Colour Create

I was looking at an online advertisement for some craft shop or other and saw this stamp for sale. I had bought this one at a craft fair in Suffolk the last time I went to visit my son (we're going again this weekend, I wonder if there'll be any more craft fairs around?). It was half price!! Until today I'd never used it, and so that was all the encouragement I needed to dig it out!

I coloured the hearts with Promarkers and the added a thin wash of Perfect Pearls in a similar shade. I used the same Promarkers to colour the card I used for layering. It matches the free downloaded paper from the Canon Scrapbook site really well.

Colour Create's challenge is Ivory, Duck-egg plus one other colour, I've got a sort of coppery sandy colour.

ABC's Challenge this week is Blue... this could be an iffy one for this card... is duck-egg, blue or green? For this challenge, I'll say it's blue!

Crafts and Me - Petals and Pearls (both very small... zoom in and you'll see them))

One salutary lesson I learned was to keep inked stamps away from card components... I had the topper all ready to put on the card, when it dropped onto the uncleaned stamp, face side down of course. Whah, whah! I had to make a whole new one... stamping, colouring, die-cutting layering... the lot!

Hey Ho! But I quite like the end result!