CAS Modern Art card

My second colour choice for CAS Colours & Sketches is a yummy threesome of purple, turquoise and red or if you like

I like using Off The Grid for feminine cards and it was my base for starting this card. I've bought a blender tool...don't know how I ever managed without one! It gives such an even finish, I love the effect of brayering but I still haven't mastered the technique and end up with sharp edges, the blender worked fine and gave a deeper more even finish than the brushes I usually use. Anyway, I blended the three colours onto white card and stamped over, using an image from Best Of Flowers. I offset the panels and assed three gems.

Two of the panels are popped up on foam pads and I added a sentiment from another stamp set. The card reminds me of art in a modern art gallery, although I would never call my work 'art'!

It's another tent fold card, that's just the kind of mood I've been in lately

Flowers in Art

Today I have a card to share with you based on a sketch which I chose for CAS Colours & Sketches, ...actually I have two cards. This is the sketch, kind of a classic layout for a clean and simple style

For the first card I used Simply Sketched stamp set, along with Work Of Art and Gorgeous Grunge. This is the one I made for CAS colours & Sketches. It didn't start off as a sympathy card, but the black border just kind of made me think that it would make a good one, although I hope I don't need one anytime soon. I moved the sentiment off centre and used Rose Red and Mossy Meadow inks, both stamped off twice before stamping over the image, using my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to get the position of the colour just right.

I then saw the colour palette from Cupcake Inspirations and decided that with a little tweak of a cream coloured card base I could make a similar card for the challenge over there.

This time I used Best Of Flowers for the hydranger bloom and the sentiment from Work Of Art as it seemed to fit better. To keep in with the art theme I only used the watercolour swoosh from the same set to colour my image.

 
This time the stamping off gets lighter across the panel, I like that graded effect, and I used a raspberry colour mat for the flower panel.

Both cards are tent fold

Yellow Daisies

OK, so I'm very late with this post. Truth is, I made a card earlier in the week, uploaded it to the blog and then, last night decided that it really wasn't good enough to share on the CAS Colours and Sketches Challenge Blog, so I had to do this one this evening when I got home from work. I had a little inspiration from Stampin' Royalty, because I used their colour swatch.  Here's the sketch and the colour palette

 and my card...

The DPs are from a range called Sweater Weather (and is a much closer match for Pistachio Pudding IRL, but I've photographed this with a flash), the sentiment is from Delightful Dozen and the flower is from Best Of Flowers. The yellow is ink pad stamped directly onto card, must admit, I don't have So Saffron, so this is my closest match. I think this card will be of to The Netherlands for my lovely MIL, so I've kept it embellishment free and quite 'flat'.

Football or Flowers?

This one was interesting for me- three colours which individually I have no problem with, but together?  Well, I could only think of football team strips. But, and this is what always amazes me about colour challenges, when you take someone else's colour choice and have a play you can end up with something that you absolutely love, and that's what happened to me.  So, thank you Kylie for making me do this!
The challenge is, of course, from CAS Colours and Sketches and here are the three colours - they are named for Stampin' Up shades but you can use anything in your stash which is the same.

I chose to use Kraft as my card base and stamp in red onto light blue cardstck, but of course there are lots of variations - just don't use any other colours, except black or white.

I used just one stamp set- Best Of Flowers, love, love, love this set especially the daisy stamp (I know, you've seen it here before) but the other two were previously un-inked. A small piece of ribbon and some dimensionals make sure it has extra interest.
I'm away on holiday at the moment so forgive me for not commenting this week, I will look at all your creations when I get back as I really want to know what everyone has done with this combination. Happy Crafting.

Raspberry Ripple Daisies

My final week as hostess at CAS Colours and Sketches, I've loved choosing the sketches and colour combos and writing the posts, but it will be nice to hand it back too! This time of course it's a sketch, this one...

Nice and simple, I had thought that I would use a ribbon for the shape on the right, but you know how it is, things change when you get started and I ended up using some (homemade) washi tape.What I am really pleased with is the colour duo of Raspberry Ripple and Summer Starfruit, that's all I used.

The stamp is from Best Of Flowers and the butterfly is from Butterfly Potpourri.  The sentiment is actually from Best Ever Dad, though I don't think I would give this card to my Dad! I've stamped the flowers on an aquapainted background and then stamped off to get the shadow effect. The washi tape (actually masking tape) was also coloured with these two shades and stamped with the daisies using a Raspberry Ripple Stampwrite marker. If you try this then you need to let the ink dry for quite a while, I actually used my heat gun to speed up the drying process, The little butterfly has two small starfruit coloured gems

Just for Robbie!

Oops! I was a little bit late posting this one - it's my DT card for the challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches, this week it's back to a colour challenge and we have these three lovelies for you....

Don't worry if you don't have the exact Stampin' Up shades, use your closest. Here's my card

I used my aqua painter to dilute the Primrose Petals into a beautiful pink sky.  When it was dry I stamped this image from a new set called Best Of Flowers, using the Gumball Green. I have been trying for a long time now to buy the original (retired) stamp of this image, called Upsy Daisy. I believe that it was only released in the USA and I love it so much, so when I saw this new mini version I just had to get it, and I'm glad I did!

I layered the image onto Cajun Craze card, then more Primrose petals.  Finally, I added cajun gems so that I could enter my card in the challenge at The Paper Players - for CAS with bling -just my thing!. The sentiment, from Perfectly Preserved, is bent to give more dimension and I've tied cajun raffia onto the two ends. You can see it all a bit better here

Must just tell you why I'm so late with this post.  My daughter and I went to see Robbie Williams last night in Manchester, about 3 hours from where we live - we got home very late (3am!) and so it was never going to happen this morning! The concert was AMAZING! We had so much fun, singing, dancing and he played all the best tracks from the past...brilliant.