I wanted to make a card for one of my sisters who just got laid off and needs to decide what to do with her life now. I'm going to give her the card with a box of chocolate truffles as the two will go together so well!
I decided to try this week's Color Challenge as I had some dp I really liked that matched Crushed Curry in colour, and of course I have grey ink. But I had a challenge with the Coastal Cabana colour as I don't buy SU inks or papers. I wanted to do a background for the sentiment with Distress inks and water splatters, so tried various Distress inks - got close to the curry colour but then my blue one came out too blue for Coastal Cabana so then tried Bundled Sage up in the top right of the sentiment panel - it looks pretty close to Coastal Cabana so hope it's okay. I edged both the sentiment panel and the dp with Distress Tea Dye to emphasis the curry colour and I stamped the sentiment with grey ink and bordered it with dark grey cs.
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 GMT Views: 1202
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Registered: May 9, 2007 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 8703
Tue, Jun 25, 2013 @ 5:31 PM
This is absolutely beautiful! And the sentiment is beautiful too. I love the water spotting on your sentiment panel. Hope your sister finds another path in life.
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Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92528
Wed, Jun 26, 2013 @ 3:48 AM
Beautiful card with your soft sponging of the colors on the main panel and lovely DP for the back one. Loved your message!...had to smile, from the thumbnail I thought it would have some religious quotation...surprise!! when seeing it full blown. Love it!
Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40380
Wed, Jun 26, 2013 @ 6:08 AM
This is a gorgeous card, Susan, with the lovely bg dp and lightly coloured main panel!! What a wonderful sentiment for your sister - sure to brighten her day!!
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Registered: March 24, 2012 Location: West Virginia Posts: 1241
Thu, Jun 27, 2013 @ 6:37 AM
I love, everything, about this card. Your heart, is in this, and your Sis will love it, as well as, the truffles. Very beautiful, and thoughtful card. Luck to your Sis, and tfs.
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Marg