Quick post today with my card for Splitcoaststamper's Color Challenge. I'm so happy that they have asked me to stay on with the color design crew for the coming months. The color challenge is Daffodil Delight, Grapefruit Grove and Berry Burst with sparkles for dessert.
- I started by blending the colors on my 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of Whisper White. I squeezed 3 pearl sized amounts of Whisper White Craft refill ink on an acrylic block and then added a few drops of classic dye ink refill into each one using the following colors: Crushed Curry, Grapefruit Grove and Berry Burst. I don't know what made me switch up Crushed Curry for Daffodil Delight but with the white mixed in the background does end up with a daffodil like color. I use sponge daubers to blend my color into the paper. This seems to go pretty quickly - the craft ink makes it easy to spread the ink on the paper, going faster than trying to roll the ink on with the sponge brayers.
- I trimmed 5/8" off the 5 1/2" side and used this on the inside.
- The stripes from Incredible Like You were stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink along the right side of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card. I separated the stripes from the blended background with the skinniest layer of Basic Black.
- The blooms were stamped with the same colors listed above and then centers were added in Tuxedo Black. These were quickly hand trimmed.
- The greeting was also stamped in Tuxedo Black. I used the Stamparatus so that I could make sure it got stamped perfectly. It would have been a shame to mess up that pretty blended paper.
- Adhere the flowers, add a Black/Sliver Metallic bow and some black faceted dots and Voila!
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