CAS Colours and Sketches 129

This week is colour week at CAS Colours and Sketches and, continuing on from the last colour challenge, this one picks up the other colours from Stampin' Up's 2015-17 new In-colours. Delightful Dijon and Cucumber Crush are teamed up with Basic Grey.

I kept hoping that my new stamps would arrive in time for me to use them with this challenge. They did and I spent quite a lot of the weekend playing with these colours and the playful little set No Bones About It.  I'll share the best of those attempts later in this post. I liked it, but not enough to put it in as my guest designer offering.

I woke up on Sunday morning with this idea and I think it shows off the colours well.

I intended to emboss the words in white embossing powder, but accidentally grabbed the clear instead. I liked it that way and left it as it was. The butterfly was stamped in Basic Gray and coloured in shades of Delightful Dijon, highlighted at the wingtips with silver gel pen, then given a coat of Glossy Accents, which brought out the colour more.

And here's my effort using the same colours and No Bones About It. I also used the new embossing folder Elegant Dots, to make a faux reptilian pattern on the grey cardstock. I like the ink-smooshed background - it's kind of reminiscent of primordial forest and sunlight, I think.

Ingredients for Butterfly Card

Card: Basic Grey, Whisper White, Delightful Dijon

Stamps: Clearly Besotted Leafy Accents, Clearly Besotted Say it in Style, SU Papillon Potpourri

Ink: Delightful Dijon, Crushed Cucumber, Versamark

Other: Clear embossing powder, Basic Grey candydots, Silver gel pen, Glossy Accents