Well I'm back and let me tell you does it ever feel good to be home! I received my first big order from the new Catalogue and am itching to get some stamping done with some of my new goodies. I thought I would ease my way back into stamping by participating in a fun colour challenge from Makeesha Byl an insanely talented demonstrator from Australia. These colours are not one I would naturally put together but to me they diffinately scream floral image and as luck would have I just received my Friends 24-7 set. Absolutely LOVE this set and can not wait to get some good use out of it. Maybe Convention Swaps?!
I started with 3 strips of Water Colour paer and stamped the Flower image using Basic Brown and sponged the edges of the paper with the same colour. Did you know that you can colour images stamped in our Basic Black, Basic Gray and Basic Brown images without fear of the ink bleeding? I love my Staz On ink but sometimes I like to have my outline image look a little softer. I coloured in the image using my favourite Water Colouring Technique using Marker and an Aqua Painter. You can get a really great result by taking a Marker and just place a little bit of color where desired then use the Aqua Painter that is just slightly wet and pull the colour towards the center. I really like how it gives a pretty painted effect with minimal effort. The base of the card is Mellow Moss and was randomly stamped in Always Artichoke with the beautiful Damask image from the set. This stamp set is so worth it just for that image alone! The Sentiment is stamped using Basic Brown again on Very Vanilla and the word Friends coloured in with Rose Red marker and Aqua Painter and attached with Dimensionals. I also used the Damask stamp again, this time inked in Mellow Moss as a background to the words.
Hope everyone is having a great day and with any luck I will be back later today with another post!
Stamps: Friends 24-7 Paper: Water Colour Paper, Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla Ink: SU! Markers in Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Rose Red, Basic Brown Classic Ink Accessories: Key Tag punch (retired), Corner Rounder Punch, Dimensionals
This is beautiful! Love the key tag sentiment and your use of these colours!!
Posted by: Renée | 07/21/2009 at 05:26 PM
Love your card, the layout is fantastic. I have done this challenge too. Arn't the colours fantastic together:)
Posted by: Tracey Old | 07/21/2009 at 10:54 PM
Beautiful card. You've done a great job and I agree with Renee I love the key tag sentiment... gorgeous.
xx Sarah
Posted by: Sarah-Jane Kale' | 07/23/2009 at 03:53 AM
Hey Jenn! It is so wonderful to have your talented self play along :) I LOVE the creation you have made... the three panels work so well, and your colouring is fabulous! Thanks so much for playing! Love Keesh x
Ps...LOVE the look of your blog too!
Posted by: Makeesha Byl | 07/23/2009 at 06:01 AM
What a gorgeous card! This is a great colour combo!
Posted by: Shannon | 07/24/2009 at 12:20 PM