Every Season

Hi there!  I hope you are having a relaxing weekend.  I sure am.  Earlier today, I met up with my friend Holly and her sweeeeet daughter Rachel and we went to the thrift stores in town.  I didn't find any treasures.  Maybe next time.  :)

I'm sharing a card with you that I created for the Verve Get Your Diva On contest for September.  You can real all about it here.

The challenge is to create a monochromatic card.  Just my kind of challenge! The color inspiration for my card came from the print paper. It was a scrap that I had laying on my desk from a previous project. I think it is from Graphic 45  if I remember right.  I started going through my stash and pulling things together that I thought would work.  The flower was created by punching scalloped circles from a scrap of American Crafts Peachy Keen collection.  To get the perfect color of ink, I first inked up the image with Adirondack  Salmon ink and then added some Adirondack Mountain Rose ink before I stamped the image onto the paper.  The Salmon was too light and the Mountain Rose was  too bright, but the two of them together were perfect! Give it a try!  Just remember to ink up with your lightest color first, so that you don't taint your inkpad with dark ink.  Oh, that would be bad!  I finished off my card with some light yellow pearls that were on my desk from a previous project. I just went over them with a Copic marker that was just the right color.  Love that!

I've got another Verve card in the works using my pal Tosh's awesome sketch for the Viva la Verve week 3 challenge.  

See you soon,

Every Season

American Crafts Peachy Keen

Stamp Runner Permanent

Tombow Foam Tabs

Mono Multi Liquid Glue

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