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Monday 31 October 2016

CCM 176 Explosion of Colour

Our challenge today at Crafty Cardmakers is an Explosion of Colour. 176 Explosion of Colour

For my explosion I started off with a Carabelle Studio stamp called Stitched Mixed Media Background and stamped it twice and embossed in silver detail powder. I forgot to take a picture before step three so I am including a pic after I cut the petals!

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I then just coloured randomly with three shades of Primary Elements from Luminarte mixed with bind and resist powder and water, so a sort of watercolour wash. I have to say at this stage I nearly threw it away as it looked too jumbled and dark and quite frankly a mess!

However I persevered and cut petals from the ‘mess’ with a mylar template. I cut more than I needed for choice, and edged each petal with a sparkly, but clear based, glitter glue. I formed the petals into a flower, using 12 of the petals I had made, against an embossed floral background I had already made from Crafters Companion. All are matted onto a couple of layers of plain white card and turquoise mirri to match the main colour of the flower. I created my own border with a complementary colour stabilo fine liner, and a gorgeous sparkly gem with a large silver pearl centre from Chloe’s Creative Cards to finish off the flower.

I was rather pleased with the end result, it definitely looked better than the ‘mess’ I cut it all out from!

I am entering this into:-

Brown Sugar - #222 Birthday
CAS on Sunday - #95 Flowers
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - #25 Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends - #30 Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - #449 Lace and/or Pearls
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #44 Anything Goes
Morgan’s Artworld - #22 Embossing Wet or Dry
Polkadoodles - #42 Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft - #39 Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - W is for Watercolour

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14 comments:

  1. Those is lovely...those colours are stunning!!

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  2. A real explosion of colour - I love seeing the waste to give a clear idea of the before-and-after result. Thanks for sharing at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers
    Jane

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  3. This is beautiful, such a stunning flower.
    Thank you for joining us for our Anything Goes challenge at Polkadoodles.
    Pauline
    x

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  4. What a gorgeous creation, I love it! Thanks so much for joining us over at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, Jo x

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  5. Beautiful card Lin, adore your flower!
    hugs
    Glenda

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  6. A pretty 3D card, thanks for sharing with Morgan's Artworld!

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  7. What a gorgeous flower! It's so pretty, and has some fabulous texture with the embossing. The colour combination works perfectly too - such bright, jewel shades!

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  8. Very cool
    Thanks for sharing at Brown Sugar Challenges x

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  9. A gorgeous flower and the embossing folder is very nice xx

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  10. Thud, gorgeous! Love the rich colours and all the dimension. Thanks for joining the fun at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

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  11. Beautiful! Love all the colours in your flower!
    Thanks for watercolouring with the sisterhood of snarky stampers!!

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  12. An adorable card! Thanks for joining the fun at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

    Majo -DT ♥

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  13. Great card Lin. Love the flower and the background embossing too. Happy crafting, Angela x

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  14. This is so very pretty! I love the flower you created.

    and Thank for your always encouraging me

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