This is for Maura’s Color Challenge – Watermelon Wonder, Pumpkin Pie, and Crushed Curry with dessert for green of choice. I used a retired SU! stamp set and matching Framelits that are new to me. This is my first time to play with these items.
Flowers: stamped in Memento black, let it dry, watercolored in watermelon or pumpkin, and curry for the flower centers. For the Watermelon, I only have a marker (no ink pad), so I smeared a little ink from the marker on a plastic mat and used that ink to watercolor. I added black dots to the smaller pumpkin colored flowers to help them to resemble Tiger Lilies. Lastly, I added Wink of Stella to the flower centers.
Leaves: I used the Kissing method to attain a more textured look. I inked up the Canvas background stamp with Old Olive, pressed my leaf stamp onto the background stamp which then inked the leaf stamp in a pattern and then I stamped it onto Pear Pizzazz CS.
The leaves and flowers are die-cut. Punched two corners, stamped HB, and assembled my flower arrangement, raised up the top two lilies, layered all on Watermelon and a Curry card base. ThereÂ’s texture, interest, color, sparkle and best partÂ… itÂ’s easy to mail. My kind of card! Thanks for looking.
Hope you play along this week and create your kind of card!
Date: Monday, May 23, 2016 GMT Views: 4266
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Registered: November 19, 2005 Location: Bethel Park, Pa Posts: 37082
Mon, May 23, 2016 @ 7:42 PM
this is really pretty Diane-love the kissing technique you used-I have only tried that once-thanks for the inspiration- love the images in this stamp set-again thanks for the reminder that I have this one
------------------------------ Mary Marsh SCS Color Challenge DT Coordinator My Blog- The Charmed Life
Registered: April 16, 2008 Location: Meridian, Idaho Posts: 8507
Mon, May 23, 2016 @ 7:49 PM
Lovely use of this set, Diane, with the cluster of layered flowers. Really pretty coloring and the corner treatment makes some nice interest. Love this.
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