Nothing against Glorious Green but if I had it to do over again and could only start with three colors these are the three I would start with: Basic Black, Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla. And that, my friends, is the Color Challenge on Splitcoaststampers today. So I grabbed a couple of my favorite current sets and went to work. Here's what I came up with:
- Since I was using ultrasmooth card stock with my Basic Black ink I embossed all the black words adn images with clear embossing powder. For some reason that particular color doesn't dry real well on the ultrasmooth. The embossing is quick and easy and adds a subtle shine to the fine line images anyway.
- I think that I've used all the other greetings in the One in a Million set but this one. It's so small but SO meaningful. Now that I've put it on paper I've seen it in a new light and can see so many instances when I might have used this. Like the other stamps in this set it has an inside partner: ..."and one of them is me".
- I was not comfortable with this Secret Garden the first few times I inked it up but my appreciation of its possibilities has grown immensely. Some of you who have attended my workshops have heard me say that it is easy to possess a stamp set but you don't truly "own" it until you have played with it and have an understanding of what it's limitations and possibilities are. This is a set that I truly feel that I own. Be prepared to see more of it.
- A couple points about this set for now: I love how well the solid and outline images mix and...
- ...once I quite trying so hard I've found the outline images to be very quick to color.
Stamps: Secret Garden, One in a Million
Inks: Basic Black, Crumb Cake
Paper: Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Black
Accessories: Clear embossing powder, Secret Garden Framelits, 1 3/4" circle punch, Big Shot, Paper Trimmer, heat tool, dimensionals
