What a great couple of challenges. Both are out of my comfort zone. I really LIKE to use stamps and I'm not real great w/ pastel colors. So I figured, shoot, in for a penny, in for a pound; so just do them both. I even looked thru my gallery because I couldn't remember if I'd ever not stamped on a card. I was surprised to find three such cards. But I hadn't set out not to stamp, it just happened.
What I did: I kinda liked the celery and lilac together, but the pink was really putting a kink in the works for me. So it was downgraded to a minor accent color (the flowers). The two big daisies are a Sizzix embossing folder. I colored them, used a little blopen on them and cut them out. All other flowers are punches that were layered. The hummer is a brass stencil I dry embossed, flipped over and colored, then cut out.
The dp looks mostly white here, but it has faint celery and lilac flower pattern in it. It is pierced all around and edged w/ a little pink. The ovals are nesties. The celery oval and the dp are bugged w/ the swiss dots. White gel pen dots are around the lilac oval and lilac dots are around the celery layer. Pearls are in the corners and stickles dot the flower centers. TFL
Date: Friday, May 9, 2008 GMT Views: 1504
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Paper: Cert.Celery, L. Lilac, white, dp (Colorbok)
Ink: no ink
Accessories: markers, blopens, cb folder swiss dots, sizzix daisy emb. folder, nestabilities oval & scallop oval dies, various flower and circle punches, hummingbird stencil, white gel pen, lilac souffle pen, pearls, foam tape, pop dots, paper piercing set
Techniques: cuttlebug, dry embossing, punches, paper piercing
Registered: June 29, 2004 Location: Sugar Land. Texas Posts: 79521
Sat, May 10, 2008 @ 2:50 AM
This is beautiful and love the dimensional layering as well.
------------------------------ LizThe joy of the LORD is my strength.Right Brain Madness --My blogProud member of the redDivasKSS certified multi-step stamperFan Club member since 2004
Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44872
Sat, May 10, 2008 @ 4:41 AM
Gorgeous!! Love your many flowers - just lovely!!! I realize you were doing a colour challenge - but great choice of colour ratio!!! Love that polka dot eb - and the pearls and gemstones are fabulous!
Registered: February 7, 2006 Location: Out West Posts: 24437
Sat, May 10, 2008 @ 7:35 AM
Wonderful card. Hard to believe you were out of your comfort zone here. It all looks so perfect from the pastels to the no stamps. Going into my FAVS. TFS
------------------------------ Just another beautiful day at the beach. **** KAY****
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