Sheri is the hostess for the mid-April Color Hues Challenge and she’s chosen Coral and Green.
The first time coral appeared in one of our challenges, I had to do some research and some hunting through my supplies to find papers and inks that are coral. This time I had no hesitation, and I actually started with the design of the card in mind before choosing the stamp set.
It’s been awhile since I used Pinkfresh Studio’s Darling Dahlias stamp set, but it worked perfectly. I used the stencils to color it with a combination of Pinkfresh and Papertrey Ink inks. I tend to have a heavy had when it comes to ink blending, but have discovered that using the large Pinkfresh Studio blending brushes and standing up while applying the ink made it much easier to get the look I wanted.
After cutting the coral cardstock panels with two sizes of Ellen Hutson’s Essential Rectangles, I die cut an oval from the same series in the middle of the smaller panel. I adhered the stamped piece behind the oval opening. The dies in these sets cut the shape as well as a narrow frame. I die cut two so I could glue two frames together to provide a bit of dimension. That panel was added to the card base with dimensional foam. Finally, I added a gold foiled sentiment from Spellbinder’s Curved Everyday Greetings.
I hope you’ll join us in the gallery for this pretty color combination. Be sure to check the Color Hues Blog for lots of inspiration from our Guest Designer, Kelly, and the always creative Design Team.
Another perfectly designed card. your colouring of the flowers is perfection, makes you want to lean in & sniff, they are so real blossom like.
I’m smitten with every facet of your card: the design, the dahlias, the gold sentiment. Perfection.
hugs~carol
Youe pretty dahlias are framed perfectly with the oval aperture. That little splash of gold in the sentiment is just right. 🙂
Another perfectly executed card, Karen! This is such a beauty!
I love the layers with the thin framing and those dahlias are gorgeous, Karen! It looks like you can stencil like a pro!
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL Karen!! I love, LOVE the simplicity of this card with the framing and matting, and then the blooms taking center stage in the oval! Lovely, lovely card my friend!! A++++ Hugs. :0)
Those dahlias are so pretty, Karen, and look wonderful popping out of the oval die cut opening. Love the tone on tone of the two rectangles, too. So gorgeous!
Love your oval framing and smaller top layer on your card base Karen – what lovely flowers, wonderfully colored!
Karen, great job with your colour choices and I just love the dahlia flower stamp and stencil combo. It’s been on my wish list for a long time. I really like how you used your rectangle dies and oval dies to create the sweet little scene.
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