Time to say Farewell to this group of In Colours. I will miss Boho Blue and Pebbled Path - easily my favourites. Moody Mauve will also be missed but I have to admit I have rarely used Wild Wheat, and almost never opened Copper Clay, so I won't miss those. I know Wild Wheat has been popular with many, but it never really made it to the front row in my craft space!
Though I didn't love Wild Wheat, I must say that blending blue and yellow (ie Boho Blue and Wild Wheat) to give green worked really well for the leaves in both these cards. I can't believe it took me two years to figure that out!
Our guest designer is Yvon Doensen. It's lovely to showcase cardmakers who have participated in our challenges. Be sure and check out her work and the other projects created by the Design Team.
These cards were also a really nice opportunity to finish off a pack of DSP using up the background patterns for these cards.
Pebbled Path makes a great card base and I will miss that.
Cardbase 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", score at 4 1/2"
Pop up mechanism 5 1/2" x 4 ", score at 1" 2" 3" and 4"
Blue Mats x 2 4 1/2" x 3"
Very Vanilla mat 4 1/4" x 2 3/4"
Very Vanilla for sentiment on reverse 5 1/4" x 4"
DSP
panels on the inside of the card x 2 5 1/4" x 3"
strips to decorate pop up mechanism x 2 5 1/4" x 3/4"
The pop up mechanism is a simple box, decorated with DSP
The mat for writing your message is on the reverse.
I liked the softness of the hydrangea coloured just with the masks, but for the other flower spray I stamped the outline softly in Pebbled Path.
Since I had created so many floral elements while playing I decided to create a Moody Mauve version as well. Blending both Boho Blue and Moody Mauve produced some lovey shades. Again the leaves were the result of blending Boho Blue and Wild Wheat.
Conveniently, there is a die that cuts just the small flower from this spray, so that is what I used to decorate the pop up panel on the inside. Vanilla leaves were lightly blended with the residual blue and gold ink on the blending brushes.
And of course the reverse.
So which do you prefer? I quite like both of them, and the blue one has already been posted to a dear friend. We love to see what you create with the challenge colours. YOu can use one or as many of the 5 colours as you like, and You can also use all the basic shades. Share a Picture of your project on our facebook page. This challenge will run for 3 weeks so you've got some time to play.
Have fun with these colours while they are still with us.
I hope you have a creative week and remember,
"don't just post online,
post something pretty!"
cheers, Liz
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