Hello stampers! Today's card is for Hand Stampded Sentimeiments November Sketch Challenge designed my ME! I hope you'll be able to join us and use this fun sketch!
I love to mix challenges for extra inspiration, so I'm also playing along with As You See It #239. The challenge here is to use a color that you avoid. That color for me is any form of purple. I usually cringe when purple is in the inpiration for any challenge, but then I must confess, that I usually end up liking my creations in the end. That's what happened with this one. I like the way this turned out! I always think, "well, that wasn't so bad!".
Anyway, I watercolored Gorgeous Grape and Flirty Flamingo on a Stitched Nested Label cut out with watercolor paper. I added salt to the wet paper, dried it, and scraped the salt off after it was dried. The salt absorbs the ink and leaves a "starburst" sort of pattern. I also flicked water onto the panel and mopped it up with a dry paper towel. After that I splattered Wink of Stella onto the label. Finally, I stamped and embossed the stars on there and spritzed the whole thing with glimmer spritz. It's very sparkly in real life!
I also used the inspiration from Try Stampin On Tuesday...use the word MERRY.
Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!
Jenny
So beautiful, Jenny - LOVE the background tag you created - salt does such cool things! Good job on the purple! Thanks so much for playing at TSOT!
ReplyDeleteA lovely card, Jenny! Beautiful colors and a touch of "bright". Thank you for joining us at Try Stampin' on Tuesday for our "non-traditional" card challenge!!! -Donna
ReplyDeleteLovely, Jenny! Funny how purple seems to be the nemesis of many crafters. You're right of course, that just because we don't like a colour much, we can still appreciate how it works in with other colours to give a great result. I like your bright card and if I can manage to find any time in my craft room this busy week, will give your sketch a go. Thanks for joining us this week at As You See It.
ReplyDeleteWow! I love the texture you created on your tag, and such a cool layout! I think you did purple proud even if it isn't your jam! I love the way you blended it with the other colours! Thanks for playing along with our Not My Jam challenge at As You See It Challenges!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you incorporated purple into your card Jennie and you should be rightly pelased with the result - it's great! The sparkly silver add a great festive touch and I love the texture and technique you used on your tag - one of my favourites. Thanks for sharing with us over at As You See It this week!
ReplyDeleteLOL, I feel like I am in a "I Dislike Purple" club!!! Happy to know that I am not the only member! Your sketch and creation are sweet....I plan to play with that sketch very soon, in fact! Love your background, but that sparkly "bright" is my favorite part! Thanks for playing with us this week!
ReplyDeleteJennie, I also wanted to mention that I think the Linky is not working for the HSS challenge....and I want to play, LOL!
ReplyDeleteGreat card Jenny! Love the way you've used the purple; I think it's a hard color to use... Thank you for joining TSOT! Marjolein
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