Patchwork rose

Patchwork rose

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Card Camp 2011

Hi there! Welcome to the first entry of my blog! Thanks for visiting,

Well, I've signed up for the Summer Card Camp & it's inspiring me to try lots of new things already, even though it's only day 2. One of those new things is this blog - I started it MONTHS ago but have never gotten around to posting anything, but here goes.



This week's colour (yes, I'm an Aussie therefore use British spelling a lot of the time) combination is WAY out of my comfort zone. I generally avoid the most vivid colours, preferring subtle or deep shades. So the bright pink/bright purple/orange combination is new for me, and I would never think of matching them up with pale blue....but I'm determined to try everything in the Card Camp. (Easy to say on Day 2. We'll see how I go.) Yesterday when I saw the colours I came home from work and hunted through all my supplies and pulled out everything that fits, so I could see all the options in front of me. Hmm. There weren't as many purple things as I thought. All my purples tend to be much more muted. So I stuffed around for a coupe of hours, made a mess, started then abandoned a few ideas, then gave up in disgust.

So I was even more determined today to actually finish a card using the colour combo. Here it is. Fairly clean and simple for me.



Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink "Spiral Bouquet"
Ink: Versacolor orange & Opera Pink
Cardstock: PTI orange, others I have no idea!
Embossing powder: clear, and from YEARS ago....Comotion Clear Tops in Glowing Magenta Kiss & Glowing Jungle Flower

Hopefully I'll actually finish a few more cards in this combo & upload them later in the week. I start a three week holiday next week, so there should be much more time to play (and therefore more to show for it) in weeks 2-4.

-Kerri

1 comment:

  1. Gorgeous! I love the bit of stitching along the sentiment panel.

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