I really enjoyed using specified colours to create a card last week – see the result here. So since this week’s challenge is another colour challenge, I’m accepting the challenge – the PPA223 Challenge. It took me four days to combine tangelo twist, basic black and very vanilla to where I was happy with it – for some reason, I find orange quite intimidating. Therefore I don’t think that I would ever have come up with this combination on my own, so it was very interesting to struggle. Even more interesting will be what I do with my leftover ovals and oval frames in tangelo twist and very vanilla and my basic black flowers and various coloured flower centres… 🙂

You can just about see that there are two flowers on the card, but the side view makes it a lot more obvious.

Details:

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ in Tangelo Twist

Mat: 3 7/8″ by 5 1/8″ in Basic Black

Top layer: 3.75″ by 5″ in Very Vanilla

Stamp sets: Stampin’ Up! Bloom for you, Let Your Hair Down

Inks: Basic black, Tangelo Twist

Other: Fun Flower punch, 1/2″ punch, Tangelo Twist and Basic Black Stampin’ Write markers

I stamped the bloom for you flower on very vanilla card in tangelo twist ink twice. Well, more than that, but the extras weren’t needed here! I also stamped it in basic black. I cut them out using the fun flower punch – be careful, each petal is different, so be sure to line it up correctly. Using the 1/2 inch punch, I cut out the centre of the flower from the basic black stamped one. I used a glue dot to attach the black centre to the flower and then carefully bent the petals so as to get more dimension. I adhered this flower to the basic tangelo twist one with a stampin’ dimensional for extra dimension.

Next I grabbed my Stampin’ Write markers and coloured in my brand new stamp using the two markers. Luckily, I’ve read about this and knew to clean it first and then stamp it on scrap paper a few times. This produces a clearer image. Once I had my sentiment stamped (I’m so glad that there are two sides to a piece of paper!), I adhered my very vanilla piece to the black mat and then to the card base. After that I glued on the flower using the tombow glue. Finally, to finish off the card, I lined the envelope using the Backgrounds DSP in Tangelo Twist. I find that the white dots are so small on this paper that you can get away with lining a Very Vanilla envelope with it.

The challenge finishes on Tuesday – so you still have time to have a go at your own project – unless you take four days like I did! Here’s the challenge banner: