Glass & Gardens thanks card – CCC200

Hello! I hope you are well. I am just back from my vacation in Florida, where one of the highlights was getting to hug Winnie the Pooh! We had so much fun, but by the end I was really missing the quiet solitude of my lovely craft room. So, at my first opportunity I used the colours from this week’s Creative Colour Challenges for this Glass & Gardens thanks card…

THE CHALLENGE

This week it’s a milestone for this fun challenge – we’ve hit number 200! Time really must fly when you’re having fun creating with colours. So you can join in, these are the colours for this week’s challenge over at www.creativecolourchallenges.blogspot.com

Please CLICK HERE to find out more about this challenge and to join in the fun with this week’s 3 colours.

ABOUT MY CARD

I used this colour challenge as an excuse to take some time out and colour! Stampin’ Up! has so many tools to help add colour to our creations and I used a few different ones for today’s Glass & Gardens thanks card.

I began by using one of the Glass & Gardens embossing folder to emboss the gorgeous floral design onto a piece of Crumb Cake card. Colouring onto Crumb Cake card does give the other colours a different tone from when you use the same colours on white card. So, why not give it a try sometime? Or use a different light shade of card to colour onto? There are so many to choose.

COLOURING METHODS

Initially, I thought I would use Stampin’ Blends to do all of the colouring until I realised that I don’t have blends in Mossy Meadow. But I do have a Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Write marker and of course the ink pad for this colour. I used the pen on the outline of all the leaves, then added ink to a clear block.

You can scribble with the Stampin’ Write marker, add a drop of ink refill or smudge some ink with your ink pad to do this. Using one of the Water Painter brushes, I added water to the ink and used it to colour in the leaves. I used the same technique with Highland Heather ink for some of the flowers. But I also used the light and dark Highland Heather blends on other flowers. I even mixed the two colouring methods on a couple of the flowers…

You could also use Wink Of Stella instead of a water painter brush if you wanted a lot of sparkle. I only used mine to add some sparkle to a few of the tiny flowers I’d coloured with Stampin’ Blends. I love all the tones you get with watercolouring and don’t card if I colour outside of the lines either! It all adds to the effect and highlights the wonderful detail you get with this embossing folder…

I added the embossed and coloured Crumb Cake panel (measuring 6.5 x 14.5 cm) onto a piece of Mossy Meadow card (measuring 7 x 14.5 cm) onto my Crumb Cake card base (21 x 14.5 cm, scored & folded on the long side at 10.5 cm). My thanks sentiment is from Blooming Phrases and I used Mossy Meadow ink.

My final touch on the card front was to add some Purple Fine Shimmer gems.

JOIN IN

Remember, you can take part in this colour challenge too. Just click here to find out more. You don’t need to have a blog to enter, you can just upload a photo of your project using this week’s colours.

SHOP THE PRODUCTS

I’ve listed the products I used for today’s card below. You can click any of the product links to go to that item in my shop.

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION

When you shop with me you’ll receive a handmade card and gift as a token of my appreciation. You will also now receive Stampin’ Rewards, to use on a future order, each time you place an order of £20 (25€) or more. CLICK HERE to find out more about Stampin’ Rewards.

Happy crafting,

Heather x

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