The Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge blog has an interesting colour challenge this week and I decided to try to use the colours without adding anything other than very vanilla.

Here’s the banner which inspired this card

Now I adore blackberry bliss, it’s such a deep, lush colour, but I haven’t tried pairing it with the other two before. But the Stampin’ Up! Sheltering Tree was calling, heck, I haven’t used it in a few days. So the tree itself was stamped in blackberry bliss. I then tried an idea that I saw on a recording of a presentation from Leadership. I inked up the stamp with the leaves backwards! Yes – I mounted the stamp on the block backwards, inked it up with wild wasabi and after stamping it off once, stamped it over my tree. After cleaning the stamp and mounting it the normal way, I inked it in wild wasabi and stamped it over my tree image. What a brilliant idea!

I then left the card (whilst I prepped dinner) to dry before rubbing the embossing buddy over the card and stamping the little flowerhead stamp in versamark. I then used the blushing bride embossing powder and heated it up for a spring like effect. Because I truly hope that spring isn’t too far away!! Here in New Jersey, at 1200 feet, we still have more than a foot of snow on the lawn – and that’s in the parts where it hasn’t been piled up clearing the driveway. So spring seems a long way away. But, I digress!

I made a little hillock out of wild wasabi using the appropriate stamp and then also stamped the flower stems. I stamped the flowers themselves in blackberry bliss after stamping off once to give some variation from the tree itself. The sentiment, also from Sheltering Tree, is stamped in blackberry bliss as well. I mounted the very vanilla onto a base of wild wasabi and lined the envelope with the wild wasabi shade from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz