Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Let's Shell-ebrate!

 Good morning!  I had a successful shopping excursion yesterday with my daughter - I ended up getting a few things that made me happy.  I think today I'll work on cleaning out my closet a bit, make some room for the new stuff!

I love color challenges - I love realizing that I love a new color combination and having fun trying different techniques with it.  The card below was made for the Color Dare Challenge, and turned out to be one of my all-time favorite color combinations, even though they weren't colors I would necessarily have normally chosen to play with.  



I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Color Dare #638


Addicted to Stamps & More - Make Your Mark


I used the ink smooshing technique to create my background on a sturdy piece of watercolor paper.  I love this technique - you never get the same look twice.  I find it works best if you dry each layer of ink before adding the next color - I use my embossing tool to speed the process along.  My stamp is from the Floral Shells set at Pink & Main, stamped with Versafine Black and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I then colored with alcohol markers and Stickles, fussy cut and attached with foam dimensional tape. I die cut some tiny shells from a piece of Snowbound sparkly designer paper from Tonic Studios and attached them with a foam dimensional dot in each corner. Peace.

1 comment:

  1. Great focal point and sentiment, beautiful background and card. Thanks for sharing with us at Color Dare.

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