garden Green and Real Red.     

  

The main image panel uses the 'bouncing brayer' technique where I blended Soft Sky and Garden Green. There was a little bit of paper stuck to my brayer which gave that 'white out' effect on the paper on the right....which actually looks quite cool. I stamped over it with an image from "Best of Flowers" to give a silhouette look. The 'red ribbon' on the corner is actually a narrow piece of Real Red cardstock.
   

In all honesty, I really don't dig this card....I'm not sure why....I think maybe the Garden Green banner is the focus rather than the image panel. I should have made that narrower I think. I dunno.....I kept throwing things at the card hoping it would magically turn into a 'WOW' but I don't think it works. Oh well....I'm vowing to blog all my cards....even the ones that aren't my favourites.....I think it's important to keep it real. :)

Cheers
Alison xx

Materials used:
Stamps - Best of Flowers
Ink - Black Stazon, Soft Sky, Garden Green
Cardstock - Whisper White, Soft Sky, Garden Green DSP, Real Red
Accessories - Real Red brads
Tools - Big Shot, Mosaic Embossing Folder, SNAIL, Paper Snips, Paper Piercer,

circle punch.