Cottage Rose Scrapbusting Happy Birthday Card. Creative Colour Challenges - CCC47

 Good Morning Everyone

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend - the weather has taken a massive turn and it's now very miserable and rainy here! But we still managed to have a lot of fun over the weekend - so it's all good.

As it's Monday, I wanted to share with you the card I've made for the brand new colour combo over on Creative Colour Challenges. 

I'll be honest - this one hurt my head slightly - the colours are very deep and rich and I really didn't have a clue what to create. I took out my card stock and noticed I had a lot of scrap strips - and my idea was born! haha. The White embossing really stands out against the background and I'm actually really chuffed with how it turned out.

What do you think?

Measurements

Thick Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 5 7/8" x 8 1/4", score at 4 1/8"

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 3 3/4" x 5 1/2"

1pc - scrap

Cajun Craze Card Stock

scrap strips

Basic Gray Card Stock

scrap strips

Evening Evergreen Card Stock

scrap Strips

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Take the thick basic white card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base.

Now, using the scrap strips of card stock, create a background panel fro your card. Add these strips to the basic white card stock diagonally - making sure that you 'butt' then up close to each other and the you don't get any glue on the top. Trim down any edges that over hang.

Leave this to dry full if you used liquid glue.

Ink up your flower image from Cottage Rose in Versamark and add to the card, gently sprinkle with white embossing powder and set with your heat tool. You need to work quickly with this as you don't want to melt the glue that is holding the strip son too much. Leave to cool.

On a scrap of basic white stamp the sentiment in Evening Evergreen ink and then angle the left hand side - I tried to make it the same angle as one of the strips  but you don't have to. adhere this with a bit of liquid glue and then trim the right hand side to sit flush with the mat below. Add this to the card front.

It's a super simple card - a great way to showcase these three colours - but you could easily take this concept and switch up the colours to create a different effect.

If you would like to find out more about the Challenge, or would like to join in - please head over to my blog Creative Colour Challenges.

If you are on Facebook, why not pop over and check out our community group Craft & Banter. If you have a passion for paper craft, are brilliant at baking or a super talented seamstress then we would love to see you there. We share all types of crafting, run challenges and giveaways & generally have a right good natter.

See you soon 

Vickie 

Xxx