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I finally had the chance to do Lucy's color challenge. She has such a talent with pastel colors, and I tend to gravitate toward more bold shades, so I wanted to see if I could make these softer shades work.
Her challenge (light blue, white & light kraft) was inspired by this wonderful John Lewis Cushion with a bonus for incorporating birds into your design.
I used this week's Card Patterns Sketch for my design.
The Hero Arts Bird in Circle was stamped in Creamy Brown Chalk ink on a scrap of K& Company Actopus to Zelephant Cloud paper. The Hero Arts Branch Background was stamped in Versamark Champagne Dazzle ink on the light kraft squares.
I finished the design by coloring the circle, birds and flowers with Pebbles Shimmer Chalk to give them a bit more definition against the cloud background & by adding a few tiny pearls to the flower centers.
Steph this is just gorgeous! Love these colors together! Thanks for playing at Card Patterns!
Posted by: Debbie Stanadrd | June 21, 2010 at 09:30 PM
Love your soft colors on the image.
Posted by: Arlene | June 22, 2010 at 08:45 AM
what a beautiful card Stef! The soft color palette against the brown is lovely!
Posted by: Amy Duff | June 22, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Gorgeous!Love the soft colours and that bird image is so adorable.
Posted by: Deb Hickman | June 23, 2010 at 05:11 AM
wow!!! ♥WOW!!!!!!♥ ok, not only is this an amazing card on its own AND a brilliant take on lucy's challenge... (both for colors and avian fabulosity!) ...it's making me say, "HEY--WOW! stamping RIGHT ON a patterned paper b/g is AWESOME!!!" ♥
('cause i paper piece...OR... i stamp on solids and maybe add a bit of collage or b/g stamping...but i don't think i've ever done THAT...which now seems like a HUGE OVERSIGHT on my part!!!!!) :) :) :)
Posted by: lauren | June 23, 2010 at 08:08 AM
What a wonderful idea to stamp this gorgeous image over a cloud background! LOVE how this turned out, and these colors worked perfectly!
Posted by: Lin | July 02, 2010 at 07:37 PM
Gorgeous design!! Congrats on your win at Lucy's challenge!
Posted by: Virginia L. | July 07, 2010 at 01:15 PM
Congratulations on winning Lucy's challenge...very pretty card!
Posted by: Lynn | July 07, 2010 at 05:51 PM
Your card is beautiful, Stef! Congrats on your win!
Posted by: Trinh | July 07, 2010 at 08:35 PM
Beautiful Card!
Posted by: cindy ziliak | July 09, 2010 at 10:13 PM