Friday 24 January 2014

Colour blocking

I've been quite busy over the last few weeks with getting my shop back online but I was determined to do a little stamping this week.  One of the cards I'm short on is sympathy cards as I've unfortunately had to use a lot of them recently.  I thought the current colour blocking challenge at CASual Fridays would make a good base for a sympathy card so I had a go http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/cfc126.html


I used some scraps of purple card in 4 shades to cover my card front and create my colour blocks and then stamped and embossed the flower and vase from Clearly Besotted in white.  I coloured the flowers with my Polychromos pencils and added a little lemon pearl to the stamens.  I finished with a suitable sentiment and a white dashed line border.

At Lizy's suggestion, I'm linking this up to the sketch at CAS colours and sketches too http://cascoloursandsketches.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/challenge-58-sketch.html


9 comments:

  1. Absolutely stunning! I love the shades of purple, and the flowers are gorgeous.

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  2. This is stunning Tara! I love the contrast of the flowers and vase against the purple!
    I'm sure you could enter your card into our challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches this week! :)
    Lizy xx

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  3. Saw this over at CAS C&S -- FAB.U.LOUS card!! Your blocking is perfect with the with the white embossing -- I see a winner here~

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  4. Gorgeous - stunning work - thanks for playing along at CC&S this week - Jacqueline xx

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  5. love that you colored on the color blocking. so pretty! thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  6. Ummm ... this is just amazing!! A full-on color block with a white focal point. It really turned out well! Thanks so much for joining the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!

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  7. Beautiful card! Love the purples and the little block for the sentiment! Thanks so much for joining us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

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  8. Fantastic job coloring those lovely lilies! Thanks for sharing your card with us at CAS - Colours and Sketches! :)

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  9. Stunning card! The flower looks so real--your coloring is exquisite. I really like the blocks of color in the background, too. Thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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