This week’s challenge at Mother’s and Daughter’s Creations is a color challenge – to create a card with a spring theme with the colors light blue, yellow, and black. Now that IS a challenge, which would have been a lot easier with a bumble bee stamp!
When I think of spring, I think of April showers and May flowers and the Stampavie’s Lily and Milo “Rainy Day” stamp is perfect for this theme. I used different shades of light blue to create two very different cards with very different personalities.
For this card, I used both sides of the double sided “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” patterned paper from the For Peep's Sake Collection by Imaginisce and overlapped them to create a pastel blue stripe and floral background.
I stamped the image in Versafine Onyx Black ink, my token “black” for the card challenge. Watercolored in pale yellow and aqua, I mounted my rainy day couple on a background of solid light blue cardstock embossed with Cuttlebug’s “Bubbles” folder. In the original image, the children are standing in a small puddle and I cut and layered their “puddle” from pieces of vellum.
The corner embellishment was cut with a Cuttlebug die. With its central tulip, itÂ’s the perfect compliment to the tulip print paper. Light aqua and yellow prima flowers, some punched yellow branches, and a yellow button from the Sugared button collection finish the right lower corner.
On the inside of the card, I added a panel of the same floral paper, edged with a lace edge punch and embellished with a corresponding corner treatment.
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Stamps: Lily and Milo “Rainy Days” (Stampavie, from Mother’s and Daughters Creations); “Feel Better Soon”, (Daisy Bucket, from Mother’s and Daughters Creations)
Paper: “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” from the For Peep's Sake Collection (Imaginisce, from Mother’s and Daughters Creations); Cardstock, Core’dinations Vintage Collection;
Ink: Black Onyx (Versafine); Aquamarine (Colorbox)
Accessories: Prima flowers; white organza ribbon (May Arts); Lace edge punch, branch punch, (Martha Stewart); Watercolor pencils; Button (Sugared collection from Basic Grey)