It's time to make a few spring cards even though I have to keep up with creating my Christmas stash, so today I've got one of each. First up for Tic Tac Toe's line that says "pastel colours, flowers, spring theme" and the Four Seasons Challenge "anything spring":
The dogwood is British Columbia's provincial flower so we have a lot of dogwood trees and it's quite glorious in the spring when they're all blooming. Not yet though as we're having colder than normal temperatures and all our spring flowers are delayed.
The image is watercoloured with a bit of pink splattering on the background and then added to a dry embossed background.
My second card is for Color Throwdown "green, cream, and brown".
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A simple stamped and watercoloured image, die cut with an oval, bordered
with a green deckle oval, and a green pine border die cut for the
bottom of the card. I used cream cs for the card base and there's cream in the breasts of the birds, and brown for the pine cones.
Challenges:
Tic Tac Toe (I used the centre vertical line)
Color Throwdown "Green Cream Brown"
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Technique Junkies dogwood, Stampendous sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Sizzix embossing folder
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Serendipity chickadees, Make an Impression sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, green and cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Memory Box pine border, Spellbinders oval and deckle oval dies
Dogwood are some of my favourite flowers in the summer and love the serendipity birds.
ReplyDeleteThat is a wonderful dogwood stamp and I love your pretty pink watercolouring and the embossed background is perfect with it Susan, and then your sweet birds on the oval and deckle edge oval using that beautiful green, and the pine border works brilliantly along the bottom. x
ReplyDeleteAwesome Christmas card using these colors! Thanks so much for playing along with us at CTD!
ReplyDeleteLovely dogwood flowers, Susan! The floral embossing on the background is beautiful and echoes the watercolored flowers.
ReplyDeleteThe bird card is so pretty! The green deckle oval frame matches the organic feel of the card. You used the challenge colors so well too.
Hideko xx
Two lovely cards Susan! The top one is particularly pretty with its texture and the pretty blossom. Thank you for coming to play with us at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge this week! Vicky x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blossoms Susan and I love the embossed background too. Thanks for playing at TicTacToe this week!
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