Not my kind of colors
I had the hardest time with today’s color challenge. But I really want to get back into participating in the challenge and I kept at it. I think my card would look a lot prettier without that Ballet Blue in there…but what can you do? I really wanted to make this card qualify for the challenge. Bright colors are SO out of my comfort zone.
My card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Ballet Blue cardstock folded in half.
Next comes a 4″ square of Apricot Appeal. I sponged stripes with help of the long retired Stripe Templates and sponge daubers.
Then I added white dots along the left hand side of each stripe with the white gel pen.
It still didn’t look quite right, so I stamped the branch with white craft ink over the entire square. I added a paper pierced border on the edges of the square and a small white photo corner topped with three real red brads.
The Real Red horizontal strip measures 1 1/2″ x 4″. It was stamped with the branch in Real Red. The edges were sponged in the same tone and paper pierced. This layer was added on a 2″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. The bottom of the white cardstock was scalloped with the corner punch. I tied 5/8″ red grosgrain ribbon around both layers.
I stamped the heart from Always in VersaMark on Whisper White cardstock and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then added color to it first with Apricot Appeal, then with Real Red classic ink and sponge daubers. I cut out the heart, layered and cut it on Apricot cardstock, then adhered it to white cardstock and cut around it with non-Stampin’ Up! scalloped scissors.
I stamped the sentiment in Real Red on Whisper White cardstock and punched it out with 1 1/4″ circle punch. Next I sponged it with Apricot Appeal ink and sponge daubers. It was layered on a 1 3/8″ Real Red circle and a Ballet blue Scalloped circle.
