Sunday 15 November 2009

Play Date Challenge



This weeks Play Date Cafe Challenge is to use blue or green, chocolate brown,tan and cream.  I struggled with how to interpret this for my ongoing personal Christmas cards only challenge, but this is what I came up with.  The ink for the background (WV's Studio 490) is a new achival ink in sepia, stamped straight onto a scalloped cream card blank.  The grungepaper flowers (WV of course!)are coloured with distress inks in a variety of faded jeans, brushed corduroy and shabby shutters.  I used some rock candy distress stickles in the middle of the smallest flower and held them all together with a blue brad.  To offset the flowers I found a small tag which I stamped in faded jeans with a Paperartsy greeting and added some glitter and blue fibres.  Now it's finished, I quite like it, lol!

5 comments:

Julie Ranae said...

Helen ~ I LoVe this project! Grunge flowers are so beautiful...what a great way to use them for Christmas cards!

Thanks so much for playing the challenge once again over at The Play Date Cafe!

Hearts Turned said...

This is just beautiful, Helen! Those grung flowers are fabulous! I really need to get some of those! Perfect layered over the printed page--well done!

Sandi said...

great flowers, Thanks for taking the Play Date Cafe Challenge with us. Sandi

*Alison* said...

I really enjoy the look of this card.. it is so beautiful.. the flowers are wonderful..Thanks for playing with us at the Play Date Cafe.. I hope you will play with us again for our next challenge too..HUGS

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Sarah Anderson said...

Isn't it funny how some colour combos are more of a challenge to us than others! It's like we have an internal palette!! Love what you've done with these though, great grunge flower