Saturday 2 July 2011

Shades of Blue

I wonder if Mandi and Chrissie realised this weeks challenge rhymes - Week 22 - Shades of Blue!  I love teals, but rarely use actual blues, I just find them cold and uninspiring, and hard to work with.  So, this is my second card for the challenge - I'm not showing the first as it was blinking awful!


I used today's sketch for the weekly Waltzingmouse sketch challenge as my template as I wanted to use my yummy new stamps from them (I just ordered most of their release from yesterday too so expect to see a lot more of them here!)  I started with a pale blue DL base card and turned it landscape.  I stamped the solid medium sized chrysanthemum using kaleidoscope blue breeze ink and cut them out.  I then used the matching small sized stamp using the same ink but further down the colours for darker centres and cut out again.  I added a single blue gem to the centre of each.  I then used the fabulous happy birthday from the say it loud set direct to the card with the same ink and added more blue gems to the swirls and above the i - so lots of shades of blue throughout the card.  I mounted the small flower onto the large with foam pads and then stuck the two flowers onto velvet ribbon.

This will probably be my only entry this week and I might not get around to much commenting as my hubby who works in a specialist sci-fi book shop so normally works every Saturday has a rare weekend off as its our anniversary on Tuesday so we're likely to be out and about in the nice weather.

Happy crafting and have a good weekend.

Craftilicious x

37 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card, love your shades of blue. Have a fab weekend with hubby, weather is to good to miss :)

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  2. Hola Tara, thank you for your comment, i'm happy to see you in my blog.
    FANTASTIC CARD TARA!!!!i love your stamps and your work with the monochrom blue in your stamp is fabulous, great job.
    A hug from Palma

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  3. Lovely card and the shades of blue you ve used arre lovely
    Nicky

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  4. Hi

    I saw your card over at Less Is More and thought I would come take a closer look.

    wow, love the flowers and the way the sentiment is shaded in varying blues.

    Michelle :o)

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  5. Love your card Tara. Love the graduating blues, very effective. Happy anniversary for Tuesday and enjoy your weekend.
    Lynne xxx

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  6. This is gorgeous love the shades of blue!

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  7. Do you think we just grab these challenges out of thin air Tara. They are lovingly thought about, rhymes n all...ha ha
    Super card, love those flowers

    Thanks as always
    Diva LIM
    "Less is More"

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  8. Great card. Love your use of the kaleidoscope blue breeze ink - it gives lovely depth :-)

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  9. Love those flowers Tara! Have a great weekend with sci-fi hubby and happy anniversary to you both! Vx

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  10. Love the flowers and the colours Tara.
    Jo x

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  11. Tara - fabulous!!! Love the flowers and the sentiment - and you gotta love the Kaleidocolour inks!! This is fab!

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  12. Lovely card - great gradation of colour you got in the flowers and sentiment!

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  13. Very pretty with the graduated shades on the flowers - lovely card!

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  14. Love how you graduated the colours - great card xx

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  15. Very pretty card. I love how you used different shades of blue for the sentiment.

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  16. Love this, the flower is gorgeous

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  17. Super shades of blue, the flowers are fab. xx

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  18. This is beautiful. Hazel x

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  19. Beautiful card, love your shades of blue

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  20. Tara, this is fabulous! I love the graduated colors of blue...perfection!!

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  21. Great card Tara - love the layout

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  22. But this is lovely - come on ...... show us version one!!

    Kathyk

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  23. Love the different shades of blue ink, very very pretty and great layout too
    Anne
    x

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  24. love the shaded colours x

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  25. Very beautifully done!! Love the flowers.

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  26. Love your pretty layered blooms! thanks for playing with the WMS sketch this week!

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  27. Oh SO cool in the different varigated shades of blue! Love the big sentiment with those big mums! Gorgeous WMSC card, Tara!

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  28. This is so cool! I love the different blues you used and that big sentiment works perfectly!!

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  29. Fab card, love the flowers and the graduated blues on the sentiment!
    Val x

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  30. A lovely card. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day. Angela

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  31. Beautiful blues. love the flowers. x

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  32. Love the different shades of blue! Very pretty!!

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