Good Afternoon Everyone,
Today I'm sharing a card I made for this week's Creative Colour Challenges. Now, I'm not going to lie - these colours came up on the wheel and I thought hmmmmm interesting, not sure about that mix. Now, it's time to work with them and I was even more unsure. I had all three colours in card stock, but only Soft Sea Foam, so that didn't help!
It took me a while to come up with a concept but I'm actually really loving how the card turned out. We have die cutting, dry embossing, ink blending, stamping and punching! There's a lot going on but It works, and these colours look fab together! What do you think?
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Measurements
Wild Wheat Card Stock
1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"
scraps
Boho Blue Card Stock
1pc - 3 3/4" x 5 1/2"
scrap
Very Vanilla Card Stock
1pc - 5 5/8" x 3 7/8"
Soft Sea Foam
2 strips - 1/2" wide
1 strip - 3/4" wide
scraps
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Take the Wild Wheat card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base - add the Very Vanilla piece to the inside.
Arrange the three strips of Soft Sea Foam Diagonally across the Boho Blue Card piece. I placed the 3/4" strip in the centre and the 1/2" strips either side. Trim off any overhanging card and then run this whole piece through your Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine using the Quatrefoil Tile Embossing Folder.
Using your Blending Brush and some Soft Sea Foam ink add 'patches' to the embossing panel. I wanted to get some different tones going on, but I wanted to keep areas of solid Boho Blue and the Soft Sea Foam. Once happy with the inking, adhere this panel to the card front.
Go back to your Cut & Emboss Machine and using the Sentimental Park Dies, cut out the largest elaborate frame in Wild Wheat card and the stitched edge frame in Boho Blue card.
Stamp the sentiment into the centre of the Boho Blue die cut using Memento ink. The 'Thinking of' is actually one line, but it wouldn't fit in this orientation, so I inked up each word separately - very carefully and stamped then on top of each other. You could mask off the words whilst inking up and then remove the mask before stamping if you need to be sure you won't pick up ink where you don't want it.
Add this to the top of the Wild Wheat dies cut - tucking the two edges into the cut lines and making sure it is even and flat. I added a smidge of liquid glue after I'd positioned it to help keep it in place - by gently lifting up an edge and squeezing the tiniest amount under.
Add this to the centre of the card front with dimensionals.
On a Scrap of Soft Sea Foam stamp the trio of flowers stamp from Petal Park twice and cut out using the Petal Park Builder Punch. Pop a little liquid glue behind the largest flowers and position then at either sides of the wild wheat decoration, tucking them under the sentiment piece. Add the small flowers on the sentiment piece with dimensionals close by.
Finally add a bit of wink of stella to the Soft Sea Foam flowers and then pop a few pearls into the centre of the flowers heads.
I hope you liked my card today! If you would like more details on how the challenge works, or have a project you would like to enter - head on over to my blog - Creative Colour Challenges
Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store
Product List
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See you soon
Vickie
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