Welcome to a new year of challenges here at The Paper Players! I hope you are all feeling relaxed and keen to play along with us. Our hostess, Elizabeth, has started the year with a bright colour challenge.
I couldn't help but think floral with this combination. I'd recently purchased the Pretty Petals bundle from the Online Exclusives, so had a play around with it with these colours.
The leaves and flowers are separate stamps. I started by stamping the leaves in Garden Green and adding in flowers in Melon Mambo onto Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper. Then I painted over the images with a Water Painter so that it created a kind of faux no-line watercolour.
While it was wet, I added in some touches of Pumpkin Pie to the flowers, using a drop of ink. As the flowers also have a separate die, I stamped and water-coloured a second set so I could add some popped up flowers for extra dimension.
I stamped the sentiment in Garden Green from the same piece of splattered water-colour paper using the banner from Stylish Shapes as well as a shadow from Pumpkin Pie. The sentiment is from Country Birdhouse.
I diluted the remainder of the Pumpkin Pie ink drop further and splattered it over the image before cutting the flowers out with one of the dies from Spotlight on Nature. I cut a different circle with the same set from Melon Mambo.
I stamped the sentiment in Garden Green from the same piece of splattered water-colour paper using the banner from Stylish Shapes as well as a shadow from Pumpkin Pie. The sentiment is from Country Birdhouse.
I embossed the Garden Green card front with the Starstruck embossing folder, which is one of the free gifts you can earn with a qualifying purchase during Sale-a-bration. Isn't it a pretty folder?
The finishing touch was a trio of Peach Pie Glimmer gems.
We'd all love to see what you do with these colours. You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at The Paper Players page.
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
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