Today is the start of a new month at CAS Colours & Sketches which means that it’s time for a new challenge hostess. This month it’s my sister Caro’s turn and she’s chosen to do a farewell to some of the retiring in colours.
Here’s the banner which inspired my card.
Of course, I first thought about flowers or sunsets but it just wasn’t coming together for me and I was determined to make a card that didn’t look autumnal even though these colours hint at it. Then I noticed Picture Perfect in my “staging” area and decided to play with that. I have the majority of my stamp sets in another room but I have a box that my father built for me that holds about 20 sets that I keep on my table and store my “just used” or “thinking about using” sets. Hummingbirds come in an incredible array of colours, some of which look completely unnatural and improbable (just check google), so I felt that I could use these colours to make a fun bird. It also really highlights mossy meadow which is my favourite of these three colours.
It’s a 2 step stamp, officially, although 4 step stamping would be more accurate! I stamped the three body images all in mossy meadow, stamping off twice for the first one, once for the next and full strength for the last. I decided to reuse the “throat” stamp on the wing to add in the hello honey – an idea that I saw on Brandys cards. The sentiment is from the set that is currently my favourite for sentiments – Watercolor Wishes. After stamping the sentiment in mossy meadow, I glued the very vanilla piece to a mossy meadow card base.
I lined the envelope with retired mossy meadow backgrounds DSP using the (retiring) envelope liners framelits. I hope that you’ll take a look at the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge site this week and admire the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team and then have a go yourself with these colours. It would be great to see your card in the gallery.
See you tomorrow,
Liz
Love how the mossy meadow takes centre stage on your card, a real stunner Liz.
This is gorgeous, Liz! And yet another stamp set that I’ve been tempted to get forces its way on to my “must buy immediately” list! I love how you’ve used the colours and highlighted the Mossy Meadow with the flashes of the other colours. I’m going to remember that trick of using the neck stamp twice – it transforms the humming bird. Love it! Caro x
I thought at first that you had painted that gorgeous image. Now I see that it’s a layered stamp set but it’s nonetheless gorgeous! Stef x
I sure missed something as I didn’t know Caro was your sister! Doh! Anyway, I just love this stamped hummingbird, he looks almost real, beautiful stamping and a perfect use of the colours. Keeping it CAS too with the layout.
Louise xx
Gorgeous card – love that bird! Awesome job with the colors!
I think this is absolutely fabulous. The bird is simply so beautiful and you do a super job on it. xxx
Gorgeous card, Liz, the challenge colours look fabulous in your hummingbird xx
Simply beautiful. I especially love the space you have given the hummingbird to take centre stage and the colours work wonderfully with it too. Hugs Bev x