Fine-colored Feathers HSSCC#183

What do you think of this colour combination?

 

I have been playing with watercolor paper and re-inkers, planning for some future classes. It was just co-incidence that I had picked this exact colour range for this panel showing off an assortment of stamps from Fine Feathers. The  four feathers are stamped using Black Stazon, there is one more lovely feather in this set, a peacock feather, but I've tried for masculine with this card, and that last feather was just too pretty! The water color panel is layered onto a strip of Crushed Curry and a Basic Black that was given a zig zag edging with a Finishing Touches Edgelit. A Naturals Designer button threaded with linen thread has been placed to draw attention to the greetings, Happy Birthday from Itty Bitty Banners and Celebrate from Starburst Sayings. Both of these come with Framelits to make cutting out a breeze.

This is the first time I have found this particular challenge, Hand Stamped Sentiments.  Amy White led me to it. There are some great cards there using these colours, pop on over and take a look for yourself...

Hoping for a fun, crafty week (in between my real job)
Rachel

Bouncing Bloom FMS88 & CCMC254

Have you ever tried bouncing Stampin' Write Markers onto an image to give splashes of colour?

It is such a fun technique and I have done it before with Blooming with Kindness, in shades of pink, but I don't think I blogged about that one. It was for an upline's Big O birthday a few months ago.

I thought it might be a good technique to try with the challenge colours at Create with Connie and Mary, but of course the Pool Party and Island Indigo did turn slightly green mixed with the So Saffron, which was my base colour.

I actually like it, I hope you do too!

It's the Finishing touches edgelit on the left side, so pretty and lacy and a So Saffron button with Linen Thread on the right. The panel has been mounted on Island Indigo card for some definition, and popped up on dimensionals.

 The sketch is from Jen Mitchell at  Freshly Made Sketches , and because I know they prefer fresh, clean cards I've aimed for that effect.

The greeting is from One In A Million and the front reads 'You mean SO much to SO many people." and inside it reads, "(One of them is me)". It was already out on my work table because my son came over yesterday to make a birthday card for his wife, and he used both stamps on the inside, with a Happy Birthday on the outside.




It has been such a busy day for me today with the Stampin' Up! retirement list to get out to my customers and my own order for items from the NEW catalogue to compile and send off. If you would like your own copy of the catalogue, I can arrange for a copy to be sent to you for $9.95 (Australia only). If you have ordered from me in the past year, I will be happy to supply a complementary copy.

Have a great weekend,
Rachel