Hello! Popping in with a quick share of a card that I made for Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown. Both challenges were rather challenging for me this time around, but I think I came up with something that worked. Let me know what you think.
I have mentioned this before, but Scrapbook.com always has some kind of free item that you can get with purchase. A week or so ago they were offering a pad of patterned paper from Simple Stories and if you spent $20 you could get a floral die set from Sizzix. Well... I went for it and got both!
The combo from
CTD is not one that I would choose to use, but like I said, I wanted to be challenged! I was going to do some stamping, but decided to do more direct to paper inking to create the lilac, aqua and orange colors. I used Pinkfresh Studio Apricot and Soft Lilac and Altenew Turquoise for each color I then used one of the floral dies to cut out the different parts. The leaf dies have two parts to them and originally I die cut the main part from white cardstock and added the layer in black, but I didn't like that. So I ended up just die cutting the main layer from black. To get the look of the
sketch layout I used a very old Altenew cover plate die called Watercolor Strips and die cut it from white cardstock. The sentiment is from a cute little Altenew stamp set that I found in my stash that features flowers in a tea cup. I managed to get the two sentiments lined up pretty well and stamped the first time! I finished with some sparkling clear sequins.
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