Friday, 11 November 2011

Pink, Purple and Green

Good evening everyone

I have never made a card specifically to enter into a challenge before.  In fact I haven't entered many challenges at all.  This week the challenge at Crafty Bloggers Network is to make something using the colours pink, purple and green.  So I put my thinking cap on and tried to come up with an idea using these three colours.  I like colours to blend and tone together when possible and I finally decided that flowers would be perfect for these three colours.  So I had a good look through my decoupage sheets and crafty cds but just couldn't find anything I felt would work.  Soooo - with great trepidation - I got out my trusty Sheena Douglass' paint fusion daisy rubber stamps.  Now I still haven't got round to trying paint fusion so it was FlexMarkers and ProMarkers to the ready.  Something else I haven't done before is to colour flowers so I hope you will all be kind to me!  I drew the stalks in freehand (not a very good job methinks).  Anyway, without further ado, here is my finished card for the challenge.

The base card is a white pre-scored 6x6 card blank and I have used a backing paper from my Funky Word Books cd by Funky Hand.  The background to the daisy topper has been coloured in lightly with "Honeydew" FlexMarker and then I have distressed the edges using Tim Holtz' distress ink in dusty concord.  The topper was mounted onto a piece of Centura Pearl snow white card from Crafters Companion and then I have gone around the edges with more dusty concord distress ink.  The sentiment was computer generated and is a quote from the poem "To the Daisy" by William Wordsworth.  I coloured around the text lightly with honeydew FlexMarker and again lightly distressed the edge with dusty concord distress ink before mounting it onto more Centura Pearl snow white card and edging it with more dusty concord.  I finished the card with some card candi.

Thank you for calling in to visit my blog.

Catherine x
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25 comments:

  1. Aileen11 November 2011 at 17:45

    Lovely card Catherine, very pretty daisy's xx

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  2. jane stillman11 November 2011 at 17:50

    gorgeous card Catherine, good luck x

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  3. Catherine11 November 2011 at 18:10

    Thank you Aileen and Jane.

    Catherine x

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  4. Donka11 November 2011 at 18:21

    Lovely Catherine. xx Donka

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  5. shells-crafts11 November 2011 at 19:01

    gorgeous card, just love the sentiment. good luck for your blog challenge. x

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  6. Catherine11 November 2011 at 19:29

    Thank you Donka and Michelle.

    Catherine x

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  7. Louise Welsh11 November 2011 at 19:49

    its beautiful catherine i really love it. Louise xx

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  8. Anonymous11 November 2011 at 20:09

    lovely colours

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  9. Catherine11 November 2011 at 20:12

    Thank you Louise, and anonymous!

    Catherine x

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  10. Anonymous11 November 2011 at 20:13

    I love the colours of this fresh and gorgeous card Catherine.xx

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  11. Jan 2311 November 2011 at 20:29

    Its a lovely card, good luck with it.

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  12. Lynsey11 November 2011 at 20:33

    Hi Catherine, your daisies look so beautiful! What a lovely card!
    Hugs Lynsey x

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  13. Catherine11 November 2011 at 21:06

    Thank you Wishes, Jan and Lynsey.

    Catherine x

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  14. Im just me - Marleen11 November 2011 at 21:18

    wow beautiful card, thanks for joining in at the CBN challenge xxx

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  15. Catherine11 November 2011 at 21:26

    Thank you Marleen.

    Catherine x

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  16. Karen11 November 2011 at 22:52

    My three favourite colours together for cardmaking hun! Smiles. I have made a few with these colours.. (I like a challenge. lol.)
    You have done a fabulous job - I love the flowers and the sentiment. Your colourwork is wonderful too.
    Huge congrats on a beautiful creation Catherine.xx

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  17. Catherine11 November 2011 at 23:02

    Thank you so much for your lovely comments Karen - I really do appreciate it.

    Catherine x

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  18. Gemma12 November 2011 at 15:28

    This is soooo pretty. I LOVE it xx

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  19. Catherine12 November 2011 at 16:43

    Thank you Gemma

    Catherine x

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  20. Chris12 November 2011 at 17:10

    Gorgeous card loving the colours.. Chris xx

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  21. Nicola Jayne Saul13 November 2011 at 20:27

    Stunning card, I love it. Thank you for joining us at the CBN Challenge this week. Hope to see you on the next challenge, love NJ XXX

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  22. Catherine13 November 2011 at 23:41

    Thank you Chris and Nicky.

    Catherine x

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  23. Bernie Simmons14 November 2011 at 20:07

    Very nice........But then your card's always are. x
    I missed this one Catherine or I would have commented earlier. Love the colours and the sentiment.

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  24. Catherine14 November 2011 at 20:33

    Thank you Bernie.

    Catherine x

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  25. Jo Austin17 November 2011 at 14:57

    Thank you so much for joining in the CBN challenge this week.. such a lovely card!

    Please check our blog - www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.com

    Jo xx

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