We have a colour challenge for you over at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week. I decided to have a play with Stampin Up's Dandelion Wishes as I haven't used this in a while and it makes a change from Christmas cards.
I don't have any Merry Merlot yet in my stash so I used the closest thing which is Cherry Cobbler. I used that as the card base with some Pumpkin Pie for layering. The background stamp is a very old one from Laura Ashley. - The words say "Find your inspiration anywhere roaming the English Countryside gathering wildflowers...." - a perfect backdrop for the Dandelions. I used Crushed Curry for the words and sponged the edges with Pumpkin Pie and stamped the dandelions in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
I added half a Pearlized Doily from SU which has been inked in Crushed Curry. I found some ribbon that looked very like Pumpkin Pie and added an old SU brad. The beauty of not being an SU demo any more is I can use all my old stash. Some Cherry Cobbler enamel dots finish off the card.
Well, it should be spring here in the UK but it feels more like Autumn -and not a good Autumn at that! Dull, wet, miserable, the dark days of winter are hanging around far too much. Maybe that's what drew me to doing a more autumnal feel to my card today.
This is the challenge over at As You See It #173 for this week - a wealth of possibility.
I decided to use a very old SU set - Autumn Days. I started with inking the background with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Antique Linen, Old Paper, then added some SU Pear Pizzazz and Crushed Curry. The sentiment stamp is a very old one from Laura Ashley of all people. It's a word stamps which says -
"Find your inspiration anywhere, roaming the English countryside, gathering wildflowers, reading a cherished gardening book, watching birds flutter in the sky, following their trail that leads through the woods, sipping tea and watching the sun rise, strolling through the garden amongst the roses, sitting on a swing built for two and watching the world around you."
How idyllic is that imagery. And just as I was reading it our local Cockerel Pheasant made himself known with that raucous cry they have and there he was in the garden. The dogs, being gundogs, go mad when they hear him cry but they don't scare him - not one bit. So there really was no other alternative than to put him on this card for today.
After stamping the word stamp in Tranquil Tide I heat embossed the pheasant with SU brown embossing powder. He was then coloured in with SU Markers in golds, greens and reds. I stamped some of the grasses from the set in stamped off SU Crumb Cake and added some Burlap Ribbon and enamel dots. The sentiment is from Thankful Thoughts and is cut out with Banners Framelits.
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