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Today I'm hopping with a group of talented demonstrators from around the world. We are also celebrating our 4th year! How time flies!
This month our theme is spring and while I'm so excited to have some spring weather after a long snowy winter, some of our members in the South Pacific aren't experiencing spring so I'm especially excited how they approach this month's theme.
I'm also mixing this up with this week's Splitcoaststampers Color challenge because the dessert option is also spring. These are the colors our hostess, Jeanne, chose:
Since I had some pretty tulips sitting on my counter I really wanted to find something with tulips. I found them in the Abigail Rose designer series paper. The tulip pattern has a background with Early Espresso so my project ended up having a little different look than I originally had in mind. Since we can also use Stampin' Up! Neutrals this is the color combination I ended up with:
Not exactly a combination I would come up with on my on but I went with it:
Hints:
- I colored the designer series paper (DSP) with Blends on the challenge colors: Fresh Freesia, Calypso Coral and Parakeet Party, blending the Fresh Freesia and Calypso Coral like you might see in some tulips.
- I always trim 1 each of my 12" x 12" papers to 6" x 6" because it makes it easy to experiment with on my small work surface. I colored a 4" x 6" area of one of these. Then I trimmed a 1 3/4" strip for the border and fussy cut a 3 bloom section to feature apart from the border.
- The greeting, from Cottage Rose, was clear embossed on Crumb Cake card stock. Then I did a resist by adding Early Espresso ink with a blending brush. The idea was to mimic the background in the DSP.
- I embossed the Crumb Cake layer with the Timeworn Type Embossing folder - again to mimic the DSP.
Even though it wasn't the brightly colored, against lots of white type card I envisioned when I sat down to start creating I really think this ended up being a card that says spring to me. My husband and I are counting down the days until we close on a new home and can get back to gardening after living in a pretty dense urban area for the past 7 years. So spring will mean flowers AND digging into the soil!
Now it's time to move on to the next blog and see what Brenda has to share with us.
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