Pink & Grey

The colour combination for the challenge at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge is Pink & Grey!

I love this mix and in fact it was the exact thing I chose for the very first challenge at "Less is More" when I created that challenge way back in 2011.

Here I chose to use dies by Alexandra Renke and coloured the cherry blossom with watercolours. The sentiment is by Altenew. The plain grey panel looked a little flat so I embossed it with a texture plate from Papertrey Ink. It's really quite a subtle effect, but I rather like it.

Colour challenges are fun... and this is such a lovely combo, so why not join in with your CAS creation!

Animal friends

Here we have a couple of images from Artemio, stamped and clear embossed before colouring with Copics, then cutting out. I put them onto a background of grass made on glossy paper using alcohol inks. I simply cut the top border with a grass die (not sure of the make). The sentiment is from Altenew.

It's for the challenge at AAA cards.

 

Hello again

I don't know if anyone else does this, but if I have dug out a stamp or die that I haven't used for a while, I often use it a second or even a third time. So here is the Winnie & Walter HELLO die in evidence once more . This time complemented with a few other die cuts. The flowers from Alexandra Renke were coloured with Distress Inks and I just happened to have a piece of pink card which matched perfectly, which I layered and used for the hello.I was going to put the pink layer beneath the white ones but rather liked the boldness of it on top. There is a pink layer under the white in the word beautiful, which can be glimpsed from some angles.

This i loosely based on the sketch from Colours And Sketches. 

I used the bunch of flowers and the hello as the two overlapping elements.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  - Anything Goes

Thanks so much

Today I happened upon a new to me challenge blog .... Inspire Create Challenges, which this week has a sketch to follow.

 

In place of the circle I used a spray of foliage from Altenew.... Leaf Canopy, stamped with green and gold.

To make the border band I die cut a strip of holes, the make of the die escapes me, but I think it may be Memory Box, I have had it for quite some time. All that was left to do was to stamp a sentiment for which I used a Simple Sentiment from Avery Elle.