Color Hues #23

July passed in a blur. We were away most of the first two weeks, and I’ve been recuperating from my fall for the last two weeks, but here we are at the beginning of August. August is likely to pass by in a blur as well since my daughter and her family will be here for a week, we’ll share a cottage on a lake in Michigan for a week, and then spend the last week traveling back and forth to a cottage in the Finger Lakes to spend time with Tracy’s family. Fortunately, I’m back in the craft room and playing with some new (as well as some old) products.

The new Color Hues combo is such a pretty one:

I knew right away I wanted to use my new Altenew “Classy Stripes” stencil which I saw Laurie Willison use during the recent Cardmakers Summit event. I already had some of the Ink to Paper’s “Into the Blooms II” dies cut from pink paper so it was just a matter of adding a yellow layer and doing some ink blending with my (also new) Detail Blending Brushes from Altenew. 

I settled on a mini-slimline format which I like a lot. Once I had the stenciled background prepared, I die cut a piece of it with one of the Pinkfresh “Mini Slimline Essentials” dies. I cut a narrow yellow border and then added it to a white cardbase.

I shaped the floral pieces with the Tim Holtz “Shaping Kit,” (another new product,) added a pink enamel dot to the center, and adhered the flower to the card front with some dimensional tape. The sentiment is from The Ton’s “Easy Expressions Birthday” set stamped in black and embossed in gold. To pick up the gold accents, I added three gold dots from The Paper Studio. 

I hope you’ll hop over to the Color Hues Challenge and join in the fun, checking out the cards made by my awesome Design Team members and our Guest Designer, Conil.

Nancy

Hannelie

Cindy

Julie

 Sheri

Kristie

Lindsey