Prairie Grass for As You See It 357

 Welcome to a new challenge at As You See It. As always, a sketch challenge is followed by a colour challenge. This week, we're delving into some of Stampin' Up!'s 2025 In Color range. So often with the In-Colors, I look at an individual colour and it doesn't grab me but when you put them together, they're a great team. I think that's very true of this year's colours. I've become especially fond of Secret Sea and the Secret Sea/Cloud Cover combo. Anyway, we'd love to see how you see these colours working together.

Regular readers will know that  I've been experimenting a lot lately with circle masks as backgrounds for other stamps. This card is an extension of that playaround.

I started by stamping the grass image using two of the stamps from Prairie Grass in Secret Sea. The I used some masks I'd cut from scraps of window sheet using various sizes of circles to lay down some background pops of colour in Cloud Cover, Pumpkin Pie and Timid Tiger.

Then, I wondered what to try next. So I embossed the lefthand side of the card front using one of the folders from Glass & Gardens.

After stamping the sentiment in Secret Sea,  I used one of the rounded rectangle dies from Nested Essentials to cut out the sentiment. I attached the card front to the Secret Sea card base but added in a panel of Timid Tiger underneath where I'd cut out the sentiment label. Then I popped the sentiment back into place on dimensionals, which allows for a pleasing flash of colour to peek out from behind. 

I added a trio of Flat Pearls, one in Timid Tiger and two Secret Sea to finish off. 

So how do YOU see these colours?  Visit the As You See It page to link up your entry and to see the rest of the team's inspirations.

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