Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Color Dare # 76

This week's challenge is to use the color Smoothie with a neutral. 
 I paired it up with Cocoa to give it a little pop.

I had fun playing with this color and made a few different cards, 
but this is the one that I liked best for the Color Dare Challenge.



All the supplies used are from Close To My Heart.
I found the idea for the card design on pinterest -- love that site!
  • Stamps used are D1476 Card Chatter - Sympathy and  C1352 You Are Beautiful (retired) and one of my favorite go-to floral stamps.
  • To shade the flowers I used a waterbrush (retired) with ink from the Smoothie ink pad and the darker Smoothie alcohol marker.  
  • Finally I added the Glitz Stardust Gel Z1313 (soon to retire) to give the flowers a little shimmer.
This is one of the cards I will be offering at my February workshop.

1/18/14 -- Just learned that I won the Color Dare Sapphire (third runner-up) for this card, but I haven't figured out how to grab and display the badge for it on the side of my blog.  Oh well, the learning continues.  I'll keep trying! 

3 comments:

  1. I love your card, Kathy. It's amazing how much impact the breaks in the panel make! And you shading is lovely. Thanks for joining the Color Dare this week.

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    1. Thanks, Gretchen. I'm enjoying and trying to participate in several different challenges. Although I've been making cards for quite a while, I am just learning how to use my blog and I'm a bit challenged by that. It's a good challenge and it keeps me learning.

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  2. I've seen this technique on a full card, but I like how you use it on a smaller scale. Great idea and lovely card!

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