Thursday 2 June 2016

Blooming Summer

As it is school holiday here in the UK I had time to sit and craft this morning to bring you my card for the new colour challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches, a rare luxury these days. I also went to a new catalogue launch for Stampin Up yesterday evening and can't wait to get my hands on some of the new colours and stamp sets, so I've been having a crafty few days, which all started on Tuesday with a trip to my regular craft club. We were using acrylic blocks to produce water colour effects and so I have incorporated that into today's card.


Can you see the colours? Aren't they lovely and summery?




I used an old set, I think it was saleABration, and I think it's called Bloomin' Marvellous to stamp the flower and the bird (can you see his iridescent eye?)The sentiment is, of course, from Happiest Birthday wishes. I have ordered some new sentiment stamps...hurray you say!
Finally, I decorated the inside of the card, unusual for me, with some DP and then cut a white mat to allow a message to be written and finished with another tiny bird stamp.


6 comments:

  1. Great colour blocking and your little bird is so cute! I like the sentiment too ;) Caro x

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  2. Love the layout you have used and the wonderful inking and over stamping of the flowers and sentiment. Beautiful CAS use of the colours this week. Hugs Bev x

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  3. Great card! Love the background - cool technique!

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  4. Perfect use of the colours on your side panel and I love the finishing touch of the little hummingbird.

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  5. I like how you've created the floral panel. The dimension you've given the hummingbird makes it seem like it's really flitting over to the flowers.

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  6. The background that you've created is really pretty and one can see why the hummingbird has been attracted to it!

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Louise xx