Today marks my one hundredth post which I find to be quite amazing. I little thought that I’d ever write a blog, let alone post daily! Today’s card is for the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge which is my favourite sort – a colour challenge. They are my favourite because I find the sketch ones to be very difficult, however looking at this colour combination, it’s not easy at all! Definitely a good challenge and a colour combination that I would never ever have tried.
I wasn’t thrilled with the colours together and when I started playing with whisper white and very vanilla, I saw why. The tempting turquoise and smoky slate looked best with white and the pool party with vanilla. So what do I do with 2 cool colours and one warm? I got out my embossing powders, happy to see that I had the powders for all three colours. I haven’t played much with the Stampin’ Up! Flower Patch set and decided to try to incorporate it. I had tried stamping the pool party over the smoky slate and it disappeared, but I thought that the embossing powders would work. And they did, rather well, I felt.
I stamped the sentiment first in tempting turquoise on whisper white and then started filling in the space (but not too much of it) with the grey flowers. Then, after using the embossing buddy, I stamped the centre of two of the flowers in versamark and embossed them in pool party. I was happy with this so I continued and embossed the other three centres in tempting turquoise. I tried the whisper white piece on all three base colours and tempting turquoise won.
As I said earlier, I really wasn’t thrilled with this colour combination at first, but I am thrilled with this card. I’m very grateful to the challenge for pushing me to make this.
Congrats on your 100th post, Liz!
Very nice, one of my favourites!!! You are so creative!!!
Thanks Lorie. And I never thought that I was at all creative. It’s amazing what you can do if you try! Imagine what I’ll be able to make by your birthday!
Liz, I love your card! You really got creative – and what luck having embossing in all the colors! I love that it’s got real WOW factor, yet it’s not so bulky that it can’t be mailed. Sure to make someone’s day brighter! And congrats on your 100th post, it’s great to have you in the blogosphere 😀 Thanks for playing at HSS! Erika
Thanks very much Erika. It’s loads of fun participating in challenges. And, I’m finding, a lot of fun to be in the blogosphere. 🙂
What a great card! The embossing on such a clean and simple card really makes it awesome! Thanks for playing along with us at HSS!
Thanks for taking the time to comment Breelin. 🙂
Very Pretty!!! Great use of embossing- worked perfect- great accent!!! Love the pop of turquoise!! Thanks for playing along at HSS, Diane
Congrats on your 100th post! I love that you used the die cut flowers to create your background paper. Thanks for playing at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
What a great card to celebrate your 100th post. So glad you decided to do it with our challenge. Your card is very cute. Thanks for joining us this week at HSS this week.