Monday, 28 December 2020

Garden Wishes

 


Well that's Christmas, done and dusted! I hope you all enjoyed it in whatever way you prefer!

We had an extremely quiet one this year, which is nice occasionally. We'll catch up with some family in the next few days and then back to our Darby & Joan existence!

Today I have chosen to participate in the December 2020 SU! Color Challenge. This group is run by some Stampin' Up!® demonstrators on Facebook and the purpose of the group is to challenge ourselves with the Stampin' Up! products in a variety of ways and to see how many amazing color combinations we can come up with.
Just when we think it won't work, it always does!. Think outside the box!!!

The colours this month are: 


I had to really put my thinking cap on for this colour combination!

Since I am still looking for excuses to use the new blending brushes (January - June 2021 Mini Catalogue), it made sense to do a background of the blended colours and then I decided to use the dandelion from Garden Wishes (January - June 2021 Mini Catalogue) as a silhouette. The dandelion looked as if it was floating in mid air and while I was searching for more inspiration, I noticed a left over piece of Granny Apple Green cardstock that had been cut with the Curvy Dies. This enabled me to ground the dandelion!

I hope you like the finished product!




Card Measurements

Card base:    21cm x 14.9cm
1st layer:    2cm x 13.5cm
2nd layer:    1cm x 13.5cm
3rd layer:    13.5cm x 9cm
Inner layer:    14.5cm x 10cm
Scrap for sentiment and hill

Instructions
  • On the 3rd layer using blending brushes, add each colour (one at a time) and blend a little with next colour until you have all four colours blended
  • Stamp your dandelion image in black
  • Stamp the tufts in black a few times
  • Adhere the scrap Granny Apple Green that has been die cut with the curvy dies to the 3rd layer
  • Adhere the 2nd layer to the 1st layer
  • Adhere the 3rd layer to the 2nd layer
  • Adhere the 1st layer to the card base front
  • Stamp the sentiment in Cherry Cobbler on a scrap of Blushing Bride
  • Adhere Blushing Bride scrap to Cherry Cobbler scrap
  • Adhere completed sentiment to card front using dimensionals
  • Stamp flying bee and dots on inner layer a few times without re-inking
  • Adhere inner layer to card base inside back



Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I'm actually going to take a week off, so I'll be back with another card using the Art Gallery stamp set on the 4th January 2021!

See you all in the New Year!

Cheers
Deb xx



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2 comments:

  1. Ha ha Deb, love those colours together and so glad you found that piece of Granny Apple Green card stock to ground your dandelion. Enjoy your time off . Happy New Year 2021xx

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  2. Thanks Wendy! Nothing worse than an ungrounded dandelion!!! Happy New Year to you too and looking forward to catching up in January! :)

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